https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:26:46 GMT Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:26:46 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 A rare chance to walk 1 kilometre [0.62 of a mile] offshore to an island lighthouse attracts thousands of trekkers to a North Queensland town. Extremely low winter tides will make the walk to the North Head Island lighthouse at Bowen possible for five days this year.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213963/Ultra-low-tides-bring-rare-chance-to-walk-to-an-island-lighthouse tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213963 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:26:46 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries LowTides UltraLowTides https://www.metafilter.com/213963/Ultra-low-tides-bring-rare-chance-to-walk-to-an-island-lighthouse/rss Henry Campbell, a New Brunswick high school student, has used 15,000 pieces of Lego to recreate an iconic Bill Reid print as part of a school project. Before he started the project, he had received permission from Reid's estate for the recreation.

Bill Reid Gallery Instagram CBC The National news clip (YouTube, 1:27 min) Background: Who was Bill Reid? From the Wikipedia page, "William Ronald Reid Jr. (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) also known as Iljuwas, was a Haida artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. Producing over one thousand original works during his fifty-year career, Reid is regarded as one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of the late twentieth century." Iconic Bill Reid works: Spirit of Haida Gwaii (be sure to scroll down to the picture of people standing next to it so you can see the scale of the sculpture) The Raven and the First Men]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213962/Bill-Reid-print-in-Lego-Yes-please tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213962 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:30:06 GMT nuclear bessel BillReid Canada CanadianArt Indigenous IndigenousArt Lego https://www.metafilter.com/213962/Bill-Reid-print-in-Lego-Yes-please/rss slNYTGift]]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213961/How-to-Predict-the-Weather-in-Our-Era-of-Freakish-Storms tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213961 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:07:22 GMT ellieBOA climatechange prediction weather https://www.metafilter.com/213961/How-to-Predict-the-Weather-in-Our-Era-of-Freakish-Storms/rss International Aerial Photographer of the Year, which doesn't have the best UI, so you can see samples at this Atlantic gift link, Petapixel, Colossal, Sydney Morning Herald, DIY Photography]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213960/Winners-of-the-International-Aerial-Photographer-of-the-Year tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213960 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:17:48 GMT ShooBoo aerialphotography photography https://www.metafilter.com/213960/Winners-of-the-International-Aerial-Photographer-of-the-Year/rss Carole Pope: Canada's Original Queer Icon

The former Rough Trade frontwoman is the focus of Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, a documentary about her career. (Link to CBC Streaming) Link to her website here. And the song that made she and her band famous in Canada for its unabashed lesbian lust, High School Confidential by Rough Trade.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213959/You-can-hear-her-stilettos-click-I-want-her-so-much-I-feel-sick tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213959 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:16:36 GMT Kitteh antidiva cancon carolepope cbcdocumentaries highschoolconfidential lgbtqicons queerelders roughtrade https://www.metafilter.com/213959/You-can-hear-her-stilettos-click-I-want-her-so-much-I-feel-sick/rss We Hunt "Monsters" is a series of short fiction pieces by Jonathan Wojcik aka Bogleech about the unglamorous work of modern day "monster" disposal. Like the blue-collar equivalent of the SCP institute. Bogleech previously.

You can mostly navigate between journal entries by the links at the bottom of the stories, but here's a master index: Journal 1: The Class IV Transmutative Plasmodiform Journal 2: The Class VI Umbral Teletroph Journal 3: The Class III Ambulatory Evacuation Journal 4: The Class II Phalangiform Malodorizer Journal 5: The Class XIII Anthropomorphic Pseudomycelium Journal 6: The Class VII Untethered Hyperreality]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213958/Asscheese-umbral-teletroph-ambulatory-evacuation-etc tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213958 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:21:42 GMT Lorc Bogleech fiction horror JonathanWojcik scp urbanfantasy WeHuntMonsters https://www.metafilter.com/213958/Asscheese-umbral-teletroph-ambulatory-evacuation-etc/rss The Guardian reports.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213957/culture-clubbed tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213957 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:59:50 GMT mittens AI artificialIntelligence boyGeorge genocide guardian israel israelPalestineWar music palestine theGuardian https://www.metafilter.com/213957/culture-clubbed/rss this page is to provide a brief, preliminary description of some Gen Z constructions that YGDP researchers are currently investigating. The judgments on this page are mostly from the respective researchers' own intuition; little to no data has been formally collected as of yet.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213956/Take-it-as-giving tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213956 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:16:09 GMT chavenet Constructions GenZ Kids Language Research Yale YGDP https://www.metafilter.com/213956/Take-it-as-giving/rss Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
Summary: A malicious package passed seven independent AI-powered security gates, each of which failed to stop it for a different reason, none of which was "the code is safe." The incident was resolved when the attacker's autonomous agent read a file it shouldn't have, which is also how the incident started.
Root Cause: Seven LLMs were arranged in series. Six assumed another had read the code; the seventh read it and apologised.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213955/Tuesdays-remain-load-bearing-in-ways-not-yet-understood tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213955 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:53:47 GMT EndsOfInvention AI CyberSecurity IncidentReport Parody Satire SecurityReport https://www.metafilter.com/213955/Tuesdays-remain-load-bearing-in-ways-not-yet-understood/rss "I learned about systemic challenges in our capitalistic system if you have no ethics applied" Destin from YouTube channel Smarter Every Day (featured several times here over the years) spent over four years trying to develop and produce a simple product made 100% in America.

He talked about the initial part of the journey here, a year ago and the difficulties he faced sourcing pretty much everything, but particularly trying to create the tooling necessary to produce any item at scale. In the more recent video, he talks bout the challenges of eventually being able to achieve what seems like a simple goal, then goes on to discuss the reasons why it's so hard to produce anything in so-called 'first world' countries.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213954/The-PROBLEM-with-Capitalism tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213954 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:49:17 GMT dg capitalism economy employment manufacturing society https://www.metafilter.com/213954/The-PROBLEM-with-Capitalism/rss Paste Magazine's 100 greatest songs of the 1960s (previously). They've now moved to the 100 greatest songs of the 1970s. It's another great list.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213953/Paste-Magazine-The-100-greatest-songs-of-the-1970s tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213953 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:06:05 GMT maupuia 1970s BestSongs MusicLists PasteMagazine https://www.metafilter.com/213953/Paste-Magazine-The-100-greatest-songs-of-the-1970s/rss