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Hi, MetaFilter moderator here, posting an experimental thread, based on a recent suggestion by Rhaomi. Here's the idea, paraphrasing:

"Find a neat article, video, blog, etc. but don't feel up to the work of cobbling together an FPP, tags, title, and otherwise putting yourself out there? Just comment "LinkMe:" followed by the link and maybe a one sentence description for context. Everybody has tacit permission to turn your link into an FPP if they'd like, first come first serve, with a nod back to the original LinkFilter comment"

An example of the type of comment to make is inside, but don't feel bound to that exact format! [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:15 AM Jun 8 2024 - 85 comments [81 favorites]

"I Spent Three Years Talking to Boys. Here’s What I Found" This is not to say that people who aren't male aren't struggling. It just says, people who are male are, and in these specific ways. [more inside]
posted by reality_is_benign at 6:01 AM Jun 5 2024 - 289 comments [55 favorites]

Guardian: Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency UNRWA (after its school in Nuseirat was bombed by Israeli forces) || Democracy Now: “Apocalyptic”: 40 Killed in Israeli Airstrike on U.N. School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians in Gaza || BBC: US urges Israel to be transparent over Gaza school strike || Sky News UK: Experts told Sky News the [bomb] fragment [at Gaza school strike] can be identified as part of an American-made GBU-39 bomb; NPR: Israel used a U.S.-made bomb in a deadly U.N. school strike in Gaza [ground reporting that concurs] || MEMO (reporting of a Yedioth Ahronoth article): UN adds Israel to blacklist for harming children in conflict zones || ICYMI: Aharon Barak steps down as Israel's nominated judge to the ICJ case; Israel's Attorney-General urges Netanyahu to form commission of inquiry to provide legal cover from international judicial investigations such as through the ICC; Which ten countries have joined South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ? [more inside]
posted by cendawanita at 10:51 AM Jun 7 2024 - 63 comments [55 favorites]

Google demanded of jwz a Privacy Policy for their Android port of XScreensaver, which collects no user data, despite their own privacy missteps. He's crowdsourcing a list of things XScreensaver will never do that Google does, with source links. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 12:45 AM Jun 9 2024 - 35 comments [38 favorites]

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say - "Not only is CO2 now at the highest level in millions of years, it is also rising faster than ever." [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 1:11 AM Jun 7 2024 - 56 comments [35 favorites]

"Books are an important part of our lives but many of us still struggle with what to do with old books. When we decide it’s time to part with them, we want to know they are going to a nice home where they can continue to enrich and improve other people’s lives." [more inside]
posted by cupcakeninja at 8:42 AM Jun 4 2024 - 43 comments [34 favorites]

Why it's never been cooler (or easier) to go alcohol-free [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 5:10 AM Jun 7 2024 - 103 comments [33 favorites]

Thanks to (MeFi's own) Matt Muir, it's the return of the Tiny Awards, "a small prize to celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces which basically make the web a more fun place to be." Nominations are open until June 23. Via the excellent Web Curios, also brought to us by Matt. [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 1:17 PM Jun 7 2024 - 8 comments [32 favorites]

The Votes are in, and Narendra Modi has won a third term as Prime Minister of India. However, in a surprising upset, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to win a majority, much less the supermajority Modi had predicted. [more inside]
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:54 PM Jun 7 2024 - 19 comments [32 favorites]

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. Remember HyperCard? Ever wish you could still make simple, scriptable, interactive presentations and applications with almost no effort? Well, with Decker, you can. It's free on itch.io
posted by bowbeacon at 5:27 AM Jun 9 2024 - 9 comments [30 favorites]

In 1980 what appeared to be a formulaic, phoning-it-in album of contemporary radio punk and new wave music done in the style of Alvin in the Chipmunks was released, named Chipmunk Punk. The album garnered no particular critical or commercial success, and was quickly forgotten as merely one in a long line of kitchy, vaguely topical music under the Alvin and the Chipmunks brand. It turns out that it was instead a hidden monument of sludge rock.
posted by 1adam12 at 4:14 PM Jun 6 2024 - 39 comments [29 favorites]

On Thursday, conspiracy monger, supplement peddler, defamation artist, and abuser Alex Jones moved to convert his bankruptcy proceedings to Chapter 7, allowing for the liquidation of his personal assets to pay off the over $1.5B he owes in legal decisions to the families of Sandy Hook victims he defamed and whose lives he upended - including his personal holdings in his conspiracy theory empire, InfoWars. [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 8:15 AM Jun 7 2024 - 49 comments [29 favorites]

In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards. They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments [Vimeo, via John Bull, via MetaFilter's own JScalzi]
posted by chavenet at 1:05 PM Jun 2 2024 - 41 comments [63 favorites (28 in the past 7 days)]

Confused as to the meanings and colours of various Pride Flags? Well this site tells you! That's it. That's all it does. [more inside]
posted by Faintdreams at 8:58 AM Jun 6 2024 - 82 comments [27 favorites]

After yesterday's rosin-fest, I thought it would be useful and uncontroversial to post definitive information about how* to bake a potato. [more inside]
posted by cupcakeninja at 5:51 AM Jun 3 2024 - 49 comments [26 favorites]

A War on the Nile Pushes Sudan Toward the Abyss The gold market is a graveyard of rubble and dog-eaten corpses. The state TV station became a torture chamber. The national film archive was blown open in battle, its treasures now yellowing in the sun..... (SLNYT) [more inside]
posted by lalochezia at 1:12 PM Jun 5 2024 - 29 comments [26 favorites]

booking flights on a phone is crazy. that is a laptop activity

The tweet that spawned countless TikToks ("BIG purchases require a laptop screen for FULL visibility"), hot takes ("It's laptop activity when you're a beginner"), and thinkpieces ("Looking ahead, Gen Alpha will integrate AI seamlessly into all areas of their lives"). Young shoppers are indeed driving a shift towards mobile retail. But a big factor pushing things in this direction may simply be that retailers hate when you buy big things on your laptop: "People often prefer bigger screens and keyboards for pricier purchases—but merchants have more levers to pull on mobile". See also: How Each Generation Shops in 2023 [HubSpot] and Gen Z’s Device Preferences & Decision Drivers [Knit]
posted by Rhaomi at 2:30 PM Jun 5 2024 - 67 comments [26 favorites]

Unzip companies across a range of industries ... and you will find financial companies lurking inside. This week we reprise the theme and spotlight five “banks in disguise”: Starbucks, Carnival, Naked Wines, Delta Air Lines and Travel + Leisure Co
posted by chavenet at 11:59 PM Jun 6 2024 - 10 comments [26 favorites]

If you want to pop into a no-shame-no-blame-if-you-can't-do-it, trounce the rich boycott with heart, enjoy this continuing saga. Background below the fold. The Loblaws boycott was set to take place in May, but continues, and rumour has it that it's had an impact. Alt.grocery is up and running with crowdsourced information. (Reminds me of Vaccine Hunters.) Executives are posting replies to social media complaints on LinkedIn. Some folks are creating posters in satiric support -??? - of Galen Weston grocery overlord. Support for the boycott crosses political lines. And oh yes, there's swag for sale (one example of many.) [more inside]
posted by warriorqueen at 8:09 AM Jun 4 2024 - 42 comments [24 favorites]

A twenty minute youtube video with a bit of history and a breakdown and restoration of a Geochron Global Time Indicator, possibly the most comprehensive and over-engineered electromechanical clock and map assembly in history!
posted by Dysk at 3:17 AM Jun 5 2024 - 15 comments [24 favorites]