Seth Meyers and Bill Hader sit down in front of cameras to talk about their careers [30m], and each other's careers, and to reminisce about working together at SNL. It's a charming conversation between friends, and I thought I might share it here.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 10:28 AM on July 10, 2023 (12 comments)

The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
posted to FanFare by thecaddy at 6:00 AM on June 18, 2023 (37 comments)

Spotting an opportunity, Sam executes a plan to get a covert message to authorities on the ground.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 3:25 PM on June 28, 2023 (11 comments)

Pike and the away team explore the Rigelian sunshine of the spotless mind.
posted to FanFare by CheesesOfBrazil at 5:52 AM on July 6, 2023 (53 comments)

An anime-inflected take on "Clark Kent's first day as an intern at the Daily Planet". At the time of posting, sitting at 100% positive on Rotten Tomatoes! It's just a delight.
posted to FanFare by Ipsifendus at 7:37 AM on July 8, 2023 (4 comments)

Threads is live. The Meta/Instagram "Twitter killer" supposedly had 30 million installs in 24 hours (Mastodon may have less than 2M active users), likely thanks to the ability to access your entire Instagram social graph automatically. Gruber likes it, but not as much as BlueSky (which is still in closed beta) The Threads website doesn't show content by default, but you can access individual users and tweets toots skeets threads. On the other hand, maybe the age of social media is ending.
posted to MetaFilter by gwint at 10:58 AM on July 6, 2023 (244 comments)

Fury uncovers a rebel Skull plot.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 8:19 AM on July 5, 2023 (22 comments)

"Please be informed, the notification read, that your business, the Sunlight Cafe, has been designated a Moderately Impactful Business. This replaces your current designation as a Negligibly Impactful Business. The Moderately Impactful Business designation comes with increased governance requirements which are listed below. Note that our decision may be appealed and is considered probationary until the appeals process is complete." In the short scifi story "Sunlight" by Shauna Gordon-McKeon, one woman loves that the little café she runs with her wife has become a community space. But her wife doesn't. [Disclaimer: Shauna is a friend.]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 6:10 AM on July 5, 2023 (15 comments)

What eight decades of Goofus and Gallant illustrate about society’s changing expectations of children (SLAtlantic, archive)
posted to MetaFilter by ShooBoo at 8:18 AM on July 3, 2023 (105 comments)

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. But what if she's the monster he's sworn to destroy?
posted to FanFare by 1970s Antihero at 7:20 AM on June 30, 2023 (34 comments)

It's all Fury's fault. Reviews of the episode here and here.
posted to FanFare by jenfullmoon at 12:37 PM on June 28, 2023 (20 comments)

…by modeling a film camera in Blender to capture images in Blender. In excruciating detail. (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by adamrice at 3:23 PM on July 1, 2023 (12 comments)

Sam Nelson gets on a flight to London hoping to win back his ex-wife, but something on board feels wrong--and his suspicions are confirmed.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 3:24 PM on June 28, 2023 (8 comments)

@eerrriiicaa: "Please tell me your embarrassing sex stories so i feel better. I just thought about the time a few years ago when a guy went down on me and we made eye contact and I waved for some reason" and @RealFionaO replied "A fella I was riding said ‘Who is your daddy?’ And I said my Dad’s name ‘Eamonn’" and there were more...
posted to MetaFilter by Wordshore at 3:29 PM on March 11, 2020 (94 comments)

The Second City alum won an Oscar late in the game for “Little Miss Sunshine” and was memorable in “The Russians Are Coming,” “The In-Laws” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.”
posted to MetaFilter by kitten kaboodle at 10:07 PM on June 30, 2023 (79 comments)

The first price is the cost of acquisition and then "in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits."
posted to MetaFilter by blue shadows at 9:20 PM on June 28, 2023 (41 comments)

For more than two decades, the biggest retro computing story in recent memory sat like a sleeper cell in a Massachusetts barn. The barn was in danger of collapse. It could no longer protect the fleet of identical devices hiding inside. A story like this doesn’t need the flash of a keynote or a high-profile marketing campaign. It really just needs someone to notice. And the reason anyone did notice was because this barn could no longer support the roughly 2,200 machines that hid on its second floor.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 6:24 AM on June 29, 2023 (24 comments)

Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
posted to MetaFilter by 1970s Antihero at 5:43 AM on June 30, 2023 (51 comments)

BREAKING: Twitter now BLOCKS ALL ACCESS FROM SIGNED OUT USERS (Nitter.net link)
posted to MetaFilter by buffy12 at 11:28 AM on June 30, 2023 (444 comments)

Succession Finale Ends With a Roy Family Bloodbath, and a New CEO [Vanity Fair] [Series/Finale Spoilers] As the smoke clears from Succession’s fourth and final season, here’s who wound up on top.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 5:00 AM on May 29, 2023 (41 comments)

Series Finale
posted to FanFare by chill at 2:20 AM on May 29, 2023 (106 comments)

"Egregore," by merritt k, is a short story about what happens when you make up a guy to get mad at and the guy gets mad at you back.
posted to MetaFilter by babelfish at 7:51 AM on June 26, 2023 (52 comments)

The feature film debut from writer-director Nida Manzoor (We Are Lady Parts) is a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action. Ria Khan (Priya Kansara, Bridgerton) practices martial arts in order to become a stuntwoman. But when her sister Lena (Ritu Arya, The Umbrella Academy) drops out of art school and suddenly gets engaged, Ria decides she and her friends must pull off a wedding-heist.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 1:44 PM on April 23, 2023 (22 comments)

It has begun! PWC WAGNER'S owner Prigozhin has called Russians to unite behind him and bring justice and fairness to Russia! (SLYT to Inside Russia live stream) The situation is developing rapidly.
posted to MetaFilter by Meatbomb at 4:04 PM on June 23, 2023 (1173 comments)

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, Una alone beweeps her outcast state.
posted to FanFare by CheesesOfBrazil at 4:18 AM on June 22, 2023 (85 comments)

Barry heads to LA to track down Cousineau. Fuches gets out of prison. Sally struggles to parent John.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 9:23 AM on May 15, 2023 (21 comments)

He was, uh, a great man in the, um... in the true sense... Sense of the world... word.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 7:53 AM on May 22, 2023 (64 comments)

Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by Skrulls
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 10:52 AM on June 21, 2023 (37 comments)

‘You can’t listen to CDs on your digital devices unless you rip them first. In ancient times—back in 2001—people knew how to do this, but much that should have been remembered has been forgotten.’
posted to MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:03 PM on June 20, 2023 (88 comments)

Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
posted to FanFare by MoonOrb at 9:13 PM on October 26, 2019 (10 comments)

Ted Lasso’s third season was unfocused and unwieldy, but it stuck the landing [The Verge] This link and the commentary below the fold contain spoilers about the series finale of Ted Lasso.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 7:27 AM on June 1, 2023 (44 comments)

AFC Richmond play their final match of the season.
posted to FanFare by kitten kaboodle at 10:38 PM on May 30, 2023 (136 comments)

There is a kind of person who finds the idea of seeking out “the best” incredibly enticing, on an almost spiritual level. The kind of person who genuinely enjoys perusing articles like “the nine best hair dryers of 2023,” who is overcome with clammy dread at the idea of drinking in a bar with only a four-star rating on Google, who, in order to plan a weekend getaway, requires a prolonged and extensive operation that involves several spreadsheets. You know the type. Maybe you even are the type. [single link, NYT: possibly paywalled]
posted to MetaFilter by niicholas at 8:27 AM on May 21, 2023 (86 comments)

Generate a secure password from the lyrics of America’s greatest singer-songwriter
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 5:27 PM on May 20, 2023 (14 comments)

School bus gets stuck
posted to MetaFilter by pipeski at 3:32 PM on May 19, 2023 (27 comments)

The always wonderful Simone Giertz accidentally panders directly to me personally by choosing to make a robot out of stained glass.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:35 AM on May 19, 2023 (33 comments)

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed. Doom loop (noun) — A scenario in which one negative development causes another negative development, which then makes the first problem worse. A vicious cycle.: This is how San Francisco could die:
posted to MetaFilter by dancestoblue at 7:58 PM on May 16, 2023 (103 comments)

After getting picked up by Netflix after being a casualty of the Disney-Fox merger and the ill-fated Chapek regime, the Nimona movie now has a teaser trailer and a release date - June 30th.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:40 AM on May 18, 2023 (27 comments)

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together A short Tumblr post by calamitys-child lists a few examples, such as "very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler's questions like we were on Letterman".
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 6:25 AM on May 18, 2023 (15 comments)

Taco Bell has filed a petition to cancel two much smaller rivals' trademarks for "Taco Tuesday", a move that would let its 15,000 US locations use the phrase.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 5:21 AM on May 18, 2023 (49 comments)

After learning what she must sacrifice in order to destroy the Holy Grail, Simone's love for Jay is put to the test. At the Pyramid Facility, Wiley faces his own demise and attempts to earn his boots.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 7:04 AM on May 18, 2023 (22 comments)

With the Lazarus Shroud secured, Simone and Celeste set sail on a perilous journey in pursuit of the Holy Grail; Wiley receives an unexpected offer from Mrs. Davis that could rewrite his future.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 7:02 AM on May 11, 2023 (12 comments)

[Season Premiere] Needs of the many? Needs of the few, or the one? Whatever; we gotta do a thing, even if it's not strictly... logical.
posted to FanFare by Halloween Jack at 9:54 AM on June 15, 2023 (53 comments)

OK Blue J-----OH SWEET LORD WHAT IS GOING ON
posted to MetaFilter by Kitteh at 4:56 PM on June 8, 2023 (48 comments)

Arnold Schwarzenegger sits down with Danny DeVito for a conversation about life and death.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 4:46 AM on June 8, 2023 (18 comments)

Ronnie's just here for the zipline in this third season of the offbeat sketch comedy starring Tim Robinson.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 1:05 PM on June 13, 2023 (4 comments)

After learning the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, Simone partners with Wiley and the Resistance to heist a special suit needed for its extraction. The only problem - the suit is currently in the possession of Simone's mother, Celeste.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 7:15 AM on May 4, 2023 (13 comments)

Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as a lackey for Dracula (Nicolas Cage), Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) finds a new lease on life--and maybe even redemption--when he comes into the orbit of feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina).
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 10:14 AM on April 17, 2023 (22 comments)

Silvio Berlusconi è morto, aveva 86 anni: domani la camera ardente a Mediaset [Corriere della Sera]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:16 AM on June 12, 2023 (37 comments)

Anger over an astronomical increase in Reddit's API prices [prev.] boiled over this week as multiple third-party app developers were forced to close down, with one -- Apollo dev Christian Selig -- posting a scathing exposé detailing the company's shady dealings... including a recorded phone call disproving CEO Steve "spez" Huffman's claim that Selig blackmailed them. Huffman took to the site's vaunted AMA format to do damage control, only to double down, ignore tough questions, and reap thousands of downvotes. In response, the community has organized a massive subreddit "blackout" to protest the rate hike that will bankrupt popular apps, hamper critical moderation tools, and exclude blind users. While such protests are not new, this one is unprecedented in scope: 20,000+ mods from over 7,000 subreddits with more than 2 billion collective readers, from familiar mainstays like /r/aww, /r/videos, and /r/todayilearned to niche subs like /r/Eragon and /r/Panda. Facing layoffs, a major pre-IPO valuation cut, and a runaway user revolt reminiscent of Digg [prev.], could this be the end of the "front page of the internet"? Watch the site wink out in real time [livestream], join the fight on /r/Save3rdPartyApps and /r/ModCoord, backup your data, or check out some up-and-coming /r/RedditAlternatives.
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 8:36 AM on June 12, 2023 (704 comments)