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Rebecca Solnit: How to meet the climate crisis? Redefine 'abundance.' [ungated] - "Much of the reluctance to do what climate change requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we're well rid of, from deadly emissions to nagging feelings of doom and complicity in destruction? What if the austerity is how we live now — and the abundance could be what is to come?"[1,2,3,4]
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It started out as Edge's pandemic project. [Rolling Stone] Why not remake some old songs in a new flavor? Larry's on light duty, at best, after back surgery, and it's lockdown anyway so let's just fuck around with a sort of front porch vibe. Two years later, and we have the totally unexpected (even by their label) new U2 project Songs Of Surrender [Wikipedia]. Forty songs spanning their career, organized into four albums. Tracks with major lyric changes marked with •. We begin with The Edge: One, studio version [from Achtung Baby], video, best live recording, most famous cover version
posted by hippybear to MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 7:43 PM
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I. Gods of Prehistoric Britain; II. Paganism in Roman Britain; III. Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods; IV. Viking Pagan Gods in Britain: the first four of an on-going series of hour-long lectures at Gresham College by cravat-wearing historian Ronald Hutton. (Previously).
posted by misteraitch to MetaFilter on Mar 23 at 12:29 PM
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"Even in 1950–53, during the last years of Stalin’s regime, with the high death rates in the labour camps and the [delayed] consequences of wartime malnutrition and injuries, the mortality rate was only nine to ten per 1,000, compared with 14–16 in 1994." Sopo Japaridze's thread on recent research about the 7 million excess deaths in Eastern Europe since the 1990s.
posted by kmt to MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 2:54 PM
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I have to lead a 15 minute session on MS Word. What are some of your favorite advanced tips and tricks? Or, maybe unknown beginner ones?
posted by misanthropicsarah to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 10:01 AM
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An aperiodic monotile .
posted by thatwhichfalls to MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 8:08 PM
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The Music Lab has tests for you to learn how good you are at discerning melodic discrimination and recall, mistuning perception, and beat alignment and more (previously). "This Is What It Sounds Like" offers compare-and-contrast samples to help you reflect on your taste in melody, novelty, realism, timbre, and other elements. Its links lead to further online tests and demonstrations.
posted by brainwane to MetaFilter on Mar 23 at 9:58 AM
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In the mid 1970s, there was a crossover between punk rock and porno movies. Maybe it was because we were all fighting the system, or because we were looking for an anarchic and creative outlet for our energy. Or maybe it was just because we were kids with no money and we were acting out… I don’t know, but the reality was that a lot of us would hang out together. from Part 1: Elda Stilletto, Warhol, Glitter Rock, and the Birth of Blondie [NSFW, words & pictures]
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 5:22 PM
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In pursuit of music to study/work/live to, may I present this 1.5 hr spotify playlist of north African music featuring bands such as Bombino, Imarhan, and Ali Farka Toure.
posted by rebent to MetaFilter on Mar 23 at 11:59 AM
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Here are some interesting youtube videos in the 10-20 minute range. Why Clip Art Was Everywhere.... Until It Wasn't. by Linus Boman. How to turn your Neighborhood into a Village by Andrew Millison. How Small and How Big do Houses Get? and How much room do you need to live comfortably? By Stewart Hicks. "Weird Stuff in a Can #147: Tumeric Golden Blend" by Atomic Shrimp
posted by rebent to MetaFilter on Mar 18 at 7:47 AM
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How did you (someone who struggled to exercise consistently start exercising consistently?
posted by 12%juicepulp to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 5:22 PM
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University of Chicago researchers working with several artists have created Glaze - a cloaking filter layer that is barely perceptible to humans, but negatively interferes with machine learning models to interfere with their capturing an artist's style.
posted by NoxAeternum to MetaFilter on Mar 18 at 10:28 AM
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We’re finally starting to see the truth about the vexing condition. It’s not what we thought. Now, three years later, the research is catching up to the anecdotal reports and the early evidence, and a clearer picture of long COVID has emerged. It turns out that, like COVID-19 itself, a lot of our early guesses about it turned out to be considerably wide of the mark. This time, fortunately, the surprises are mostly on the positive side.
posted by holborne to MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 6:40 AM
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anti-racist starter pack: a list each of books, articles, podcasts, interviews/lectures, and documentaries
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Abortion pill mifepristone ruling in Texas case could hinge on 1873 Comstock Act - "A federal judge in Texas may try to invoke an obscure 19th-century law called the Comstock Act to roll back mail delivery of the abortion pill mifepristone." (previously)
posted by kliuless to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 11:55 PM
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La Véritable Histoire d'Amélie Poulain: Now, just over 20 years since its release, its writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet provides an official new director's cut that reveals Amélie's true identity as a KGB agent.
posted by cubby to MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 3:52 PM
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What strategies do you recommend for getting your work-from-home day on track faster? My brain can't seem to work immediately in the morning no matter how hard I try, but using the internet to warm it up has sent me down rabbit holes that can derail the entire day.
posted by bluecore to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 18 at 9:21 AM
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On traveling to Morocco with a group-travel company that promised to build “meaningful friendships” among its youngish clientele. Caity Weaver for the NYT / Archive link.
posted by ellieBOA to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 6:10 AM
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An Icelandic Town Goes All Out to Save Baby Puffins. Kids and senior citizens alike rally to rescue beloved young seabirds that have lost their bearings.
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Argentine goalkeeper Leandro Requena scored one of the most outrageous goals you are ever likely to see during his Cobresal side’s 3-1 win over Colo-Colo in Chile’s top soccer league.
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Board games aren't terribly sustainable so to help the environment we must heavily regulate and mostly eliminate private jet usage. Sorry not sorry to be glib but I'm really out of gas on interacting with sustainability pushes that don't hit the big (mostly untouchable) ones like private jets, maritime trade, and the US Navy (not necessarily in... [more]
posted by Slackermagee to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 7:31 AM
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💩 "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." ― William Gibson, Count Zero [view]
posted by AlSweigart to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 11:11 AM
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We're in for about 10 years of courts and state legislatures dominated by dying godbag boomers and pissing off everyone else, but not "a civil war". This is such blinkered bullshit. This “once the boomers die, all will be well” nonsense really needs to stop. It’s blinding you to the very real fact that, save for a small few... [more]
posted by Thorzdad to MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 5:12 AM
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I gotta say that I'm a teensy bit skeptical of the low number of successful New York State Insurance Fund claims being used as evidence that long COVID is not as bad or as prevalent as initially feared. Are we undercounting people who are (a) not making claims at all because their health care professionals don't believe them? (b) making claims... [more]
posted by Jeanne to MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 7:28 AM
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My mother and brother both have Lyme disease; they struggle with a frustrating lack of clarity about what their respective triggers may be for a flare-up, what may help them, and whether they will get any relief. The biggest obstacle in their treatment is that there isn't enough research into Lyme and so their doctors simply don't know what to do,... [more]
posted by EmpressCallipygos to MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 7:09 AM
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> "youngish" ... "people in their 30s and 40s" This is the uniquely millennial delusion. [view]
posted by jordemort to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 6:43 AM
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Yeah, this isn't really about him, and addressing him in any way about it is likely to leave you with significant regrets because there's nothing he can do to fix this for you, and it's not his responsibility. And it's also not that you are horribly broken, either. This is pretty normal, to have a big messy reaction to something that strikes a... [more]
posted by Lyn Never to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 5:59 AM
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I feel like this thread is about an hour away from inventing the concept of a travel agent. [view]
posted by Think_Long to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 12:54 PM
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Hey, I want to write to you as I wish someone had written to past me some time ago. My spouse some years ago treated me unforgiveably, but I didn't want my family to think I had repeated the mistakes of the past and gotten into a relationship as bad as theirs, and so I found ways to patch it together and paper it over, because I wanted them to... [more]
posted by corb to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 18 at 7:13 AM
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do you have any idea how much avocado toast you have to not eat to afford a trip like this [view]
posted by 7segment to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 7:12 AM
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what if someone clearly and transparently has changed their legal status to mock trans people? They're doing that to cause exactly the kind of anxiety you're experiencing right now. The way they're currently carrying on is clearly intended to start fights. You engage, they win. So don't get their shit on... [more]
posted by flabdablet to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 18 at 2:32 AM
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Give me a break. I still use board games produced 40-50 years ago that I had as a kid. My own kids' board games are now 15+ years old. They still sit there on a shelf, ready to be used, consuming no further resources, etc. This reminds me of the debates regarding e-readers more than a decade ago. People told me that their e-readers were... [more]
posted by drstrangelove to MetaFilter on Mar 21 at 7:50 AM
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Annnnnd, once again, the reason I don’t post on the Blue. If a well-researched, perfectly cited deep dive post not only can’t pass muster, but also receives a written complaint, what reason is there for folks to even participate? It’s so utterly demoralizing and draining. Since this isn’t school or a job, why are there rubrics and performance... [more]
posted by WaspEnterprises to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 8:40 PM
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I'm familiar with the Comstock laws. For forty-two years, Anthony Comstock, Postal Inspector of the United States, used it to be the biggest censor in the land, working tirelessly to suppress birth control, women's suffrage, labor organizers, anarchists, pacifists, religious minorities (Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostals), and gynecology. J.... [more]
posted by LeRoienJaune to MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 12:45 AM
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The quantitative research is definitely good, mostly because it guards against people claiming that this stuff just didn't happen, but none of this is exactly news if you've talked to anyone who lived through that era in Hungary. I spent some time there in the early 2000s and worked largely with people who had started their careers / working... [more]
posted by Kadin2048 to MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 5:42 PM
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I agree that posts with a lot of links are borderline impenetrable but I treat them the same way I treat anything on this site that isn’t for me – I don’t read them. [view]
posted by Diskeater to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 12:58 PM
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I'm quite skeptical of interpreting incidence rates from diagnosis within electronic health records. It's well known that the typical sequence of medical care for chronic illness (that is, if you go at all) goes along the lines of Patient: I feel awful, my brain is foggy, I'm so tired. I can't walk, I can't work. Doctor: Let's run some... [more]
posted by Dashy to MetaFilter on Mar 20 at 8:00 AM
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I'm from Amarillo, TX, where the judge in this case resides. There is no "if" when it comes to his ruling. He will rule for the Republican position and against abortion, that's as guaranteed as tomorrow's sunrise. The only real question is what legal excuse will he conjure up to claim he used to reach the preordained decision, and how... [more]
posted by sotonohito to MetaFilter on Mar 22 at 5:25 AM
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Sorry, one last point. When some troll says "So what if I decide my pronouns are XYZ?", their real goal is to undermine the legitimacy of people's stated pronouns. If you fight them, you're actually conceding the point: you're agreeing that people's stated pronouns aren't always legitimate. Their next move is easy:... [more]
posted by nebulawindphone to Ask MetaFilter on Mar 18 at 7:39 AM
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I speak for myself alone: one reason why I rarely post on Metafilter these days is because of what I came to perceive as a constant, negative feedback loop about how, why, and what people post or don't post. I realized that I had come to not only consume, but also feed into that negativity. It didn't feel good. So I quit posting. I also started... [more]
posted by nightrecordings to MetaTalk on Mar 22 at 11:26 AM
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