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I'm looking for dishes where the taste, appearance or "wow factor" is much more than the effort, time or money put into the dish. For the purposes of this question, there are no other restrictions.
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Edward Zitron has been reading all of google's internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ's antitrust case against google.

Zitron concludes that Google Search died on February 5th, 2019
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The short science fiction story "Hello! Hello! Hello!" by Fiona Jones (published March 2024 in Clarkesworld) begins:

I express greetings and most joyful salutations!

I do not mean to interrupt you if you wish to be without company. It is only that I noticed you have been drifting alone for six flares of star-home-past-great-star-birthplace, and that is many flares! Your movement has been aimless, and I express concern!

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Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent.” [...] “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said [last October], after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts.

TNR: The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco: "If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay."
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter on Apr 27 at 12:12 PM
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G/O Media, the much-reviled owner of such internet landmarks as Kotaku, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, and The Root, has been selling off their assets recently, including ClickHole (sold to Cards Against Humanity), Lifehacker (Ziff Davis), Deadspin (gutted), Jezebel and the AV Club (Paste). Latest on the auction block is The Onion... who ended up with a surprising buyer: Global Tetrahedron, a name that might ring a few bells for longtime readers. But what does the advent of this ominous conglomerate mean for America's Finest News Source?™
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter on Apr 25 at 6:59 PM
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The backside of the moon as it transits across Earth. That is all.
posted by Tell Me No Lies to MetaFilter on Apr 24 at 1:32 PM
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“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.” "It was 2017, and a YIMBY activist invited me to talk about my book Nixonland with his book club, which also happened to be Marc Andreessen’s book club."
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Brutalist Churches.
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When you often notice people "why-don't-they-just"-ing their way into a proposed solution to a gnarly problem, you might turn your criticisms into a checklist. "Your post advocates a [( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante] approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work." These templates often offer a summary of the problem space and a glimpse of experts' frustrations. Solution rejection checklists exist for fixing the housing crisis, beating the CAP Theorem, protecting against DDOS attacks, improving pharmaceutical drug discovery success rates, creating new programming languages and distributed social networks, and (MeFi comment!) saving journalism.
posted by brainwane to MetaFilter on Apr 25 at 7:30 AM
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For a generation of British people, it represents the vanishing landscape of their childhoods, tied into ideas of nostalgia and even hauntology.
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Emil Dziewanowski is a technical artist in the gaming industry who excels at using inventive techniques to create compelling visual effects. His latest blog post, Flowfields, walks you through the process of animating the complex whorls and vortices of Jupiter without using traditional fluid dynamics, using lessons learned from such prior art as Contra's color-cycling, frame-by-frame animation, and the trippy lava effect in Quake, ultimately using a combination of clever tricks to design a "universal" flow simulator that can render appealing fluid effects in just half a millisecond.
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter on Apr 24 at 12:04 PM
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Writing for Defector, Asher Elbein talks about the evolution of the character of Magneto, who is (yet again) back from the dead and the shift of meaning in "Never Again," from inclusive aspiration to its violent modern application.
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Little Workshop is an award-winning French studio specializing in high-quality immersive 3D experiences for the web. Their portfolio contains many charming and fun projects you can try out yourself, including endless city generator Infinitown, cute procedural dungeon crawler Keep Out!, pulsing geometric music visualizer TRACK, and Arde Madrid, a multi-scene recreation of Ava Gardner's home in Francoist Spain. Their latest and most ambitious project: EQUINOX, a slick, stylized adventure game set in a failing starship in deep space, complete with a full soundtrack and voice acting in a mobile-friendly interface. Read the case study on their website, or check out their other projects (including the dearly-departed Mozilla MMORPG BrowserQuest).
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter on Apr 23 at 9:57 AM
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Life After Running Athletes are often defined by their physical strength. Who are they when they lose it?

It is not a replacement for running, but to live with a chronic condition is to become an expert at negotiating between one’s wants and one’s capacities. It means constantly hacking away at the richness of one’s life—there is nothing casual about it.

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“ So my editor, and I, would like me to bring Garak into this.” - “ That’s interesting. There is an interesting angle for that.” - Star Trek’s Alexander Siddig interviewed for Arab-American Heritage Month
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Ultimately, cultural preferences are subject to generational relativism, heavily rooted in the media of our adolescence. It's strange how much your 13-year-old self defines your lifelong artistic tastes. At this age, we're unable to drive, vote, drink alcohol, or pay taxes, yet we're old enough to cultivate enduring musical preferences. The pervasive nature of music paralysis across generations suggests that the phenomenon's roots go beyond technology, likely stemming from developmental factors. So what changes as we age, and when does open-eardness decline? from When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter on Apr 26 at 2:05 AM
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Elle Griffin's report on the testimony from the Justice Department's 2021 antitrust lawsuit to block the merger of Penguin Random House with Simon and Schuster reveals a disheartening truth: practically nobody buys books.
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The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness , signed by 88 researchers, asks us to consider more non-human creatures as capable of subjective experiences.
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The Coddling of the American Parent by Mike Masnick (TechDirt) debunks Jonathan Haidt's panicky new book on teens & the internet. Developmental psychologist & scholar Candice Odgers' article for Nature: The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
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"To be online today is to constantly walk a tight-rope between the longing to be known and the dread of being perceived."
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(Apologies, this got long) Oh this hits so close to home. Not for me, but for my wife. We both came to running later in life (I was 35, she was ten years older than me and started a few years later when she was almost 50). When we were first married, running meant running to the store to buy a pack of cinnamon rolls to split. But after we... [more]
posted by gmatom to MetaFilter on Apr 24 at 6:22 AM
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i await the cleansing fire i'd be happy just making these fuckers pay their taxes [view]
posted by They sucked his brains out! to MetaFilter on Apr 27 at 12:44 PM
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Here are pictures of our last 5k costumes, and our 5k in Juneau. [view]
posted by gmatom to MetaFilter on Apr 24 at 8:20 AM
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"Man of Indian descent, man of Chinese descent and unwillingly-outed gay man allying themselves with the extreme right in well-thought-out scheme" reads like a modern version of an old Onion headline. [view]
posted by mhoye to MetaFilter on Apr 27 at 12:48 PM
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Christ, what assholes. [view]
posted by Wild_Eep to MetaFilter on Apr 27 at 12:15 PM
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My spouse grew up loving Ellison and introduced me to him. I loved his writing, too. The City of the Edge of Forever saga is fascinating and ridiculous and changed Star Trek forever. But the FPP article quickly glances over the time he grabbed the breast of (one of my favorite authors and one of the most Hugo Award winning authors of all time)... [more]
posted by hydropsyche to MetaFilter on Apr 28 at 4:07 AM
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As all the search engines fail into enshitification and needless AI wackiness, Yahoo! sees their opportunity and blows the dust off their old web directory that's been sitting in a closet forgotten. [view]
posted by Clever User Name to MetaFilter on Apr 23 at 12:09 PM
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These people don't really have utopia in mind, and they don't have any particular morality or politics or ethics that are consistent or even thought-out. They just don't want to pay taxes. That's all that underlies the fascist posturing. It's so fucking pathetic. [view]
posted by They sucked his brains out! to MetaFilter on Apr 27 at 1:10 PM
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This was such a hard read. There is just so much about this that absolutely horrifies me and makes me want to scream. I think the most immediate thing is that I am really alarmed that Balaji feels okay saying this out loud and on record. It’s not just that he’s moving the Overton window, it’s that him feeling insulated from any consequences... [more]
posted by 1024 to MetaFilter on Apr 28 at 9:07 PM
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Pay the extra $10 and consider this a learning experience about clear communication when interacting with service providers. It sounds like the cost would have been $38 for cuffed hems anyway ("cuffed hem is different and costs more"); the tailor is doing you a big favour by accommodating your wishes without charging you for the... [more]
posted by heatherlogan to Ask MetaFilter on Apr 23 at 8:21 AM
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Maybe they need more humanities classes at Stanford. [view]
posted by chasing to MetaFilter on Apr 27 at 12:57 PM
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It was always conventional wisdom that Google could fuck up as many products and launches as they wanted and they'd still always be fine as long as they didn't fuck up search. It's been fascinating to watch them fuck up search. Both the speed and breadth of the fuckup is astounding. Search went from "eh, this seems less good than it once... [more]
posted by phooky to MetaFilter on Apr 23 at 11:58 AM
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<Moe Szyslak voice> You know what I blame this on the shutdown of? Reader. </Moe Szyslak voice> [view]
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gmatom - I just want to thank you for sharing that with us. With me. I don't have the presence of mind to unspool all the ways in which it's connecting to me but please just know that it's beautiful and this internet stranger is sitting in a coffee shop feeling very emotionally full. Thank you so much for this gift. [view]
posted by Tomorrowful to MetaFilter on Apr 24 at 6:51 AM
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and also WHY IS THERE NOT MORE GOTH FOR AND BY OLD PEOPLE. WHY DO ONLY YOUNG PEOPLE MOAN ABOUT DEATH. GOTH SHOULD BECOME MORE INTENSE AS YOU APPROACH THE GRAVE, NOT LESS. WHAT THE FUCK [view]
posted by phooky to MetaFilter on Apr 26 at 5:31 AM
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tl;dr "Any Salad Can Be A Caesar Salad (if you stab it enough)" [view]
posted by lalochezia to MetaFilter on Apr 23 at 8:26 AM
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This is interesting but I have a problem with the framing of heroic software engineers against evil management/consultants. Not that management isn't evil but there's nothing inherently ethically or morally pure about software development. It's some old school Silicon valley/Microserfs philosophy. [view]
posted by muddgirl to MetaFilter on Apr 23 at 12:36 PM
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This seems to me to be one of those situations expressly made for the “listen in, dump out” rule of thumb in relationships. Your husband, it seems clear from this post, is much, much closer to this painful issue than you are. Your distance may allow you to see some moral aspects more clearly right now than he does, but it also seems unarguable to... [more]
posted by Merricat Blackwood to Ask MetaFilter on Apr 26 at 8:06 AM
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He was definitely a writer of contradictions - famously, he mentored Octavia Butler, and his sixties/seventies/eighties essays about feminism, racism and policing are worth looking at if you're trying to get a sense of his concerns. And if you read sixties science fiction, there's a whole trend of "we are tough and real and deep,... [more]
posted by Frowner to MetaFilter on Apr 28 at 5:33 AM
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{looks around the room at literally thousands of books} Shit. [view]
posted by metametamind to MetaFilter on Apr 22 at 8:18 PM
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