'Tis the Season to be Linkin'
December 1, 2024 7:25 AM Subscribe
LinkMe, December '24: Come across an interesting link recently that you'd like to share, but don't want to work it up into a full post? Share it here for our perusal, nbd. And if you'd like to post something but need some inspiration, check out the links here to see what other members have found interesting and would like to read more about! Just tag the resulting post "LinkMe" and include a nod back to the original suggestion. No self-linking and usual site rules apply, but otherwise feel free to post whatever you like! Holiday links encouraged but not required. Look inside for a round-up from last month!
Scientists pinpoint the origins of humanity’s love of carbs [via mittens]
Someone dumped approximately 25 rabbits by Nicasio Reservoir in West Marin, and the Marin Humane Society rescued them [via agatha_magatha]
How misunderstanding a recommendation about peanut allergy caused more peanut allergy [via Zumbador]
A very silly 0:59 compilation of cats interrupting reporters [via Glinn, posted by JHarris]
Flashback to the Savannah Bananas [via DirtyOldTown]
"I have no idea what this is It seems to be a fragment from an idea for digital ink [the people listed are in that business] and yet this feels like the front door to an ARG or other kind of mystery." [via chavenet]
Non verbal communication YouTube short [via BoscosMom]
Lore Sjöberg is republishing his classic D&D webcomic Speak With Monsters on his Substack Dogs and Sorcerers [via JHarris, past-postified by jacquilynne]
A free, PDF-only book filled with drawings of things that you can make, with each picture linking to the original online instructions [via wenestvedt]
"Yngwie Johann Malmsteen Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E Flat Minor with the New Japan Philharmonic is somehow both ridiculous and completely amazing" [via swift]
John Roberts, of Linda from Bob's Burgers fame, has been making some lovely music videos [via ersatzsapience]
Tech Reviews Based Purely On Knob Feel [past-postified by chavenet], The Stallman Report, Bending and forming PLEXIGLAS®, BC Resource road safety information, extensive pictures and drawings of the interior of the Hindenburg, and good news on sustainable fish harvests [via Mitheral]
Walking Phnom Penh [via Mr.Know-it-some]
Behind Kinzang Lhamo’s historic Olympic run [via maxwelton]
"They claimed they invented cold fusion. What actually happened turned out to be even more interesting." part1, part2, part3 [via lock robster]
The music video from Nottingham's finest Queer Trash Folk-Punk band Cheap Dirty Horse for their hit song "On The Rob" [via Gable Oak]
After the Election, California will keep moving the world forward (archive link) [via Rash]
Artist He Jiaying The ballet (2006) [via Art_Pot]
The new Underworld album, Strawberry Hotel [via Artifice_Eternity]
Gavin Creel singing Billy Joel's "And So It Goes" [via BlahLaLa]
Racial residential segregation is a fundamental cause of racial health disparities [via acridrabbit]
Incense clocks, geomantic cities, and the unique art of Hermann Miller, and a Latin translation of Finnegans Wake [via graywyvern]
I poured all the galaxies in the Universe into a pool [via SunSnork]
404 Media's 404 File Not Found page [via JHarris]
Actors Shortest to Tallest [via Glinn]
Scientists pinpoint the origins of humanity’s love of carbs [via mittens]
Someone dumped approximately 25 rabbits by Nicasio Reservoir in West Marin, and the Marin Humane Society rescued them [via agatha_magatha]
How misunderstanding a recommendation about peanut allergy caused more peanut allergy [via Zumbador]
A very silly 0:59 compilation of cats interrupting reporters [via Glinn, posted by JHarris]
Flashback to the Savannah Bananas [via DirtyOldTown]
"I have no idea what this is It seems to be a fragment from an idea for digital ink [the people listed are in that business] and yet this feels like the front door to an ARG or other kind of mystery." [via chavenet]
Non verbal communication YouTube short [via BoscosMom]
Lore Sjöberg is republishing his classic D&D webcomic Speak With Monsters on his Substack Dogs and Sorcerers [via JHarris, past-postified by jacquilynne]
A free, PDF-only book filled with drawings of things that you can make, with each picture linking to the original online instructions [via wenestvedt]
"Yngwie Johann Malmsteen Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E Flat Minor with the New Japan Philharmonic is somehow both ridiculous and completely amazing" [via swift]
John Roberts, of Linda from Bob's Burgers fame, has been making some lovely music videos [via ersatzsapience]
Tech Reviews Based Purely On Knob Feel [past-postified by chavenet], The Stallman Report, Bending and forming PLEXIGLAS®, BC Resource road safety information, extensive pictures and drawings of the interior of the Hindenburg, and good news on sustainable fish harvests [via Mitheral]
Walking Phnom Penh [via Mr.Know-it-some]
Behind Kinzang Lhamo’s historic Olympic run [via maxwelton]
"They claimed they invented cold fusion. What actually happened turned out to be even more interesting." part1, part2, part3 [via lock robster]
The music video from Nottingham's finest Queer Trash Folk-Punk band Cheap Dirty Horse for their hit song "On The Rob" [via Gable Oak]
After the Election, California will keep moving the world forward (archive link) [via Rash]
Artist He Jiaying The ballet (2006) [via Art_Pot]
The new Underworld album, Strawberry Hotel [via Artifice_Eternity]
Gavin Creel singing Billy Joel's "And So It Goes" [via BlahLaLa]
Racial residential segregation is a fundamental cause of racial health disparities [via acridrabbit]
Incense clocks, geomantic cities, and the unique art of Hermann Miller, and a Latin translation of Finnegans Wake [via graywyvern]
I poured all the galaxies in the Universe into a pool [via SunSnork]
404 Media's 404 File Not Found page [via JHarris]
Actors Shortest to Tallest [via Glinn]
AP investigation: Police can track your phone with "Fog' tech tool
US law enforcement agencies have used a smartphone tracking tool called "Fog Reveal" to track people’s movements going back months, if not years, sometimes without search warrants.posted by Rash at 9:24 AM on December 1, 2024 [4 favorites]
Beautiful, The Sombrero Galaxy.
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Stunning shot of the Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104) in mid-infrared. The supermassive black hole at its center is described as “slowly snacking on infalling material from the galaxy”.
posted by aleph at 9:30 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
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Stunning shot of the Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104) in mid-infrared. The supermassive black hole at its center is described as “slowly snacking on infalling material from the galaxy”.
posted by aleph at 9:30 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
Gavin Creel's memorial service will take place tomorrow, December 2, in New York at 2pm Eastern. It'll be livestreamed on YouTube by MCC Theater and also by Official London Theater.
Then on Tuesday all of Broadway’s marquees will be dimmed at 6:45 p.m. Eastern in Creel’s honor. (That follows an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the Tony Award winner’s death.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:07 AM on December 1, 2024 [4 favorites]
Then on Tuesday all of Broadway’s marquees will be dimmed at 6:45 p.m. Eastern in Creel’s honor. (That follows an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the Tony Award winner’s death.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:07 AM on December 1, 2024 [4 favorites]
The digital ink weirdness seems understandable and pretty cool to me — trying to move linear-algebra-affordances back into hand-knowledge not brain-knowledge. Though people comfortable with all the shortcuts in any drawing app might get there anyway.
posted by clew at 11:28 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by clew at 11:28 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
I would link to it if I knew its name, which I cannot for the life of me remember, but isn't it about time for that weird British college exam where it's like sixteen sets of twelve related questions and they're all next to impossible? Please someone tell me what its name is.
EDIT: found it, finally: King William's College, and no, it's not out yet.
posted by outgrown_hobnail at 11:39 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
EDIT: found it, finally: King William's College, and no, it's not out yet.
posted by outgrown_hobnail at 11:39 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon
posted by chavenet at 1:23 PM on December 1, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 1:23 PM on December 1, 2024 [2 favorites]
Hugh Jackman is 6'2"? Well. I guess I take back my "He's perfect for Wolverine", who is 5'3".
Only almost a foot too tall. Also, damn that's a lot of dudes I thought were taller than me, but aren't? I think proportionality is part of it. if you're slim you look taller than fat dudes like me without any lining up for comparison, I guess.
posted by symbioid at 1:55 PM on December 1, 2024
Only almost a foot too tall. Also, damn that's a lot of dudes I thought were taller than me, but aren't? I think proportionality is part of it. if you're slim you look taller than fat dudes like me without any lining up for comparison, I guess.
posted by symbioid at 1:55 PM on December 1, 2024
Time to get some tabs out of my browser!
A late entry to my page on selfmade webpage resources, another free host: nekoweb. And 32bit.cafe hosts resources, tutorials and a newsletter.
There's the long-lived, yet still reasonably current, Doctor Who Ratings Guide. I'm happy to see any fansite that doesn't contribute its energy to the hated Reddit. (No, I don't talk it down here as much any more, I trust people understand my problems with it, but it does not mean I find it any less distasteful. I'll leave it at that.)
posted by JHarris at 2:43 PM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
A late entry to my page on selfmade webpage resources, another free host: nekoweb. And 32bit.cafe hosts resources, tutorials and a newsletter.
There's the long-lived, yet still reasonably current, Doctor Who Ratings Guide. I'm happy to see any fansite that doesn't contribute its energy to the hated Reddit. (No, I don't talk it down here as much any more, I trust people understand my problems with it, but it does not mean I find it any less distasteful. I'll leave it at that.)
posted by JHarris at 2:43 PM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
from /.
"Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts 'Scammers and Impersonators' "
...Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, "Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky... Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said."
...The Bluesky Safety account said that the social media service is removing accounts that are impersonating other people and those squatting on handles...
...Bluesky says they've "quadrupled the size of our moderation team, in part to action impersonation reports more quickly.
posted by aleph at 2:55 PM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
"Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts 'Scammers and Impersonators' "
...Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, "Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky... Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said."
...The Bluesky Safety account said that the social media service is removing accounts that are impersonating other people and those squatting on handles...
...Bluesky says they've "quadrupled the size of our moderation team, in part to action impersonation reports more quickly.
posted by aleph at 2:55 PM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
I follow an Australian YouTuber - a farmer who raises cattle and sugarcane in North Queensland. He sometimes makes art, posts a lot about the ups and downs of farming (some of the content can be confronting so I won't link), and occasionally shares some of the weirder (read dumber) things about working with cows. If you need to decontaminate from politics and world events, there are worse ways than moseying through several years of amateur video content. Your welding skills will definitely improve, which is how I found him in the first place.
posted by ninazer0 at 3:17 PM on December 1, 2024
posted by ninazer0 at 3:17 PM on December 1, 2024
Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to
This is so disappointing. Now the left is further diminishing the rule of law in the USA. Out of all the things Biden could have done at the end of his public service, he chose something that helps just his own family.
Presidents should not have unrestrained pardon power. And maybe no one should have unrestrained power over anything but themself.
posted by NotLost at 6:48 PM on December 1, 2024
This is so disappointing. Now the left is further diminishing the rule of law in the USA. Out of all the things Biden could have done at the end of his public service, he chose something that helps just his own family.
Presidents should not have unrestrained pardon power. And maybe no one should have unrestrained power over anything but themself.
posted by NotLost at 6:48 PM on December 1, 2024
I'm not surprised on the pardon, knowing that Trump will be ruling from now on. Also, why the fuck keep that promise now.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:28 PM on December 1, 2024 [4 favorites]
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:28 PM on December 1, 2024 [4 favorites]
OpenAI's search engine is tested for accuracy in identifying news sources and it performs very poorly.
posted by Rhomboid at 1:21 AM on December 2, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by Rhomboid at 1:21 AM on December 2, 2024 [2 favorites]
I know this isn't a spot to request posts...but I'm gonna request a post: Does anyone have sufficient background knowledge to post an FPP about the current situation in South Korea? The president declared martial law, which the national assembly voted down, against a backdrop of protests.
posted by mittens at 8:42 AM on December 3, 2024
posted by mittens at 8:42 AM on December 3, 2024
This article from The Verge (What happened to Intel?) could be the core of a post about their current crisis.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:20 AM on December 4, 2024
posted by Rhomboid at 2:20 AM on December 4, 2024
demonstration of a malicious USB cable with a tiny embedded chip
posted by Rhomboid at 4:31 AM on December 9, 2024
posted by Rhomboid at 4:31 AM on December 9, 2024
I'm not sure if this is worth an FPP or should tie in with something current already going on, but Legal Eagle is now suing the FBI and DOJ.
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:57 PM on December 11, 2024
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:57 PM on December 11, 2024
Oh also, I never ended up finding the info I wanted to know about this topic so didn't feel I could do this justice, but: DRIVING THE FUTURE OF HEALTH WITH AI (HIMSS x Medscape ft PDF)
posted by mittens at 4:49 PM on December 17, 2024
posted by mittens at 4:49 PM on December 17, 2024
I think the most recent LinkMe posts and freethreads should be highlighted in the sidebar, if not actually in the top banner. I'm always looking for them!
Here's a couple from this morning:
The website Abandoned America (now a book) documents a desert ghost town. Linked to this article is this Mastodon post with a photo of clothes hanging on hooks in one of the buildings, still patiently waiting for their owners to return for them.
Man taped 10,000 radio recordings of Chicago's indie rock scene, from 2019, seems people are uploading them to the Internet Archive, there's also the Mastodon account which points out interesting uploads (not just of the Chicago indie scene).
posted by JHarris at 6:29 AM on December 18, 2024 [2 favorites]
Here's a couple from this morning:
The website Abandoned America (now a book) documents a desert ghost town. Linked to this article is this Mastodon post with a photo of clothes hanging on hooks in one of the buildings, still patiently waiting for their owners to return for them.
Man taped 10,000 radio recordings of Chicago's indie rock scene, from 2019, seems people are uploading them to the Internet Archive, there's also the Mastodon account which points out interesting uploads (not just of the Chicago indie scene).
posted by JHarris at 6:29 AM on December 18, 2024 [2 favorites]
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