MetaFilter

Just a few Youtube links from around the globe. Youngsters to bring a smile for the weekend. How Deep Us Your Love Vírgenes del Sol Don't Do Me Like That
posted by 2N2222 at 6:33 PM PST - 10 comments

Across Discord servers and Telegram group chats, potentially thousands of people participate in what is loosely known as Comm, a nebulous network of hackers, gamers, and young girls who are sometimes targeted by other participants. ACG became the hot new group among the constant ream of chats inside Comm. Others wanted to join the outfit so much that some even pretended to be members to boast to their Telegram contacts. People wondered who this group ACG was, and where they came from. from From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits 'ACG' [CW: abuse, misogyny, harm, crypto]
posted by chavenet at 3:55 PM PST - 14 comments

Sandra Sawatzky uses embroidery to tell stories of oil in human history amidst changes that are leading to an uncertain future (via NYTimes)
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:54 PM PST - 7 comments

“Hey Chloe,” you say, “I would like both Four Weddings and the Funeral and my relationship with Doctor Who completely sullied while still nourishing my relationship with my vinyl fetish. You got anything for me?” - Ten flicks that'll make you thirsty... for blood!
posted by Artw at 3:17 PM PST - 35 comments

You might remember Robert Sapolsky from his book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, about how external stress affects health, or maybe from his truly massive Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst (archive link). Now, in a move sure to infuriate you uncontrollably, he has written Determined: A Science of Life with No Free Will. "I’m really, really, really trying not to sound like a combative jerk in the book,” he says in this LA Times review. Scientists differ on what led him to say that.
posted by mittens at 10:06 AM PST - 125 comments

Jon Stewart's Apple TV show ends over editorial dispute regarding coverage of AI and China. Apple previously garnered public attention by removing an app in order to support the crackdown on Hong Kong protests in 2019. They bolstered this position with a curtailing a file sharing tool used to evade Chinese censorship in 2022.
posted by StarkRoads at 9:00 AM PST - 30 comments

In the bankruptcy hearing for Infowars owner and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez hasruled that the $1.1B in rulings against Jones are non-dischargable, putting him personally on the hook for the full amount. (SLReuters) [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 7:10 AM PST - 56 comments

Rufous Bettongs start a new life chapter — free of feral predators. Twenty little rufous bettongs, bred in captivity, are released into a feral-predator-free zone but they will still have to fend for themselves. (Article with photographs and a video of rufous bettongs.)
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 1:21 AM PST - 15 comments