Metafilter
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- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … I present and act differently on LinkedIn than I do on Reddit than I do on Instagram than I do on Metafilter than I do on AVForums than …
- For Informational Purposes; Product management is hard, a reminder; Shadow IT … 1.2 Shadow IT This is fantastic! Via Metafilter [3] , the Navy Times headline is How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi [4] gives …
- Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version) … You have 20 seconds to comply, old sport | MetaFilter ( archive.is ), Rhaomi, 27 October, 2023, Metafilter ↩︎ Robots That Can Chat | Boston Dynamics ( archive.is ), Boston Dynamics ↩︎ Making Chat …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … has drifted off, dissipated, lived its natural life. Here, I have an example. Metafilter is an old site. It carries with it the opinions and ideals of a …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … is a lot! Think about the moderation team size that Metafilter has, the active posters it has, and the ideal round-the-clock moderation coverage. Hell, in the …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … Mumsnet, in the UK, is a large online community, bigger than Metafilter, a good-sized subreddit, I'd think, and is by all accounts in some areas a …
- And Everything's Burning To The Ground … a) Jessamyn owns Metafilter now, of which I have a lot of thoughts but not the time to write them down, but there's something in how certain …
- Steven Wolfram Is Probably Busying Figuring Out How To Turn A Cellular Automata Into Blogging Platform … Also that bit with the mirror shot. ( Via Metafilter ) In the Washington Monthly, Bezos didn't just necessarily buy the Washington Post for its news influence , but also …
- Five Things … my favorite films, so it's kind of a gimme that the recent Metafilter thread about Sneakers caught my attention. Scanning for content The Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt …
- s11hiatus05/05: umbra … Instead, I slacked a copy of the Emotional Labor PDF Metafilter thread to Rebecca, the agency’s head of creative resourcing because at least part of me thought …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … Large Software Projects Considered Harmful Via Metafilter and other sources, news about Horizon, a botched (surprise) GBP 1 billion technology project to upgrade the systems used by the …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … s mailing list (in much the same way that moderatorsproactively manage communities like Metafilter), healthy community management requires consistent and persistent human involvement. There was nobody in the …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … It’s happened on forums like Metafilter, which I kind of expect to, Metafilter being a very closely curated and well-tended community of people, with real moderators …
- Learning the world … Otherwise you might end up like Metafilter . I’m not making the live-by-Google-die-by-Google point here, that’s a whole other topic. I’m …
- Snow Crashing … still?) "I need help busting my gf out of the clink", an Ask Metafilter "My sister got thrown into The Clink after trying to leave her abusive husband …
- What’s the target? … Everything is connected, of course, so even though I’d been studiously ignoring reading Wired UK’s piece about Stripe , it all came back via a Metafilter post …
- Firebreak Protocol … we read every single goddamn email to that mailing list, much in the same way that the Metafilter moderator team reads *every single comment made on Metafilter*. At …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … Good co ntra arguments on how Heath may be wrong on Metafilter. * ODINI: Escaping Sensitive Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields * I read the …
- Write the future … This would be the Church of Metafilter option: where there’s an *existing* affinity or interest group or people aligned around something, and then the experiment is: what …
- News and Religion … People would joke about a church of Metafilter. But... what would a Church of Metafilter need? It has rituals. It has a space. GoFundMe doesn't necessarily create …
- umbra … Instead, I slacked a copy of the Emotional Labor PDF Metafilter thread to Rebecca, the agency’s head of creative resourcing because at least part of me thought …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … In the meantime, you can go read Matt Haughey on Metafilter, which is a tragic-ish example of how to do community right[1, 2] [0] Anyone who …
- Unordered List … vaguely thinking about visible/perceivable infrastructure debt after having read this post on Metafilter by Charlie Stross about how you might go about building a new Concorde[12 …
- Previously … I did a writeup for the Code for America blog that's in two parts[1, 2] and answered some questions on Metafilter[3]. Getting this done was …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … Anyway, via Metafilter[1], the good news that we don't have to worry *as much as we were worrying* about robots taking away our jobs[2], due …
- Who's Afraid Of Infrastructure; White Hats; Utopias; Chinese Room Mobs … What's one thing you can do? From Elementary Penguin on Metafilter[1]: So GamerGaters prowl Twitter for any negative mention of GamerGate, find appropriate copypasta from their …
- Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time … I'm lucky to have gotten in - each attendee is vetted by the Andys McMillan and Baio, a sort of Metafilter-esque human-powered conference Eye of Sauron …
- She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community … You want a good example of that? It's Metafilter. Good community management, *raising* a good community, teaching them and helping them discover what's right and wrong …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … t that weird? I mean, just get a load of the conversation on Metafilter about it[2]. No, Judge's Valley is poking fun and it hurts because …
- Day One; Google Everything … We're here now, and the question for Matt and Metafilter is: what now, and what other sources? To say that Metafilter was a great experiment is to …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … The conversation on Metafilter about the rent news is somewhat predictable: a derail in the first comment about moving to a less hip city that discounts what many …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts