Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
A longform freewheeling monthly recap of site doings, with the original MeFi team.
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November 13, 2024 • 165 mins
Hey hey it's the podcast again. Loup and I talk about the Ask the Mods Anything questions and reveal the winners of the Halloween Costume Contest. Thank you not_on_display for the mixing.
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Kid ballots
Neighborhood costumes in Vermont
Dark Matter on FanFare
Mr. Crocket movie on FanFare
MeFi 25th in Ca...
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Neighborhood costumes in Vermont
Dark Matter on FanFare
Mr. Crocket movie on FanFare
MeFi 25th in Ca...
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August 14, 2023 • 146 mins
cortex has a new job and was hard to track down and we had a few months of missing each other. We found some time on August 14th and tried to play catch-up. Runs about 97 minutes.
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not_on_display did the mixing on this one and I think it hopefully sounds better than last time?
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Heat pumps!
BestofMeFi on Facebook
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not_on_display did the mixing on this one and I think it hopefully sounds better than last time?
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BestofMeFi on Facebook
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March 5, 2023
A nerdy debate about the relative term "this week" and "last week" and that mystery week in between them. We got together on March 4th and tried not to talk about the weather too much. Runs about 105 minutes.
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No Jobs Except Cortex's New One
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Lirdle - Like Wordle, but with one lie per answer by morspin (MeFi Post)
Word S...
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Lirdle - Like Wordle, but with one lie per answer by morspin (MeFi Post)
Word S...
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February 11, 2023
More or less on time! New theme song! We talk about heating up water and heating up ourselves. cortex read a lot of MetaFilter this month, Jessamyn's still reading old FanFare threads. Runs about 82 minutes.
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Lead Product Designer by jchan
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Mondrian's Toothpicks by cortex
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Seque...
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Lead Product Designer by jchan
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Mondrian's Toothpicks by cortex
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Seque...
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January 8, 2023 • 256 mins
Back on track this year. We resolve to get these out on time. More or less. Maybe. Cortex and I talked on January 3rd about our usual nonsense for a tight 87 minutes. Thanks for listening.
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FanFare
Letterkenny: Entire Season by fizzix
Leverage Rdemption
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Face To Face: Portraits of People of Color Before Photography by...
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Letterkenny: Entire Season by fizzix
Leverage Rdemption
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Face To Face: Portraits of People of Color Before Photography by...
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December 11, 2022 • 172 mins
Cortex and I decided to make up for lost time after the delayed previous episode by knocking out another one quick-like, and here it is! Catching up on what we can of the last couple of months of MeFi, and also ranting and philosophizing a little bit about recent seismic changes in the social media sphere and also about design skeuomorphism and the semiotics of interfaces? That last bit is probably overselling it a little? Anyway, ...
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December 5, 2022 • 154 mins
Some difficulties hitting escape velocity with this one. We recorded it in October 5th and, well, here it is now.
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Misc
Jessamyn's Weird Bathroom
Damn Bitch, You Live Like This?
Buttplug.io
MeFi
Lumper or Splitter, Tag Yourself
E...
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Jessamyn's Weird Bathroom
Damn Bitch, You Live Like This?
Buttplug.io
MeFi
Lumper or Splitter, Tag Yourself
E...
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August 30, 2022 • 141 mins
Belated podcast for August, American summer is just like that. No idea what we talked about, but I know we had a good time.
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Transfering faculty profiles (~150) into a new format by Shepherd
UX/UI Design Intern (Sep-Dec 2022) by jchan
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Woefully Neglected by Devils Rancher
Nelson's Linkblog by Nelson...
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Transfering faculty profiles (~150) into a new format by Shepherd
UX/UI Design Intern (Sep-Dec 2022) by jchan
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Woefully Neglected by Devils Rancher
Nelson's Linkblog by Nelson...
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July 5, 2022 • 182 mins
It's episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with Jessamyn and I...and loup! Who joined us to talk a bit about their experiences with internet past and present and their last couple of years as they've been working here. The three of us have a long and winding conversation about community management, internet ethics, MeFi in particular, the recent transition process, etc. Runs about 90 minutes.
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June 14, 2022 • 122 mins
Random podcast bonus content! Jessamyn and I decided to do a mid-month episode to just chat about a couple media things we liked. Is it a FanFare podcast? I dunno! Will we keep doing it? I dunno! But it was fun and so here it is. We talk about V Rising, a survive-o-craft vampire game I have been very much enjoying, and about Severance, a TV show that we have both enjoyed tremendously. Runs just about an hour.
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May 31, 2022 • 199 mins
It's episode 185 of the MeFi Monthly Podcast, with Jessamyn and I talking for a good chunk up front about the whole process over the last couple months of figuring out transferring ownership of the site from me to her. We also talk about, like, good stuff from the site for most of it.
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Once again I am gloriously doing almost no work in causing t...
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May 8, 2022 • 179 mins
I didn't edit or write this month's podcast (other than this little bit)! Thanks so much to eotvos for all his work on this; note his note at the end of the podcast about other possible contributions as well! In any case, Jessamyn and I talk about MetaFilter as we are wont to do; it runs the usual 90-ish minutes.
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April 11, 2022 • 191 mins
It was a very busy turn of the month so we're wandering in pretty late with this episode. I talk a little bit about my recent decision to transition away from running MetaFilter (but we'll, inter alia, keep podcasting); Jessamyn and I talk about MeFi stuff as per usual; we establish that she started watching the wrong show and couldn't figure out why people liked it; and we chatter about at least three words we're not sure how to ...
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March 7, 2022 • 191 mins
Psst, hey kid, wanna buy a podcast?
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- I've been enjoying dry British trivia show Only Connect
- jessamyn watched The Sparks Brothers
- move over Wordle, here comes Semantle
- the old 100K user raffle video, Rafflers
Jobs
- Illustrator for Rider–Waite style drawing by wesleyac
Projects
- Quantle by l...
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- I've been enjoying dry British trivia show Only Connect
- jessamyn watched The Sparks Brothers
- move over Wordle, here comes Semantle
- the old 100K user raffle video, Rafflers
Jobs
- Illustrator for Rider–Waite style drawing by wesleyac
Projects
- Quantle by l...
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February 4, 2022 • 188 mins
I love podcasts, woo woo woo! I love podcasts, how 'bout you? Here's episode 181, with jessamyn and I contemplating the idea of a week and a month and talking about misc. MetaFilterian stuff. Runs about 90 minutes.
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- my penance for being late getting this up is reusing last months experimental horn version of the original podcast theme...
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January 6, 2022 • 183 mins
I checked in with management and apparently we have to do a 2022 now even though we just finished wiht 2021. Jessamyn and I do our best to roll into the new year and talk about MetaFilter stuff and get in a philosophical discussion of the nature of the literal horizon qua solar objects. Runs about 90 minutes.
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- Jessamyn's 2021 wrapup<...
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November 30, 2021 • 186 mins
In our triumphant return to posting podcasts at the turn of the month, Jess and I talk about time management and reminders, complicated conversational dynamics, the assassination of JFK (but only very briefly), and a bunch of somewhat more MetaFilter-centric things. We time-managed our way up to about 93 minutes. Also I play a euphonium.
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November 10, 2021
We got a rootin' tootin' podcast here. Darn tootin'. Can you both rootin'- and darn'- something that's tootin' in the same paragraph like this? I don't know. I really don't know. I might be going to podcast jail. Before that happens, though, here's me and jessamyn chattering about MetaFilter, the nature of daylight, representation vs. allusion in crappy old Sierra erotic comedy adventures, MetaFilter, the concept of (for some...
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October 13, 2021 • 174 mins
I accidentally wrote "make a podcast" on a colander instead of the calendar, so on the downside this episode is pretty late but on the upside it has been thoroughly rinsed. Is that anything? Can we do anything with that? Anyway, here's a podcast, it's about 90 minutes, and it involves me and Jessamyn getting off on at least a couple different tangents on the subject *of* getting off on tangents, so it's a very MetaFilter podcast...
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September 2, 2021 • 150 mins
Jessamyn and I managed to stumble our way into and through a podcast despite both having the needle pegged hard to E this afternoon, and here is recorded evidence of that fact, at about 75 minutes.
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- Jessamyn is still cleaning out her mom's house.
- like seriously that's a lot of books
- Also, it is Virgo month of leisure, which...
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- Also, it is Virgo month of leisure, which...
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