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Right person, right time, right place, right thread: In Ask Metafilter, Migrantology expertly answers a question about donating for legal aid to immigrants to California.

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November 27, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Rumple has posted Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of 14,000 woodblock prints, now online as Public Domain / CC 0 high resolution TIFF images with tags and search capabilities. We stan the lumpy grumpy fish.

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November 27, 2024 at 11:23 AM
"like a real life version of a spy thriller (art & science history edition)" — comment by Mefi member Ausamor

Kattullus has posted about the mysteries of the portrait of Francis Williams, brilliant Black Jamaican polymath and member of the Newtonian inner circle

www.metafilter.com/206371/Its-a...
November 25, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Who are MetaFilter's BlueSky favorites?

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November 19, 2024 at 11:29 AM
" I remember this old paperback in my old used bookstore where Greek or Roman voyagers end up in America and meet the Mayans ... "

In Ask Metafilter, suburbanbeatnik is looking for a particular hard-to-find DAW paperback from the 1970s with cool cover art

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November 19, 2024 at 11:20 AM
The Beep Boop is coming from inside the house!

With a decent local GPU and some free open source software you can try 'open source' LLM models entirely offline: Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on "Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models"

www.metafilter.com/206348/Homeb...
November 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
"still obscure and easily misunderstood ..."

dhruva posted the Paris Review's Rhythmical Lines about Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski's "series of labyrinthine geometrical abstractions, each one produced from a single continuous line."

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November 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM