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Supporting the Vulnerable ...

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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image of a silhouette of a group of people, including adults of different ages, and children, standing together and holding hands. The background features a gradient sky transitioning from light near the horizon to a darker tone at the top, suggesting either dawn or dusk. A faint outline of a fence or railing is visible along the bottom right.
November 27, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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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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A black-and-white, detailed illustration of a fish. The fish has a rounded, stocky body covered with textured patterns resembling scales and bumps. Its head is large with a prominent, somewhat grumpy expression, and it has short fins
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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"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

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18th Century portrait of Francis Williams in his study: A historical painting depicts a Black man in 18th-century attire standing in a study or library. He is dressed in a blue coat with yellow trim, white stockings, and black shoes, and is wearing a white wig. The surroundings feature a large bookshelf filled with books, a wooden chair, a table with an open book, his hand lying upon it, a globe, and a celestial globe. A window behind him shows a landscape with a building and trees under a twilight blue sky. The floor is checkered, and a curtain with a intricate tassel hangs to the right.
November 25, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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Who are MetaFilter's BlueSky favorites?

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image from Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Photo of a blue butterfly on white background: Dorsal view of male butterfly which was captured in Peru and is stored in Muséum de Toulouse
November 19, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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" 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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Not the book cover; art via pixabay.com: depiction of an ancient stepped pyramid resembling Mayan architecture, set against a vibrant natural backdrop. The structure, surrounded by lush green jungle, is illuminated by soft lights along its steps. A calm, vivid blue ocean lies in the foreground, with the scene set against a warm and colorful sunset sky, blending orange, pink, and blue hues. The image evokes a tranquil yet majestic atmosphere
November 19, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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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"

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in shades of blue and glowing white a close-up of a circular image with electronic circuits that looks like the pupil of an eye
November 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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"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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via theparisreview.org, Wacław Szpakowski, A1, 1930, ink on tracing paper, 9 5/8 inches x 14 3/4 inches: This image features a geometric pattern made of interlocking L-shaped lines. The shapes are arranged in a tessellated, repeating configuration, forming a balanced, abstract design. The lines are black and placed on a beige or off-white background, which gives the image a minimalist, architectural feel.
November 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM