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Local music library streaming thread

I’m looking for a thread from the past month about a few libraries (Seattle and San José are the two I remember) who set up streaming services for local unsigned bands. Searches for “music streaming libraries” or the cities in question haven’t shown me the thread. Help?
posted by pxe2000 on Dec 1 at 7:32 AM - 1 comments

mefi nonprofit - project update for November 19

The group planning the transition to make MetaFilter a nonprofit held its first meeting Nov. 15. This is a brief update to keep you all up to date with the progress made.
posted by rebent on Nov 20 at 8:32 AM - 22 comments

healthcare more like HELLthcare am I right

Hi (US only) friends! It's health insurance decision season for most of us and we live in a grim dystopia where everything is expensive and nothing makes sense. Employer-sponsored benefits are something I know enough to be helpful about (I hope!) and I'm here volunteering my ability to speak the language, if you need it.
posted by phunniemee on Nov 1 at 11:21 AM - 52 comments

MeFi Nonprofit -- Volunteers, Purpose, Name

Now that we have formed an interim board to become a MeFi nonprofit, we can move on to a few next items.
posted by NotLost on Oct 30 at 11:26 AM - 116 comments

Western Europe storm check

How's everyone doing?
posted by tangerine on Nov 4 at 10:14 AM - 14 comments

2023 MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups are Open!!

The Metafilter Gift Swap takes place annually from roughly November - January. Each participant sends a gift to an awesome Mefite; each participant receives a gift from an awesome Mefite. Awesomeness and gifts abound. HOORAY!
posted by okayokayigive on Oct 25 at 10:18 AM - 52 comments

MeFi Business/Legal Update Follow-Up

Hi folks -- here's a thread to talk about constructive next steps after this thread from two weeks ago.
posted by jessamyn on Oct 18 at 9:20 AM - 123 comments

Did I mis-remember or does this Mefi post exist? [holiday gift list]

I remember at least two MeFI posts about an annual gift/list and/or catalogue that was full of ridiculously expensive and very niche holiday gifts and the author of the link to the article(s) was just delightfully sassy and salty about the entire list and the associated prices.
posted by Faintdreams on Nov 3 at 10:58 AM - 5 comments

Douglas Rushkoff gives MeFi mods a shoutout

In ep.267 (25/10/2023) of his podcast, Being Human, Rushkoff gives a particular mention of MetaFilter in a long talk about social media.
posted by UbuRoivas on Oct 25 at 9:21 AM - 8 comments

Fundraising Idea -- MeFi Book(s)

The "Life Hack" question now on AskMe made me think of this. Over the years, AskMe has collected a bunch of enduring info on life hacks and other topics. One or more people could organize that, put it into a booklet form and sell it for the good of MeFi. Or would that be any conflict?
posted by NotLost on Oct 19 at 1:42 PM - 51 comments

[MeFi Site Update] October 18th

Hi there, MetaFilter!

Welcome to your monthly Site Update! You can find the last Site Update here.

Reminder: I will be the only mod actively monitoring this thread so please be patient. I’ll reply to your feedback and questions at least twice a week. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions!
posted by loup on Oct 18 at 1:58 PM - 10 comments

MetaFilter: The Quickening

Proposition: We should consider lowering the waiting time for new posts on the blue from one day to 12 hours.
posted by Rhaomi on Oct 10 at 10:47 AM - 133 comments

Scary Monsters & Super Creeps -- A Spoopy Creppy Post

Unexplained shadow outside your window? Cold spots in the kitchen? Is that one conference room no one uses cursed? Settle in with a cup of something warm, light a candle, and tell us your own personal ghost stories!
posted by Kitteh on Oct 13 at 11:32 AM - 51 comments

MeFi Business/Legal Update

Thanks for your patience as I have worked through talking with lawyers who talk with their experts. This is a substantive update with some news and some questions for the community. The short form is: everyone on the team of people I spoke with agrees that MeFi could potentially be a non-profit organization (with the ultimate determination being made by the IRS). Now we need to decide how to move forward and make MeFi into a community-run organization. I'll give some backstory and a "where we are with this" situation inside.
posted by jessamyn on Oct 3 at 7:52 AM - 182 comments

Book club for MeFi

I suggested a book club in the "How will we care for our elderly" post on the blue and want to follow up and make this happen. Mods, should I put this book club in Projects? Meetups? Chat? All three? It will be virtual of course, and probably mostly asynchronous, but I imagine adding in an every other month or every three months Zoom chat.
posted by spamandkimchi on Oct 5 at 11:13 AM - 16 comments

MetaFilter: Nazi bar problem.

I want to discuss how the MetaFilter community addresses comments and users who support or defend Nazi/fascist ideology. A user over in this thread, which discusses Canada's House speaker praising a Nazi veteran, had their comment removed and was given a moderator's note regarding this decision. But I don't find this acceptable. Why would we allow additional comments from this user to be made in that thread? An instant ban would be appropriate for anyone who wants to defend Nazis in this community, otherwise MetaFilter is just setting ourselves up for a Nazi bar problem. I'd like both the moderator team and the community to weigh in on this.
posted by Fizz on Sep 28 at 1:28 PM - 242 comments

Would music posts be welcome on FanFare?

I have never understood why a subsite for discussing "TV, movies, podcasts, and books" is not also for discussing music. But, at a scan, that subsite is truly never used for music. Could it be? As in, is that currently allowed and, if not, would such a change be welcome in this community?
posted by kensington314 on Oct 13 at 9:48 AM - 27 comments

Is it too early to ask about plans for the Mall?

I'm working on holiday/ end of year sales plans for my artistic venture and wondered if there's anything in the works to promote the MeFi Mall this year? It felt like it was sort of forgotten last year.
posted by Sweetie Darling on Oct 5 at 12:39 PM - 7 comments

RIP dayan

Some sad news: MeFite dayan passed away last night. He hadn't been on MeFi for quite a while but hung out in a MeFi spinoff group I'm in and was also really involved in the quizzing and Jeopardy communities and I thought people here might want to know.
posted by jessamyn on Sep 25 at 1:31 PM - 50 comments

WTF did I just see?!

kanuck posted some straight-up blackpill content on the front page. It's still up. I've flagged the post with a note for the mods, but how can we as a community respond more assertively to blatant misogyny that's "well packaged"?
posted by MiraK on Oct 6 at 8:56 AM - 189 comments

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