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, runs about 90 minutes.

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Misc

- Do some last minute holiday shopping at The MeFi Mall

- Jessamyn's hone game memory was Kubrix



Jobs

- Setting up and moderating a Mastodon instance (but not hosting) by Shepherd

- Business Process Automation Specialist by chiefthe

- Software development guru by Dansaman



Projects

- Daily MRRP! by ignignokt

- Finishing my grandfather's work: stained glass menorah by cortex (MeFi Post)

- Part I of my graphic memoir "Growing In My Gray" by DMelanogaster (MeFi Post)

- Get Blogging! by bwerdmuller (MeFi Post)

- You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All by adrianhon

- More "More Info" for Netflix (desktop web) by staggernation



MetaFilter

- Dear Twitter Advertisers by autopilot

- Subterranean birdsite blues by nthdegx

- a comment by mark k

- Cohost, a new social media site by brainwane

- Mastodon is having its moment in the sun by toastyk

- Sick of Musk? by dobbs

- PSA: do not use services that hate the internet by mecran01

- We knew this was coming by May Kasahara

- Advent Incremental by juv3nal

- No, that can't be done.... WHAM!!! by Pendragon

- To a Nacreon in Heaven by Rhaomi

- Yummy: Spammer on Toast! by rcade

- Colonel Mustardle in the Yardle with a Petardle by taz

- The Great Purpling by Etrigan

- Explore Quasi-Periodic Tiling by gwint

- Everything in Conway's Game of Life can be constructed from 15 gliders by automatronic

- "we were, in effect, rewriting our own childhoods" by jessamyn

- The State of Ketchup in 2022 by Fizz



Ask MetaFilter

- What's your Check Please hand signal, and what does it signify? by cortex

- Help me give myself the gift of freedom by rebent

- MeFiGiftGuide2022 - The Metafilter Gift Guide by rebent

- Comparing apples and oranges by Just this guy, y'know

- What is up with these old french cars? by selenized

- Sci-fi Survey Course by darchildre

- Carnivorous Lamp by Just this guy, y'know



MetaTalk

- Mefi Mastodon server? by Pronoiac

- MeFi Posts for "Sale" by jessamyn

- What The MeFi BIPOC Board Does by brainwane



MeFi Music

Snippest of tracks this episode, at the beginning and end respectively:

- Death Scene Music for an Imaginary, Low-Budget Cyberpunk Movie by thatwhichfalls

- 73 Keep It Beautiful by chococat