189: Snowperson Trauma - a podcast by Matthew Haughey, Jessamyn West, and Josh Millard

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 atThe MeFi Mall
- Jessamyn's hone game memory wasKubrix

Jobs
-Setting up and moderating a Mastodon instance (but not hosting)byShepherd
-Business Process Automation Specialistbychiefthe
-Software development gurubyDansaman

Projects
-Daily MRRP!byignignokt
-Finishing my grandfather's work: stained glass menorahbycortex(MeFi Post)
-Part I of my graphic memoir "Growing In My Gray"byDMelanogaster(MeFi Post)
-Get Blogging!bybwerdmuller(MeFi Post)
-You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us Allbyadrianhon
-More "More Info" for Netflix (desktop web)bystaggernation

MetaFilter
-Dear Twitter Advertisersbyautopilot
-Subterranean birdsite bluesbynthdegx
-a commentbymark k
-Cohost, a new social media sitebybrainwane
-Mastodon is having its moment in the sunbytoastyk
-Sick of Musk?bydobbs
-PSA: do not use services that hate the internetbymecran01
-We knew this was comingbyMay Kasahara
-Advent Incrementalbyjuv3nal
-No, that can't be done.... WHAM!!!byPendragon
-To a Nacreon in HeavenbyRhaomi
-Yummy: Spammer on Toast!byrcade
-Colonel Mustardle in the Yardle with a Petardlebytaz
-The Great PurplingbyEtrigan
-Explore Quasi-Periodic Tilingbygwint
-Everything in Conway's Game of Life can be constructed from 15 glidersbyautomatronic
-"we were, in effect, rewriting our own childhoods"byjessamyn
-The State of Ketchup in 2022byFizz

Ask MetaFilter
-What's your Check Please hand signal, and what does it signify?bycortex
-Help me give myself the gift of freedombyrebent
-MeFiGiftGuide2022 - The Metafilter Gift Guidebyrebent
-Comparing apples and orangesbyJust this guy, y'know
-What is up with these old french cars?byselenized
-Sci-fi Survey Coursebydarchildre
-Carnivorous LampbyJust this guy, y'know

MetaTalk
-Mefi Mastodon server?byPronoiac
-MeFi Posts for "Sale"byjessamyn
-What The MeFi BIPOC Board Doesbybrainwane

MeFi Music
Snippest of tracks this episode, at the beginning and end respectively:
-Death Scene Music for an Imaginary, Low-Budget Cyberpunk Moviebythatwhichfalls
-73 Keep It Beautifulbychococat

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