Front Page Post about Article about the Maintainers of old technology, and discussion https://www.metafilter.com/158685/The-Work-That-Keeps-This-W...
Ask Post about sites for Downtime that don't deal with current events
https://ask.metafilter.com/294568/Fun-distracting-websites-f...
Here's an ask I thought was useful, mentions SICP for programming.
https://ask.metafilter.com/293313/What-is-the-critical-book-...
I guess for me it's a passionate engaged community of smart people, including some moderately famous ones.