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Technofascism (The Third Bit)
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In July 2016, Peter Thiel walked onto the stage at the Republican National Convention and told the crowd three things. First: “I build things.” Second: “I’m proud to be gay.” Third: “I’m proud to be a Republican.” What he did not say was that he had spent years funding a blogger…

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Culture

  1. Check Your F**cking Sources, People! (Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Techno…)
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    Outsourcing reference and data checks to unattended AI leads to hallucinated claims and harms credibility. The post Check Your F**cking Sources, People!…

  2. Zines as civic engagement (Good Golly Zines)
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    At this year's Object//Project Art Book Fair, presented by Possible Worlds, I gave a talk about my journey so far as a journalist and zine-maker. Although I…

Tech

  1. Feeds: a Minimal RSS Aggregator and Client (Steve Simkins)
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    There are many like it, but this one is mine

  2. OpenAI Wants Your Financial Info (Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3)
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    Fun and games with frontier financing

  3. I made an algorithmic permashortlink for my blog (Jarema's digital garden)
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    I had a short domain doing nothing, so I built a permashortlink system for my blog posts based on Base36. Did it using Next.js middleware and saw one YYMMDD…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. My battery is low and it's getting dark (puppy network :3)
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  2. Dear Internet: Read A Little Deeper, It Won’t Hurt You, I Promise (blast-o-rama.)
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  3. This too shall pass (Ratfactor Feed)
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  4. Start by turning everything off (§kuthus)
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Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.