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Culture

  1. Why we use the #deathcult hashtag (#OMN (Open Media Network))
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    People sometimes ask why I use the hashtag #deathcult. It isn’t just a provocative label, it is to name the dominant political and economic logic that has…

  2. Disturbing Runaway Slave Ads From the 19th Century Capture the Struggle for Freedom (Rare Historical Photos)
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    For over two centuries, enslaved people across North America risked everything to escape bondage, and slaveholders had a ready tool to try to stop them: the…

Life

  1. Burger Wallpaper (impossible songs)
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    If you're the kind of person who really likes burgers then why not treat yourself to some burger wallpaper for free? Link below.BURGER WALLPAPERIf you're not…

  2. Birth Year Collecting (Ennui Vagaries)
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    Photo: IBM Selectric I Typewriter, By Steve Iodefink, License: CC BY 2.0 The concept of birth year collecting has fascinated me in the last year or two. The…

Tech

  1. “Or I could click seventy buttons.” (Unsung)
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    I like Angela Collier’s videos about physics and I was delighted to discover this 18-minute one… …because it’s a great continuation to the thread about the…

  2. FreshRSS vs My Own Feed Reader: A fierce competetion (Rishabh P. Sharma)
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    We all consume online content by different means. The majority of the people prefer mainstream social media while a small number of people use newsletters or…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…) (Dan Q)
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  2. AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more (Panagiotis Vryonis)
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  3. Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs (Dan Q)
    12
  4. The Internet Doesn't Want Readers. It Wants Livestock. (The Grumpy Welshman)
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  5. I hope other cities are seeing a similar trend to that of Minneapolis — we’re seeing a revival of independent physica... (Defiant Sloth)
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  6. Thundermail, Tuta, and remembering Lavabit (Matthew Brunelle)
    9
  7. I'm just so bored of AI (Terence Eden)
    52
  8. A Rant About Modern Cars (Kev Quirk)
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  9. Leaving lobste.rs rant (AksDev)
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  10. The console wars have been lost (Xe Iaso)
    21

Tiny Bubbles

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