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

Art

  1. Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence (Photoni.st)
    8

    Juliette wrote last week about Deadpan photography. I was intrigued because it’s a term I had seen start appearing all over the place lately and I wasn’t sure…

Culture

  1. We often forget how inexpensive it is (often free, in fact) it is to completely make someone’s day/week/year or, even... (Rhoneisms)
    9

    We often forget how inexpensive it is (often free, in fact) it is to completely make someone’s day/week/year or, even, give them a memory they will cherish for…

  2. Thoughts on world population day 2026 and what might come next (Bryan Alexander)
    2

    Happy World Population Day to all who celebrate. I’m writing about this topic because demographics are an essential tool in the futurist’s toolkit.  We now…

  3. Our failure to mediate the mess (#OMN (Open Media Network))
    4

    The current #AI boom is built on a huge contradiction, you can see this in #mainstreaming terms. That AI companies are not paying the real costs of what they…

Life

  1. Dungeons and Dryers (thega.me.uk)
    13

    What happens when you mention to your D&D group, who mostly have ADHD, that your tumble dryer is broken? Free labour!

  2. don't look at me (kelsey’s blah blah blahg)
    6

    I'm awake at a weird hour because of piloerection. I assure you piloerection is an actual term and a condition of the human body even though the Bear Blog…

Politics

  1. The Trump administration is subpoenaing journalists to reveal sources. Their data security is more important than ever. (Ben Werdmuller)
    7

    "Historically, the Justice Department has sought to subpoena reporters only as a last resort after other reasonable options have been exhausted." Now the FBI…

Tech

  1. An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)
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    I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded…

  2. How I Collect Blog Statistics, Respectfully (Online Goddess)
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    Ever since I’ve had a website, I’ve been curious to know who is visiting it and what they do while they’re there. Am I posting into an empty space, or is…

  3. LumiVault - a photo backup story (Behind the Viewfinder)
    3

    After the backup scares and bit rot posts, I built LumiVault — a macOS app that hashes, error-corrects, and mirrors my photos across drives and B2. Free and…

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)
    73
  2. The Internet Doesn't Want Readers. It Wants Livestock. (The Grumpy Welshman)
    41
  3. “Or I could click seventy buttons.” (Unsung)
    10
  4. Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs (Dan Q)
    12
  5. I'm just so bored of AI (Terence Eden)
    52
  6. AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more (Panagiotis Vryonis)
    17
  7. The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us (The Fine Print*)
    21

Tiny Bubbles

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