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Why I Stopped "Creating Content" (Michael Lynch)
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The first time I saw Michelangelo’s David in person, I wept. Never in my life have I witnessed a more beautiful piece of content. I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Museum patrons all around me were looking up from their phones to…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. Public Transport - Don't Make Me Think! (Terence Eden)
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    In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them. It is wild just how confusing and complex buying a ticket…

History

  1. When 1970s Students Embraced the Miniskirt: Vintage Photos Reveal a New Era of Fashion (Rare Historical Photos)
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    A yearbook page from the 1970s rarely looks like a fashion statement at first glance, yet look closer and the hemlines tell their own story. Row after row of…

Life

  1. A New PM, again (Happily Imperfect)
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    This time it’ll be different, they say. This time it’ll be about the people, they say. This time it’ll be a change for the better, they say. This time the…

  2. Digitally entertained with zero money (The Folkmoss Logs)
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    Considering how much anything costs right now, I realized I can afford nothing. Well, what's a girl to do? Use older tech and forget about the modern world is…

  3. Missing Connection: Fountain Pens and Watches (Ennui Vagaries)
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    A retro-styled wristwatch, a Timex T-80 Digital watch, Pelikan, Waterman and Conklin Fountain Pens. I've posited elsewhere that I have become something of a…

  4. A chunk of tree fell on my house and instead of damage, I got a cool dragonfly photo (quailblog)
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    Camera focus adventures with a super rad insect

  5. Big Mattress - Not a Front for the Mob After All (Living Out Loud)
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    Bought my first mattress at 61 and nearly needed a mortgage. Why mattresses cost so much, how Mattress Firm blankets every block on purpose, and why an empty…

Politics

  1. businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns!!! (fiddery)
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    I like supporting local businesses but it's so disheartening to see the increasing use of genAI in their branding/marketing/etc. Yuck yuck YUCK!!!

Tech

  1. “Try quickly typing 1+2+3. I bet you won’t get 6.” (Unsung)
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    Earlier this month, I talked about a rotation button in photos that behaved really nicely in iOS, and not so great on the Nothing Phone. Here’s a story of a…

  2. People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk. (Ben Werdmuller)
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    Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Why? (various bits)
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  2. Softcore First, Hardcore Eventually: A Ladder for the IndieWeb (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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  3. Revisiting Blade Runner (Brandon's Journal)
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  4. I own my books (Michael Harley)
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  5. Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You (Antonio Santos)
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  6. I Don't Maintain My Homelab (Christian Cleberg)
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Tiny Bubbles

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