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introducing HUMAN.JSON (Nicola Losito)
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human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites. While being insulted in the comments and…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Life

  1. Pixel Area (wry writer)
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    I feel like one of the Chosen Ones, picked to go on a quest, or something esoteric, finding myself over on a very new website whose sole purpose is to...

  2. Handwritten code (Katherine Yang)
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    But what a privilege it is to read your code. I like that I can tell how it was worked out, with the occasional detritus of paths that were started and…

  3. Writing at a blog helps you write more elsewhere (Herbert Lui)
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    I know some incredibly successful friends who have started writing blogs every day. They enjoy the process, but don’t see enough results. When they stop, they…

Politics

  1. Australia is building a deep surveillance infrastructure. (shojiwax.com)
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    Michael West Media reports on the adoption of invasive surveillance technology by the Australian Government. Palantir (US based) and Cellebrite (Israel based)…

Tech

  1. Outreaching, what is the #OMN? (Hamish Campbell)
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    The #OMN (Open Media Network) is “anything in, anything out” network operating through a mediated trust, designed to handle a diverse range of content, data…

  2. 2026-09-03 14:47: Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week?... (Kev Quirk)
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    Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week? It's not the first day of the week, it's the last. Why is that even an option FFS?…

  3. Today was a good day (ArtLung)
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    Today was really fun. The conversation at Front End Study Hall was rich. We discussed email, including a library I’ve yet to try called MJML which allows…

Writing

  1. GNU Terry Pratchett - ‘A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.’ (Rachel Kaufman)
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    Fun with HTTP headers.

  2. Love is for the ones who love the work. (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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    Taking the final line of Joseph Fasano's poem 'For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper' as a starting point, I argue that loving the verb of creation…

  3. The Debate Over This Writing Thing (Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3)
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    Words, words, words. Bits, bits, bits.

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Never Forget How Eagerly Apple And Google Coddled Fascism (The Fine Print*)
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  2. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
    41
  3. I Don’t Have a Smartphone (SchwarzTech)
    9
  4. rationalizations about ring, flock, etc. (ava's blog)
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  5. Your project needs a code of ethics, not conduct (njms' atom feed)
    3
  6. RE: 'Where are all the dead bodies?' (Gus Van Horn)
    6
  7. 1password what r u doing (Kevin Boyd)
    9
  8. Doorbell Cams are Bullshit (Happily Imperfect)
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  9. Productivity doesn't come from working longer, but from letting your brain reset (Jeroen Sangers)
    3

Tiny Bubbles

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