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

Culture

  1. Social Media Diet (Kai Gulliksen)
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    Over the last few months my visits to Mastodon and Bluesky have become less and less frequent. My social media usage has always had a tendency to ebb and flow…

  2. Two rants for the price of one (The Least Fractious Thoat)
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    1.Yes, actually, it is important to write properly, i.e. with words that mean the things you're trying to say, with punctuation used as punctuation and not…

Film & TV

  1. South Park Renames Itself (The Map Room)
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    South Park’s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced that they are changing the show’s name. Variety: “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of…

Life

  1. People's Old Saves Kinda Make Me Sad (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
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    When you load up someone's old saves, you can't help but think...

  2. I GOT FIRED. (PRETEND TYPEWRITER)
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    Venting about my recent termination.

  3. 55. Time Passages. (Take 5, D.)
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    Stretching a metaphor centered on an Al Stewart song to its limit.

Nature

  1. Ode To Blueberries (Uradiance)
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    Now that it's September, I want to thank blueberries. I want to thank peaches, cantaloupes, cherry tomatoes and corn on the cob. All summer long while we…

Tech

  1. Your Blog Is Hard to Read (oracle of sages ⊹˚₊‧ ˖ ܁)
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    I don't mean in a linguistic sense, as recent Beartroversy would protest, but quite literally. Your blog is hard to read. It physically strains my eyes to even…

  2. LG TVs caught spying (Victor Kropp)
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    Gamer Nexus YouTube channel claims that LG Smart TVs are spying on their users even in standby mode. They record audio & video playing on TV, capture ambient…

  3. LG’s Smart Televisions and Displays Are Rotten (Pixel Envy)
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    Michael Crider, PCWorld: […] So somebody at LG decided that, in addition to the basic monitor driver and management app delivered to its users via Windows…

  4. 🔗 iPhone Size Sketches (@gurupanguji)
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    iPhone Size Sketch 2026 I’ve been sketching size comparisons for the new iPhone models since 2017, so in 2026 I’m celebrating ten years of iPhone size…

  5. Making Social Media Social (Smashing Frames)
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    As some of you might now, I am part of a team of people moderating a Mastodon server. And as so many of those servers we’ve been having some problems with fake…

  6. Live Rewind Is a Creepy Part of Apple’s Audio Intelligence Suite (Pixel Envy)
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    Apple held its annual September major product rollout today announcing, among other things, updated Apple Watch models with “Audio Intelligence” features. One…

Writing

  1. 📝 Blog Post: My Blog as a Library (Konfetti Explorations)
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    I have been baking an idea for a couple of months now, it did not solidify until one odd evening where I thought “wouldn’t it be possible to create a 3D RPG…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features (Manual do Usuário)
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  2. Use Firefox (Ramkumar Shankar / Writing)
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  3. The (im)plausibility of Dragons (wry writer)
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  4. Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables (Jim Nielsen)
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  5. The Age-Gating of History (Pixel Envy)
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  6. Ban infinite scrolling (Rubenerd)
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  7. are disabilities and chronic illnesses 'cool' now? (ava's blog)
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  8. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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Tiny Bubbles

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