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Food

  1. Specialty Coffee COCORO, Hakodate (Emma Goto)
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    COCORO is one of the specialty coffee spots I visited in my recent trip to Hakodate. The owner quite thoroughly explained the menu to us - there are a range of…

Life

  1. Not the End of the World, actually (What the Fran)
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    Reading Hannah Ritchie's Not the End of the World

  2. Week In Review 2026-09-12 (Take 5, D.)
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    Goodbye to 54. Hello to 55.

Tech

  1. Why are modern televisions so cheap? (Kevin Boone)
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    Because they're spying on us, that's why.

  2. Mastodon users hate everyone and everything (Korin)
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    I signed up for a Mastodon account recently, forgot about it, then came back yesterday to have a nose about. Had a look at the trending section and here's what…

  3. Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality (Dallineation)
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    Apple recently announced an upcoming feature for their new Apple Watches called “Audio Intelligence,” which will always be listening to and transcribing…

  4. The Golden Cage: Why I stopped trusting Apple’s software and started tinkering with Linux (Stefan Imhoff)
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    A year ago I went all in on Apple—6 TB of iCloud, Reminders instead of Things, the whole ecosystem. Twelve months later, I’m back on Dropbox, running Omarchy…

  5. IndieWeb Blog Audit Follow-Up (Unattributed)
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    Computer screen displaying HTML code. Photo from PxHere. Introduction A few days ago I published Guys, we really, really suck at this!, and let’s just…

  6. HTTPS Everywhere? (blog.altos.au)
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    2026-09-12 HTTPS Everywhere? I have encountered people who seem to think that its sane to blindly apply TLS to every single situation, and that it doesn't…

  7. You Can Drop SEO (Software and Tech stories from an Inside…)
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    I started learning web development around the time the term search engine optimization, SEO, was becoming more common. You could still see the shift between…

  8. Power grab (Smashing Frames)
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    Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Astroturfing on Reddit and the dead internet (Artem Golubin)
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  2. Algorithms are toxic (Sylvia’s Studio)
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  3. after all... why not? (ava's blog)
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  4. Your Blog Is Hard to Read (oracle of sages ⊹˚₊‧ ˖ ܁)
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  5. Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables (Jim Nielsen)
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Tiny Bubbles

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