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RE: Who Is Unstory (Unattributed)
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Introduction Sigh, I hadn’t wanted to jump in on this whole saga, but it seems that it’s about time that I got off my arse and said a few things. I’ve been watching lately as Unstory has gone after numerous people in the IndieBlog world, including Brennan, Manton Reece, Gordon…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. I don't believe anything coming out of frontier model CEOs mouths. Their stakes are extremely high, and they have inc... (Panagiotis Vryonis)
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    I don't believe anything coming out of frontier model CEOs mouths. Their stakes are extremely high, and they have incentives measured in $ trillions to lie,…

  2. our lady of perpetual emotional comfort (deerhoof)
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    White people, and especially Americans, tend to hold some pretty weird beliefs. But top of the list may be the belief that we have a basic right to permanent…

  3. Proper English is a Myth: There's No 'Correct' Way to Write (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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    Responding to a blog post urging people to 'please learn how to write,' I pull rank with my English degree to argue there's no such thing as proper English.…

Life

  1. More meaningful online interactions, please (Joel Chrono)
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    I wanted to write about how it seems like the way we talk and engage online with people may focus on the wrong things sometimes

  2. Birding around Onuma Quasi-National Park (Emma Goto)
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    After two nights in Hakodate we drove about an hour north towards Lake Onuma. It's in Onuma Quasi-National Park - kind of a funny name, but I suppose it's not…

  3. To the mom in the white minivan who ran me off the road this morning in a school zone (Jeffrey Pillow)
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    You shouldn't have a licenseContinue readingTo the mom in the white minivan who ran me off the road this morning in a school zone

  4. Doing things out of spite, but in a good way (Mindless Talk)
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    Hello, I have nothing to say, really. Fall is here, I have even made tomato soup because my parents had so many tomatoes in their yard, that I had no idea what…

Tech

  1. WordArt is still supported… in Microsoft Outlook! (Dan Q)
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    25 years ago, WordArt was everywhere. Nowadays, it's been quietly expunged from Microsoft Office. Except... Outlook, via a series of complicated hacks, can…

  2. unrequested scrapers and aggregators (and AI) (candyether.space)
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    so i was reading through my apache logs just nowi like going through and seeing what rss readers people are using since its not fancy or anything enough to…

  3. How to get a DOI for your blog posts (Terence Eden)
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    Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. It's Never Too Late to Learn (Kev Quirk)
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  2. Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back (Dead Parrot BBS)
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  3. How A Tree Falling On My Garage Taught Me That My Power Company's Phone Number Got Poached By A Phone Sex Company (quailblog)
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  4. Vim’s Ctrl-w (Sal's Blog)
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Tiny Bubbles

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