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

Culture

  1. internet safety for kids / a love letter to the internet (ava's blog)
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    In light of the recent push of social media bans and age verification, I talk about what I would have needed as a kid and teen online, and what the internet…

  2. Paywalls are a big problem (Thoughts of Widdershins)
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    I remember back in the days of the early internet in the 1990's the concept of news, information and things that where beneficial to being a well informed…

  3. Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human (Elezea)
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    Modern etiquette requires respecting others' time and attention while resisting the urge to participate in online pile-ons.

Life

  1. You Don’t Hate Reading. You Just Can’t Read. (Nikhil's Blog)
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    Most people who say a book bores them are lying. Not on purpose. They're lying to themselves. Boredom doesn't really exist the way people think it does. It's…

Tech

  1. Creating a Blog in Gemini:// (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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    Creating your own corner of Geminispace: why you'd want to blog on a protocol with no JavaScript, no CSS, and no AI slop; where to host a capsule (SmolPub, the…

  2. OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web (Ramkumar Shankar / Writing)
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    More proof that these companies knew what they were doing and did not care.

  3. re: I Received An AI Email (Christian Cleberg)
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    Gordon posted that he received an AI email the other day. Hey, me too: Figure 1: The email from "Emily (AI agent, iLands)". What an annoying email to receive.…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. got a pixel on pxlarea :) (ava's blog)
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  2. I don't like passkeys (Ethan Hawksley)
    14 ▲
  3. Reflections on Madrid F1 (Happily Imperfect)
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  4. Your phone is not the problem (Antonio Santos)
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Tiny Bubbles

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