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Top Bubble

England 'Til I Die (Korin)
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I watched a documentary on Channel 4 recently called England 'Til I Die (embedded below from YouTube). It follows a group of racist thugs and how they want all the "rapist Muslims" out. Horrible, vile people. These idiots often quote that the asylum seekers are here to rape and…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. Men, Don't Be Jaded Into Silence (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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    You are a worn-out horse, not a beautiful green stone. You must do the hard, awkward and right thing anyways. On the Cornell Chi Phi lawsuit broken by the…

  2. Touching Grass Isn’t Enough: The Furry Fandom’s Issues Are Structural (Dhole Moments)
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    The problems with the furry fandom today are not as simple as,“Furries need to touch grass!” Unfortunately, whatever you’re seeing that makes you want to say…

  3. American views of higher ed decline, once again (Bryan Alexander)
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    Quick post today, as I travel across several American cities: United States attitudes towards higher education soured yet again, according to a new Gallup…

Life

  1. Saw Waiting for Godot at the Guthrie (Laura Michet)
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    While in Minneapolis, we decided to see whatever was on at the Guthrie theater, Minneapolis's monolithic riverside theater complex. It's an incredible…

  2. ✏️ Not following the #inktober prompts... (Bits by Bino)
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    ✏️ Not following the #inktober prompts. But trying to go for frequent drawings. When heading out to pick up my son from school yesterday, the street entry was…

  3. Why all the songs? (Happily Imperfect)
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    A genuine question for you, dear reader, have you been reading the daily music-based posts? The ones with a track and artist as the title, you do realise it’s…

Tech

  1. Switched to LibreWolf browser (Offgrid Holdout)
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    Been trying various browsers the past month. I have been really trying to get away from anything Google related, which eliminates quite a few browser options…

  2. Migrating from 1Password to Bitwarden (jola.dev)
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    After 1Password's recent political statement, I canceled my subscription and switched to Bitwarden.

  3. Ignore the naysayers. The new Firefox interface is awesome. (newsonaut)
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    Firefox 157 has a slick new interface. And the internet is losing its shit. The updated interface has been dismissed as “round” and already you can find…

  4. Two more 27.0 design grumbles (anderegg.ca)
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    After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten…

  5. I got targeted (FrankWiles.com - All Content)
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    Someone targeted me in an attempt to gain access or credentials because of my Open Source and/or consulting roles

  6. AI adoption is forced (ranty/rambly) (skuka)
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    i have to use google at work (technically, i could use my dear kagi as well, but i try not to mix up my work accounts with the personal ones) and let me tell…

  7. Do not build the LLM torture factory (seangoedecke.com)
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    It isn’t hard to torture an LLM. You simply extract a steering vector that corresponds with LLM “discomfort”, then artificially boost that steering vector.…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Everyone's Packing Up (Thoughts of Widdershins)
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  2. Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries (Rubenerd)
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  3. I’m leaving Reddit because of RSS (The Desolation of Blog)
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  4. Homo promptus (Kevin Scott Dias)
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  5. Cornell (Girl on the Net)
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  6. Goodbye WordPress (Read the Tea Leaves)
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  7. Meat Proxies (David Revoy)
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Tiny Bubbles

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

Food

  1. Single O Ryogoku Roastworks/Cafe (Emma Goto)
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Writing

  1. So, You Want to be an AI Slopper (foofaraw)
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  2. Witchcraft (AMONG CATS AND BOOKS)
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