Brinens and Things

Not sure why (and if anyone knows a fix, please let me know), but starting on what was apparently May 24th, tumblr-utils gets stuck trying to scrape best-of-amenta. If--as I do--you have a cron job with multiple sequential scrapes in which best-of-amenta happens to be first on the list, it might get stuck hard enough that it never gets around to the other commands in the job, and *all* of your Tumblr backups will fail to update.

Also, while I'm at it ("it" = tinkering with my use of tumblr-utils), don't use the --tag-index flag if any of the tags on the blog you're scraping contains a slash: it crashes.

First, my linking policy: from now on, I submit all links I use to the Internet Archive. Roundup links will include Wayback alternatives where possible; for regular links, I won't provide the Wayback version, but if you ask them--and the page permitted their crawlers--they'll give it to you.

There's a prepper saying: "one is none, and two is one". Having "none" of a link isn't a dealbreaker--I won't refuse to link uncrawlable pages--but I will strive to have at least "one" of every link I give you.

(Also, I tossed the Internet Archive $10. I had USD$10 lying around in my Paypal balance from experiments with new forms of menial Internet labour, and I figure this way I get to help fund their good work *and* avoid Paypal's ridiculous foreign-exchange fees on depositing it into my bank. (Did you know there's, like, a fucking arms race between [Canadians who get paid in USD] and Paypal, where Canadians try to withdraw their balances into USD-denominated bank accounts and Paypal tries to stop them? I'd rather not have to join the arms race myself, nor do I want to give up and eat the fees.))

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Comments on my own posts:

The one about Wordpress's imperfections

Couch to 5k Addendum

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by endecision) Not having a like button is hard.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende) Blood donation is even harder.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by plain-dealing-villain) There's a rationalist-sphere Scuttlebutt pub now.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by another_normal_anomaly) On consistent tag names between platforms. (Going to have to abandon that plan now that I've found out about the 40-character limit, though.)

[cw: amnesia] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by another_normal_anomaly) On episodic memory vs semantic memory.

[mild cw: amnesia] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by swimmer963) Accounting terms as a metaphor for life, and different forms of a sense of self.

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Links:

[mild cw: illness] [Tumblr; Wayback] (by tilt-me-just-right, a fictional character whose author is luminousalicorn; h/t best-of-amenta) I think we could stand to be a little more Amentan in our approach to public health.

A post on established Dreamwidth norms [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by mathemagicalschema) and one on developing norms [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by another_normal_anomaly).

Laugh rule:
[Bloomberg (warning: limit of 10 articles per month); Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine) Best part:

On the other hand if I were a junior banker and police cars with flashing lights suddenly converged on my bank’s headquarters, the temptation to stand up and start yelling “shred everything!” would be incredibly powerful. Like you definitely, definitely want to be standing over a shredder feeding it takeout menus when the cops arrived on your floor. I suppose it is for the best that I am no longer in banking.