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Comments on my own posts:

The one about Recoll

[cw: what it says on the tin] The one about plague nightmares [one comment, not counting the postscript]

[fairly mild cw: war, amnesia] The one about remembrance poppies

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Substack; Wayback] (OP by Evan Þ) If you enjoy my posts in which I express wildly alien intuitions about things, you may enjoy me dipping my toes into a (very polite) discussion of free will. (At least, I assume these intuitions are wildly alien from how often I see people say things that only make sense under different intuition sets. In any case, we are pleased to offer the finest autoxenoanthropology here at Brinens and Things.) [two comments]

[cw: poverty, venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] catchymemes) In which I have a lot of psychological baggage around museums.

[cw: death, aging, apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [twitter.com profile] treadwells) Cottagecore and a broader view of danger.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] mindstalk) The hole in comparative social-media discussions left by ignorance of Tumblr.

[cw: food, poison, illness, (arguably) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] ultraviolet-divergence) Dealing with the latest big listeria outbreak.

[cw: (strong) illness, (strong) apocalypse, bugs] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] siderea; in response to [personal profile] ewt) The wonders of PPE, climate-catastrophe edition.

[fairly mild cw: corporate bullshit] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges; in response to [tumblr.com profile] bulbous-oar) How to selectively prevent Android apps from accessing the Internet.

[Scribble Hub; Wayback] (OP by wingedcatgirl) Isekais and the importance of caution when carrying irreplaceable otherworldly technology.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] headspace-hotel) Poetic meter and artistic instincts.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] reptile-ruler) Fighting Tumblr's slippage down the slope towards Internet silos.

[cw: illness, apocalypse, (arguably) amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] eightyonekilograms; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] sigmaleph) In the future, "zoonosis" will be a word everyone knows; knowing *where* they learned it is another matter. [two comments, sort of]

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Links:

[Imgur; Wayback] Live wire-sculpture (not to be confused with live-wire sculpture).

[arguably cw: injury, embarrassment squick] [Hackaday; Wayback] (by Lewin Day) False positives on Apple's automatic car-crash 911 calling.

[CBS; Wayback] (by Phil Galewitz) Over-the-counter hearing aids now available in the United States.

(Although I am also having feelings about this sentence:

A pair of prescription devices typically sells for {{USD}}$2,000 to $8,000.

Only if you're getting ripped off, dude. Go to Costco. *So* glad we told the non-chain hearing-aid centre to go fuck themselves when they wanted six grand: the perfectly fine Costco hearing aids were CAD$1,800 *before* the $1,000 government subsidy. (that's not even *counting* the refundable tax credits I might be able to wring out of it))

[Kiwix; Wayback] What is the size of Wikipedia? (Also, your regular reminder that Kiwix is amazing and you should check it out. (And it gets even *better* than amazing after you figure out how to make your own ZIM files.))

[AO3; Wayback] (by [archiveofourown.org profile] Edonohana; h/t Ozy Brennan) The intricacies of tardigrade literature.

[cw: what it says on the tin] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by [personal profile] siderea) Stop relying on Twitter for third-party authentication.

[cw: what it says on the tin] [Science; Wayback] (by Arevalo et al; h/t [twitter.com profile] KelseyTUOC) A 20-valent influenza vaccine, containing examples of every known flu subtype. Works well in mice and ferrets, soon to be tested in primates and--hopefully--humans. In addition to the obvious benefits, it shows promise of providing cross-protection against novel influenza strains.


Three laugh-rule entries:
[cw: corporate bullshit] [Twitter; Wayback] (by [twitter.com profile] rahaeli) Sporking the Cohost terms of service.

[Youtube; Wayback] (by Lauren Lopez and Robert Manion; h/t Blazing Darkness) Bella Swan is sixteen, going on seventeen...

[cw: scopophobia, (arguably) corporate bullshit] [Reddit; Wayback] (h/t [tumblr.com profile] trivialagent) It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
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Comments on my own posts:

Not a comment exactly, but I found and edited in the context link I wanted for that post about dual-boot issues

[cw: illness, venting] The one about pollen allergies [two comments]

In which Brin learns to speak another dialect of Pokemon

[cw: abuse, self-harm] The one about catharsis

[cw: poverty] The one about Pokemon Go

Me, arguing with my new credit-card company about signup bonuses

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: death, asphyxiation] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] exigencelost) What would breathing feel like if you didn't need air to live?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] gasmaskaesthetic) Paper vs electronic paycheques. [three comments]

[cw: Christian fundamentalism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] thedarlingone) Not sure *how* this feeds into Their plots, but it can't be good.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] etirabys) How to ensure camera privacy.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] thedarlingone) Video-game serial monogamy. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] sigmaleph) "Throuple"? Really?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] quoms; in response to [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) The intricacies of rounded cash transactions. [three comments]

[mild cw: death, misgendering] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] transsexualite; in response to [tumblr.com profile] serinemolecule) Customer honorifics.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] official-voice; in response to [tumblr.com profile] sigmaleph) There are even better 2020-vision jokes yet to come.

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Links:

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback doesn't seem to handle long Twitter threads well, though you can see some of it here] (by [twitter.com profile] dsquareddigest; h/t Matt Levine)
as well as the PE ratio, block trading and the team, Goldman Sachs invented Europe.


[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)
True, there is some history of huge exogenous discoveries of precious metals causing monetary disruption, but the important thing to realize is that that was back when precious metals were money. Now bringing back a gajillion tons of gold from outer space would not increase the money supply, because the money supply is not linked to gold. It would just decrease the price of gold. It would be super disruptive to gold miners, sure! The rest of us would be fine.

[...]

Now if they find an asteroid that is made out of Bitcoin, that will be economically significant.

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