Brinens and Things

brinbellway.wordpress.com --> wp.brinbellway.net

It's still wordpress.com underneath, but now with the right to move to a new provider at will. brinbellway.wordpress.com URLs will redirect to their wp.brinbellway.net equivalents (and I intend to maintain that, even if I move providers), so old-style links will not break for the foreseeable future, but please use the new-style ones from now on.

Note that brinbellway.net *without* the "wp." on the front still redirects to Dreamwidth. I may be able to arrange a distinct landing page for brinbellway.net if this is too confusing.

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I thought I wasn't allowed to do this on my current subscription, but either I'd misread the fine print or they've since expanded the list of benefits of the lowest premium tier: this actually cost me zero marginal dollars. If it was an expansion on Automattic's part, it was a smart move: I'd have left wordpress.com otherwise.

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Comments on my own posts:

The first part of the Runescape liveblogging [three comments]

The one about Ed Sheeran

The one about accumulating software prerequisites

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by tilthat; in response to sophus-b) The Pope Rap continues to be great.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by inu-fiction; in response to maryellencarter) Consider Wordpress for image hosting. (Though since my new DW images are sharing storage space with my Tumblr backup, I *am* worried I'm going to run out of media-storage space on my account, after 7+ years of Tumbling. I've mentioned in Tumblr tags a couple times that I'm a lot more reluctant to reblog posts with images now, proportionately to how many images and how many frames they have: I have to think about whether it's worth the space.)

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by rustingbridges) Did you know they make shaker bottles of finely ground salt, the better to stick to popcorn kernels?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by gasmaskaesthetic) Have you ever set yourself on fire for fun? (No.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sophus) I inspired somebody else to start making sure the Internet Archive had copies of all their links! (And Sophus uses the laugh rule, too, so that's *two* blogging practices they got from me! I love being a positive influence.)

(For those of you who don't know, I invented the laugh rule. (Quite possibly other people in other places have invented it independently, but from the timeline of events† I strongly suspect that every laugh-rule-using rationalist can trace it back to me.) It's been very gratifying to see other people picking it up, to see the positive impact I've had on the community, to know I've inspired people to make the world a bit more joyful.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende; in response to contrarianarchon) Approaches to browser tab management. [three comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by nuclearspaceheater; in response to rustingbridges) Left vs right shift keys, long-ago typos, and different approaches social-media websites can take. [three comments, two of which are new]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by redbeardace; in response to rustingbridges) The first-degree-ask bug remains unfixed and poorly documented; also, reblogs without commentary don't use up the bugginess. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by feotakahari; in response to archonofquandaries) There is a time and a place for reading hot political takes, and it is *not* while looking for porn. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Dreamwidth and angle brackets, it turns out, do not mix.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Bloxp is glitchy, but sometimes useful (at least in theory). [two comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by moral-autism; in response to serinemolecule and theopjones) The relative usefulness of laptops and smartphones in different situations. [five comments, four of which are new]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by voxette-vk) How to operate a doorknob with no hands.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (in response to agapi42) Lying about your age for fun and profit. (If by profit, you mean chocolate.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Wife-husband team Ursula Vernon and Kevin Sonney make some very nice podcasts.

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Links:

[Uncanny Magazine; Wayback] (by Vina Jie-Min Prasad; h/t flakesesomlys) A mostly-fluffy short story about a sapient robot getting into fandom.

[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) Appetite suppressants originally intended for humans might also work on Aedes aegypti?

Highlighted comment:
sophus uses music jargon to explain why Ed Sheeran sounds so different in different songs.

Laugh rule:
youzicha shares a Reddit thread about people who may or may not be Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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†Back when I was the only person I knew of who did it, multiple rationalists cited it as a thing they particularly liked about my blog.

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.