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Oh, I do.
Thanks for the head’s up.
Not that I think that the logo needs any updating; it’s cool the way it is.
WTF?!?
That does not bode well for TOS, at all.
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Taken where American politics are left-leaning centrist is still quite right-wing.
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Yep. She might be leaning left, but if her heart is in the center, her toes are full fascist.
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That article correctly points out that substack doesn’t really bring much to the party. A newsletter service needs little more than a website, a way to bcc emails and payment processing.
The obvious parallel is podcasts. There are tons of places to get these, and you can manage your subscriptions with open standards like RSS. So readers may well end up asking (as with websites) what exactly the point of a “publisher” is.
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Oh, great. Another in the long line of “scumbag leftists” like Bill Maher and Cenk Uygur, but somehow even worse.
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Yeah. Not listed in that blurb
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May those growing pains swiftly increase and become shrinking pains!
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Major shrinkage, one hopes.
I get a vimto instead of the image. I asked it to open in a new tab, and I first got a “prove yr human” thingy, then the gif appeared. 
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thats annoying 
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Not yr fault, Dawling. yarn is weird.
Shows up fine now, [ETA:] b/c got it to load in the other tab. 
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In what could be the final nail in the coffin ‘over there’ (yes i know most folks here have already wisely sailed on) today i/everyone? are not allowed to comment or even “heart” an article. so it goes… (mumbles a fossilized one who knew BoingBoing back when twas but a ‘zine’)
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That seems to have been a temporary situation. I just did both.
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AFAIK that happens few times a week.
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Ah yeah, Bari Weiss, a Jewish lesbian who “portrays herself” as “left-leaning” because she doesn’t want to deal with the cognitive dissonance of admitting that her politics have more in common with neo-Nazis (and other far-right groups who don’t want her to exist) than the actual left…
She’s only “left-leaning” in that being a lesbian, she’s not (entirely) homophobic, and being Jewish, she’s not anti-Semitic. In terms of everything else, though…
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The point of the ‘publisher’ is to provide an admin platform for collecting monetary subscriptions and redistributing the income to the actual publishers using the platform (for that is all it is).
Which, clever people as they are, the BB editorial team could have done themselves, I suspect. (Which many of us said we would be very ok with - paying a subscription.) I also suspect that SubStack offered a golden hello, which may have made a difference.
As to the lack of chat or community over there, I doubt it has any financial impact. Whether there is lots or little chat below the line probably makes little difference to the number of subscribers or subscription revenues.
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And this arrived in my inbox this evening. A sad reminder of better times, and the last such that we’ll see.
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Frankly, I’m happier here… 
… might be just me.
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