RSS Club #001

Welcome to RSS Club! The first rule of RSS Club is: you tell everyone about RSS Club. RSS is the best way to follow weblogs. I’ve used NetNewsWire for years and I’m now building Croissant RSS to control my own reading experience. Croissant will be available in September as kind of a “beta” release. […]


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Welcome to RSS Club!

The first rule of RSS Club is: you tell everyone about RSS Club.

RSS is the best way to follow weblogs. I’ve used NetNewsWire for years and I’m now building Croissant RSS to control my own reading experience. Croissant will be available in September as kind of a “beta” release.

RSS Never Left

You’ll have no doubt heard at least one web-adjacent “content creator” embarrass themselves by saying “RSS is dead”. They left the open web behind to build their fragile empire on a platform of proprietary sand. They became slaves to an algorithm. Now that algorithm is starting to reject them in favour of AI slop. Big Tech has invested billions; they’re peddling slop whether anyone wants it or not.

Open standards like RSS are a panacea for “the algorithm” — AI or otherwise; always has been. RSS broadcasts, shares, notifies, collates, and aggregates. All without a middleman.

RSS bypasses the tech bro nonsense and they can’t do anything to stop it! The broligarchy love to talk about “democratising” tech. That is code, not very subtle code, for you “participating” under their control. The web doesn’t need false governance. The web is decentralised and RSS strengthens the web.

But you know this, so remind others about RSS!

RSS Club

To be honest I’ve not really thought this through. I’ve seen other bloggers do RSS-only posts. I like the idea of bonus content.

My RSS Club posts will have real public URLs. You’re welcome to bookmark and share those pages. They won’t be listed in my blog index or sitemap. My RSS feed will be the only way to discover them.

I’ll publish to RSS Club infrequently. Monthly, at most. Maybe not even monthly. Maybe never again!

RSS Club will be the only place where you’ll find my list of…

Top Ten Whale Books (Fiction)

  1. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville
  2. Whalefall, by Daniel Kraus

I’ve not completed the list yet, obviously, but I’m currently reading (and listening) to Whalefall, which I heard was being adapted into a motion picture.

Believe it or not I’ve read Moby Dick twice.

All (both) books in my list centre around the mighty Sperm Whale. Sperm whales are, in my opinion, the most interesting whale. Yes their name literally refers to semen. Their bulbous heads are filled with Spermaceti.

The substance was initially believed to be whale semen, due to its appearance when fresh.

Wikipedia

Sperm whales dive to incredible depths to eat Giant and even Colossal Squid. There is almost no footage of such squid alive in their natural habitat; they are the mythical Kraken. And a sperm whale’s supper.

The bigger Blue Whale is estimated to be the largest animal ever. More massive than even Sauropods. Blue whales feed on krill, not squid. Pathetic.

You cannot unsubscribe from whale facts, by the way.

There is contention within the emoji world as to which species of whale should be illustrated. There are currently two unicode points:

The abstract nature of the designs makes it impossible to classify most emoji but a few have unmistakable characteristics of a sperm whale.

Anyway, please help me complete my top ten whale books. If you’re familiar with whale fiction please get in touch and recommend. Space Whales qualify.

End of transmission.


This content originally appeared on dbushell.com (blog) and was authored by dbushell.com (blog)


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