Brennan Kenneth Brown

@brennanbrown
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Independent author & FOSS web developer.
Writer of 200+ articles on Medium.com for over ten years.

Main account: https://social.lol/@brennan

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This morning I published a piece on Frances Widdowson. Shortly after, she reached out to comment.

What followed was an hour of argument about ā€œtruth,ā€ evidence, and what gets centered.

I’ve published the full exchange.

https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/follow-up-an-interview-with-frances-widdowson-66c5736efb6a

Follow-up: An Interview with Frances Widdowson

After publishing my piece on Frances Widdowson this morning, she reached out to comment. What followed was an hour of argument, bad faith…

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Ex-MRU prof Frances Widdowson has raised $50K+ fighting what she calls the Kamloops215Deception. The "deception" being, apparently, the grief of Indigenous communities over children who never came home.

https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/frances-widdowson-denies-indian-residential-school-survivors-then-calls-herself-the-victim-c6b14713f3ef

Frances Widdowson Denies Indian Residential School Survivors, then Calls Herself the Victim

Ex-Mount Royal University professor and author of ā€˜Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools)’ believes…

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The Daily Wire spent $100 million trying to build a conservative Disney. Bentkey is dead. Ben Shapiro produced Terror on the Prairie, it grossed $804 in theatres. You cannot purchase hunger, truth, and empathy.

https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/right-wing-conservatives-cannot-make-good-art-why-96e66aa1cc6d

Right-wing Conservatives Cannot Make Good Art. Why?

The Daily Wire had $100 million to work with. It could not create any interesting, meaningful, significant media.

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Read the full poetry at: https://bkpoetry.com/post/814464863759892480/maine-squeeze

Maine Squeeze

Rubber bands are orange—road
crew orange, caution tape
orange. Someone's idea of mercy.
Scuttling sideways in the tank.
No forward in twelve gallons
of recirculated water.
One claw opens. Bubbles rise.
Buzzing light makes everything
the colour of a waiting room.
The cook's bandaged hands know
the handling, firm. Assertive.
Steel pot already boiling.
Filled w/ the sea

pressed to its lo...

B.K. Poetry

Maine SqueezeRubber bands are orange—road crew orange, caution tape orange. Someone’s idea of mercy. Scuttling sideways in the tank. No forward in twelve gallons of recirculated water. One claw opens....

B.K. Poetry

I just launched Syntax, a simple static site to test out different coding palettes using Shiki!

17 Dark themes. 11 Light themes. 15 Fonts. 27 Language examples.

→ syntax.brennan.day

why do I write every day?

Theophrastus dropped bottles into the Mediterranean in 310 BCE. Sadako Sasaki folded 1,450 paper cranes from medicine wrappers in a hospital ward. Johnson's Rambler sat unread until someone gave it to the future.

maybe one post in a hundred lands on the right shore. by the logic of drift bottles, that's enough.

https://brennan.day/a-thousand-cranes-why-i-write-every-day/

A THOUSAND CRANES: Why I Write Every Day

My daily writing is a practice of releasing messages in bottles and folding paper cranes—from Montaigne in his tower and Johnson writing in poverty, to Sadako Sasaki folding 1,450 cranes in a hospital ward. What the essayists, drift bottles, and Senbazuru share, and why the attempt itself is the whole math.

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Read the full poetry at: https://bkpoetry.com/post/814243193874939904/antler-ink

antler ink

Tine. Saw-teeth @ the base.
12 points, calcium phosphate—August
velvet dried, rutting-hard—halved
from the skull. His closing door
Cut slices release collagen into a water
reflecting his father—each hour the colour
of surrendering. The scent of ammonia
& piss & an animal becoming other.

Cloth stretched over mouth, clear amber
trembling. White grit, white knuckles,
calcium, he does not realize w...

B.K. Poetry — antler ink

antler inkTine. Saw-teeth @ the base. 12 points, calcium phosphate—August velvet dried, rutting-hard—halved from the skull. His closing door Cut slices release collagen into a water reflecting his...

B.K. Poetry

We spend ~90% of our time indoors. That air is either managed or it isn't. Right now, it isn't.

MERV 13 filters. Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes. Local building codes. School board meetings. The disability denial wall. What those of us with capacity owe to the people too sick to climb it themselves.

https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/clean-air-long-covid-is-a-catastrophic-public-policy-failure-e317996573c0

CLEAN AIR: Long COVID Is a Catastrophic Public Policy Failure

MERV 13 filters, the Corsi-Rosenthal Box, and the Zadroga Act we still have to write.

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a history of memes, from Dawkins' The Selfish Gene in 1976, through Advice Dog and the death of shared internet monoculture, to Metal Gear Rising's Monsoon delivering the most honest account of cultural transmission I've encountered.

https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/memes-metal-gear-solid-and-you-57106388f234

Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You

From Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene in 1976 to Advice Dog and the death of shared internet monoculture. What happens when you take memetics…

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Hardin's "tragedy of the commons" was always a myth. Elinor Ostrom spent a career proving it. The Blackfoot had already been living the refutation for thousands of years.

on digital stewardship, the wood wide web, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll never see 🌱

https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/good-standard-work-creating-the-commons-d7d28bcea469

Good Standard Work: Creating the Commons

A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a…

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