I’ve been telling people about the evils of Substack, and asking then to quit using it, but I need to suggest alternatives… so for non-techie folks, what are the alternatives?

I’ve heard of Buttondown, which starts free but can get costly with more subscribers.

So what else is there I can recommend to normies?

Disney Animation remade three songs for ASL. For these, we resurrected the original data and pipeline version (which took a ton of work), reanimated (from near scratch in some places), relit where needed, and re-rendered. Probably the hardest way to do this, but definitely the right way to do it, so that's what we did!

No AI shortcuts or anything, just doing it properly all the way.

She said: It looks. Don't you think it looks a lot like rain?
He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman?
She said: It's hard. It's just hard. It's just kind of hard to say.
He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman?

#LaurieAnderson #lyrics #bot

Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours

Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing in the street outside as they were pursued and then destroyed by a nameless malevolent force, something neither I nor anyone else could control, a […]
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This one really struck me. Powerful message.

https://harriettubmanmural.com/about/

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