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I’ve been going through a number of broken links on my website and slowly, but surely, bringing many of them back to life. Thanks Broken Link Checker! Apparently there were 429 broken links, but I’m able to quickly fix many of them because as I made my posts, I backed up the original links automatically using Post Archival in the Internet Archive. (Somehow this plugin has violated one of WordPress’ guidelines and can’t be downloaded, though I haven’t seen any details about why or been notified about it.)

I’ve only come across one or two which archive.org didn’t crawl or didn’t have. Many of the broken links I’m able to link directly to archive copies on the same day I made them and my archive snapshots were the only ones ever made.

Watched November 27, 2019 - PBS NewsHour from PBS NewsHour
Wednesday on the NewsHour, another set of revelations in the inquiry into President Trump’s Ukraine dealings. Plus: How Americans across the country feel about impeachment, shipping speed vs. employee safety at Amazon warehouses, how food growers are striving to reduce wasted product, rising sea levels threaten a small Alaskan town and actress Adrienne C. Moore on her life’s characters.
Replied to The Only Way to Beat Algorithms is to Retrain Your Audience | KIRISKA.com by Y. Kiri Yu 余依笛 (KIRISKA.com)
The only way to beat social media algorithms is to get your audience off social media. Put your work on your own site. Retrain them to follow via RSS.
Small little tools like SubToMe.com might help a bit on the RSS/following front. Making the user interface simple and elegant will pull people back in to a healthier web.

I typically post all of my replies on my own website anyway, but I’ve discovered that the comment functionality on your blog isn’t working. 

Watched Frozen II (2019) from Walt Disney Pictures

Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. With Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff. Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.

Better than I expected it would be, but not as solid or classic as the first. None of the songs were as catchy the first installment. Christoph did have an 80s vibe song that was highly reminiscent of REO Speedwagon.

I’ll have to do some more thinking on the ideas and presentation of memory and indigenous peoples as depicted here.

Replied to An In-Depth Tutorial of Webmentions + Eleventy by Sia KaramalegosSia Karamalegos (sia.codes)
Add Webmentions to your Eleventy static site with this step-by-step tutorial.
Congratulations Sia, this is awesome! Since most of your responses are coming from Twitter, I thought I’d send you one from WordPress instead! Welcome to the IndieWeb. I’ve added a link to your article to the wiki page for Eleventy to help make it easier for others to find it in the future.