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First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Culture

  1. People Are Full of Shit When Someone Dies (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    6

    Apparently people take "don't speak ill of the dead" seriously

History

  1. Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci (puppy network :3)
    4

    "[...] the most beautiful ship in the world."

Life

  1. You only see typos after you post (Diel's daydreams)
    13

    I hate typos. Everybody does, but I think it occurs to me way too much. It only gets worse because english is not my first language, but I’m a failure in…

  2. 🥾 Hiking Bukit Timah Hill (Hey Georgie)
    2

    On a recent trip to Asia, I decided to challenge myself to spend a bit more time doing outdoor activities, despite the humid climate.

Tech

  1. From RSS to Atom (Susam Pal)
    5

    Yesterday, I switched my website from RSS feeds to Atom feeds. In case you are wondering whether you have somehow landed on an ancient post from 2010, no, you…

  2. Stop building rainbow AI slop (Aleksei Ivanov)
    4

    I have been thinking the other day: a guy posted his university project for others to see. It was an obviously AI-generated design: purple gradients, rounded…

  3. Swatch Did What? (AI slop) (Darwins_Toffees)
    2

    So... I found this interesting tidbit from LJPUKs site. It looks like Swatch has decided to embrace the crap that is AI image generation. They are allowing you…

  4. Wanting to stop, block or confuse AI? Do it slightly differently than everyone else (Gregory Hammond)
    3

    With AI grabbing just about every single public thing, people have (rightfully) gotten tired of it and put into place something that will (at least hopefully)…

  5. Content for Content’s Sake (Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings)
    3

    Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community…

  6. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (comiCSS)
    3

    A cartoon coded in CSS from comiCSS.

  7. 🌐 Considerations for getting a website (build) (Firesphere's musings)
    3

    Need a website? Your first thought is probably WordPress. For a lot of people in the field however, the name sends shivers down their spine. It is both loved…

Writing

  1. Cal Newport's anti-brain rot rules (thetangent.space)
    10

    YouTube recommended me a segment from Cal Newport’s podcast lately with five rules for combating brain rot.[1] Here’s a quick summary with some comments, minus…

  2. New history books in April 2026 (Popular history book reviews)
    2

    A nice collection of books from last month (published in the UK in hardback) ranging across time and space. Three I am particularly attracted to are: The…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. the family pc runs ubuntu now (suliman's blog)
    8
  2. Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs (Honeypot.net)
    7
  3. i love my website (sidski)
    19
  4. NHS Goes To War Against Open Source (Terence Eden’s Blog)
    17
  5. Migrating from Ubuntu to Debian (Bongo Twisty)
    8
  6. Decentralize your communication (Things I couldn't find elsewhere)
    4
  7. I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (マリウス)
    10
  8. Reminder: Backup your Blog! (Forking Mad+)
    12
  9. I'm finally Powered By Linux (Forking Mad+)
    22
  10. AI Summaries in your Blog Posts! (Forking Mad+)
    24

Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.