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

Art

  1. London’s Smallest Public Sculptures (Look Up London)
    8

    Mice, noses and even a lost mitten. These are London's smallest sculptures and each tiny artwork has a brilliant story behind it... The post London’s Smallest…

  2. Photos of Old-School Ads and Catalogs Filled With Surprisingly Suggestive Humor (Rare Historical Photos)
    5

    What once passed as harmless advertising now feels loaded with hidden meaning. Vintage ads, comic books, greeting cards, and mail-order catalogs often…

Culture

  1. Lemmy needs diversity (Something Wonderful)
    16

    I've been trying to use [[https://lemmy.ml/][Lemmy]] more and more to replace Reddit. I like the UI a lot and I've subbed to a ton of varied subs. However,…

  2. AI floss (Acts of Volition)
    2

    Saying “I always review what the AI gives me and I don’t let it write for me” is the new “yes, dentist, I do floss every day.”

  3. The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics (Susam Pal)
    3

    It is a commonly held opinion that educational institutions could do more to improve the pedagogy of mathematics. This is especially true in school, when…

  4. Want to AI proof your degree? Study History! (Frog in a Well)
    3

    Can AI do history? Someone sent me a link to this paper “Can LLMs Act as Historians? Evaluating Historical Research Capabilities of LLMs via the Chinese…

Life

  1. Carspreading is real and we should not encourage it (Rishabh P. Sharma)
    5

    Hello. Good morning. It's Monday, and I am sitting in my office figuring out what I want to do today—experiments, data analysis, or computer modelling. I am…

  2. “… are ready to take your money” (Rubenerd)
    4

    I was compelled to install the confusingly-named, generic-sounding, un-hyphenated Shop application on my mobile telephonic device recently, for specific…

Tech

  1. I Made My Eleventy Build 5× Faster with Five Changes (brennan.day)
    4

    A walkthrough of how I audited my 11ty build benchmarks and cut cold-start time from 14 seconds down to 2.6 seconds by caching two custom filters and swapping…

  2. Belgium's MyGov app does not work on GrapheneOS (Reveries of a Human)
    2

    An app developed by the federal government using taxpayer funds is fully reliant on Google Play Services.

  3. 🥫 Spam spam spam spam spam (Firesphere's musings)
    2

    Every email address in existence. And every non-existing email address, probably, gets spammed. If it was possible to die from too much digital spam, we would…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Hey you, start communicating! (Forking Mad+)
    31
  2. Bubbles on the Fediverse 🦣 (Bubbles 🫧 Blog)
    28
  3. GenAI is for losers (XXIIVV)
    13
  4. when someone upvotes my post, it feels like a friendly smile by a stranger (skuka)
    10
  5. Another Triumph For Blogging (Brain Baking)
    8
  6. I Built My Own Search Engine (And You Can Too) (Douglas Ireland)
    18
  7. Ocarina of Time Hits Differently as an Adult (David McGee)
    10
  8. I'm off GitHub (Kev Quirk)
    16
  9. Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a… (Mike McQuaid)
    7
  10. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google (Terence Eden’s Blog)
    21

Tiny Bubbles

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