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Gmail Thinks I'm Stupid, So I Left (moddedbear.com)
39

Let me tell you a story I go to check my email in Gmail’s web UI. I see a few new messages regarding feedback on a project I’m working on. I click through to read one of them and the first thing I’m greeted with is a message summary I didn’t ask for generated by a language…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Art

  1. New Artwork: Lost in Thought (Kai Gulliksen)
    6

    As always you can get the full resolution image over on my Ko-Fi page.

Culture

  1. You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (Signore Galilei)
    6

    Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited with inventing the telephone, in 1876. It’s not entirely undisputed: Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Johann Philipp…

Life

  1. my relationship with red flags lately (Amy Redmond)
    3

    You'd think that having a brain would be enough to alert oneself to a red flag. What should we do when we see red flags? Ruuuun. What do I do? I…

Politics

  1. The “ChangeNames.co.uk” Scam (Dan Q)
    8

    Today, somebody who's running a scammy personal information collection campaign hidden beneath the veneer of a buggy free deed poll service that competes with…

Tech

  1. normalize patience (RNOTTÉ Animation)
    6

    patience. that is a valuable skill that humanity is gradually losing the more technology "improves". thanks to the advent of tech products like social media,…

Writing

  1. Apparently I am Mad! (Forking Mad+)
    18

    I met a man today. A stranger. I spoke to him.

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Junited 2026, a blog sharing month (Robert Birming)
    16
  2. Imagining human-oriented online posts (Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden)
    12
  3. [Link] I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline (Phil Gyford)
    9
  4. I'm So Tired of Ads (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    22
  5. When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere (The Bryant Review)
    5
  6. Wikipedia doesn't need my cash (Forking Mad+)
    22
  7. Resurfacing posts (Herman's blog)
    9

Tiny Bubbles

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