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

Culture

  1. You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (Signore Galilei)
    5

    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 Tries Life)
    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…

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)
    11
  3. I'm So Tired of Ads (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    21
  4. When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere (The Bryant Review)
    5
  5. Wikipedia doesn't need my cash (Forking Mad+)
    21
  6. Resurfacing posts (Herman's blog)
    8

Tiny Bubbles

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