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Re: No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee (Michael Harley)
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Well, not to be left out of the great buy me a coffee debate, I thought I'd add my two cents. The original, at HakkerBlog, No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee, is a pretty cynical take on the topic of asking for contributions. I hardly think that someone posting their buy me a coffee…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Art

  1. Lightscape (Grizzlebit)
    2

    Lightscape in Kings park is always fantastic. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos.

Culture

  1. Social media for teens (Sam Hardacre)
    5

    I've noticed these last few weeks there's been an increase in ads on TV and social for new settings for teen accounts on platforms such as Instagram and…

  2. You Are Protecting a Score No One Is Counting (Nikhil's Blog)
    7

    An argument broke out during my commute today. Two men were going at it hard in the crowd. One of them lost his cool and switched to his native tongue. The…

Life

  1. Yes, buy me a coffee (Happily Imperfect)
    14

    Do note that this is a slightly sarcastic post, there is alot of sarcasm on the internet at the moment. Take a moment to reflect if you want to expose yourself…

  2. ☕If you want to buy me a coffee (Firesphere's musings)
    11

    But, I mean, if you want to buy me a coffee...

  3. Don't buy me a coffee (AksDev)
    5

    I prefer ice tea or chocolate milk. Just joining the blogspam shitposting dont mind me. Context:…

Politics

  1. Elon Musk’s Age of Impunity (Pixel Envy)
    5

    Iain Gray, News Letter: Tech mogul Elon Musk encouraged “repeated and loud” protests ahead of Northern Ireland’s immigration demonstrations, some of which…

  2. Start Up No.2683: search results are being slopified, German court rules against AI Overviews, NSO keeps spying, and more (The Overspill: when there's more that I …)
    1

    The enforced silencing by Meta of former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams at the Hay Festival has seen her book sales rocket. CC-licensed photo by Luke McKernan on…

Tech

  1. Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb (brennan.day)
    41

    Responding to criticism of 'buy me a coffee' links on blogs, I argue that asking for support isn't commodification—it's mutual aid! Exploring the economic…

  2. Bringing people together with the web (James' Coffee Blog)
    4

    At Homebrew Website Club this evening we had a conversation about how to encourage people to make things together using the web. This could mean writing a blog…

  3. You can tell it's a personal website because it has personality (newsonaut)
    16

    Gordon McLean and Case Duckworth had a good back-and-forth about typography and layout. Gordon says you should make your website uncluttered and easy to read.…

  4. Signboard 1.5 has more features than you’ll ever use (Colin Devroe)
    2

    There is no white-walled room, pre-recorded, distillation of the essence of chamfered edges here… or talk about liquid anything. This post is about how…

  5. Improve Vivaldi button states (Baty.net)
    3

    I find the enabled vs disabled states of the Vivaldi browser's back and forward buttons to be nearly indistinguishable. I couldn't figure out the best way to…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. our workplace LLM mass delusion (ava's blog)
    21
  2. Uruky: Kagi alternative, EU-based private search engine (Yee Chie's Corner)
    8
  3. No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee (HakkerBlog)
    16
  4. “Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” (Correr Es Mi Destino)
    25
  5. Smallweb is Becoming an Archipelago (ege's weblog)
    36
  6. Bubbles is good (Happily Imperfect)
    17
  7. The honest truth about leaders who want to replace their workers with AI (Ben Werdmuller)
    3
  8. A Fresh Coat of AI Paint (@iamgregb)
    8

Tiny Bubbles

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