Thursday, June 18, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Thoughts following Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger. Had forgotten this one in the drafts of my notes app.
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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The mirage of "AI" reaches us through a narrative centered on inevitability, productivity, and efficiency. It is therefore at loggerheads with the values of a…
Life
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I recently learned about this fantastic project where visitors are able to "chat" with one another in a fun and private way. I had to try it! So now, at the…
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Hakkerman over at HakkerBlog doesn’t want to buy you coffee. Coffee here refers to the “Buy Me a Coffee” or “Ko‑Fi” buttons you might have seen around in other…
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I get it - it's hard to see good things happening in the world today. Hard not to be cynical about the world, about people, and about our future as a species.…
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My default for making coffee for two is a cafetière. French press if you insist. It requires almost no thought, produces a consistent result, and has no moving…
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When I’m travelling in another country and meet a fellow Canadian, there is a feeling like we can relax and relate. With anyone else, there is a bit of…
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The Open State Foundation has its office on the old naval yard in the heart of Amsterdam. Right next to the national maritime museum, in the 17th century…
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Like: “Wait. You knew it was damaging mental health, sleep, attention and social development, and your response was… to give younger children even more…
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I'm not even a furry, yet I really wanted to go the the US Midwest Furfest. However, it's in December and I won't be in the US. I've been saying I wanted to go…
Music
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I joined Crucial Tracks, a site where you can post about one song per day. (And browse people’s public posts to discover music.)
Politics
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On Wednesday, President Trump threatened to block the extension of the surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA,…
Tech
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FileZilla is still a robust, powerful FTP/SFTP app after 24 years. It still impresses me.
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I have a hypothesis that Linux and EVs have a similar characteristic: Once you switch, you’ll never want to go back. Nathan Edwards in The Verge: It didn’t…
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Ever since I got my first mechanical keyboard, I’ve been able to turn caps lock, one of the most useless functions on a keyboard, into something actually…
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Today is the anniversary of the first blog post on this website from two decades ago. It was about client side JavaScript to automatically (albeit blindly)…
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A getting-started guide for people who live in Claude, Codex, or Gemini and want to try local models
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Many file formats are suitable for representing e-books, but most are complex, and many are proprietary. This article puts forward a proposal for a new format,…
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Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging costs of memory and…
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I was very late to the Markdown side of things, however text files were always my jam, certainly professionally (there is not a callcenter agent in the world…
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A short note on why I built TinyClaw and where it is going.
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Apple on its Developer site (via Arseniy Shestakov): Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email…
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Until now, Apple has kept Apple Intelligence — the suite of artificial intelligence tools baked into its operating systems — entirely optional. If you don’t…
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Hartley Charlton for MacRumors: Apple is unifying the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com…
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I was thinking earlier today, after having received yet another notification on my phone, that I should do something about changing the notification alert…
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Google will remove the last traces of Manifest v2, the feature that enabled robust ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, in Chrome versions 150 and 151.…
Writing
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I often hear conservative Christians condemn gay relationships because of the creation story in Genesis — "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," so the…
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