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Top Bubble

Garbage for humans (unstory)
44

Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines: As a business, to continue to stay ahead, now is the time to consider not just human visitors, or traditional wisdom for SEO-optimization, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Feeding raw HTML to an AI is…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. “I’m not sure if it’s a New York thing or not, but I love that small business owners have artists paint the sides of ... (things)
    2

    “I’m not sure if it’s a New York thing or not, but I love that small business owners have artists paint the sides of their trucks with absolutely outlandish…

  2. Oxford boaters every day commons (#OMN (Open Media Network))
    2

    Commons as lived infrastructure, not theory, not an idea waiting to be implemented, they are practical, community-led way of meeting shared needs that already…

Life

  1. my neighbours cant hang laundry to save their lives (MEGATECH BODY)
    25

    I stand in my kitchen, with the hum of the kettle boiling, and inevitably I glance at the windows of the apartment across. Bright in the morning sun, their…

  2. Ok everyone shut the fuck up and please look at this incredible awkward teen bird (quailblog)
    37

    I've gotten both a baby and now a teen cardinal on my lifer list, I'm so stoked lmao

  3. Call it Fuckity Cockwomble (Weak Notes)
    2

    We could call it fuckity cockwomble for all I care, won’t make me feel better, won’t be any closer to a cure. Without fail, a support forum or community for…

Tech

  1. 🔗 Not everything is a conspiracy - Re: markdown and web-browsers (@gurupanguji)
    27

    Web browsers are not document viewers. They are customer acquisition channels for massive tech ecosystems. They don’t serve users, but corporations. AI…

  2. Two-sentence post: Todoist on the brain (Sal's)
    4

    It’s helpful when apps have a web version so I can access them from my work laptop, which I keep mostly clean from personal apps and data. And thusly, despite…

  3. TIL: Recipe Schemas (Yash Garg)
    7

    I am living under a rock!

  4. What Should We Optimize Away? (The Autodidacts)
    3

    Optimize away optimizing away

Writing

  1. I hate binary thinking (Happily Imperfect)
    5

    “Hate is a strong word”, my mother used to say. The irony of my choice of post title isn’t lost on me. Here I am writing about the dangers of reducing the…

  2. stop asking writers about "AI" (Benjamin Hollon)
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    Every time I tell someone new that I'm a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: "So, what do you think about AI?" This question has been…

  3. Midterm Media Bedwetting Over 'Socialism' Has Truly Begun (The Fine Print*)
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    The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of…

  4. Marktwain, a markdown editor for writing novels (Tyler Hellard)
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    <!-- end-chunk --> <!-- begin-chunk data-anchor="marktwain" --> <h4>Marktwain.</h4> <p><em>A markdown editor for novels.</em></p> <p>I love markdown and use <a…

  5. On Making Reading a Regular Part of My Day (Kai Gulliksen)
    3

    I’ve always enjoyed reading a good book but I’ve never been what you call a big reader. At most I’d read maybe 4-5 books a year. Some years I’d not read…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Tech Morality is hard (Forking Mad+)
    33
  2. I’m tired of the libertarian culture on the internet (Everything!)
    16
  3. People still want small, personal corners of the web (Peter Gombos)
    22
  4. Why I Like Small Keyboards (Sam Smith)
    18
  5. I prefer writing into the void rather than shouting into an algorithm. (Kia.)
    29
  6. Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings. (florio.dev)
    34
  7. Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked (brennan.day)
    19
  8. Make Your Own Paris (Jacob Filipp)
    6
  9. This blog is now on bubbles.town 🫧 (Rachel Kaufman)
    13
  10. This is what collapse looks like. (shojiwax.com)
    40
  11. Why web browsers don't support Markdown (unstory)
    22
  12. The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader (Max Glenister)
    28

Tiny Bubbles

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