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Top Bubble

Hot new laptop features (Chad Comello)
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I’m obsessed with this “laptop” our 7 year old made: I asked him what the different features were. Check out these specs: He just whipped this together on a whim while listening to a Yoto. Kids, man. Time, space, and materials for the win.

Fresh Bubbles

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

Life

  1. Best gig, ever (Happily Imperfect)
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    One of the Summer Sessions gigs that takes over one part of Bellahouston Park, last night saw Alanis Morissette headlining a line-up of amazing female led…

  2. Grindr - but its for making friends instead. (Booger Diary)
    2

    A swell idea.I'm over my post-deltarune depression, and I got to thinkin'... Again... Why does me get so abhorrently depressed and junk after these games? I…

Politics

  1. Birthright Citizenship Hangs on by its Fingernails (Rondam Ramblings)
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    The papers are burying the lede on the story of SCOTUS ruling in favor of birthright citizenship.  The headline should not be that it survived, it should be…

Tech

  1. YouTube is Actual Garbage (Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog)
    14

    I'm getting really sick of this platform.

  2. Punching Nazis for Fun and Profit (Living Out Loud)
    18

    A three-rule recipe for not hating myself: keep changing, practice gratitude, and punch Nazis. Here's what rule three actually means.

  3. Anthropic's Steganography Controversy Explained in Non-Technical Terms (Zarar's blog)
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    Claude Code was caught hiding data in its own prompts. A plain-English look at what Anthropic did and why it breaks trust.

  4. Re-Learning Photography (Ennui Vagaries)
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    Photo by: Ailbhe Flynn via Unsplash I was into photography many years ago (like over 40 years ago), and in all this time there have been several significant…

  5. Life without Google (amanda untangled)
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    I said goodbye to Google yesterday. I’ve had Gmail accounts for as long as I can remember (at least since 2008ish, as I was heading off to college) and it…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. On the semantic web (Karl Koch)
    34
  2. The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore (Christian Cleberg)
    27
  3. Ok everyone shut the fuck up and please look at this incredible awkward teen bird (quailblog)
    37
  4. A too Brief Intro to Smolweb (scientiac::syntropy)
    18
  5. Garbage for humans (unstory)
    44
  6. 🔗 Not everything is a conspiracy - Re: markdown and web-browsers (@gurupanguji)
    27
  7. Pretty games are not immersive (Peter Bryant)
    9
  8. Midterm Media Bedwetting Over 'Socialism' Has Truly Begun (The Fine Print*)
    11
  9. Why Digital Detox? (Happily Imperfect)
    5
  10. This is what collapse looks like. (shojiwax.com)
    40
  11. TIL: Recipe Schemas (Yash Garg)
    7
  12. my neighbours cant hang laundry to save their lives (MEGATECH BODY)
    25
  13. Why I Like Small Keyboards (Sam Smith)
    18
  14. Tech Morality is hard (Forking Mad+)
    33
  15. People still want small, personal corners of the web (Peter Gombos)
    22
  16. Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked (brennan.day)
    19
  17. Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings. (florio.dev)
    34
  18. 🚴‍♀ Wear a helmet! (Bits by Bino)
    54

Tiny Bubbles

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