Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Are there ethical implications of generative AI consciousness? From von Neumann's self-replicating machines to modern LLMs, we must inventory the problem of…
Gaming
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Releasing Burst taught me that the hardest part of game development isn't how a game looks or feels, but getting the difficulty just right.
Life
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As a shameless fan of men, one of the things I look forward to about summer is seeing so many of them out and about slutting it up. Shorts, vest tops, lovely…
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Firework photos, gifs, and some goddamn feelings
Music
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Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you. OK Computer by Radiohead Rid of Me by PJ Harvey Goo by Sonic Youth Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins…
Tech
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I do not want Moments to become another place that tries to keep people inside. That sounds obvious, but it shapes a lot of small decisions. A photo journal…
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I've recently rediscovered something I had done a long time ago: modifying pictures from weather and traffic cameras. Note: I am cautious about the cameras…
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POSSE it, they say. Own your content. Publish once, fork it five times. RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, webmention, pick your parasite. Fix the typo in two minutes.…
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Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.I've been watching this one develop for a while now, and this week it stopped being speculation and became a…
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New malware variants seem to include source code comments about how to build WMDs, presumably in an effort to hamper analysis by AI-based tools. I find myself…
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.