Thursday, July 9, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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Man, I've been circling on this idea for some weeks now and couldn't quite figure out the best way to open, but I think this is a great one: About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux…
Fresh Bubbles
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Art
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Last month I asked a family member about their digital photos and whether they had them backed up. They replied, “Of course. They’re in the cloud.” I followed…
Culture
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Many times online, when asked what their dream job is, some users will reply that they “do not dream of labor.” The statment broadly means that in their…
Gaming
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I read Grïgnyr the Ecordian, Geoff Bottone's retelling of infamously-terrible fantasy novella The Eye of Argon. Which I hadn't read when I started, so I needed…
Life
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A ghost bike is a memorial for a cyclist who has been killed in a motor vehicle accident. These bikes can be seen all over the world, painted white and located…
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I won’t beat around the bush. I’ve never thought of myself as a Software Developer who simply happens to play at being an Artist from time to time on the side.…
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Hell yea rain gifs
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I’m not a typewriter geek in the least, but having grown up using my mom’s typewriter and, later, in middle school, an electric typewriter, I can certainly…
Tech
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The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
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I use AI every day; it’s unavoidable. But something has been grating on me for months, and it isn’t about development: non-technical people are using it to…
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At the risk of pissing on people’s chips I figured it’d be helpful to illustrate the three classes of AI user I’ve identified in the slopageddon. You might be…
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I managed to write this without using the word endofunctor once. Wait, shit, I just did. Uhhh, oops!
Writing
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A couple of weeks ago I decided to read John Green’s book, Everything is Tuberculosis, in part as research for the novel I am writing about a tuberculosis…
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute is a novel about a (fictional) Institute founded to synchronize every clock in Istanbul, and then in all…
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