Friday, July 17, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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I love reading. I caught the bug as a middle-schooler when I got caught skipping school, and as punishment, I had to read The Chronicles of Amber and do a book report about it. Even today, opening a book and fanning the pages to get the paper smell activates very fond memories…
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Art
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I just miss doing art. Don’t you? Naomi Kritzer, Better Living Through Algorithms i bought myself some presents. i like them. they're nice.
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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop
Culture
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Everything about this story is wonderful, from the activist group's name to the surgical vandalism to the not-so-subtle nod to the classic ”They Live”, John…
Life
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When I was a kid, my father bought a family home computer and placed it in the living room for all to see. When guests came to our house, they would stop by…
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A worthy check-in question to ask ourselves from time to time — would the me from ten or twenty years ago have wanted to be the me today? If we find ourselves…
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Over the years I’ve heard much talk about the benefits and usefulness of keeping a regular journaling practice. I’ve tried many times myself to start…
Music
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Today is the first big smoke day of 2026. The past five years we've had some brutal streaks of smoke days from all the smoke coming south from Canada and…
Nature
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16 July 2026 The wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh today is from wildfires in western Ontario and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota(*). As of Thursday 16 July at…
Politics
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For the first time since 1946, the total debt of the United States ($39.5 trillion) is greater than our GDP ($32-ish trillion). The interest on this debt is…
Tech
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Wolf looking directly into a camera at close proximity. There is a bit of an issue I have noticed lately: websites actively blocking Reading Mode in Firefox,…
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We're paying A.I.'s hardware tax on everything we buy, and most people don't even know it's happening.
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To summarize my answer to Antonio's post: good! I don't read posts in my feed reader to look at styles, I do it to consume content - to read their thoughts.…
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At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term “tag healing” during a discussion about tags. The definition I caught was that tag healing is…
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“Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?” I’ve heard variations of that question several times over the past few months. On the…
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If you woke up on 15 July feeling a strange sense of relief, you aren’t alone. After months of posturing, rhetoric, and vaguely defined threats toward privacy…
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Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker…
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