Friday, July 24, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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I just came across the Done by Humans “movement,” which appears to similar to not by AI: both offer badges to display proudly on your human-made website after some kind of vetting process. I don’t understand the appeal of sites like these or what they offer, and I think it’s…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Adrian Daub's recent book got me thinking about Silicon Valley's history. Its origins predate the age of Information Technology, and yet they still structure…
Gaming
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The Eastern Reach is beset by a terrible curse: children are being born without souls, becoming known as the Hollowborn. The arrival of a Watcher, an…
Life
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My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.
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Summer 2026 saw us shunning foreign shores and instead spending a week in Derbyshire, beginning with a four night stay in the spa town of Buxton.After checking…
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Shoreline with lights. License: CC-0 So, Brennan Kenneth Brown wrote about the experience of my response to one of his posts topping the Bubbles list for most…
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Make a list of things you've owned for 2+ years, costed over 50 bucks and still actively use. For me it looks something like this: item when price dslr 2016…
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I have completed the hundred days for the fifth time ever! Here's a quick rundown to how things went for me.
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Yesterday, Unattributed posted a thorough dissection of my article on note-taking PKMs, analyzing my lack of intellectual rigour, nebulous wording, and poor…
Nature
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The Ni Moth (Trichoplusia ni) is a rare migrant to the UK. At first glance, it’s not too dissimilar to the more common migrant the Silver Y (Autographa gamma).…
Tech
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This spring E took down her WordPress blog and replaced it with a static website. In the past weeks she did the same for her business website (and added her…
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Money helped unify trading and debt. Why don't we step back and pay with actual debt itself when we have these brilliant business machines in our pockets.
Writing
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PT AI, androids,AI, androids, supercomputers, we’ve all seen them in fiction. In spy and superhero movies with their AI assistants, or in video gameswith their…
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Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.