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Top Bubble

I don't really like the "Human-made" badging trend (Case Duckworth)
15

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

  1. Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to … wait, what? (tyrandus' blog)
    4

    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

  1. Pilllars of Eternity (The Wertzone)
    2

    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

  1. My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account. (jabel)
    10

    My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.

  2. Buxton Pub Explorations (Prop Up the Bar)
    2

    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…

  3. RE: Mea Culpa, When Somebody Writes Your Wrongs (Unattributed)
    4

    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…

  4. cheapest option is plenty enough (hanki.dev)
    3

    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…

  5. 500 Days to Offload (joelchrono's blog)
    4

    I have completed the hundred days for the fifth time ever! Here's a quick rundown to how things went for me.

  6. Mea Culpa, When Somebody Writes Your Wrongs (brennan.day)
    2

    Yesterday, Unattributed posted a thorough dissection of my article on note-taking PKMs, analyzing my lack of intellectual rigour, nebulous wording, and poor…

Nature

  1. Moth of the Moment – The moths that say Ni! (David Bradley's Nature Matters)
    2

    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

  1. Static Website Envy (Interdependent Thoughts)
    12

    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…

  2. Do we need money when we have computers? (Arusekk blog)
    3

    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

  1. Real AI changed the way I see fictional AI (Diel's daydreams)
    7

    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…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. LinkedIn slop (Olly)
    11
  2. Why I Stopped "Creating Content" (Michael Lynch)
    46
  3. Cool Link: OverpAId — Fire Your CEO. Hire The Future. (Matt Fantinel)
    6
  4. Why I Write (Katie Keller)
    11
  5. Unranked, systemd, crawls (www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu)
    6
  6. People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk. (Ben Werdmuller)
    15
  7. businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns!!! (fiddery)
    13
  8. Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You (Antonio Santos)
    42

Tiny Bubbles

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

Food

  1. Ammonite Coffee Market, Hongo (Emma Goto)
    1

Gaming

  1. Back to Ocarina of Time (joelchrono's blog)
    1