Bubbles Briefing

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Top Bubble

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Crafts

  1. Painting "Block" Holder (Woodworking in a Tiny Shop)
    4

    My wife has recently gotten into watercolor painting, and the paper she uses comes in a thing called a block. There are times when she would like to have the…

Culture

  1. The threat of toxic content on decentralised social media platforms (disassociated.com)
    4

    Mastodon is a truly decentralised micro-bloging platform. Anyone sufficiently motivated, and technically proficient, can start their own instance, or…

Life

  1. Too busy? (Happily Imperfect)
    3

    I’ve got a lot going on at the moment which means I’ve not been posting here. Big whoop, right. Yeah, work is busy. At home we are in the last week of Jack…

Tech

  1. The AI Aesthetic (Jim Nielsen)
    8

    Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of…

  2. They love RSS (unstory)
    8

    "Thank you for using RSS." "I love RSS." A badge in the footer. A little heart, a blogroll. Community. Belonging. I love TCP/IP. I love HTTP 1.1. I love DNS…

  3. ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS Put the badge on your homepage and submit your URL. Once we’ve checked the... (John's World Wide Wall Display)
    7

    ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS Put the badge on your homepage and submit your URL. Once we’ve checked the link back and found your feed, you’re on…

  4. LG Monitors Fill Windows PCs With Adware, and It’s Not Just Recent Displays (GadgeteerZA)
    2

    “If you’re using an LG monitor and you suddenly see blaring ads for McAfee scam protection, it’s not because your PC’s been hacked (or, rather, not hacked by…

Writing

  1. Don’t Say the S-Word on Bear, Apparently (Sebastian Malloy)
    2

    So the title of my last post was originally “Online Friends vs Raising Satan In Your Basement,” which I reposted with a new title: “Online Friends vs Summoning…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Feeling lost (Alex Caza)
    20
  2. I want to leave the internet (chupacabra's brain dump)
    20
  3. Logic for Programmers is Now Available (Hillel Wayne)
    7
  4. A computer can never be held accountable (jola.dev)
    23

Tiny Bubbles

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

Art

  1. Logos for Dystopias (Entropy Arbitrage)
    2

Music

  1. My second, and even third, Fleadh (Coffee now)
    1