Friday, August 7, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
If Emily Dickinson had written her poems on her Wordpress blog, her host would have deleted them outright when the bill came due. Instead, her sister found 1,800 poems written on paper and stored in a drawer. Words written on paper take an intentional decision to destroy them…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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The current wave of wildfires across Europe is not simply a natural disaster, it is also exposing a deeper mess, the failure of our information systems.…
Life
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It's not a new bike, its from 1993 but it's in flawless shape. My birthday is at the end of the month but I didn't want to get outbid on the ebay listing for…
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(which in hindsight will be replacing "elephant in the room" as a phrase moving forward)
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Since doing an awful lot of thinking about the value of books my brain has gone down some weird rabbit holes. 20 odd years ago, in a different life when I was…
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A reply to Jake's article, The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible.
Music
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You can now mute words on powRSS.
Tech
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After Meta, Google, and Samsung, it’s DuckDuckGo’s turn to launch its own glasses. Named Perfectly Normal Sunglasses, they have no cameras, no AI, and infinite…
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
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Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.