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Top Bubble

Tech sucks? Really? (Happily Imperfect)
8

Leaving sucks. But there’s no other way. As long as you keep throwing money at the corporations who treat you badly, why would they change? Andreas on 82MHz Apple got the message from me: I’m done with it, its products, and its services. I’m just one little drop in their…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. The #openweb needs diversity, not monoculture (Hamish Campbell)
    15

    The problems we face in the #openweb are often presented as technology problems. Which protocol, platform, licence, federation path, software? Which standard?…

  2. Moonwalking to the toilet (V.H. Belvadi)
    8

    My college at Cambridge e-mails its members notices regularly and I woke up to one today telling us they would be changing the signage on the toilets. The new…

Film & TV

  1. Edinburgh Fringe: Afronauts ★★★★☆ (Terence Eden)
    2

    Afrofuturism is a hot topic in the world of sci-fi. This is the circus version of "For All Mankind" where the Zambia Space Academy (a 100% real thing) attempt…

Life

  1. Bank accounts (diamond geezer)
    5

    I opened my first bank account when I was ten days old. I still have the receipt. Obviously it wasn't me who marched into the Post Office in Croxley Green and…

  2. INcredible Coffee, Koenji (Emma Goto)
    3

    INcredible Coffee in Koenji is possibly the only coffee store in Japan that comes with its own silver YouTube play button. It seems like the cafe will…

  3. Thoughts I had while reading your comment (DYNOMIGHT)
    2

    with absolutely no indication of neuroticism

  4. A quick trip to LA (A Whole Lotta Nothing)
    2

    Last week I drove down to Ventura and LA to visit with friends and family. Here are some highlights.Adamson HouseThe Adamson House is known as the "Taj Mahal…

Science

  1. Our Skies Contain Sprites, Elves, Trolls, Pixies, Ghosts, and Gnomes (brennan.day)
    4

    Yes, really. Exploring the magical world of transient luminous events in the upper atmosphere: sprites, elves, blue jets, trolls, pixies, ghosts, and gnomes.…

Tech

  1. Refusing to be doomed (What the Fran)
    10

    Inspired by skuka's post

  2. AI’s going really well, eh? (Something better to do)
    10

    To illustrate how well AI is going, here’s a prime example of the confidently wrong phenomenon, a.k.a. mansplaining as a service… I asked free Microsoft…

  3. No cost, no value (jola.dev)
    6

    Why generating code makes it meaningless, why writing code by hand has value, and why toil is a critical part of the human experience.

  4. Bubbles, and the old web (Jem's field notes)
    13

    I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web…

  5. Kagi not Google (Dan Kim)
    5

    Been using Kagi for search now for a couple weeks and there’s no going back to Google. Clean results, no bullshit ads everywhere, no pushing their properties…

  6. My backup strategy 2026 (Michael Harley)
    3

    I saw Chris's post, The Grand Blog Reunification, where he explains that his cloud sync was silently failing and he wiped his computer without realizing he…

  7. Zuckerberg says AI will improve your relationships. Did an AI scam bot tell him that? (disassociated.com)
    2

    Tangentially related to the previous post. A few days ago Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the company’s latest AI vision. Or the one for this week at least.…

Writing

  1. Destructive AI. (languagehat.com)
    6

    RNZ reports on yet another distressing development due to the “AI” craze: When a Wellington second-hand bookstore started to get bulk book orders, owner…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem (Phunky Cafe)
    24
  2. This Tiny White Ball on a Thread is a Carnivore (Outside My Window)
    6
  3. Against Doomerism (Terence Eden)
    17
  4. My day as an "AI artist" (A Lovely Harmless Monster)
    8
  5. Bird photography is like real-life Pokémon (Antonio Santos)
    21
  6. A collection of assorted thoughts on “Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change” (creolened.com)
    5
  7. Bubbles.town (anderegg.ca)
    14
  8. Clicks have killed the Inverted Pyramid (Gordon Meyer)
    12
  9. Your Book Body-Count Is Worthless (Westenberg.)
    5

Tiny Bubbles

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