Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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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
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The problems we face in the #openweb are often presented as technology problems. Which protocol, platform, licence, federation path, software? Which standard?…
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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with absolutely no indication of neuroticism
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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
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Yes, really. Exploring the magical world of transient luminous events in the upper atmosphere: sprites, elves, blue jets, trolls, pixies, ghosts, and gnomes.…
Tech
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Inspired by skuka's post
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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…
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Why generating code makes it meaningless, why writing code by hand has value, and why toil is a critical part of the human experience.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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