Thursday, August 13, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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I wish I didn’t have to use NoScript. For those unacquainted, NoScript is a browser plugin which I use with Firefox that allows me to control the running JavaScript on a website. After years of finding questionable JavaScript all over the wider internet, I check every new…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Introduction Gordon, Gordon, Gordon… I think you should look back at what you have written in Tech sucks? Really? and reassess your thoughts. Your conclusion…
Life
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Enjoying Idaho while ignoring IllinoisToday is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice.As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and…
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I handed out my CV to 5 local businesses and this is how it went.
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Up until 2019, I regularly donated blood. According to the Red Cross Life Blood app, my first donation was in 2012. However, it has been almost six years since…
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I'm not sure how one measures the passage of time for a blog. Posterities? RSS-uscitations? Whatever the unit, today marks my blog's twenty-fifth birthday.…
Nature
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Recently we visited Borneo, third largest island on the planet and home to some amazing wildlife and geography. There is too much to describe in a short blog…
Tech
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Sarah Perez, in a TechCrunch story about monthly active user numbers for Bluesky, Threads, and X, using data provided by Similarweb: Instead, the data shows…
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Despite my history of uncovering App Store frauds, I rarely go looking for these things intentionally! They’re just so pervasive and obvious, they jump out at…
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(Previously: No Screens Cafe) At the Cowork Cafe, you can look at your little screen when you’re supposed to be looking at your medium-size screen. Welcome to…
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People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence. Those…
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Since the volume of slop-in-general is of epidemic proportions on the platform, it makes perfect sense an AI agent write actual AI slop for consumption there.
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I have been a Lobsters member since June 2018. In the eight years since, I have submitted 220 stories to the site. I downloaded my entire submission history…
Writing
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A few weeks ago I finished reading Leviathan Falls, the ninth and final book in The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. I started the series all the way back…
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On the weight and responsibility of words in public discourse. Drawing from John Rawls's reasonable pluralism and Paulo Freire's philosophy that dialogue…
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