Bubbles Briefing

One subject, three lenses, let's fucking goooo

NoteThis was supposed to be one post, but it grew so long that I had to split it up. Here are/will be the others. In July, I visited the Vienna Museum which…

We had a visa appointment at the US Embassy in the capital city, Ankara, on Friday. We were supposed to go there by the sleeper train on Thursday night but…

It’s a great topic. AI. Easy to dismiss. Easy to praise. But it isn’t everything. Not everything needs to be in comparison with it. Not every thought shared…

So there I was, standing in the paper goods aisle of the Piggly Wiggly at 8:45 on a Tuesday evening, having a full-blown crisis over two ply versus three ply.…

A short list of everything the all-natural influencer lifestyler removes from their life.

As a race, humans are really bad at doing cost benefit analysis. We might try and weigh up the pros and cons but we all have a tendency to exaggerate the pros…

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Anthropic: Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing…

Finding a better way to waste time.

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: On many, many leaks - of credentials, unpublished games, and entire passports; being ""opted in"" to chatbot…

I store all of my important (and many not so important) documents in my Paperless-ngx instance running on my homelab. Given this importance, I wanted to add an…

It finally happened - I lost access to my stupid Microsoft account and have now lost access to all my One Drive files too. It was my fault. Well, mine and the…

Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William…