Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Here is a dialog from the movie Office Space — and just to be clear; Michael Bolton in the movie are talking about Michael Bolton the singer. And this made me think about AI — and em dashes. I have been told that em dash is the hallmark of AI writing, and that seeing em […]
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Luckily, it could not be simpler to fix.
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One of the many pro-Pluto websites that sprang up in the immediate aftermath of the disastrous IAU planet definition vote back in 2006 featured the image of a…
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You see that random nobody wrote meaningless 20 words on some online platform. He is like you, but because he uses platform X and not Y, he is a nazi. You have…
History
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Been a bit church heavy on the last few blogs, but not to worry, there is more old metal and concrete from WWII posts coming soon. Specifying this church as…
Life
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Uncle Iroh was on to something.
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Yeah, this kinda sucks
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Responding to anonymous blogger Unstory's claim that love is a fake story and does not exist, I argue that love is a real, measurable, and physical fact of…
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They're everywhere, we might as well photograph them
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Recently I watched a video talking about the literacy crisis. A whole generation of youngsters are growing up with poor literacy skills, whilst adults are…
Tech
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I feel an immense sadness. I’m grieving the loss of a pillar of my self-identity: my career as a software developer. Although I’m not sure if this grief is…
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Yesterday, I finally removed the last vestige of Microsoft cruft from my life: Windows 10. For the last two years, I have been slowly decoupling myself from…
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Yesterday, I shared my article There’s no membership card for IndieWeb and got the following comment from Dale: Great article, I agree 99%. I do take issue,…
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I don't like slop. I don't care how it was made, even if you created it with your own hands.
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Aaaand it's gone. I deleted my fedi account because I got tired of how aggressive it all was, and I had so many followers I felt like every move I did,…
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TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization
Writing
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A four-century etymological journey from wooden ship logs and logboards to the modern web log, tracing how the word 'blog' emerged from centuries of…
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