Monday, October 12, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Since IMDb forced users to login to see user reviews, I think it is time for another platform to gain consensus on the quality of media.Potential Alternatives: Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd, The Movie Db (TMDB), NeoDB.Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.comThis might be…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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If global large-scale human communication continues to be concentrated within large social media platforms and content providers like YouTube, human languages…
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It is already not easy to be a human. Now add AI. Fernando Borretti: Humans are social animals who can only flourish in the society of other humans. We care,…
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More Malaysian Chinese are leaning towards their Chinese roots, and that includes having an education in Chinese.
Gaming
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It’s been… a while since the last time I made a spaceship. The last one was all the way back in 2024. Modeling spaceships is one of those things I always want…
Life
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For the second time in two years, Halifax wrote to me about my credit card... but sent the letter to entirely the wrong person, leaking my personal financial…
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The time has come to address the elephant in the comments. Whenever my blog hits a place with a comments section the most predictable comment I see — besides…
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Do riders in autonomous vehicles think that they are in a private space? Here's a fascinating story from California where an robotaxi was redirected from its…
Politics
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That’s pretty much the best text published following the election of the German far-right party to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt a few weeks ago. (Best…
Tech
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Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete…
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goatsandgangsters:an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing “hp” in the context of “not being at full hp”…
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I was fairly certain that I am done with Apple, Xcode and their developer experience. Yet here we are, having a CI job that needs to sign a binary. One thing I…
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Technically Good is back! With a slightly shorter edition. There's a note at the end of this newsletter if you're interested! ✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form…
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If you spend a lot of time on places like Bearblog, Ooh Directory, and Bubbles Town, you run into a few common themes in blogging. One of them that…
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I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words or paragraphs within a webpage. I even…
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.