Sunday, October 18, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
The IndieWeb's pro-human, anti-genAI consensus has met its own infrastructure: Aaron Parecki, co-founder and the movement's 'single point of Aaron,' now commits with Claude Code to webmention.io, indielogin.com, Meetable, IndieNews, and micropub.rocks. On the fragility of…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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I once asked a specialist in a particularly obscure mathematical subdiscipline how many people in the world could understand her work. “Maybe 20 or 30,” she…
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I am someone who enjoys a wide variety of art. Whether it’s music, movies, writing, comics, architecture, podcasts, video games, websites, I love to consume…
Life
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Gone are the days when you sat down and had access to all the TV -- now you have to decide what you want to pay for, and keep track of what show is on what…
Politics
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Bill Marczak, et al., of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab: This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via…
Tech
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Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff, and Peter McCrory, in an Anthropic research article: How has AI restructured work and employment at…
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A few days ago, Allison Sheridan wrote a very persuasive article about using TextEdit, the “unsung hero of macOS,” as a simple word processor. I’ve been trying…
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Organising your notes is the thinking itself, not a chore you get out of the way first. When you decide that one note belongs next to another, or that an idea…
Writing
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Nothing is going well for Mildred at Miss Cackle’s Academy, and she’s afraid that she’ll never be able to be a witch. However, she is in a unique position to…
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.