Best of Kevin’s bubble - July 2026

Aaaaand another month gone. Now we are truly in the second half of the year. I also turned 33 last week. Fascinating how the year fly’s by. But let’s get to the good stuff

Events

Summer of Hip Hop

This month we had our summer of hip hop with its dance battles again. The house battle this year was a little breakthrough for me as I finally managed to actually enjoy the battle and to not just be nervous. In case you never saw me dancing, here is a video just for 😬

Oracle Scars

The Oatmeal is one of many cartoon artists I follow, and the one they produced this time just touched my heart.

WE’RE ALWAYS WATCHING

In case you missed it, here is what an activist’s group did to a Meta “pervert” glasses ad. Just love it.

The AI Hype Reckoning is upon us

I know, the AI hate topics almost feel like old news (at least in my bubble, as I tend to follow feeds that tend towards AI hate). Still, I found this article quite good as it consolidated a bunch of “lay off and rehire” or “lay-offs followed by regret” stories that just underlines one of the main problems I see with the AI topic. Managers, Human beings that think AI is actually intelligent and can make decisions for them, while it is just another chatbot that tells you what you want to hear, while having some other helpful generative tools. Similar to how Social Media algorithms of big tech platforms tend to show you what you like anyways, further pushing you into a corner and forgetting that the real world has way more to offer.

Well, most of the chatbot companies are still only alive due to their investment money. Let’s see for how much longer this works out.

I love starting games vs. I hate starting games

The aftermath is a cool games related blog I am subscribed to for some time now. The “love” part really spoke to me, and also to the sad pile of never finished games in my steam library 😅. The hate part was just fun to read I will leave this quote here as bait for you

While, for obvious reasons, we cannot interview one to confirm this, I have to imagine that being a baby is terrible.

Books

Best part about the books of the months is that I don’t need to port them manually here, which is quite awesome. I think onde day I want to adjust a bit how the stuff is displayed, as I don’t need everything to start with “Review of …”, but until then, enjoy the current state

Review of "Elon & Jeff on Mars" (4 stars): Exactly what you'd expect

What should I say, it was fun to read 😄

It's not life changing but expands a bit on the existing elon & jeff on mars comics and certainly funny 😄

Review of "Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2" (5 stars): Keeps getting better better

Yesterday, as I was getting closer towards the end, I was so captivated I read until half past 1 in the morning, completely forgetting the time. That's certainly a sign enough for me that this series is so far quite awesome 😄 Excited for the next ome 😬

Review of "The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3" (5 stars): The story unfolds

I am not sure what to say. I already spoke out my love for this series in the past 2 reviews and it just continues. And it got me so hooked up I am not sure if I want to read something else until I can get my hands on the 4th part 😅 If you read this and haven't started reading the series so far, start reading it 🧐

And here goes another “episode”. I hope you enjoyed it, and thanks a lot for scrolling by.

Cheers,

Kevin