Wow! We need to have a @dwebyvr.org Book Club meeting just about this matrix! @daffl.xyz

Just spent a long weekend organizing a conference of Wikipedians and others and others at the Internet Archive. Smart, talking about the future of the Internet.

Stopped in a coffee shop. Guy asked what I normally drink. When I said “Yemeni pourovers” he was like “Uh, we don’t have any of that” but then told me about a bunch of cool #coffee places in #Toronto, so I’m sharing! 🤲

Knife
Highly Likely
Ethica
The Brickroom (on Temperance)
The Library Coffee

There it is! #CNtower🗼☀️ micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/14/there-it-is-c...

“Lederhosen full of poutine”

What a day…

Back here tomorrow

This discussion is mostly about making a standards-based way to express preferences (which may or may not have legal implications, but that is out of scope). Agenda is here if you are interested: ietf-wg-aipref.github.io/wg-materials...

Thanks for sharing Blaine. Will review and see where it can inform the debate in this room

View of downtown Toronto waterfront with Billy Bishop airport on the horizon

View from our meeting room for IETF AIPREF working group this morning

Giving non-builders the tools to build a better internet is how we fix the internet

Another day that I’ll offer to help folks move from Substack to Ghost or Buttondown.

Putting content on there is no different than Twitter at this point. leavesubstack.com

Started this on the plane The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 📚

So poetic! I have only ever read This Is How You Lose the Time War which was brilliant.

#amreading #booksky #bookstodon

Chad points at the CN tower lit up blue at night

Made it to Toronto

✈️ At the Rivers Monument in YVR, about to head to Toronto for IETF AIPREF WG, then DemocracyXchange. After that will be London and Germany. Expect photos!

www.yvr.ca/en/about-…

The poles represent the Columbia and Fraser rivers, and are topped by eagles.

Folk Tech Showcase! - April 2026 - Project Show & Tell · Luma Folk Tech is a movement among people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies and a community of developers making…

Join us Wednesday for the first @folktech.bsky.social Showcase!

Featuring amazing projects such as Roundabout, Semble, Mirlo, Flotilla, OpenHaven, Spacious, The Protopian Prize, Moss, Inkverse, The Governance Memory System, and more!

Hosted by WorkAdventure.

Register here: luma.com/h0o701wf

Started reading: A Short History of London The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins 📚

Prepping for going back to London next Sunday.

#amreading #booksky #bookstodon #London #travel

Link to the research. Find your country! web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

Digital Sewer Socialism With the rise of AI slop and overall “enshittification,” it is increasingly the case that the internet is failing to address the public’s needs. What we need is sewer socialism for the digital realm —...

I only learned of the term recently from this jacobin.com/2025/12/digi...

“That’s Sewer Socialism” ✊

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_s...

World map showing countries highlighted in varying shades of green indicating higher and lower values of renewable electricity generation. Gray countries have no data. Coverage is concentrated in South America, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. Canada is coloured green.

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

"Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo"

Canada is on the list of 50 countries producing over 50% of their electricity with #renewable #energy

Oh boy. RIP your mentions Jim 🪦

Here is a Drupal module that implements standard.site and will backfill posts from your Drupal CMS to the atmosphere. Big thanks to Automatic and @pfefferle.org for the ref impl

github.com/affinitybrid...
@protocolsforpublishers.com
@drupal.bsky.social
@standard.site
@atmosphereconf.org

Newspeak House is looking for applications for its next cohort of mid-career technologists to develop a holistic understanding of the political technology landscape in order to found groundbreaking new projects or seek strategic positions in key institutions. It's a big deal.

This ep of People’s & Things with @leev.bsky.social and @bialski.bsky.social interviewing @susansegfault.bsky.social about @torproject.org completely nerd sniped me and was very enjoyable!

micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/09/p...

Gorgeous! I just need one with a group of tiny hobbits off for an adventure!

good reminder to change your signal notification settings

“Connect, don’t collect”

Protocols and federation > data hoarding silos

OpenAI shelves landmark £31bn UK investment package Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation as reasons for putting Stargate project on hold

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Skoda steps in to the battle between bike bells and headphones YouTube video by Hannah Fry

youtube.com/shorts/Hwn3g...

never would have thought that's part of the problem but that makes sense

bike bells usually in the noise cancelling frequency range

Hand sewn patch made from felt

Inspired by the film, my daughter hand-sewed her own PROJECT HAIL MARY mission patch. Amaze amaze amaze!

Wow! Really reminds me of the Surrey Library. Same architect?