Homer is like an onion because he has Menelaus!

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

Demented Orange Blob with Terrified Rabbit.

This Donnie Darko sequel SUCKS.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

I'm a little surprised that the Internet Protocol Police have only just been formed. honestly thought they already existed 🤷‍♂️

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9948....

Security Vulnerabilities in DNS over HTTPS (DoH) - mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dns...

A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

Email preview screen capture from iPhone. Showcase Insider What's on at Showcase Cinema this week THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE, THEY WILL KILL YOU & BLUEY AT THE CINEMA

Great example of how Oxford / Harvard comma can be useful!

Neal Stephenson, who coined the term ‘metaverse’, says head-mounted VR hardware will never happen ‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’ Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and others who believed immersive environments would require head-mounted hardware got it wrong.…

Neal Stephenson, who coined the term ‘metaverse’, says head-mounted VR hardware will never happen

Ok, this is cool.

Screenshot of Jack Dorsey's first tweet: "just setting up my twttr" on March 21, 2006 at 12:50pm PT

20 years ago today.

The weeks-long investigation, details of which have not previously been reported, uncovered no records indicating censorship, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. “There is no evidence that Member States of the European Union are overreaching the DSA to censor and criminalize online content,” they wrote in conclusion.

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY.

Not that you'd know that from the headline.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It’s just so fucking typical that Zuckerberg’s big moonshot idea that he burned $80 billion on was a bigger, better Second Life

Web3 “domains” are dead The web3 domain experiment was a failure. This week, Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould posted on X about the company's transition to traditional domain names. He explained that the company's website is focusing more on "web2 domains" because web3 names aren't panning out how the company had initially hoped: ...Web3 only domains were part of the crypto craze in 2021 but did not cross the chasm into mainstream usage.

Web3 “domains” are dead

The web3 domain experiment was a failure. This week, Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould posted on X about the company's transition to traditional domain names. He explained that the company's website is focusing more on "web2 domains" because web3 names aren't panning…

Wow. Foraminifera!

ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

Do these Stone Age symbols push back the origins of writing by tens of thousands of years? Nope. The real finding is even cooler.

Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/stone-...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/linguist...

This is entertaining. We are sending someone interesting to Eurovision with an actually fun track. A small ray of sunshine.

A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals.

British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

Olaf Kolkman (part 1) Olaf Kolkman has had a long career in open source. In this first part, we discussed his involvement with Perl, DNSSEC and NLnet Labs.

The Underbar (the #perl podcast) has an interview with Olaf Kolkman about Perl and DNS and other things pca.st/episode/042e...

#dns #dnssec #ietf #icann

The death of the Firm The arrest of Andrew shows the end of a certain model of monarchy

NEW

The death of the Firm

The arrest of Andrew may not show the end of the monarchy, but it may show the end of a certain model of monarchy

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

love a bit of continvouclous morging

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

.AU (the ccTLD for Australia) gained an RDAP server yesterday!

More data at deployment.rdap.org

A nice problem to have, to be sure!

This is one of the problems of working with @proper.com

.SG (the ccTLD for Singapore) gained an RDAP server yesterday!

More data at deployment.rdap.org

Ancient 21st century curse: may the thing you depend upon get bought by a billionaire

My monitoring script broke and I missed it, but some time in the last 6 weeks, the .gov TLD gained an RDAP server! As did .as, .ng and .to!

More details at deployment.rdap.org

#rdap