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Weekend Reads
* Inside an Internet shutdown
https://labs.ripe.net/author/mdkamruzzaman-khan-2/inside-a-shutdown-bgp-evidence-from-an-operator-who-was-there/
* Inferring shared IP addresses

Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There
When Bangladesh vanished from the global routing table in July 2024, public routing data captured the event as it unfolded. Drawing on first-hand observations from inside one affected network, this article explores what that data can and cannot tell us.

DNC autopsy author was previously part of another Democratic humiliation (Nick Reisman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/dnc-autopsy-author-was-previously-part-of-another-democratic-humiliation-00934115
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p45#a260522p45

Last year, we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author
Cory Doctorow about his book,
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.
The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts,
focusing on AI and related issues:
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but he’s constantly being asked to comme…

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

we gotta talk about this

This one has been on my watchlist as well, it should be on yours, too. I need to get off my ass and finally watch it. (Sinners too)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tne4x6uotoief6t5cildh75l/post/3mmfheivyu22o

A Detailed Chemical Analysis of the Red Giant Orbiting #GaiaBH3 - From Lithium to Thorium: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae1617 -> interview with the 1st author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWjXuvNK3hM

Now, if I just put it long enough under my pillow while sleeping? #erasurecoding

The wonderful Kate Quinn’s latest, The Astral Library (https://www.katequinnauthor.com/books/the-astral-library/) is a different kind of book for her. It’s more treatise than fiction, but worth a read,

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.

A comic by Zach Weinersmith, from July 23, 2026.
@…
I stole this. I offer it here. Please forgive me Zach. And please forgive me, everyone who cares about him.
You can support him on Patreon…

Sports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sp…

Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author, and his entire archive of published work, after allegations of AI plagiarism.

When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, manager's answers didn't correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people.
The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism
https://bs…

Due to a worsening economic outlook, renowned Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne has been downgraded to BBB Milne

Heute vor 9 Jahren: Am 23. Juni 2017 testete #Nordkorea einen neues #Raketentriebwerk, das möglicherweise für interkontinentale ballistische Raketen geeignet ist. Dieses Triebwerk wurde später in der zweiten Stufe der

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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ds5ilmkzmog7jw6uho4eiwg/post/3mdju3lmyq22m

Just finished "My Perfectly Imperfect Body" by Debbie Tung, a graphic memoir about dealing with disordered eating as a teenage girl. Similar themes to Hungry Ghost, except without as much of a family factor, and it's more direct. We get to hear the author's perspective as an adult at the end, including some good body-positive messages and thought patterns, even as she acknowledges the struggle necessary to climb out of body despair.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

@… @… Weeeeeeeell… they’d happily generate markdown files for LLMs to ingest, yes.
But hand author them in excruciating detail? Not anyone I’ve seen so far.

"Es ist #Wirtschaftsliberalismus pur. #Deregulierung für eine reiche Minderheit, mehr Bürokratie und Kontrolle für die große Mehrheit. Dass hier mit zweierlei Maß gemessen wird, empört viele Menschen und treibt sie der AfD in die Arme. Mit sozialer Gerechtigkeit, die nötig w…

Right now, we’re on the precipice.
I don’t know who we’re going to be on the other side of this.
Trump and Maga are literally destroying the foundations of our democracy right in front of us.
We’re witnessing the end of the America that made our lives possible.
It’s going to take generations to get back on our feet.
It’s a dark hour.
But, you know, midnight is the beginning of a new day.
It’s the darkest of hours, but it’s also the beginning of…

This is awesome, completely subverting the original song (laudatory)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qd72ifdyeraeyq4ci2galjfx/post/3mmfn5ylyfs2y

The Hacker Sent by Anthropic to Calm the Government’s Nerves About AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-mythos-safety-nicholas-carlini-20bceaa3?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert

I've been engulfed in the story to the point that I've brought the phone to the dinner table to keep reading - to my familys dismay. It's a compelling story, you quickly start to worry about the protagonist!
You won't want to put this book down, because you too will want to solve the mysteries surrounding the school.
https://www.…

Footsteps of Heroes | BR Dexter Author
A dark mystery-thriller set in a boarding school in the last weeks of apartheid, 1994 South Africa. Dark Academia, for readers of The Secret History, What if the legends of an elite boarding school were a cover for a 50-year-old murder, and the only one who could solve it was a scholarship boy with everything to lose?

My next door neighbour is a published author. I was very pleased to hear that he had got his book published and I hope that I can do a little to promote it.
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-storytellers-war-geoffrey-chaucer-reluct…

The Storyteller's War: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy - Historical Novel Society
Geoffrey Chaucer, page at the court of King Edward III and member of his family’s wine merchant business, embarks on a journey to Castile in 1366, as war is about to resume. Chaucer uses his wine importing tasks to cover his duties to king and country as a spy seeking to alter the course of […]

What an amazing plant - the Moringa tree https://bsky.app/profile/minibubbly.bsky.social/post/3mopvgtcls224
(was unable to extract the video, not sure why)

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014434 by @…

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex
Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information over both space and time is much more challenging. Vision happens incredibly fast, space and time are tightly linked, but current technology is limited in capturing these spatiotemporal dynamics. Here, we developed a method that combines two non-invasive human brain imaging techniques using computat…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

@… thanks.
"… The fix has not been merged into stable/14 or releng/14.4. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE and the current stable/14 branch remain vulnerable as of the date of this report. …"
POSTSCRIPT: THE AUTHOR REMOVED WHAT'S QUOTED. Please see <

Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/tech/hachette-scott-turow-g…

Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage and author Scott Turow sued Google, alleging the company used copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models.

If you saw an interesting new app, application, or web site, but then found out the author used AI to create it would you still use it?

@… Yes, the author of that article was sloppy. But it doesn't make a big difference.

Just a reminder that the author who ghost-wrote “The Art of the Deal” expressed regret for writing it once Trump turned to politics, apologized profusely for helping to create the illusion that Trump actually knew anything about deal-making, and argued that the book should be recategorized as fiction.

Remember, as the author of this 1834 receipt knew well, that we get to pick our words and that sometimes a pun is too good to pass up: "The undersigned... do hereby acknowledge to have received... by the hands of Assistant Commissary Foote..."

@… https://blackd.substack.com

David Black’s Substack | Substack
Journalist, author (London). Psychedelic Culture, Situationist Poetics, Working-Class History, Philosophy. Click to read David Black’s Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues to explore and analyze the theme of #Security Baked Into the #JVM.
Today's focus in on the Safe Codebase #Audit

From @…, but his Bluesky alter-ego:
https://bsky.app/profile/patrickmgarvin.bsky.social/post/3mm4zxjv4ac22

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

Looking forward to this tonight at ANU. Daughter is hoping to finish work in time to meet me there. She's having a bonkers week so it could be a bit iffy.
But as it's her birthday this week and Mothers' Day on Sunday, we'll find time on the weekend to eat, drink, and be merry nonetheless.
Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf | Australian National University

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

I see.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nr76is65n2f7tqrlabmcuvjg/post/3mlytks6s7s2k

Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/

Another fascinating conversation from @….
It had me wondering: how would the world be different if Elon Musk had been loved as a child?
Accidental Gods: Mothering the Future we'd be proud to leave behind - with author and activist Zineb Mouhyi
Episode webpage:

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Reading https://www.ideou.com/en-gb/blogs/inspiration/how-to-not-know-simone-stolzoff and wondering if people's low tolerance for uncertainty is why people would rather a confident but possibly wrong answer from a chatbot than trust their own judgement …

How to Stop Fighting Uncertainty & Start Working With It
Learn how to build uncertainty tolerance, avoid the three certainty traps, and lead more effectively when you don't have all the answers, with insights from author Simone Stolzoff.

Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including 'Project 2025' author
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/fed-chair-warsh-makes-first-hires-at-central-bank-including-project-2025-author.html

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
The author of Java property-testing tool jqwik did not want AI coding agents using his project. So he told them not to.
Then he went one step further: he added a message to the tool's output telling those agents to delete jqwik tests and code. […]
🧑‍💻

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

Is there an option hidden somewhere in git log / ref-log / mailmap which would support colorizing output lines differently depending on whether a author/committer matches some pattern (eg Mine vs Another Maintainer vs Unknown Contributor)?
I know I could post-process the output of git log or use other plumbing tools, but I'd rather not if something is built-in.
#git #askfedi #devlog

#Webmention for Craft v1.3.0 is out 🎉 – first in a short series of #security releases. 🔒
Fixes a stored XSS vulnerability in author/entry URLs, adds per-IP rate limits, and failure-backoff to harden the public endpoint against abuse.
Upgrade recommended!

Release v1.3.0 — Security & abuse hardening release · matthiasott/webmention
🔒 Security Fixed a stored XSS vulnerability in author and entry URLs displayed in the control panel and front-end Webmention templates. The plugin now validates URL schemes (only http(s): allowed)...

Sharing this which was linked from another thread.
A very powerful critique of the master's 'AI' tools as aids (or substitutes) for the human creative process.
It's long but you get the message in the first 2 sections.
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
https://

@… https://brownebag.substack.com/

The DBrief | David Browne | Substack
Journalist, music historian, author ("Talkin' Greenwich Village," bios of CSNY, the Dead, Jeff Buckley, Sonic Youth), Rolling Stone contributor. Click to read The DBrief, by David Browne, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Well, I am starting the translation of the collection 'Under the Monastery Vine' by Bulgarian author Elin Pelin for real now. Tag along:
Father Sisoës, by Elin Pelin (forward)
https://www.patreon.com/99stories/posts/father-sisoes-by-161227423

Just finished "Fustuk" by Robert Mgrdich Apelian. Without exaggeration, it is a true masterpiece, an absolutely stunning graphic novel about food, family, and magical contracts that reminds me of both Witch Hat Atelier and Young Bride's Stories. The truly impressive part is that Apelian is every bit as good an illustrator and storyteller as both Kamome Shirahama and Kaoru Mori.
In the author's note, Apelian says "So I asked to make the story I always craved growing up: a tale of Middle Eastern joy and magic that speaks to diasporic culture and how those of us within it relate to our two worlds." He succeeded at that goal abundantly, as far as I can tell, and has produced a truly impressive work.
Images are rough pictures of a few example pages showing very cool panel construction, lots of detail, and both dynamic action and expressive faces. I'm not going to spoil anything, but the second image here is one of the most powerful pages I've read in a while and the way it uses gutters demonstrates a beautiful mastery of the comics medium.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/tech/hachette-scott-turow-g…

Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage and author Scott Turow sued Google, alleging the company used copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models.

The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")
There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.
EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.
#NoAI #NoLLM

If you enjoyed the first episode of #BlairBraverman's new podcast #WhatToCarryWhatToBurn about how Ada Blackjack and the ship's cat survived on Wrangel Island. And if you wanted to know more about Vilhjalmur Stefansson and how he came to know about Wrangel Island and d…

Empire of Ice and Stone
...Damron’s able narration carries listeners through this arduous journey with a steady tone that lightens at moments of joy and becomes grave at times of deep sadness and loss. While the tale has all of the trappings of a great adventure novel, neither the author nor Damron let listeners forget that the toll here was real, human, and significant.- BooklistWill Damron sweeps listeners onto the Arctic ice with the ...

Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA on Hacker News
#management

“I would describe what we are seeing today as a five-alarm counterterrorism fire,” explains Jacob Ware,
the author of the report.
“In a number of different national contexts, extremist and terrorist threats are now driven, to an unprecedented extent,
by children.
This youth radicalization challenge has caught most states totally unprepared,
and responders now need to erect defenses beyond the legal system.
The counterterrorism field needs to host importa…

Jacob Ware (@jacobware.bsky.social)
Youth radicalization is clearly a growing problem. But concerningly, cases also appear to be trending younger. Terrorism arrests involving children between the ages of 8 and 12 are now common. For more, see my latest analysis for The Soufan Center: https://thesoufancenter.org/research/combating-youth-radicalization/

No one has called me by my birthname in over 30 years other’n cops, sales cold callers, polls workers & my gramma*, everyone should be able to use whatever name they want & have that be respected.
*Poll workers are fine, & gramma could call me anything she wanted, cos she loved me, fuck the others.
https:…

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent.
But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pursuit-of-the-careless-people-author-is-relentless-and-self-…

Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.

The Business Of Being An Author
A practical, straight-talking podcast for authors who want their book to do more than just sit on a shelf...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-business-of-being-an-author/

Lucky, lucky Londoners. I'm quite excited about this new book, with its cheery title

Steven Rosenbaum acknowledges that The Future of Truth, his book about truth in the AI age, released this month to great fanfare, contains quotes made up by AI (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

‘The Future of Truth’ Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.

“perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!” 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tds6tm2gzx5zva6gyfhtdmsp/post/3mospexmtdc2w

JP (@jpbrammer.bsky.social)
they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!

A Deep Search for #Exomoons around WISE 0855 with JWST: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae17ca -> interview with first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7UkyBKN0A

FreeBSD Project website: the Beastie theme has been refreshed
https://www.freebsd.org/
Primary author: @…

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually. – Mondoweiss
"... no one would today argue that Nazi Germany, or Apartheid South Africa, or Vichy France, or Khmer Rouge Kampuchea had a “right to exist.”
Author Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official.

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.
Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.

Scientists finally figured out how homing pigeons navigate on cloudy days. Macrophages in the liver!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1qqC7QfdE&feature=youtu.be
(The video explains how the experiments worked. The author/narrator has a funky voice--but all…

'Never use double for money' is dogma, not engineering.
Guest author Stefano Fago breaks down when double, BigDecimal, or fixed-point is the right call, and the production traps that quietly undo each one.
https://blog.frankel.ch/bigdecimal-vs-double/

Please don't assume anything about the author of the piece you've been asked to peer review. Although you might get it right, you might also get it horribly wrong. In that case, your comments may be inadvertantly incredibly insulting.
Focus on the paper: what works? what doesn't? how can it be improved? Oh, and don't try to force the author to write the article you'd have written. Instead, help them write the best paper they want to write.

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

Part of important experiments with 'types of data governance that establish a global knowledge commons, while supporting local communities'
How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License https://community.mozilladatacollectiv

How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License
Author: Alek Tarkowski For the last twenty five years, standardized open licenses were increasingly seen as a main tool for democratizing access to knowledge. Over less then a decade, a relatively narrow set of canonical choices emerged: the Creative Commons licensing stack https://creativecommons.org/licenses/list.en, coupled with

Weekend Reads
* Registrar domain name risks
https://weis2026.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/05/WEIS2026_paper_9.pdf
* RIPE legacy address space analysis

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Tue 05 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.
#Canberra

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

Oracle: If you attack Iran in February, there will be regime change in November.
Trump: Hell yes.
https://bsky.app/profile/ejacobslaw.com/post/3mojmxumvlc2y

Chambers Street in Edinburgh, fog.
#SilentSunday

<https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/src?author[]=Abdelkader Boudih>
… most recently <https://

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

*Me stepping up to the podium*
I can’t believe there’s an account solely about podiums.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u5ymdteypuiwabksbvtbrrk3/post/3mm5j35ps5c2v

The #Hubble #Arp #Galaxy Survey: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/adfc67 -> "We present new optical F606W images and point-source photometry for 216 systems, whose sizes are well matched to the Advanced Camera for Surveys’ wide field of view. Essentially, none of the samples had been previously observed with Hubble. The resulting images display rich morphologies, revealing a variety of massive stars, H ii regions, stellar clusters, dust lanes, tidal tails, backlit galaxies, and occasional chance superpositions" -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eewSudl4w34

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Mon 18 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, CarolynHolbrook and Joshua Black.
#Canberra #ANU

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.

While calls to “abolish ICE”
have exploded during the second Trump presidency,
critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigrants,
US citizens, and democracy itself
since it was created just over 20 years ago.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars,
host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia about the origins of ICE
and what it will take to abolish it and the new …

ICE: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

War, but make it art
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arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

A pastor aligned with the hard-right Reformed theology of influential Christian nationalist Doug Wilson
is promoting and pursuing a plan to fulfill the “dominion mandate”
by moving like-minded people into sparsely populated rural counties, colonizing and discipling
“Christian settlements,”
and building miniature civilizations based on their religious worldview.
Raymond Simmons, a pastor and podcaster based in Red Oak, Iowa, is the author of
“The Confession…

The Dominionist Plan to Create Theocratic ‘Confessional Counties’ in Rural U.S.
Rooting out pluralism is central to the strategy for colonizing sparsely populated rural counties.

Well that’s pretty damned cool.
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What wat‽
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😂
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dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
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it’s funny how goyim think American Jews and Israeli Jews are the same ethnicity when
“clearly ethnically Israeli guy who doesn’t yet realize how out of place he is in this American Jewish community”
is slowly becoming a fucking stock character in American Jewish comedy
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So, Musicology Duck is doing a vibe walk of DC and THIS is a wild shot as the wind & weather picks up;
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Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC
hosted by a private foundation operating in partnership with the White House,
which includes speakers that experts have characterized as Christian nationalist or extremist.
"Rededicate 250", billed as the faith-based component of America’s semiquincentennial, features speakers including
a Detroit pastor who has called the Democratic platform “demon…

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

O…M…G
You will never hear me say this hardly ever, please tell me this is AI lol
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Beth Macy built her career writing about the plagues inflicted on rural America,
most famously the opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,”
but also the job losses from trade agreements that devastated communities across Appalachia.
Now running as a Democrat in the kind of House district she says she is uniquely qualified to reach,
she recited the 4-H pledge from memory
— “I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger se…

Can Democrats Win Rural Voters Turning Away From Trump? It’s a Tough Sell.
House candidates like Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick,” have crafted messages based on lifetimes in rural regions. But messages need an audience, and many minds are closed to the party.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
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My name is Beth Macy.
I’m the author of best-sellers Dopesick and Paper Girl,
and I’m the Democrat who’s running against Ben Cline in VA-06.  
Virginia’s Supreme Court just overturned the redistricting referendum that our voters approved last month. 
I'm not a lawyer, and I won't pretend to have all the answers on what comes next legally.
What I do know is this: the country is on fire, and decisions like this one represent another serious step backward.…

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The only good thing about that David Roberts post is that it’s spurred a number of really smart folks to slap it around and provide some really good threads.
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10. Every organization cutting engineering headcount on the basis of AI output gains should read this report.
AI crossed a threshold. It is now the primary author of code.
This did not happen as a deliberate decision by most organizations. It happened as AI tool adoption scaled, acceptance rates climbed, and agent-mode tools began applying changes directly rather than waiting for a developer to approve each suggestion.
In the organizations we studied, 80% of teams now exce…

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.