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"Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s. The New York Times described cat images as "that essential building block of the Internet"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet

Cats and the Internet - Wikipedia

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfc?ref=ystrickler.com&variantId=3

At a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…

The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. These Startups Are Making Millions From It
Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

Bürgerinitiative „Stop Killing The Internet“ stemmt sich gegen Alterskontrollen
Die EU-Kommission hat die die Initiative „Stop Killing The Internet“ gegen verpflichtende eIDs und Altersschranken registriert. Nun geht es um Unterschriften.

Bürgerinitiative „Stop Killing The Internet“ stemmt sich gegen Alterskontrollen
Die EU-Kommission hat die die Initiative „Stop Killing The Internet“ gegen verpflichtende eIDs und Altersschranken registriert. Nun geht es um Unterschriften.

WaPo's opinion section has been promoting data centers, only sometimes mentioning owner Jeff Bezos' vested interest in them or the paper's OpenAI partnership (Paul Farhi/Washingtonian)
https://washingtonian.…

The Washington Post Loves Data Centers a Lot More Than Disclosing Jeff Bezos’ Financial Interest in Promoting Them - Washingtonian
The Washington Post’s opinion editors love data centers, the humongous and increasingly unpopular server warehouses that are the physical backbone of the internet and artificial intelligence. In unsigned editorials, podcasts, and guest op-ed columns, the Post’s take has been focused and forceful. America needs more data centers to boost the economy, compete with China, and

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

When ICANN updates the internet’s root cryptographic key this year it should be an invisible process for consumers, but IT teams must be prepared to take action.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/…

One of the internet’s most important keys is about to change, and you need to be ready
When ICANN updates the internet’s root cryptographic key this year it should be an invisible process for consumers, but IT teams must be prepared to ...

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 37 nodes and 58 edges.

Tony Pollard Can Be the Lighting to Javonte Williams' Thunder in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/tony-pollard-can-be-the-lighting-to-javonte-williams-thunder-in-2026

India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protesters amid internet blackouts (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/24/indi…

India orders takedown of Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin-linked messaging app Bitchat
The order targets Bitchat, an offline Bluetooth mesh app built to relay encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions, as 'Cockroach Janta Party' protesters in Delhi use mesh tools to communicate through internet shutdowns.

It's a really hot day for all the furries at ComicCon. I admire their commitment to the bit but I also hope the internet doesn't need any emergency fixing today!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Girls of the Internet:
🎵 Heaven Bound
#GirlsoftheInternet
https://houseoftheinternet.bandcamp.com/track/heaven-bound-girls-of-the-internet-edit

Posting has been slow since my home internet is down, more Dio Day pictures are on the way!
#photo #photography #portrait

You know, most normies haven't heard of PeerTube (and introducing it might come across as excessively technical and geeky or whatever). We mirror our channel across both YouTube and PeerTube (self-hosted), and people understand quite easily when I say "Oh, here's the YouTube link and here's the link on our site". And it intuitively makes sense in a way that resonates - it's so understandable that we want our own little corner of the Internet, something *we* control.…

The small, real, original web https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web
Got my post on the small web done- it links to sites by @…

The small, real, original web
The ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just …

This remains a terrible idea
https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116624071726108448

Open Rights Group (@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)
Attached: 1 image Access to information shouldn't be ransomed for our personal data. We’ve gone from ID checks for porn to potentially age-gating social media, livestreams, websites and more. Safety doesn't come from a surveillance-based Internet 🚫 Respond to the UK consultation by 26 May ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation #onlinesafety #ageverification #privacy #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

Ah, yes - today's oligopoly learning from past abuses that were never addressed because of the #NeoliberalIdeology. (Amazon is not the only company to use it's volume to drive up costs or restrict product availability for competitors - it's been happening for years by large retail brands.)
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the …

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers

Ah, yes - today's oligopoly learning from past abuses that were never addressed because of the #NeoliberalIdeology. (Amazon is not the only company to use it's volume to drive up costs or restrict product availability for competitors - it's been happening for years by large retail brands.)
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the …

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers

"Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, before she channeled her talent for math into computer #programming While working at the RAND Corporation, she built a groundbreaking simulation, originally conceived to strengthen military communications during the cold war. The simulation—and her work—would ultimately lay the foundation for the moder…

The programmer whose code underpins the Internet
Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet

One year ago today, the Coalition on Digital Impact (#CODI ) was launched with a mission of ensuring everyone can navigate the Internet in their own language, using their own scripts. My employer, @… , was among the founding members. 🎉
I've since joined CODI's Board of Directors as I do see this as critical work to deliver on the I…

Weird crap my wife, @… buys on the internet. So if anyone needs a Reamer for Jew... You know who to call... I'll remove your burrs and smooth your edges. Real cheap.

A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

And while one wannabe Finnish guy is shouting and trying to fix my internet connection, I'm now heading back to Zurich for an amusing evening with a Finnish comedian
#ISMO

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…

What They Take When You Walk In
The HIPAA blind spot, the database at the center of it, and the women whose names ended up on the open internet.

Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris/

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.  
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…

Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

@… thanks. Without the redirect and the utm stuff:
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2026/06/19/code-that-built-the-internet-the-impact-…

Just learned a cool word: illfare.
There's "welfare", right? So it makes sense to have "illfare".
I learned about this from the preface to J. A. Hobson's book "Work and Welfare": https://archive.org/details/workwealthhumanv0…

Work and wealth: a human valuation : Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson), 1858-1940 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xvi p., 1 l., 367 p. 22 1/2cm. O $2.25

The Old Fears, Faster
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/12/the-old-fears-faster/

The Old Fears, Faster | David Boles, Blogs
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it. One concerned…

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116615756889889576
The web shutting out the Wayback Machine is bad. But I'd turn this around: If someone wants to move their website into the darknet, so be it. But I won't link to thin…

The internet has pornography. I am shocked.

Government just prematurely ended debate on Bill C-22
The federal government decided to use a so-called “guillotine” time-limit all further clause by clause on Bill C-22 to just 30 minutes.1 This will block ANY committee debate that scrutinizes the dangerous surveillance powers in Part 2 of the bill.2
The government wants to jam Bill C-22 today, and vote it through the House tomorrow (June 19). We’re calling on MPs of all parties to refuse to advance Part 2 without full committee…

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22

Every Saturday, Metacurity rounds up the best infosec-related long reads that deserve more attention than the daily news cycle allows.
This week's collection explores what happens when trust becomes the attack surface, including
• Inside the TfL hack
• The cyber war game nobody wants to play
• AI's toughest test case
• When anti-piracy breaks the internet
• The protocol that changed the internet
• Why prompt injection won't go away

Trust under attack: Best infosec long reads 7/11/26
Inside the TfL hack, The cyber war game nobody wants to play, AI's toughest test case, When anti-piracy breaks the internet, The protocol that changed the internet, Why prompt injection won't go away

A malicious npm package?
You really think someone would go on the internet and do that?

Every so often ideas come along that are sufficiently deserving of ridicule and derision, this is one of those times:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-build-ipv8-the-next-generation-of-the-internet

Donate to Help Build IPv8 — The Next Generation of the Internet, organized by Jamie Thain
IPv8 is an open-source initiative focused on reimagining the future … Jamie Thain needs your support for Help Build IPv8 — The Next Generation of the Internet

Analysis: 382 news sites, including 342 local outlets, are blocking Internet Archive's crawlers amid AI concerns, an increase from 241 sites in January 2026 (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-tha

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.

My daughter just had a routine medical appointment canceled due to an Internet outage at the provider's office.
Silly me, i assumed that even in the days of electronic cloud medical records that those were cloud *synced* and the office maintained local copies of their patients' data that they could access offline then push to cloud when the connection came back.
But no, they're down so hard they couldn't even cancel her appointment without the office manager calli…

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'
The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...
https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

The Halo soundtrack is such a vibe. Memories of me calling in sick, playing the campaign & running System link w/ coworkers for 72hrs.
Remember using the GameSpy Bridge to play friends over the Internet? 😁
▶️ Halo: Campaign Evolved | Six Hours of Main Menu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VLmoBg…

The transcript of this video is quite a long read but I think it is worth your time to reflect on how current geopolitics may give room for a new era of internet. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
The main takeaway is something I'm trying to carry with me: " don't despair"

"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
I just found it in the Internet archive and I can tell: that is NOT how Doom did sound with my Soundblaster16. 🤔
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Doom-soundtrack-becomes-a-cultur…

"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
"Culturally, historically or aesthetically important": "Doom" music enters US National Library. Two other game soundtracks are already there.

The Boring Internet (text) | Terry Godier
#Internet because you've…

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 69 nodes and 98 edges.

A great explanation of 'Why workflows for the social sciences and humanities?' by Eamonn Bell @…
With bonus 'it's just like Yahoo Pipes!' nostalgia for people of a certain internet age

Developing actionable workflows for the social sciences and humanities with Galaxy: A report on a TNA visit to ACDH, Vienna
Facilitating access to digital research infrastructures and advancing frontier knowledge in the arts and humanities - across disciplines, languages and media.

Lost in the woods? You don't need an internet connection to determine your location. GPS¹ reception is possible at basically any point on the Earth's surface.²
All you need is a GPS¹ receiver (such as your phone) and a map (an offline map on your phone or a paper map).
¹ well, GNSS in general, not just GPS in particular
² well, except in Moscow and in war zones

Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/

Greece Is Building Its Own Internet. Turkey Would Like a Word.
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the thing that

Great essay "The Boring Internet" by @…
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

BlueSky isn't letting me post; I wonder if that's the State House internet connection, or just BlueSky...

They either don’t care about other people at all, or they enjoy destroying the Internet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have written up my Masters degree research project in a less-academic, more technical style, and in half the word count. I did enjoy the project and I do think that it has some interesting findings (such as 3,500 fraudulent login attempts per day) and provides useful results on password policies and approaches for securing SSH servers on today's internet.
"When you put a Linux server on the internet with a running SSH service, anecdotally people will confirm that you will s…

#Иран, где аятолл у власти сменили военные из КСИР, пошёл по северокорейскому пути регулирования интернета. Раньше доступ в интернет предоставлялся всем желающим, теперь для этого нужно специальное разрешение ("Internet Pro"), а всем остальным доступна лишь Национальная информационная сеть, иранский аналог Кванмёна.

From the Open Internet to Internet Sovereignty: Death of the Global Internet - Filterwatch
The Islamic Republic of Iran is entering a new era of digital authoritarianism with the role of a long anticipated, discriminatory system of internet access. On April 14th, Sattar Hashemi, the ICT Minister, unveiled the government’s plan in an op-ed for Shargh daily using terms like, “internet sovereignty,” "strategic infrastructure," “digital governance,” “stable communications,” and

The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/ai-users-re-cr…

US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices
Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.

Peter G Neumann, understood and strongly believed in the systems nature of problems.
That is, there’s not one cause to a problem;
everything, including the humans involved, interact.
Take, for example, buffer overflows,
long a security scourge on the Internet.
Is it the fault of the programmers?
I knew someone who, 40 years ago (and several years before the Internet worm made the problem obvious),
wrote a string-handling library before embarking on…

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions.

Hrmm, Zig is an interesting language...figured I'd kick the tires and figure out what's going on. So far it's been pretty nice.
#zig #programming

FPF Submits Comments to Inform California Children’s Social Media Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-california-childrens-social-media-protections-rulemaking-process/…

RE: https://solarbird.net/blog/2026/05/21/lets-talk-being-able-to-talk-when-internet-and-cell-phone-service-both-go-down/
A very solid write up of some "what if the cell towers and inte…

Saving The Streak
Internet is out, and they don't know when it'll be back, so I'm throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/saving-the-streak/

Saving The Streak – Bob Mueller
Internet is out, and they don’t know when it’ll be back, so I’m throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.

Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
...
We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it.
#internet

We Need To Rewild The Internet 
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

When I first moved here six years ago, I complained and complained that I was in the middle of NYC and the only thing available here was fucking Spectrum (cable) with like 5-10mbit upload speeds. After an awful year of that, T-Mobile's 5g home internet stuff became available. It was finicky and the modem crashed/overheated all the time, but I could often get 100mbit upload speeds.
A year ago Verizon ran fiber down my street. On Monday, I'll finally get 300mbit up!

These kind of interesting stories make browsing the internet worthwhile for me, aluminum amphipods in the deepsea 😀
"An aluminum shield enables the amphipod Hirondellea gigas to inhabit deep-sea environments"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?i…

An aluminum shield enables the amphipod Hirondellea gigas to inhabit deep-sea environments
The amphipod Hirondellea gigas inhabits the deepest regions of the oceans in extreme high-pressure conditions. However, the mechanisms by which this amphipod adapts to its high-pressure environment remain unknown. In this study, we investigated the elemental content of the exoskeleton of H. gigas specimens captured from the deepest points of the Mariana Trench. The H. gigas exoskeleton contained aluminum, as well as a major amount of calcium carbonate. Unlike other (accumulated) metals, aluminu…

Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…

Add `fish_darcs_prompt` by toastal · Pull Request #12860 · fish-shell/fish-shell
Improves on the prompts floating around the internet (which I forked a long time ago)—specifically copied the ability to reorder statuses from the other VCSs, added ! for showing that there are mer...

Figure Eights
The internet has decided that modern humans are developing zoochosis, the madness of caged animals. The claim is older than TikTok, and the truth underneath it is more uncomfortable than either the believers or the scoffers want it to be. ...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/19/figu

Kaja #Kallas hätte es durchaus öffentlich sagen können: #Israel ist ein #Apartheid|systen. Schon 2017 hat sich die UN in diesem Sinne wörtlich geäußert.

Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid FULL Report : United Nations : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is the full report in which ECOWA called Israel an apartheid state, expanding on the executive summary which was previously posted here. It was basically...

Spending my day at the #IETF126 Hackathon, talking to people about the Open Fibre Data Standard, #OFDS, https//ofds.info/ a specification for describing the *physical* infrastructure of the #Internet. It&…

Thread worth reading!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:73dpznbu4wqwtcyurwbiulov/post/3mltfotpw232p

Internet Archive (@archive.org)
🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/ @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine

The Economist is testing parallel versions of marketing and B2B sales content, one optimized for humans and another clearly structured, Q&A-style for AI agents (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-economist…

The Economist prepares for a two‑track internet: one for humans and one for AI agents
The Economist is experimenting with content designed to be readable by agents first, and is building a vibe-coding culture.

If I had a nickel every time I posted an image of a cursed clock and someone made it into a real thing, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...
https://glammr.us/@fskornia/116415597297660514
@…

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 34 nodes and 52 edges.

Happy 40th birthday, ZMODEM! On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification was posted on Usenet by Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology.
https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1986-May/004372.html
If you used a BBS before the Internet you might get…

Do the Cowboys have the best offensive guard duo in football? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-the-best-offensive-guard-duo-in-football

A profile of Hany Farid, the world's leading deepfake expert, who recently left the Bay Area for Vermont.
"I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

Behind the Blog: The Promise of the Internet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-the-promise-of-the-internet/

AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet
What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the massive investment in AI infrastructure? Those are all questions that I've been focused on for years (well, except the last one... that's new), and I always seek out many other viewpoints as I ponder my own.

AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet
What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the ma…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Blog post on the Gemini protocol is up: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/the-gemini-protocol -- with links to the capsules and phlogs (remove the space before the TLD before viewing them in a Gemini browser) of @…

The Gemini protocol
Most people familiar with the internet know the HTTP protocol, the one that retrieves and displays our www websites. HTTP was initiated in 1989 and went from there. Gopher is another web protocol, …

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.

"Alright, what kind of GUI do you want for your new SCADA system?"
"I want it look like Hollywood designed it for a disaster movie."
"What?"
"Also, don't add any security and put it directly on the internet."
"Wha...
#infosec

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns
“Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impacts all aspects of their life…both in that country and externally”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks…

A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns 
Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impacts all aspects of their life—from accessing essential information, to seeking medical care, or communicating with loved ones, both in that country and externally. But on...

Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai

1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source
On 21 April 1993, Marc Andreessen announces NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first version of its multimedia browser. Just over a week later, CERN gifts the World Wide Web to the world as open source software.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3210 nodes and 6157 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-re…

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Always Open, Never Empty
The internet abolished closing hours. The new wave is abolishing the pause. Both moves are economic in origin and…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/13/always-open-never-empty/

Always Open, Never Empty | David Boles, Blogs
The internet abolished closing hours. The new wave is abolishing the pause. Both moves are economic in origin and psychological in effect. Both promise convenience and deliver a different kind of c…

This glimpse of modern drone-enabled police surveillance,
including the highly sensitive video of the man’s physical takedown,
wasn’t voluntarily released by the SFPD
—which, like most US police departments, rarely releases drone videos even in response to public records requests.
Instead, it was accidentally livestreamed onto the open internet via Skydio’s website.
That’s where two security researchers, Sam Curry and Maik Robert, discovered that the SFPD was le…

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

A look at Disney's 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight as Nate Silver says Disney is refusing to negotiate with him about restoring the site's archive (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Nothing on the internet lasts forever. But Disney’s 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story.

The KIDS Act Will Lead to Mandatory Age Checks 
Many of the bills in the KIDS Act share the same premise:
that children and teenagers should have different experiences online than adults.
In practice, that requires websites and apps to determine who is under 18
—and who isn’t.
That’s where the problems with the KIDS Act start. 
EFF certainly supports giving all users better privacy and safety tools online.
But those protections should not,
and …

The House Passed The KIDS Act—The Senate Should Reject It 
Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements,...

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3905 nodes and 7512 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio
and depended on an iron lung to live.
She died June 26 in Oklahoma,
the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,”
Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”
McVey attri…

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78
Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. Her sister, Cindy McVey, attributes her death to long-haul COVID-19. Diagnosed with polio at 5, Lillard lived a remarkable life despite her challenges. She attended school using a phone system and even drove for a time. The internet helped her stay informed and meet her husband, whom she married in February. Lillard was artistic, writing poems and songs. She was also an animal rescue volunteer. McVey say…

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3505 nodes and 6856 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Internet age verification proposals restrict the fundamental rights of young people to speak to each other and to access information.
They also force all internet users,
not just those under a certain age,
to upload private data
—like a face scan or passport
—in order to access a website or service.
In considering the vast scope of privacy issues pertaining to the collection, storage, and sharing of this personal information,
the problems of age veri…

Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue to introduce and implement legislation requiring all online users to verify their ages before accessing the digital space.

Ian Fieggen, who also goes by “Professor Shoelace,”
is the guy who runs Ian’s Shoelace Site,
the internet’s prime destination for learning how to tie your shoes.
His website is simple, intentionally focusing on common vernacular over standardized knot terminology,
and has been operating as a discrete section of his personal site since 2003.
Ian’s Shoelace Site does not need to change;
it is perfectly functional the way it is,
and people have been d…

Ian's Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoelaces
Ian's Shoelace Site has been teaching people to tie their shoes for more than two decades. His knots are wonderful. But it is vulnerable to the forces tearing the internet apart.

Corporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…