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It’s a good way to end a day when I stumble upon a #Wikipedia article that I can easily update to have more current info! 🎉 (The moment of reading an article and realizing “hey, I have seen something more recent that isn’t here!” And then going and finding some reliable sources and adding content…)

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

The NO FAKES Act will create broad new takedowns that threaten online expression, and give some people less control over their own likenesses. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I think it’s important to keep talking about children and social media, but I also think that debate is a cover for what these laws are really about: surveilling the entire population online

Despite UK politicians affirming repeatedly that the Online Safety Act would solve all of the problems with online safety, they’re now going ahead with a social media ban for under-16s. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Just a reminder that the US Woman’s team has won the World Cup four times already.

EFF supports the Open Courts Act, which would make federal court records freely accessible online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I increasingly believe the future of AI is going to be locally-hosted models running on our own devices, not subject to export bans or the whims of companies. My latest for @tomshardware.com on my own setup www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

If you are interested in low earth orbit (LEO) and satellites, you really should follow @planet4589.bsky.social ! He does *amazing* work monitoring and posting about all the various rocket launches and satellite deployments. (My interest in #LEO is #InternetAccess but he tracks all launches.)

After a week traveling for business, I was home for a night and then drove up early this morning into Quebec to spend the weekend at a #Rotary #District7850 conference, bringing together Rotarians across northern NH, VT, and part of southern Quebec for sessions and conversations! #PeopleOfAction

This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? In a new article in @issuesinst.bsky.social Dryad ED Jennifer Gibson and @investinopen.bsky.social ED Kaitlin Thaney investigate what it will take to keep research data alive. 🧪 bit.ly/43NEEMw #opendata #datasharing #openresearch

Playing around with the new “Group Chats” feature on BlueSky … why not make one to chat about emerging Internet tech? If you want to join the experiment, the link is here: bsky.app/chat/SYfaQ11 If I follow you, you should get right in. Otherwise I theoretically have to approve you.

Whenever I hear people talking about #OrbitalDataCenters (which apparently are now “ODCs”), I ask… but what about the cooling??

Four incredibly intense days… amazing conversations… useful sessions… dinners at 10:00pm 😱… wonderful people! #ICANN86 is over… time to return home!

Out today: The Proof in the Code, where author Kevin Hartnett tells the definitive story of the birth and rise of Lean, and how a growing movement is transforming the enterprise of mathematics www.amazon.com/Proof-Code-T...

Hisham Ibrahim of RIPE NCC kicks off the At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) session at #ICANN86 talking about “The Internet’s Trust Architecture”…

Predictably, the #ICANN86 session about the "Current and Coming Impact of #AI on #DNS Abuse" is packed to standing-room-only! Concerns across the #ICANN community about how AI is increasing the speed and complexity of attacks and more... icann86.sched.com/event/2NQO9/...

In about 15 minutes we'll be kicking off the #DNSSEC & #Security Workshop at #ICANN86 in Seville, Spain. I'll be moderating the session with some great topics! If you are onsite, we're in the Paris room. If online, you can join from the links at icann86.sched.com/event/9e9e08...

Getting started at #ICANN68 with the ccNSO Tech Day’s dive into #DNS : - DNS Abuse Mitigation Tools - Evidence Based Domain Checks - Evidence Based DNS Resilience - DNSXplore Platform Follow up The 3rd presentation will be from my Internet Society colleague Amreesh Phokeer.

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…

The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

I will be at #ICANN86 this coming week in Seville, Spain, speaking on a panel about #cybersecurity and #InternetResilience , moderating another session, and engaging with members of our @internetsociety.bsky.social community and partners. If you are there and want to connect, please message me.

AI is restructuring the ground beneath communicators' feet! In #FIRpodcast 515, @shelholtz.bsky.social & @nevillehobson.xyz cover six topics, each with an uncomfortable thread. Plus @danyork.bsky.social's Tech Report on WordPress 7.0. 🎧💻 bit.ly/4v5inW2

Happy 1 year of CODI! 🎉 In just one year, we’ve helped elevate critical conversations around digital equity and multilingualism online with the help of our members, partners, and advocates. Check out more about CODI’s first year: www.codi.global/newsroom/bui... #internet4all #CODI

I was pleased to join the @codi.global board this past year to help with the work of ensuring everyone can navigate the Internet in their own language. Too many people still can't fully participate online - because the #Internet wasn't built with everyone in mind. That has to change!

Policies. Training. Guardrails. And still a major law firm filed AI-generated errors in court. In #FIRpodcast 511, @shelholtz.bsky.social & @nevillehobson.xyz unpack why this is about accountability, not tech. Plus 5 more stories and @danyork.bsky.social's tech report. 🎧💻 bit.ly/3QBStdK

As we celebrate #EarthDay 2026, what is the technical community—the people who actually build and operate the Internet—doing about climate concerns and environmental sustainability? I wrote on the Internet Society blog about two #IETF and #IRTF groups.. www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04...

🌎🌍🌏 Happy Earth Day! 🌏🌎🌍 #EarthDay #EarthDay2026

Buried in New York’s state budget are provisions that would require 3D printers to block certain designs, in an attempt to restrict 3D-printed guns. But.. the details aren’t defined, the tech won’t do what policymakers think it can, and circumvention could be easy… www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

There is white stuff falling from the sky again! My wife asks, "can we pretend that it's pollen?" 🤣 Alas, no... this is just "spring" in #Vermont. The irony, of course, is that I'm starting the morning at a mechanic getting the snow tires swapped off for the summer tires on one of our cars. 😃

Fascinating visualization of power plants around the world - opengridworks.com/power-plants - I like that you can toggle different types of power plants on and off. Very useful to see! #energy #power #infrastructure #resilience

Very interesting and useful paper on a critically important topic ... what happens to all our digital assets when we die? How are we setting up our estate plans / wills to ensure our heirs can access our info? Something I don't think we collectively pay enough attention to... #Death #Internet

Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar? Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history. 📖 Join us for the book launch! 📅 Apr 23 🕠 Doors 5:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-...

The Canadian government wants you to focus on Part 1 of the Lawful Access Act (Bill C-22), but this is what Part 2 will enable. Secret ministerial orders are the groundwork for turnkey totalitarianism.

"a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider. finance.yahoo.com/news/allbird...

For 120+ years, there has been the curious case of the Haskell Free Library that straddles the US / Canada border between #Vermont and #Quebec. Last year, US policies restricted Canadian access to the main door... so a new door had to be built! Opens in June... www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Great photos from the Rest of World's 2026 Photo Contest! Of course given that I've been monitoring Low Earth Orbit ( #LEO) solutions for #InternetAccess, I like that the winning photo showed the contrast between a train of #Starlink satellites in the sky - restofworld.org/2026/tech-ph...

“We have seen strong progress where digital access efforts are community-led and language-first.” Read more from Rise Afrika Consulting’s Amin Dahiry on what last-mile organizations truly need to advance the global web. www.codi.global/newsroom/cod...

“The Iranian government is requiring some ships to pay a toll of roughly $2m. But it’s the currency in which the toll has been collected – Chinese yuan – which may suggest a concrete challenge to American power in the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Nature doesn’t need us. We need nature. When the last wild space is paved for profit, no amount of wealth will restore the web of life that feeds and heals us. Shift from exploitation to stewardship. The Earth will thank us — and so will our descendants. 🌱 #OnePlanet”

Joining about 25 people for the first meeting of #ChatBTV , a brand new local meetup group in the Burlington, #Vermont, focused on… of course.. #AI ! Looking forward to learning… (“BTV” is the code for our local airport)

What do last-mile organizations say they actually need? Hear from Internet Society Uganda Chapter, @clearglobal.org and Rise Afrika Consulting experts on this key question in #CODI Signals, a new “Ask an Expert” series spotlighting insights from our community. 🔗 www.codi.global/newsroom/cod...

@planet4589.bsky.social - For your amazing stats you maintain, I'm seeing media reports that Russia launched 16 satellites into their Rassvet LEO constellation: developingtelecoms.com/telecom-tech...

Three lines in a buried support article was how they shared news: Instagram is getting rid of E2EE for DMs. Time to change your messaging habits. IG’s still okay for memes. Signal and Threema exist. Use them for anything that actually matters. 🔒 www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

Starting off my third day at #IETF125 with the Birds of a Feather (BoF) named: Coordinating Agent To Agent List of efforts (CATALIST) It is a session to look at all the various efforts the #IETF has been doing around #AI ... and decide what makes sense. datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/125/...

My second day of #IETF125 brings a dilemma for the first session- I want to be in 3 places! - IRTFOPEN - internetworking challenges for #AI - TIPTOP - extending #Internet to the Moon / deep space - GAIA - expanding #InternetAccess on Earth All will be recorded, but the interaction is key! #IETF

This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. The Trump administration is targeting states that didn’t vote for him — including my home state of Vermont. Using federal power to punish political opponents is anti-democratic and blatantly illegal.

On open protocols, your main goal should not be to serve everyone. We tried that, and it's a mess out there. Serve your community, the one you understand the needs of. Build something *you* want. You'd be surprised at how many you's are out there waiting for the exact same thing.