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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.

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.

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

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

.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

*I blame Marxist AIs

The pivot from 'we shouldn't bother with Net Zero 'cause China' to 'How does China have a massive lead in so many key 21st century technologies' doesn't seem to have caused any reflection at all from quite a few parties.

How have I only learned about this story today?!

100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.

With #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Tip: also make a list like this one for your own country! berthub.eu/articles/pos...

i would suggest an online safety act that can’t deal with CSAM on a widely used social network frequented by most westminster public figures isn’t doing a very good job of keeping anybody safe online

Some of us were warning about this well over a decade ago. Same with pictures of your kids.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Data is important. Keep him safe.

(The answer, for anyone blessedly too young to remember is: Yes. Yes it did.)

Turns out a million monkeys on a million typewriters will generate `sudo rm -rf /` quite expeditiously!

My family on school day mornings.

My analysis. Polarisation does not exist in way it's to often described ('echo chambers'). But the mechanism can be exploited in propaganda, disinformation, mechanical information operations. Bonus: agreement with 'enemies of the group' is penalised socially. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/polarisation...

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline. It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient. It’s really hard. But there it is.

I believe that NVIDIA is breaking no laws, committing no fraud, and not doing anything other than forcing partners to buy endless GPUs, taking advantage of exec ignorance and FOMO. Repercussions will be the company's main revenue source going away (NVDA won't die)

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

“6-7” belongs in the dictionary, actually In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/ Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67

It... wasn't DNS blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

RDAP.org was supposed to have maintenance today (to switch to a new backend) but it seems like Cloudflare is having a moment, so the maintenance window will be postponed until things settle down...

London is also diverse. It's hugely multicultural, and it's a largely tolerant and welcoming place. Sure it has it's problems and the housing crisis is a big one. But the haters don't hate this city because of that. They hate it because it stands as living proof that multiculturalism works.

"It is easier to deceive many than one" - Herodotus, via @fallofcivilizations.com

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Gandhi’s Talisman. Unfortunately for too many world leaders their doubts are dissolving in a way Gandhi did not anticipate.

If we're starting another quantum hype cycle, I need people to understand that there are pretty much just two practical problems we *know* have an exponential speedup on a quantum computer. These are: 1. Breaking the internet 2. Being quantum A few other problems have a smaller speedup, or none

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

The options are: broad based tax rises and good public services; no tax rises and acceptance that the state does meaningfully less; or keep promising someone else can pay, failing, and populists winning and making everything much worse.

AI: It’s The Sam Old Story From the new Private Eye, out now.

This year's Batman annual still remembers who the heroes and villains are, even if everyone else has forgotten