New favourite band name

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

Alba Bossoms Mesa: ‘From rock art to cave walls: exploring new sources of ancient human DNA’ Can we get aDNA from cave art 😍?? Test: 11 sites from Iberia (300 libraries!) 5 cases w HUMAN mtDNA !!! Nuclear DNA ongoing: but suggestion of male/female diffs on use of pigments; + pop ID (WHG)

🤘NEW EPISODE🤘 Is listening to heavy metal a life hack? Today on Why?, @emmakennedy.bsky.social is joined by journalist for Independent Nurse and self confessed metal head Sumaiyah Uddin to find out how mosh pits could be the path to mental wellbeing ➡️ linktr.ee/whypodcast #metal #concerts #music

Deutsche Bank: “growth is not coming from AI itself but from building the factories to generate AI capacity.” This is the same as saying: "Growth is not coming from the mines (which have nothing in them), but from selling the picks and shovels to the miners."

The agenda for #row14 has been published! regiops.net/row14-agenda #icann #dns #ietf

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

who called them "the Huns" and not "H from Steppes"

"free speech is supposed to lead somewhere and social media leads nowhere" (@iandunt.bsky.social) iandunt.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

Antifa terrorist

Antifa terrorist.

Everything OK here except me.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

In 2001, a quantum computer managed to factor the number 15 (which is roughly equivalent to breaking a very simple 8-bit encryption key). It’s now 2025, and quantum computers still haven’t factored the number 21 (which would correspond to a 9-bit key). algassert.com/post/2500

How politics works From the new Private Eye, out now.

Does getting something wrong matter, if it's for the right reason? What if you're wrong by a LOT? Does that warrant a correction? Maybe I'm just a pedant... but I reckon it does! This is a story about accuracy v activism, and crazy-making post-truth era we're in. youtu.be/_dRSuTlilp4?...

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

New post just out: "The financial crisis theory of everything" Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

IP addresses will soon become like flags of convenience in merchant shipping, with the registered country having no actual connection to the vessel used.

So I'm betting quite a few Centrist Dads who want to watch iPlayer* on their business trips have been seduced by the siren song of Marina Hyde into downloading a VPN and will be surprised to find that they are now engaged in countercultural activity. Which I think is an interesting place to be.

ICANN is hiring! And the best part is that you get to work with me :) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

This is a (processed) image of a candidate gas giant that's just been discovered around Alpha Centauri A. It's about the mass of Saturn and orbits the star at 2 AU. By analogy with the Solar System, this giant planet may well have moons and a ring system. And it's (figuratively) just next door.

.TO, the ccTLD for #Tonga, enabled an #RDAP server! deployment.rdap.org

Truly extraordinary Google AI results. Amazing.

Bill and Ted’s Existential Adventure

Knowing that someone online is a child makes that child a target. It makes them *more* vulnerable, not less. It gives predators targets. It lets marketers manipulate.

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Love how he prepared for this journey these past months. Beautiful final show, embraced what was happening. Went out like the true searcher he was.

This is absurd. The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image. But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.

I‘m looking for testers for my new #SwiftUI app on #TestFlight! It’s called rdaptastic – an #RDAP lookup tool designed to make querying domain data simple. Right now, it only supports domains, and there’s still a lot evolving. Early feedback would mean a lot! ✨ testflight.apple.com/join/4nQ59YyR

#RDAP base URLs for three ccTLDs were added to the DNS bootstrap registry yesterday! .cm for #Cameroon .tw and .台灣 (.xn--kpry57d) for #Taiwan More data at deployment.rdap.org

My son's cricket club is older than your country.

I made this a couple of years ago, but it's super relevant just now

The latest in my history of home computers is live. Covers the era of Commodore, Atari and Jack Tramiel. He was a brutal manager. But also an Auschwitz survivor, and that shaped him, and his legit drive to build a better world. This warning from him hit home, right now. every.to/the-crazy-on...

have someone in my mentions [apparently seriously] arguing that the vatican is on rightfully pagan land stolen by conquest

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

"The state of the art [of "AI"] is to ask the computer nicely to do something, add a disclaimer saying it’s not your problem if the computer is racist, and then charge for access." eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

RFC 2119, read in the most over the top, passive-aggressive way possible ericwbailey.website/published/yo... (scroll to the bottom)

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

To sum up: if you think Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower set up the liberal international order for no reason, because they were overwhelmed by charity (or war-mongering), you're a fool. They set it up because they'd just got done punching Nazis and were facing Stalin. It was all load-bearing.

Fun idea for thought experiment from conversation at UCL AI for data intensive science conference: train LLM only on physics papers from before, say, 1920. See what it predicts for new theory. Could this be done? Might be more useful than arguing about if AI will ‘do’ physics in next 2-3 years.

Places where millions of people live are becoming increasingly unliveable. People will have to move #NomadCentury

Le registre du suriname (.sr) vient d'activer son serveur RDAP (le protocole remplaçant whois) : github.com/glefait/tlds... ping @gavinbrown.xyz

Such a crucially important essay that, honestly, I’ve kinda been waiting for. Read, read, read! #drones warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-fo...