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

Long thread here but, honestly, put five minutes into it and it will make you think useful thoughts about what being alive is.

AI is a thneed vm.tiktok.com/ZNdc5LnjD/ #lorax #if

Just play cricket instead. Really.

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

okay i need you to watch this i picked up like 10 separate vocal stims from this one fucking video

The internet gods are displeased. (This is the level of my understanding). And this means I can’t access my bank account and my doorbell isn’t working.

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

The post-Winamp era of computing is straight up dogshit.

Remember our mantra: Don't Engage, Just Block.

NEWS! 'Elite' now somehow an insult newsthump.com/2025/10/17/e...

People on Facebook who say they have been hacked, have really given away their password and login details to a page to find out what they would look like if they were a potato.

The Uncanny Valet

All my comics have happy endings!

People, remember to renew your domain names!

Blast from the past: @rorycj.bsky.social doing a segment for BBC News from the new gTLD "reveal day" back in 2012.

I wrote about all the lived experiences and strange structures of modern society — many of which we take for granted — that were literally impossible for all previous generations of Homo sapiens. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-are-dif...

This is not just theoretical now.

If you're currently a user of OpenDNSSEC, you might find this new KB article about migrating from OpenDNSSEC to BIND 9 useful: kb.isc.org/docs/migrati... And if you'll be at the #oarc45 meeting next week in Stockholm, several ISC staff members will also be there and would love to chat with you!