Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

Happy Halloween!🎃 #vincentprice #themuppets #youvegotafriend

Southern Rhode Island, two small towns with high energy No Kings protests...

8️⃣ days until Good Trouble Lives On. On July 17, we’re honoring Congressman John Lewis by taking to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all. Make a plan to march in peace and act in power.

THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH! We have 1 day to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

Deadline extended to 29 April 2025 – still time to submit your papers

The ANRW paper submission deadline is in one month – please consider submitting your best applied networking research results!

Please apply if you are early career or in graduate studies in networks/security. It's a great program, a way to interact with researchers who like you want to have broad impact. Help us grow and diversify the Internet Research Task Force #iRTF with your coolness. Do apply, by March 21. #IETF123

Academics of all stripes should actively oppose the illegal order to reduce indirect cost reimbursements. This order violates both federal regulations and the Administrative Procedures Act. Implementation would hurt scholarship throughout all disciplines. samwang.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Interested in #privacy AND #security? You need to read this: How Quad9 Handles Your Data Spoiler Alert => we never even collect it 😅 Tell all your friends! www.quad9.net/news/blog/ho...

I have one of these and it's great for many occasions and temperatures

FWIW close to Bourbon Street, along the Mississippi, there's a weatherworn statue dedicated to immigrants. That's the thought: person of marble, white because, duh, they're marble. People have draped the statue's raised hand in dangling bright party beads. I took this photo a couple weeks ago.

First blog of year! Why You Should Be Using a Privacy-Centric DNS Service in 2025 www.quad9.net/news/blog/wh... #DNS #privacy #security

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Moon halo here tonight

As a tax on my posting a political post, here’s something happier

Please check if your state reps voted for the bill to make it easy to kill non-profits without due process www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c... It comes back up soon needing only a majority vote. Important to not give this tool to the Executive Branch. List of Dems who voted for it in replies

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Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.

Share these magical words with your friends and family.

Please do share this book review column widely. Fewer and fewer newspapers have a commitment to review science fiction and fantasy regularly, and it's really good for the genre to have this kind of visibility. Please share this gift link far and wide! <3

Just a thought: How about we nix Presidents Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?

God I'm such a sucker for this bs

Yesssss so well deserved! 💖

Best birds!

Wheezy, our new boy, from Bakersfield, napping, bum warmed by nearby rad, security provided by underside of bed. Hadn’t imagined having a cat in the house again, this soon, but he’s special, not to mention special-needs. Deeply charming, too.

it’s definitely tied up with innocence. i think especially in a situation like this, with so many people conflating all palestinians with hamas, some might think it’s harder to sell the idea that innocent adults have been killed. there’s always that tiny bit of room for doubt.

The vomit draft of Project Theta (the pilot episode) is done. I'll ignore it for the next few weeks. The next few days will be about prose-getting the vomit draft of Project Gita out. In exactly a week's time, I'll start outlining Project Delta, which I wish I could talk about, but NDA Omerta.😔

Extremely pleased that the cat is tiring himself out running for the door every time he hears someone walking up the front steps It's easier to work when I'm not the only thing distracting him! :D

...oh. Oh, my. That's...special.

I feel that this is the perfect size ratio for them in my head/heart