I am excited to be speaking at the LSE Festival of Ideas on rebuilding social media and the implications of social media's ills for building a better politics on the climate emergency and everything else. Two events on Saturday June 20, tickets on sale NOW! https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-festival/2026/saving-our-digital-world https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-festival/2026/take-us-to-save-the-planet

Hey #DC people: forget about the jingoistic zealotry taking place on the National Mall. Instead, join Writers for Democratic Action for an afternoon of poetry, history, and politics. Plus, I'll be playing some music with @dunia.

Free and open to the public at the Writers' Center in Bethesda MD on May 31st.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagining-america-toward-a-poetry-of-the-demos-tickets-1989174596766

@marcoarment and don’t forget that PETG is basically a sponge and a huge pain if you try to print it damp. I’ve had my share of trouble with ASA adhesion, but only (admittedly moist) PETG has ever left me just giving up on a nozzle and replacing it.

I can see the benefit over PLA for certain strength needs; flexing rather than snapping is often legitimately better. But these days ASA or PC are just … better?

Everlane — clothing company prided on sustainability — reportedly acquired by Shein for $100 million
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/everlane-acquisition-shein-sustainability-b2978686.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Money & Finance @money-finance-Independent

If we want to fix the economy, we need to legalize gambling for toddlers. Our focus groups found that the 12-36 months demographic is exceptionally talented at accumulating mass amounts of debt. We just need to give them the proper tools to do so.

Apple Insider: AI is making smartphones verifiably worse by design https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/18/ai-is-making-smartphones-verifiably-worse-by-design @appleinsider

@zabow davvero? Ci sta che l'abbia usata quindi. Qual era?

@ZachWeinersmith Joining the A2 gang

@liaizon finally an adult. no more age check needed ;)

@bastianallgeier That's like celebrating how unlikely it is that we'll be taken out by a super sized asteroid. I mean, sure, bullet dodged, but how is that an excuse to not improve the things we can?

A ten-year residency requirement within the country cannot be imposed for the purpose of granting an income support allowance, as this “constitutes indirect discrimination against beneficiaries of international protection”. This was ruled by the Court of Justice of the EU, which, in its judgment, rejected the Italian system, and specifically the citizens’ income scheme introduced by the Conte I government to combat poverty.

https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/05/07/eu-court-again-strikes-down-citizens-income-scheme-it-discriminates-against-asylum-seekers/

Meet ‘Little Gen Z’
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/05/little-gen-z-midterm-election-trump/687190/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Family @family-TheAtlantic

*pronk*

@oisin Man this is my main issue with getting old: I hurt myself sleeping.

This week in news that sucks:

Peter G Neumann died yesterday.

Peter was, of course, most well known for the definitive essay on the use of the word 'only' in English. The photo is of a sign that made me think of him when I saw it. Peter valued clear communication a lot. I suspect he'd be better known if he didn't: Often, after you'd read Peter's explanation of something he'd thought of, it would be so obvious that you wouldn't think of it as something that needed someone to invent it. He edited almost all of the CHERI publications. He also wrote a lot on the distinction between 'trusted' (if it's broken, everything is broken) and 'trustworthy' (it is unlikely to be broken) in systems design.

Peter was PI on the first grants that funded the CHERI work. DARPA directly funds only US institutions. Cambridge was operating on those grants as a subcontractor.

I first met Peter at one of the PI meetings for the DARPA CRASH programme, where we were presenting early CHERI work. He had a knack of falling asleep in talks (second picture), then asking a question about something that he'd extrapolated that the talk would cover, but which was definitely presented while he was asleep. Often of the form 'In the 1970s, when we were looking at this approach, we got stuck on this problem, how did you solve it?' A sad number of presenters had to admit that they hadn't actually got to that bit of the problem yet, but the good one either had a solution or had reframed the problem to avoid that obstacle.

The third picture is taken just after the second and Peter's willingness to pose for it shows his sense of good fun. He was always quick with a (terrible) pun, except when it came to names. Peter never made puns of people's names, because people didn't get to choose their names and so humour derived from them would be unkind, and I never saw him being unkind.

Indeed, he was always supportive to the folks around him. He somehow managed to give the impression that he felt privileged to work with you, when the reality was that the privilege was entirely in the other direction. He gave great career advice on a couple of key occasions for me (as well as writing a reference that made me blush). I'm far from the only person in the CHERI project whose career benefitted from gentle nudges and unwavering support from Peter.

I learned a huge amount from working with him. You can see his fingerprints all over CHERIoT. A lot of the system was either inspired by conversations with him or shamelessly stolen from his earlier work. I can't imagine our having built any of it without his influence.

Ah, HTTP, the stateless protocol.

(industry proceeds, desperately to add statefulness)

To paraphrase a friend from the 1990s: "HTTP is as if they took the worst parts of FTP and gopher and smashed them together!"

@Niquarl @ermo

Perhaps it's language barrier, but you all are arguing against points that I'm not even making? 🤷🏿‍♂️

I said what I said, de-coupling won't prevent an invasion of the EU. De-coupling will help fight a war if one starts, but it won't prevent one. Either way, reducing EU dependence on US weapons is already happening.

😕Ukraine is a weapons factory, again:
https://bsky.app/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mi7mper2fk2a

The bad news is that EU rearmament will probably cause a war within Europe in the next 25 years. This rearmament is like a Wild West Saloon going from "No one has a gun," to "Everyone has two guns!🤡" Someone is going to get shot. (Probability of some EU country electing a violent, expansionary fascist) x (countries in Europe) x (25 years). I don't like those odds.

Too high an opinion of US military... No. The US military is the most lethal in the world. But that doesn't mean that US can defeat everyone unilaterally, without a coalition. And most importantly, lethality doesn't mean winning wars. That's what Trump doesn't understand. I made calls that people thought were wrong at the time. Within days of the Ukraine war starting, I called that Russia would not topple and hold Ukraine, for the exact same reasons that the US could not topple and hold Afghanistan or Vietnam, and would not topple and hold Canada.

Ukraine, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Canada, are all countries with populations ~40M, that know how to fight asymmetric war, using their terrain to horrifying advantage. Of all of those countries, Canada is by far the most lethal, most highly trained, most well resourced, and most able to inflict retaliatory damage on the US. Invading Canada would be similar combined casualties to the US Civil War, which for the US, exceeded WW1 and WW2 casualties. Seriously. My concern is not that the US could invade and conquer Canada easily. It can't. My concern is that the US would be foolish enough to try.

The US military is close to as *lethal* as it was 5 years ago, but is much less *effective*. It's like we were the toughest guy in the prison while also being the leader of the largest prison gang. Terrifying! But... we've insulted and attacked all of our fellow gang members, and now we have no friends. Now we're just one big tattooed guy.🤷🏿‍♂️

106 días hasta que #Google ejerza su control sobre tu dispositivo #Android. ¿Es realmente tuyo el móvil que compraste?

Dentro de poco más de tres meses, Google actualizará los Servicios de Google en tu dispositivo, el software que es en realidad su administrador, no tú. Y ya nadie podrá instalar aplicaciones de fuera de su tienda oficial, que exige pagar (!), aceptar sus términos en bloque (!!), y un documento oficial de identidad (!!!).

¡Mantened Android abierto!
https://keepandroidopen.org/es/

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