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  Cryptography-meets-surveillance-politics in the IETF! Exciting Internet governance drama for your delectation: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-July/039621.html

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  @chatcontrol@mastodon.social Yes, that civil liberty is accorded only to government officials!

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  Dog is hipster's co-pilot. https://newatlas.com/urban-transport/elf-3-pedal-electric-solar-velomobile/

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  https://newatlas.com/automotive/byd-denza-z-hyperconvertible-ev-1000-hp/

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  https://newatlas.com/marine/wireless-offshore-chargers-electric-ships/

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  I'm often disproportionately attracted to display-faces, and I've been amused to see the recent revanchment or rehabilitation or whatever of blackletter, but anyway, I really liked the whimsy of this face, though it's clearly a hipster-catering-to-something-being-cool-again-in-the-moment thing. And using the blackletter fad to sneak in the lombardic capitals is cool. I always love it when people manage to piggyback something actually cool and obscure onto a pseudo-cool-...

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  https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

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  https://montanafreepress.org/2026/05/06/the-montana-legacy-of-ted-turner/

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  Study of 30,000 EV batteries: https://www.autoweek.com/news/a71237063/ev-range-not-diminished-over-5-years/

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  https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a71204448/ford-ev-truck-future-details/

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  I’m having a parenting milestone tonight. Up waiting for one of my daughters to get home from a concert, for the first time. The irony being that it’s my younger daughter, while the elder one is asleep in bed.

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  I was today years old when I first heard the phrase "haptic petting zoo." https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2026/workshop/feel-the-difference-a-haptic-petting-zoo

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  https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-electric/electric-china-steals-manufacturing-march-another-american-made-technology

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  And topping today's list of Movies the Right Doesn't Want You to See:

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  https://phys.org/news/2020-07-years-history-domestic-cats-central.html

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  @cwebber@social.coop @spritely@social.coop Isn't that XMPP?

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  https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/dutch_navy_frigate_tracked/

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  DANE explainer: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/04/what-is-dane-dns-based-authentication-of-named-entities-explained-2026/

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  Today's Kickstarter hilarity is, for some reason, 0% funded. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kehindepeters/alpha-v1-smarter-helmets-for-space-missions

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  https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/iran_claims_us_used_backdoors

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  https://archiveconference.com/

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  https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-entire-nations/

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  @SheHacksPurple My wifi is boring, but this reminded me of my friend Greg, whose job, back in the day, was to run the group at DEC that shut down unauthorized AppleTalk zones on the DEC WAN. They had a hell of a travel budget, since they had to be able to fly anywhere in the world on a moment's notice to track down rogue FastPaths and GatorBoxes. He had a collection of the funny ones.

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  Naw... ya think? But who could have predicted that? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-02/fbi-calls-breach-of-sensitive-agency-networks-a-major-incident

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  https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/consumer-sentiment-inflation-fears-iran-war.html

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  Not the timeline I was expecting to inhabit: rap-soundtracked Iranian government Lego animation on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc

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  A paper from @arozenshtein which could serve as a useful primer on federated moderation issues: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674#maincontent

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  https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/study-sycophantic-ai-can-undermine-human-judgment/

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  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

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  A problem in search of a problem: https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hydrogen-powered-business-jet-closer-to-certification/