Getting the audience “to make a little house above your head” to help with @spiralganglion.com nerves…actually just to mess with us before her Playbook talk @localfirstconf.com
Cost of European conferences and family trip: not cheap Cost of fresh #Dwebcamp and #LocalFirst stickers for notebook: priceless
In case parenting wasn't all you thought it would be... (lost in translation, Berlin 2026)
Arushi Bandi, CEO @habitat.network making the argument in @localfirstconf.com presentation for the missing (portable) Data Ownership layer in the TCP/IP stack. Get it out of the Application layer!
Berlin July 11. McDonald's next to Checkpoint Charlie is creating some cognitive dissonance.
OK, I wrote up a whole blog post with some more detailed thoughts on this. Curious if anything here resonates with other folks. Thanks to @iame.li, @dholms.at, and @bnewbold.net for helpful pointers and discussions! pckt.blog/b/bits-of-en...
All data should be permissioned data - Bits of Entropy
My post with vague complaints about the proposal that made for permissioned data got a bit of attention. Daniel was kind enough to take the time to chat with me...
pckt.blog
Richard Barnes@ipv.sx · last mo.@dholms.at - What is the right venue for discussion on this Permissioned Data proposal you wrote up. atp@ietf.org or something else? I think it is wrong in some pretty fundamental ways. Or at least the motivations are poorly articulated.
"A people that yields to tyrants will lose more than life and goods then the light goes out..." --Amsterdam, June 30
Okay, NotebookLM generated slidedecks were magic a few months ago. Now you can spot one a mile away and my brain simply wont engage with it. Just send me some bullet points you wrote yourself instead please.
I’m in London this week for a BRIMES conference roundtable discussion with my Fighting Erasure project collaborators. Our work highlights the critical role that digital archiving and secure archival collections play in protecting cultures that are suffering violent, intentional erasure.
If you're attending #DWebCamp, you can RSVP to the atproto event listing here. From Vancouver, @daffl.xyz @wesleyfinck.org @lxcast.bsky.social @vangarderen.net @jacob.cascadia.social - I'm probably missing people! We'll look for an unconf / gathering time to aggregate atproto peeps
at:// DWeb Camp Berlin
DWeb Camp is happening this year July 8th - 12th in Alte Holle, about an hour and a half drive outside of Berlin, Germany. Yes, there's actual camping! Are you part of the atproto community or intere...
atmo.rsvp
Did an afternoon / evening speedrun of setting up local AI on the @z-space.ca network with @jacob.cascadia.social @vangarderen.net @hadsie.com - proxmox node for openwebui, npm - ASUS GX10 node for inference - Old Macbook running LiteLLM for routing between machines
More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/49KiNZJ
Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site
Nature - More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.
go.nature.com
Elsevier's operating margin: 38%. Google's: ~25%. The most profitable information company on earth isn't a tech giant — it's a journal publisher that doesn't pay its authors or peer reviewers. The product is the community, extracted as rent. Scholarly publishing is a heist dressed up as public good.