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  Haha, I accidentally configured FaceID with a huge smile recently (because I was in a hurry). Now, I can only unlock my device if I smile. Strangely, this has helped me feel better about my 2026 malaise.

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  "impenetrable blender of hypervelocity shrapnel"… yup, you know you're reading about the Kessler Syndrome, when:

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  "the long-term effect of our current activities in space over time got an order of magnitude worse in just one year." ESA Space Environment Report 2026 https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Environment_Report_2026

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  The Carriers Would Not Come, So the Colville Tribes Built Their Own Network | ISOC Pulse https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026/09/the-carriers-would-not-come-so-the-colville-tribes-built-their-own-network/

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  Concentration of Government Web Services Raises Questions About Underlying Drivers | ISOC Pulse https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026/09/concentration-of-government-web-services-raises-questions-about-underlying-drivers/

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  Don't want to share your phone number to message with people on WhatsApp? "It’s time to reserve your WhatsApp username" https://blog.whatsapp.com/its-time-to-reserve-your-whatsapp-username

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  "AI Is Only as Trustworthy as the Internet" by ISOC CEO Sally Wentworth (gift link) https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/keeping-the-internet-open-is-necessary-for-ai-to-thrive-by-sally-wentworth-2026-09?h=AES.yirWHt7IvxbsHYs3RWqBxYOULDC8e%2bPMUgDVfWUyGHsrZDn2BUzwiL9jOrO4ys21&

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  and, some days, you're preparing for a talk, and you run across a picture of yourself from 23 years ago, hahaha... I look like a monchhichi. "Students buck DMCA threat" - CNET https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/students-buck-dmca-threat/

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  "How We Built a Data Warehouse Using ClickHouse" https://letsencrypt.org/2026/09/17/clickhouse

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  "SpaceX’s Starlink blackout punishes Myanmar civilians, not just cybercriminals" South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3364870/spacexs-starlink-blackout-punishes-myanmar-civilians-not-just-cybercriminals

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  Can an AI chatbot save lives by answering texts about pregnancy? | WAMC https://www.wamc.org/2026-09-17/can-an-ai-chatbot-save-lives-by-answering-texts-about-pregnancy

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  Upcoming Webinar | Disconnected Justice: The Non-Implementation of Internet Shutdown Judgments - Media Defence https://www.mediadefence.org/news/webinar-disconnected-justice/

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  "Reinvention Blueprint No. 3: To Unmake the Surveillance State, Rethink the Privacy Act" by Hanna Bloch-Wehba https://www.justsecurity.org/149051/reinvention-blueprint-no-3-surveillance-state-privacy-act/

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  Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion: 2nd Circuit https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant-probable-cause-or-reasonable-suspicion-2nd-circuit-rules/

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  So... I bought a big-ass battery for my remote Mac mini. Then I discovered that battery backup, clean shutdown, automatic restart, and actually being able to get back to work are four different problems. So I fixed those other three. https://josephhall.org/blog/remote-mac-mini-recovery/

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  Just out! "Policy Brief: VPN Restrictions" - Internet Society https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/policybriefs/2026/vpn-restrictions/

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  I got tired of GitHub Actions waking up whenever it felt like it, so I timed it against Cloudflare Cron for 10 mornings. Median delay: ~26m vs. 0.30s. One GitHub run was 10+ hours late. That settled it. https://josephhall.org/blog/small-bake-off/

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  goddamn this is excellent: "Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer" - by Alex Stamos https://alexstamos.com/p/moving-forward-from-hot-fable-summer

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  Is there a recent treatise on software products liability law in the USA? My knowledge is probably ten years out of date...

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  if I ever use the word "juncture", you’ll know an alien has snatched my body

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  "What policy makers need to know about AI safety and security" by EKR https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/ai-security-policymakers/ full paper: https://educatedguesswork.org/assets/ai-security-policy.pdf

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  ISOC Ghana urges policy reforms to expand community networks and bridge rural digital divide - MyJoyOnline https://www.myjoyonline.com/isoc-ghana-urges-policy-reforms-to-expand-community-networks-and-bridge-rural-digital-divide/

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  People are about to learn the hard way that "air-gapping" is a remarkably fragile load-bearing concept

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  First all-woman a cappella group to take the world championship, Girls Quartet. Their winning song: "Mothers and Daughters" https://youtu.be/237MVL5y8ac (worth the six minutes)

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  Oof: "The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom" https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second-derivative-why-no-one

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  When the Lights Went Out: What the Iberian Blackout Taught Us About Internet Resilience | ISOC Pulse https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026/07/when-the-lights-went-out-what-the-iberian-blackout-taught-us-about-internet-resilience/

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  Can a content delivery network be a "public electronic communications network"? Italy's AGCOM says yes. We think that's wrong—legally and technically—and the stakes reach well beyond Italy. 🧵 1/5

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  Alex Stamos made a great point on the Big Technology Podcast that I’d generalize: technology is increasingly putting tools of mass destruction, and mass creation, into individuals’ hands. We are nowhere near ready for the responsibility that kind of power requires.

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  are there any fucking trauma shares that random airports will not confiscate? just had my favorite pair of confiscated in the Vienna airport because it was 1 cm over. Total bullshit. 

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  The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required