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I’m delighted to find that “The Internet Oracle” is still going, some 36+ years after it started
One of the earliest and greatest experiments in crowdsourcing, and a staple of USENET humour & shared culture: The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply, and in response, thus spake the Oracle: https://internetoracle.org/digest.cgi?N=1613
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I’m delighted to learn Switzerland has taken my advice and will be launching a Swiss national LLM | …relearning the lessons of 1981 & 2005
Just like the BBC launching a desktop computer or Quaero the EU Search Engine (such a great success) we need a period of flag-waving & failed ongoing state investment before Governments can learn to ignore tech again: Via LinkedIn we learn: Switzerland’s national large language model … is about to launch. Purpose-built for environments where…
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New anti-fraud system is labelling hospital texts and other legitimate messages as ‘likely scam’ | Irish Independent
Gosh, who would have expected that false positives exist in the world of online safety? Go read the article because the potential impact is horrifying: Ireland’s new crackdown on scam texts is labelling real texts as fraudulent – leading to confusion over hospital appointments, digital verification codes and sports tickets. https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/new-anti-fraud-system-is-labelling-hospital-texts-and-other-legitimate-messages-as-likely-scam/a1857628310.html Archived at: https://archive.ph/ym8cJ
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Unverified report: 14yo loses access, banned from Google/YouTube because Google Photos includes video of self as baby in bathtub
“I’m shaking right now that all my work on my youtube for Three years has disintegrated to dust” I’m ignoring that he’s supposed not to have a Google account until he’s 13, because given how he presents himself it appears not to be germane; or else his parents will be banned as well. From Reddit:
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The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 | TechRadar
LOL the European Union has discovered FBI plans from 1999 regarding key escrow: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030
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Interstellar asteroid inbound
Prepare yourself for the inevitable “it’s a spacecraft” nonsense from the media. https://bsky.app/hashtag/A11pl3Z
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Civil Society: Cloudflare’s latest change {blocks, unblocks} network use by {people, software} that we {hate, love} – {yay, boo} this is {great, terrible}!
Details don’t matter – pick your own headline. I doubt we have heard the last of this, but this, too, shall pass: With Cloudflare’s new setting, websites can block – by default – online bots that scrape their data https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html 2022: cloudflare blocks kiwifarms, but in 2025 it still exists: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/04/cloudflare-reverses-decision-and-drops-trans-trolling-website-kiwi-farms Quote: In a blog…
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Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling | The New Republic
This. https://newrepublic.com/post/197369/supreme-court-elena-kagan-free-speech-logic-porn-ruling
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The Conservatives On The Supreme Court Are So Scared Of Nudity, They’ll Throw Out The First Amendment | Techdirt
This. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/the-conservatives-on-the-supreme-court-are-so-scared-of-nudity-theyll-throw-out-the-first-amendment/
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Prof. Goldman’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Demolition of the Internet in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton – Technology & Marketing Law Blog
The United States Supreme Court has done something ill-advised, misinformed and foolish. https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/prof-goldmans-statement-on-the-supreme-courts-demolition-of-the-internet-in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm
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Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …
I can only think that because it’s such a small community on Mastodon it decided to go with spamming a list and it chose poorly.
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