Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy This episode of Peoples & Things completely nerd sniped me. On recommendation from Biella Coleman, hosts Lee Vinsel and Paula Bialski interview Ben Collier about his new book Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (available Open Access from MIT Press. I love ethnographic works on computing history and especially admire Biella’s book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking.
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What’s your claw?
Ran into friends, made new ones at the Surrey Founders meetup, got recognized by a pal I haven’t seen in person for 10 years! Talked with the only co-op, hung with language nerds (spoke some 日本語), and observed last year’s “responsible AI” messaging is now “sovereign AI” 😜 #WebSummitVancouver 🇨🇦
#WebSummitVancouver 🇨🇦
Good morning from #WebSummitVancouver
Made a little bento and had a picnic by Deer Lake in Burnaby. The flowers 🌺 were out. Even got to see a wedding proposal!
If you are in or near London, they are having a mini-RightsCon at Newspeak House! 🙌🎉
We can just DO things… together.
Started Hild by Nicola Griffith 📚 #AmReading
The hands look cool! ☸️
(h/t @nevint.bsky.social )
Lol. 🔥
New worker-owned #localnews outlet dropped in #Vancouver
MODERATOR: Are there things the Empire has done well?
HASK: Disintegrations. And I like that they’re decisive. You look at that battle station, and you think, Wow, that’s decisive engineering. People make jokes about the cost of it, but I see efficiency. They should make two.
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Fleetwood Flyer with a snow-capped Mt Baker in the distance. The next station down the hill will be called Bakerview, I think you can see why 🤩 (cf. micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/0…) #SurreyBC
Today is an Uposatha Day, a day of Buddhist Observance. People often wear white tops and black bottoms. Today was also the day I took our bikes out of storage, washed them, replaced inner tubes, cleaned and oiled the drive trains… I was EXTRA mindful 🪷 and my shirt is still white! 💪
Free Palestine protest in downtown #SurreyBC. Maybe about 20 people? Lots of horns honking. Counter protest across the street: Israeli flag paired with Iranian Monarchist flag 🤔
Beautiful afternoon for the bazaar at Nikkei Center. We also checked out their exhibition on the history of the Powell Festival, which is in its 50th year this summer! 🎏🎐🎋
Interview with Head of Products & Delivery at ZenDiS, the state-owned company bringing #digitalSovereignty to Germany
New Kit! Pebble Time 2 🪨⌚ arrived! I did not get on the first round of Pebble 10 years ago and always regretted it, so I backed it right away when it was first announced over a year ago as RePebble. Slowly increasing the number of eInk devices I have.
… and yes I am up at 3am scrolling due to jet lag
But it’s nice to be scrolling in my own bed…
Back in Vancouver 🇨🇦
Landed in Iceland 🇮🇸. It’s cold and foggy here 6°C 🥶 Getting a slice of NY pizza and whatever the hell this guy is 🤷♂️
