Enjoying“How Infrastructure Works” by Deb Chachra with a nice mocha and donut at my new local coffee joint, a funky hipster place that is also an art gallery and skateboard shop 🛹☕️🎨 📚
Currently reading: How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 📚
I was looking forward to start this book, but chapter 1 has me really excited. I will do chapter notes on Goodreads as usual.
A nice little video walkthrough of Embark, featured in the latest Ink & Switch essay on dynamic documents: www.youtube.com/watch
After 24 hours of 🚕🛩️🚌🛩️🚌🚕 I am back in Osaka 🇯🇵 Perfect blue sky and 17°C. Gorgeous! Kids will be home soon and it will be Turkish Delight for everyone 🙌 🇹🇷
Wheels up! See you in Japan!
Last view of the sunset coming up over the Asian side of Istanbul, across the Bosphorus Strait. Soon I will be getting in a taxi to the airport, and making the long journey home, to the other edge of Asia.
Appreciate this deep dive on the costs to provide secure and private chat from an org I whole-heartedly support: Signal. They even dig into some of their unique privacy-preserving techniques, eg hiding GIF search terms (Meta aquired Giphy, getting a bunch of data before selling it on to Shutterstock! Now your info is owned by three companies!)
In this era of expanding consolidation, you never know where your data may end up. The only winning move for services that care about your privacy is to not collect any sensitive data in the first place.
Istanbul is the city of cats. I am at Kahve Dunyasi, a sort of Turkish Starbucks. It is pouring rain outside, so the cats take refuge inside the cafe!
Only a couple days left in Istanbul. Went back to the Hagia Sophia. Just amazing to think of this being built in the 6th century, and added to and extended for centuries. The dual half-domes hold up that gorgeous main dome, that still stands 1500 years on 🤯
Rooftop breakfast overlooking the Bosphorus as the sun rises over Asia
More scenes from Istanbul:
- the Galata Tower, symbol of the old 13th Genoese colony
- at the Fenerbahçe stadium in Kadikoy on the Asian side of Istanbul
- many many flags for 100th anniversary of the republic
- night view from above the Grand Bazaar
Some scenes from Istanbul:
- the Hagia Sophia
- inside the Hagia Sophia
- sun rises over the Bosporus from Asia
- the walls of Theodocius II, built in the 5th C
The roar of the chanting fans in the Besiktas stadium beside my hotel MIGHT keep me up for another 50mins for the second half of their Europa Conf match… but their passion is DEFINITELY putting a smile on my face! 😁⚽️🏟️
Welcome to Istanbul!
Whoa! The route is through Russian airspace! No polar route or southern bend for me this time. Turns out Turkish Air is one of the 55 that still fly through Russia: www.businessinsider.com/airlines-…
See you in 13h40m 👋
The last time I was at T3 Haneda was before the border opened last year. It was a total ghost town, not one restaurant open and I had to eat at 7-11. Now it is full of tourists having late dinner at 9pm at a ton of open restaurants along halls designed to look like old Edo streets.
Almost time for wheels up! (Osaka Itami Airport)
Just left the house. It is now 🚎🚌✈️✈️
Osaka → Haneda → Istanbul
Attending the Internet Governance Forum - Stakeholders
Sunday, November 5, 2023
(This is a post in a series about attending the Internet Governance Forum 2023 in Kyoto.) To describe where the Internet Governance Forum fits in terms of internet governance, we have to also describe the other stakeholders in the system. Internet governance is polycentric. The IGF is just one part of a network of stakeholders that hold influence over how the internet works. Its key mandate is to bring various stakeholders together in a forum to discuss public policy, which is a key differentiator from other technology fora.
Today, November 5th in the year of our lord Buddha 2567, the weather was 28 flippin’ degrees celcius here in Osaka 🥵
#ClimateCrisis
