Our IETF Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (DIN RG) will be in Los Angeles in Dec 9th at ACM featuring speakers like Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr and @martin.kleppmann.com

Check out the schedule

#dweb

conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2…

CITED is back and taking on "economics"

The CITED podcast is back! It has been a few years. I’ve previously enjoyed their work on the reproducibility crisis in scientific publishing and many of their critical episodes on their original run in the 2015-2018 era. Gordon Katic and the CITED team have an engaging narrative technique for introducing listeners to complex topics, so I know this new series is going to be good. This time they are taking on the issue of expertise in economics and how it is abused.

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This Gulabjamun cheesecake is 😋

A slice of cheese cake with two small gulabjamun balls on top. The base of the cake is made from large quartered gulabjamun

Just been sitting ant home tonight watching the #bcelxn results come in. Still too close to call! 😬 #cdnpoli

Gawd I really need to get out and do a photo walk soon… I really like our new neighbourhood, but I sure miss living in downtown Kyoto/Osaka

Setting the table for a special dinner tonight #IYKYK

On a table with a garish pumpkin tablecloth sits a multistory plastic waterslide looking contraption. Yes, it is nagashi-somen time!

Lovely walk and talk in the forest with a friend this afternoon. We talked travel, politics, games, and the joys of back-end infrastructure… all while surrounded by GREEN

#mosstodon #lichensubscribe

tree trunks and boughs covered in moss

I… AM… CANADIAN! 🇨🇦 🦫 🍁

pudding.cool/2024/10/c…

I blazed through the book, and have a lot more thinking to do, but am glad I could spend some more time processing by listening to this excellent conversation:

It me

Signboard: ADULTHOOD IS SAYING "BUT AFTER THIS WEEK THINGS WILL SLOW DOWN A BIT" OVER & OVER UNTIL YOU DIE.

Coffee time ☕️

Last night I started The Armageddon Protocol by @danmoren.com 📚

This is the final book of his Galactic Cold War series. Congrats to Dan who I have listened to for years on The Incomparable. 👏👏👏

Only a few more letters needed for the Internet Society’s campaign against Bill S-210 which jeopardizes user privacy and encryption. If you are in Canada it only takes a minute to add your voice:

actionnetwork.org/letters/e…

Started The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The first chapter is a breath-taking departure essay for the book on the purpose of writing — in one word: clarity. I can see how this projected started as his “On Writing” or “Why I Write”. 📚

Ghetts is a master craftsman. I have been listening to him non-stop for the last month. I remember him from back in the day, but only recently came back to his newer work which is amazingly intricate. Levels! Who else on the UK Drill scene has this level of wordplay that I should be checking out?

I did the thing! #cdnpoli #bcelxn

Chad holds up an “I Voted” sticker

Woke up from a dream that I was still at the conference, meeting with all the people that I didn’t get a chance to talk to. 🥰

Look who’s back 🇨🇦

Chad selfie in front of the famous carving at YVR airport

🚈🚄✈️✈️🚝🚝🚌

BER → FRA → YVR

Goodbye Germany! It was fun!

A Lufthansa airplane on the tarmac about to load passengers. The control tower is in the background. The morning sky is mottled with clouds

Check out the list of participants in the #OpenSourcePledge #opensource

opensourcepledge.com/members/