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You know, normally I would celebrate a day with no meetings. But a day with no meetings means I can't avoid paperwork. Women-Owned Small Business renewals, SAM renewal, various travel alert records... Meh.
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What is OAuth becoming as software agents take on more authority? Recent OAuth WG discussions are probing proof-of-possession, browser security, agent identity, delegation chains, and whether some new authorization problems belong in OAuth at all. My latest looks at the bigger architectural questions behind the drafts. https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/10/06/oauth-is-asking-what-authorization-needs-to-become/
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Huh. They cut budgets and DOGE the staff, and then are complaining about being so far behind in PQC planning? Srsly? https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-27-108740
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This has been a good morning. Did an hour-long ride on Zwift (MMOG) with a friend on the US East Coast and another in the UK. The fact that the tech exists reminds me that tech does have its positives. Sometimes it's easy to forget that when I do my job, thinking about "what could possibly go wrong" with a standard or tech stack.
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AI agent discovery is becoming a standards problem—and different groups are drawing the boundaries very differently. I compare the W3C AI Agent Protocol Community Group with IETF DAWN: where they overlap, where they diverge, and why scope may matter as much as protocol design. https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/10/13/two-approaches-to-ai-agent-discovery/
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Huh. My OAuth post last week had more podcast listens than written post viewers. First time that's happened! I wonder what's up with that?
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Today's received wisdom on a call: "Panic is the shorter version of deadline."
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PSA: time changes reminder This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/events.html Most European clocks will move back one hour on Sunday, 25 October 2026. Most US clocks and some Canadian clocks will move back one hour a week later on Sunday, 1 November 2026. Between 25 October and 1 November, the time difference between the US/Canada and Europe will be one hour less than it is now. As a result, during that w...
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On the road again. First stop, the Authenticate conference in Carlsbad, California, and an Identity Salon meeting. Then it’s straight to Dublin, Ireland, for the W3C annual TPAC meeting. And *then* a week-long vacation with 50 of my closest geeky friends in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. That was challenging to pack for, no two ways about it.
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True or false? "The internet's entire security model assumes a human is at the keyboard." I disagree, but perhaps I'm missing something?
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AI standards are proliferating, but “working on AI” doesn’t mean standards groups are solving the same problem. I looked at active work in W3C and IETF across content disclosure, AI usage preferences, bot authentication, agent permissions, Web capabilities, and agent identity. The interesting question isn’t just where work overlaps. It’s whether adjacent standards make compatible assumptions about each other. W3C, IETF, and the Emerging Shape of AI Standards:…
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OH behind the stage: “Can you come here so we can coordinate the voice of god?”
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Bonjour à toutes et à tous. Lab Ora met l'intelligence artificielle au service de la foi catholique. Nos travaux sont à la fois théologiques et techniques : une théologie négative algorithmique, un « cloître algorithmique » qui apprend à la machine la retenue, et la protection de l'âme face aux latents opaques. Nous créons aussi Nexusbiblia, pour explorer l'Écriture, et Évangile du Jour. Nos textes : https://lab-ora.com #introduction #IA #Église
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Play Fleetwood Mac, you ba... OK, Kiss will do. Live! (Not necessarily good though) #TOTP
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Meine Sicht auf Israel verdanke ich zu einem grossen Teil Amos Oz. Er hat mir ein Land offenbart, in dem ich gerne gelebt hätte. Oder vielleicht nicht gerne, wegen der ständigen Bedrohung, aber sinnvoll. Keines seiner Bücher hat mir jedoch einen so starken Eindruck gemacht, wie «Wie man Fanatiker kuriert», die 2004 auf Deutsch in der Edition Suhrkamp erschienen ist. Das Buch enthält drei Vorlesungen, die Amos Oz 2002 in Tübingen gehalten hat, ergänzt durch eine seines Freundes und Mitstreiters...
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Kilchberg—a picturesque, quiet suburb of Zurich—is getting more attention in the Swiss media these days than it really deserves. One of the most important Schwingen tournaments will take place soon: the Kilchberger Schwinget, which is held only once every six years. And I love Schwingen. However, if I end up going to Kilchberg in the near future (I haven’t decided yet), it won’t be for that reason, but rather for the Joseph Roth reading at the C. F. Meyer House. Joseph Roth is a criminally negle...
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@vicfroh I disagree. Birobidzhan was a Soviet initiative to get Jews out of the European part of the USSR. It was intended as an "an alternative to Zionism". Not a Zionist idea. Madagascar: The Madagascar Plan (German: Madagaskarplan) was a plan proposed by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. Not a Zionist idea. Sinai Peninsula: was briefly occupied by Israel and then returned to Egypt. That was some 20 y...
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Many people ask me whose picture I used for this account. The portrait looks like something by Rembrandt or one of his contemporaries. It evokes a sense of time-honored education, of required reading in school—dusty and boring. And yet I chose it deliberately. The portrait belongs to a revolutionary: Baruch de Spinoza. Spinoza, born in Amsterdam in 1632 to a family of Portuguese refugees, was a true rebel. Today’s rebels buy into or adopt ready-made rebellions by blindly joining a group, hangin...
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/117461810385145539 I’d vote for this guy, and I’m Jewish (culturally). Love the way he turned this question around.
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The racial slur of the day is Spota. It is used to refer to Blacks. Deep lore: (Pronounced Spoh-tuh) Stereotype of dumb inner city blacks' slang for supposed to. "Spota get a job. Spota take care of the kids. Spota not break the law."
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The racial slur of the day is Spade. It is used to refer to Blacks. Deep lore: The spades in decks of cards are black.
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The racial slur of the day is Fan Kuei. It is used to refer to Whites. Deep lore: Chinese for "ocean ghosts". Refers to skin color.
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The racial slur of the day is Runs, The. It is used to refer to Blacks. Deep lore: The "runs" is a term commonly used to speak of diahrrea
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The racial slur of the day is Clicker. It is used to refer to Africans. Deep lore: Some African tribes communicate by "clicking."
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The racial slur of the day is Hapshi. It is used to refer to Africans. Deep lore: Animal like, originates in ancient India, when some slaves were imported from Africa. Still in use.