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• Post #3715506

  This week's net.wars, "Change of plan" notes the abandonment of the world's largest data center-in-waiting, the tale of the Waymo and two 15-year-old boys, and the I-can't-believe-it's-still-alive 2003 case of SCO v. IBM: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/07/10/change-of-plan/ #NetWars

• Post #2493731

  This week's net.wars, "Long Island AI", calls the peak of AI mania: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/17/long-island-ai/ #NetWars #AI #StupidFinanceTricks

• Post #2493730

  At Gathering4Gardner's YouTube channel, @ColinTheMathmo and I talk about skepticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPuBFIdQDE @TheSkeptic

• Post #2493729

  Can anyone advance a theory as to why a Berlin hotel uses a TV channel to play, over and over in an "eternal loop", The Big Lebowski?

• Post #2493728

  This week's net.wars, "Intimacy capitalism", goes to the We Robot 2026 workshop day, and finds new things to worry about: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/24/intimacy-capitalism/ #NetWars #WeRobot #AI #robots

• Post #2493727

  @neil I've gone off musicals over time. As a child I was lucky enough to see original productions of Camelot (julie Andrews!"), My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music on Broadway. These days...I still like the movies of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Among recnet ones the only one that stands out is The Book of Mormon.

• Post #2493726

  This week's net.wars, "The railway and the balloon", goes to We Robot 2026, where law, culture, and robotics try to find common ground: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/01/the-railway-and-the-balloon/ #NetWars #WeRobot #robots #AI #law

• Post #2493725

  This week's net.wars, "The soul in the machine", considers Richard Dawkins' expressed belief that his interactions with Anthropic's Claude show that the chatbot is conscious: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/08/the-soul-in-the-machine/ #NetWArs #AI

• Post #441196

  This week's net.wars, "Saving no one", finds that 3D printing is enabling puzzle-making and ponders the mess of the Information Commissioner Office's fine against Reddit: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/27/saving-no-one/ #NetWars #OnlineSafetyAct

• Post #355307

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@oneguynick/115967848158682089 Some great movies there...

• Post #355306

  This week's net.wars, "Universal service", plays Techdirt's One Billion Users Game and contemplates the potential loss of Freeview, the UK's public service broadcast TV system: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/01/30/universal-service/ #NetWars #TV #SocialMedia

• Post #355305

  @neil what is this?

• Post #355304

  This week's net.wars, "In search of the future Internet", goes to meetings building opposition to AI-withouth-public-consent: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/06/in-search-of-the-future-internet/ #NetWars #AI #polycrisis

• Post #355303

  RIP Dave Farber, sometimes called the "grandfather of the Internet".

• Post #355300

  This week's net.wars, "Whooped", watches the recent Australian Open, where the powers that be disagreed about whether #tennis players could wear Whoop fitness tracker bands in competition: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/13/whooped/ #NetWars #data

• Post #355297

  RE: https://social.secret-wg.org/@julf/116092560378745787 you have a problem with that?

• Post #355294

  This week's net.wars, "Information wants to be surveiled," discovers surveillance pricing, in which the pythons of industry use everything they know about us to wring out every last drop of profit: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/20/information-wants-to-be-surveiled/ #NetWars #Surveillance #Retail