Mark Nottingham

Mad.

I guess you could say that things are getting serious… #ietf https://www.ietf.org/blog/ai-pref-progress/

@pluralistic perhaps the amount of power that monopolists amass scares even those with masses of power.

More than anything, the latest Supreme Court ruling signifies a disruption of the structure of American law -- nothing is safe anymore. https://music.apple.com/au/album/nothing-is-safe/1473856273?i=1473856276

result, this opinion is another example of how the Supreme Court keeps playing Calvinball with our civil liberties." https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/prof-goldmans-statement-on-the-supreme-courts-demolition-of-the-internet-in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm

"The Supreme Court took a wrecking ball to Internet Law today in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. The majority (disingenuously) overturned two critical decades-old precedents restricting online age authentication [...]. By upending long-standing and well-settled rules to reach a pro-censorship

"non-US citizens" = brown people

Is AI a useful option for policymakers who want to evaluate open standards? Let's take a look. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/06/04/using_ai

So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

distributed—may gain significant advantages." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/trumps-trade-war-risks-splintering-the-internet-experts-warn/

"A surprising potential consequence of digital tariffs could be the accelerated development and adoption of open-source technologies," Shah wrote. "As proprietary digital products and services become subject to cross-border tariffs, open-source alternatives—which can be freely shared, modified, and

The Technopolar Paradox The frightening fusion of tech power and state power.

This reminds me of Ian Bremmer's piece in Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

... but that one is a bit less hopeful.

authority accrues to those who control the digital space, it may matter less whether power resides in public or private hands than how effectively it can be centralized." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/technopolar-paradox-ian-bremmer-fusion-tech-state-power

"Yet beneath their ideological differences, the American and Chinese models are converging in function. One is driven by market logic, the other by political imperatives—but both prioritize efficiency over accountability, control over consent, and scale over individual rights. In a world where

Stanley Tucci for pope. #tucci25

Aha. Yes, you have to separately go in and set up the keyboard. How bizarre!

many experts in language and internationalisation.

Someone, somewhere at Apple made a conscious decision to push Australian language more towards the US. They’re culture hacking us.

Set your iPhone language to “English (Australia)” and then try to type some words.

Realize aluminum color

Those are American spellings.

For a company that obsessively auto capitalizes (argh capitalises) words like “FaceTime” and “Apple”, it’s hard to see this as unintentional. They employ

Please do.

Breaking big tech's hold over people's experience of the Internet is not "breaking the Internet." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/brewing-transatlantic-tech-war

Koji hard shake!

rests on openness, consensus, and lack of dominance erodes the power of that very system. It ensures that information — which, as we know, is power — is a public good." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/

"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process. Encouraging organizations within a capitalist system to participate in a process that

Rongros

Almost 90% of the nuclear warheads in the world are now effectively controlled by one man.

Very relevant piece from @coopdanger on why divesting Chrome from Google isn't the end of the Web. https://www.techpolicy.press/the-true-cost-of-browser-innovation-why-chromes-divestiture-wouldnt-end-the-open-web/

I thought it was mistitled -- the movie wasn't about civil war, it was about the tensions and ethics of photojournalism.

I loved it (as a former photojournalist).