Stole.Bought.Was gifted. So hard to tell,.Sometimes.

Just watched the South Park "Woke is Dead" episode. My oh my, to put together such an episode in a theocracy is very courageous.

ICANN currently debating a bylaws amendment to require a review of reviews. They are also debating the approval of the latest IANA Naming Function review & recommendations (IFR2) - seems they should pause on review approvals until after they are done reviewing reviews.

At WSIS+20 Online:.Multistakeholder Participation & .Multistakeholder Collaboration mentioned in the opening speeches. Steps toward Multistakeholder Governance are being taken. Happy to see progress in the right direction.

After 20 years of IGF, I start to despair that we will ever learn that participants, even if sitting silently in the dark, are not an audience, but participants. #IGF2025.

Make ICANN Great Again.a. In breach of our bylaws. I dislike our bylaws. Bylaws broken!.b. If bylaws broken,.Fix bylaws. We have ways for that. a. A broken process can’t.be used to fix itself!.Find a new process!.b. Can bylaws be trusted.that are replaced .instead of fixed?.

Trying to set up meetings and such for IGF week. Have seen this so many times. Reminds me of the dial-up days of WSIS. Or maybe IGF 2012.Try & try again. Good to remember old times.

In this world of security and two forms of security at every turn, I will soon be spending more time in security circus than doing whatever it was I intended to do before being diverted.

Just heard:." if you are in a coalition, and you are comfortable, then you know it is not a broad enough coalition" Bernice Johnson Reagon.

Remains to be seen: . MAGA, the GOP, and fellow travelers, seem ok with regulating people's bodies in many ways to fight the devil, .but will they accept having their Doritos, Twinkies, and Red Licorice taken away for health? .Is the Freedom to Eat as one pleases safe in the USA?.

Argued: platforms are not to blame. It's humanity at scale. In physical locales, .there are one or two .pervs, trolls, or pedants about. Online, many. Was told no, it's the algorithms. There is a game I play:.I pick a flow I want in my feed,.& see how long it takes to dominate.

I knew someday I would have something to appreciate 47 for. Per the law of untended consequences, I have listened to 2 days of Springsteen and Swift. Always good to have a prompt back to the touchstones.

Biden's Cancer, yet another attack avenue for Ds, Rs, and a hungry press? Poor guy, first he is the victim of ageism & abandoned by his party, then he is the target for hatred and revenge, from all sides, and now new attacks: who knew what, when, and what should they have known!.

As an apostate Catholic, .legacy Jew baptized as a baby, .a Semitic Judeopagan, .who thinks Spinoza got it right,.I very much appreciate #PopeLeoXIV.

Now that Russia has told those demanding a cease fire to eff off, will they just wilt away or will they follow through?.

Can debris from failed launches fall in Starbase City without liability? If so, will all damages be covered by the city itself?.

Just idly wondering: if it is morally acceptable, in some system of morality, for the US government to take revenge against those who are mean to 47, might the Tesla Intelligence learn and decide it is best for a vehicle to take revenge against someone who is mean to Musk?.

If there is evil in the world,.if there is a root cause of evil,.i blame dichotomies!.true or false!.this or that!.pink or blue!.one and zero!.Worlds of possibilities.slaughtered before consideration.

Where is proof of life for Kilmar Abrego Garcia? .There are assurances, but still no witnesses.

Is there political control of AI engines? . I was searching for a "list of all UN member states with independence movements ongoing within their borders." Copilot, had been my go to from practical to philosophy, demurred, indicated it was too sensitive. Grok obliged. Thanks Grok.