Please find me and net.wars on alternative platforms such as the ancient mammoth thing or the blue thing.

This week's net.wars, "Disharmony", finds Meta allegedly engaging in piracy and changing its content moderation policies, and network neutrality dying (for now?) in the US:

This week's net.wars, "The lost Internet", misses functioning technology, notes the rise of age verification, and nods at independent journalism. If generative AI were a psychic we'd say what it does is cold reading:

This week's net.wars, "Non-playing characters" finds Spotify's push into fake music; visits a technical debate at the soon-to-be-reformed House of Lords; and records the death of John "JI" Ioannidis, "severely undercredited" for inventing mobile IP:

This week's net.wars, "Government identification as a service", sees the first casualty of the Online Safety Act and listens to Edward Hasbrouck claim he's an optimist:

This week's net.wars, "Loose ends", marks the passing of 13-year-old Do Not Track, GM Cruise's robotaxis, and "bias" at the LA Times:

This week's net.wars, "This week's net.wars, "Playing monopoly", reviews the options the DoJ has proposed for remediating Google's monopolistic behavior:

This week's net.wars, "Blue", watches as millions join Bluesky in one week, and offers advice to those seeking a new online home:

This week's net.wars, "What's next", collates predictions for the coming few years, reviews two years of Musk-owned Twitter, and says all hail The Onion:

This week's net.wars, "Digital distrust", goes to the #UKIGF and connects AI governance to digital exclusion:

This week's net.wars, "The master switch" sees billionaires exerting their supreme control over newspapers and hopes the Internet can still provide a counterweight:

Reminder: If you voted early, check your state’s election website to verify that your vote was received. This is always important, but especially this year with MAGA torching mailboxes and shit.

This week's net.wars, "Follow the business models", deplores smart-data collection-with everything, visits Ithaca NY to play folk music, and ponders the upcoming UK data bill and UN cybercrime treaty:

This week's net.wars, "Choice", ponders the impact of the looming US presidential election on women's health:

This week's net.wars, "A hole is a hole", says China's use of the interception system to spy on the US proves the bad ideaness of backdoors in security systems; notes that .io will vanish with the Chagos Islands; and marvels at all the WordPress angst:

My review of @parmy 's new book on the race to AI, Supremacy:

This week's net.wars, "Blown" calls back to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow-Up" while reading the news of people-identifying smart glasses and blocked autonomous vehicles in SF:

This week's net.wars, "Pass the password", generally approves of NIST's proposed new rules for passwords, which accept that times and threat models have changed:

This week's net.wars, "This perfect day", wonders what happens to the data as 23andMe craters and as Larry Ellison embraces all-AI all-surveillance all-the-time:

This week's net.wars, "The brittle state", embraces @openrightsgroup's and @the3million's campaign against eVisas. Are we so dumb that we really think computers are always right?