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Dan York

@danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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I look for patterns. I connect dots. I share what I see. Working for a bigger, stronger open #Internet for everyone. Writes on #InternetAccess, #DNS, #AI […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@danyork, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Elena Brescacin @elettrona.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Fortunately someone is talking about smart glasses and blind people, in mainstream media. This matter must be taken seriously. Today I quoted someone who said "no one worries so much of camera equipped phones" but about glasses, there is a huge difference: glasses can be kept always on, with […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
For a couple of decades @dbelson has been staring at data about the #Internet and publishing stories and reports about what he sees in that data in terms of traffic patterns, disruptions, major events, and more. In this episode, David joins me to talk about where he sees the future of Internet […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
I just learned that the documentary Shifting Baselines f3m.ca/en/film/shifting-baselines, about the environmental destruction caused by SpaceX, is available through most US libraries streaming on Kanopy I'm in it. So is @planet4589.bsky.social. So are my goats and my llama! (RIP llama […]
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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
One of the main reasons people are seeking alternatives to Big Tech social media is the threat these platforms pose to democracy, particularly through algorithms that amplify polarization and hate speech. If we can't convince democratic institutions and influential public figures to join the […]
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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
A beautiful, angry, and important post by @anildash about how a whole generation has been brainwashed into censoring themselves. I like the actionable recommendations at the end, though I’m missing “take a big stick, and beat the billionaires to death with it.”
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
“ #Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes. 40 dead, disaster declared across #Thailand’s largest city.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…
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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: toot.cafe/@codepo8/1173764612235566… The amusing sides of #DNS …
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117371… This is one of the best newsletters for keeping up with #space , #LEOs, #Starlink, etc. It’s one that I pretty much always read…
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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
I finally created a #FEP for using #CreativeCommons licenses (and other licenses) in #ActivityPub. codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/939
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FEP-6757: Content License Metadata in ActivityPub
An explicit copyright license on ActivityPub content objects makes it easier to re-use and re-distribute content. This FEP describes properties for content objects that identify the license for that object, and a property for actors to define their preferred license. It uses a term from metadata ...
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Sigh… I suppose that sitting in the parking lot of the gym and scrolling on my phone doesn’t actually count as “going to the gym” 🤣 Time to head inside…
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Dang! Just discovered that @annaleen is going to be right here in Burlington, #Vermont on Thursday, October 15, speaking about their latest book. Unfortunately, I will be in an airborne metal tube somewhere over the Pacific at that time. 😞 But if you are around #BTV and like sci-fi, do check […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Updating all our Apple devices and computers on advice of our IT team at work who highlighted attacks underway. In the process of doing so… discovering how long it has been for a couple of devices! 🤦‍♂️
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: techpolicy.social/@internetsociety/… How can we help people have a safe and secure experience online? How can we help people better detect scams? Spot false information? Protect their personal data online? Today we at the @internetsociety launched a new site to […]
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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
A pet peeve of mine is people who think DevRel is where you stash your bad engineers, so you can away with paying them less as well. A DevRel is an engineer, plus a bucket of additional skills like speaking, writing, videography and product. You pay them *more* than a plain engineer.
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow will be the launch of a project I've been working on since January... very much looking forward to sharing this with the world!
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@YesterdaysWiki/117… Why?? What did I miss culturally that would have brought her name back into view?
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
“ #OpenAI may deny its culpability, but it’s now facing dozens of lawsuits from the victims of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, along with the province of BC. It’s not even the first time this has happened. In April 2025 a shooter entered the student union at Florida State and killed two after […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
“It never occurred to us that our system that has exclusive control over the pod bay doors would take control over the pod bay doors” seems like something you might have thought about a bit more before you connected it to the pod bay doors.
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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
the rich techbros warning about the potential catastrophic dangers of AI in terms of, "they might cause a billion deaths because superintelligent AGI!" rather than, "we've made the conscious decision to use this error-prone chatbot to review health insurance claims" sure is a psyop if I've ever […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/11733… “Boring is where resilience lives.” 💯🎉 So very, very true! Great post from @kcarruthers about the reality of securing AI systems. They do NOT have to be “sentient” in any way at all… they just have to have elevated levels of access […]
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Paul @plwt.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
The Mozilla Fellows are the people that help stop the powerful from choosing what we see and bring people together to build a positive future and it is their faces that the delegates going the UN general Assembly this week will see in New York thanks to some really awesome artwork […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
RE: techpolicy.social/@internetsociety/… What if you want to use #AI but there aren't systems available in your language? There are 7,000+ languages used in the world, but most online content - and AI systems - are only available in a small number of languages. I […]
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DWeb @dweb.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: social.coop/@dweb/117309860418605174 We have two more speakers in our lineup this Thursday: * Day Waterbury of Openhaven.net — dweb technology navigator * Andre Garzia @soapdog of Poncho Wonky — decentralized messaging client for SSB We're also bringing back our post-meetup hang […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I had every intention of recording a podcast episode tonight about a major announcement today for which I wrote a blog post. Instead I went for a four-mile hike in the woods of Shelburne Farms. #PrioritizingHealth is so hard, yet so critical.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
NY (and Philly) region ILS failures related to a primary system failing and then, when it failed over to a backup, they discovered that the backup's fiber link had previously been severed. A old friend of mine was responsible for a critical public safety system with redundant links. He always […]
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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
A report from the field: I had to listen to two intelligent friends of mine go on and on about AI while I was putting together a bench from kit. One is a retired programmer, and he is putting together a personal use app using Claude and is amazed how well it worked with Tkinter, better than he […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Do they have bumper stickers for “I survived Costco on a rainy Sunday afternoon” ? 🤣
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
15 Years At The Internet Society… 🤯 15 years ago today, September 19, I joined the Internet Society to advocate for deployment of Internet standards such as IPv6, DNSSEC, and TLS. Being who I am, I wrote a long post back in 2011 about WHY I was making this change - much of which is still […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Firefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous. While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters – with especially […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1172740417… Fascinating piece… I learned a lot about design constraints of robots… and also network requirements. Very interesting!
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1172748291… I have not really paid attention to #SmartGlasses beyond those of Meta, so this was useful to understand what HTC is doing…
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Waking up to 35 F (~ 2 C) temp here in northwest #Vermont! 🥶 Definite #autumn vibes! I *think* we should be okay to put the air conditioners away for the season. 🤣
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
New audio: TDYR 421 - A brief episode about some upcoming changes to the show where I'm planning some interviews. I also listed events where I'll be and invited people to reach out. (I'll also be changing the icon as that photo is about 10 years old and my hair is NOT that brown any more! 🤣 Plus […]
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Joshua Byrd 🐀 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. standardebooks.org
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Ok, I have installed #IOS27 on my iPad… now what? 😃 If you have already started using it, what have you found the most compelling or interesting new feature on IOS devices?
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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 "#Scotland already builds more satellites 🛰️ than anywhere else in #Europe*, and with a £30m #UK government investment boost, #SaxaVord is now poised to deliver up to three-quarters of the continent's orbital launch slots**" www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyze8e… * 200 / year […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Cowboy space's application for stupidly ridiculous numbers of ludicrously large and probably impossible orbital "AI data centers" was SO BAD that the FCC asked them for loads of info. Which apparently they didn't provide by the deadline. Shucks […]
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Your car is collecting a staggering amount of data about you and selling them. Your bike won’t do that to you.
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Your car is selling your data
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Just upped my monthly contribution to my local Mastodon instance. Please support your local instance if you have the means. Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird.
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Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
I've moved Open Source Wishlist (oss-wishlist.com) to a stand alone teaching tool. It uses Ecosyste.ms metadata for critical OSS projects to help identify risk, intervention, and expertise required to mitigate that risk. It lives as evidence that - sustainability is an accountability and funding […]
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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
The crux of the matter with AI hucksters issuing warnings and calling for slow downs is that most discovered how much their poor overhyping of products turned people off. More hype or sincere warnings, they’ve burnt the trust bridge. #AI darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-t…
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SouprMatt @mls14.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
@davidgerard This paragraph was great: “Because these bots have zero chance of killing us all. I couldn’t even get one to recognize the difference between a piece of candy and a middling healthy soda. But it behooves Anthropic and its ilk to convince everyone of the idea that AI is our digital […]
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
So if the key ingredient in apple cider donuts is *apple*, then they can be classified as a *fruit*, correct? 😃
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
25 years after what we in the USA would come to just know as “9-11”, I can still remember where I was that morning when I got a phone call telling me to turn on the news….. I think that is probably true of most of us who were alive then. It was a day to remember. 😢
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
RE: cosocial.ca/@deborahh/1172466597910… A challenge I see with this move to watermarking “AI content” is that there are people for whom AI tools are a path to being included in our mainstream and English-based communication flow. Some people with disabilities, or people for whom […]
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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @deborahh.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
"An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price. … In the past, the recipient would only have discovered AI use if … disclosed it or through a guess. Now, the EU’s new transparency rules require companies to watermark content produced by #genAI […]
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Don “Don’t Lose Your Head” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Dorrinson also trains his clients to appear ‘culturally Canadian,’ which, he warns, ‘involves more than pretending to enjoy hockey.’ ‘I force my clients to watch hours and hours of curling,’ he said. ‘No pain, no gain, eh?’” (satire) open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Americans Traveling Abroad Attempt Canadian Accents
Thousands are desperate to sound Canadian while abroad.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough». Wtf is wrong with people? If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you? A wrong answer is free
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554… I am *so* here for watching people advocate for their favourite map projections. This might be my favourite type of nerd debate. Thank you, Fediverse. (Also: xkcd.com/977)
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Dan York @danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
One Class In High School That Changed My Life – And I Almost Didn’t Take It It's funny how decisions you may make in the moment can affect the course of your life. It was the fall of 1984 and I was signing up for classes for my last semester at my high school in southern Connecticut. I had one […]
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