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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026

AI-reviews seem strikingly good at the AAAI-26 peer+AI review experiment arxiv.org/abs/2604.13940

Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026

"commoditization and decentralization shift the balance of power. Dependency creates leverage, whether it's a country's gas supply or a company's cloud provider, and the engineering choices we make determine who holds that leverage"

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 11/01/2026

Peter Mandelson's belief that the UK has to "demonstrate that we are relevant & useful to the United States", that the US is committed to Europe's security, that Trump won't invade Greenland & believes in an independent & democratic Ukraine, seems as misplaced as his (earlier) trust on J. Epstein

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 11/01/2026

"Greenland [...] is a second order issue". Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. One might wonder what is for today's Tories a first order issue www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

screenshot with UK's Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch stating that "Greenland which I believe is a second order issue versus what is..."

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 10/12/2025

Spain's ISPs block IPs used by pirate streaming sites during the Spanish league football matches. IP-level blocks impact the many unrelated sites that are behind each IP. Adding insult to injury, Movistar keeps the blocks for 14 HOURS after the match is over. bandaancha.eu/articulos/mo...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 22/09/2025

Curtis Yarvin. The alleged "ideologue behind JD Vance" who argues that monarchy is superior to democracy and that a "CEO in chief" is a better form of leadership. Quick thoughts after seeing him at [1/n] howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lo...

Debate panel titled "The Iron Fist vs The Invisible Hand" with
Aaron Bastani, Hélène Landemore, Curtis Yarvin. Mary Ann Sieghart hosts. https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-iron-fist-vs-the-invisible-hand-20012

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 31/08/2025

Many DMCA cases, probably others as well. The Lumen database contains legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials. You can then see if the site complained about is accessible after the complain --we did that some time ago arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05796

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 13/08/2025

"oh no, my mail has been watered" Time to revisit this Banksy in Poplar

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 08/08/2025

Moving investment from the real world into the ether: "154 public companies have either raised or committed to raise a combined total of $98.4bn in order to buy crypto." Smells like a bubble, sounds like a bubble, walks like a bubble...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

At the same time #IETF activity has decreased very substantially. Although drafts are increasing (and some will become RFCs). So where is the #IETF at and where should it head to? [4/n]

figure showing the rise and decline in the number of emails, RFCs and growth in the number of drafts

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

So is the #IETF more concentrated in a few key players? Mostly not but... [3/n]

Gini index of participation on the IETF, it oscillates first decreasing, then growing, then decreasing again. Overall it seems (very roughly) stable

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

The number of organisations #IETF participants are affiliated with, grew and stabilised. Not across all forms of participation though [2/n]

Figure showing a growing and then stabilising number of organisations that IETF participants are affiliated with

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

There is less people than there used to be, also less authors. How about their affiliations?

Figure showing a decreasing number of individuals participating in the IETF

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

From http/s to IPv4/6 or DNS, all happens at the #IETF. Almost 40 years after the 1st IETF, the Internet has become a commodity. Where is the #IETF at? See below & on @irtf.org #ANRW paper (Tues-11.30): "Two Decades of IETF Affiliations: Evolution and Impact" www.irtf.org/anrw/2025/pr... [1/n]

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 19/07/2025

Former Spanish minister of economy, got a few millions € under the table to legislate in favour of incumbent energy companies. Subsidies to renewables were suspended. The cost was 1.5 BILLION € in international arbitration courts & a lost decade in renewables. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 18/07/2025

This shows the post- pandemic boom quite well www.economist.com/business/202...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 12/07/2025

-"What would you say to a Palestinian family on the Gaza Strip, when Israel has reduced the electricity supply to 2 hours a day!" -"I don't give a fuck." Years and Years, visionary take on the rise of a populist, Viv (Emma Thompson). www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5m...

picture of the script with the "quotes in the post" Full text reads:

Now revealing VIVIENNE ROOK is actually on Question Time.
The QUESTION TIME HOST points at the audience.
QUESTION TIME HOST
That woman there, in the blue.
WOMAN IN BLUE
I’d like to ask Viv. What would
you say to a Palestinian family on
the Gaza Strip, when Israel has
reduced the electricity supply to
two hours a day! Two hours!
Everything, everyone, in the studio, and at home, focused on
Vivienne. A simple moment. Her first step towards power.
VIV ROOK
I know. But I suppose... When it
comes to Israel. And Palestine...
(MORE)
YEARS & YEARS. EPISODE 1. RUSSELL T DAVIES. DOUBLE GREEN AMENDS 2(deep breath)
I don’t give a fuck.

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025

UK university sector ready for 💥?

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 06/07/2025

The drop in the demand for software developers is remarkable -- even if AI is not the (only) cause www.economist.com/business/202...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025

Really sharp drop in the demand for software developers

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 23/06/2025

"Paid peering goes against the essence of the Internet" Petra Arts, Cloudflare #IGF2025

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 23/06/2025

"A great way to protect agains cyberattacks is to cut all submarine cables. A little side effect is loosing Internet connection" Evijs Taube at #IGF2025 topping my personal list of starting jokes

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 12/06/2025

May be compare with actual crime stats? We compared with Nextdoor posts mentioning crime: rich neighbourhood talk *much* more about crime than poorer ones ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 27/04/2025

There seems to be a decline after each migration burst, but overall it does not seem like users test and go somewhere else (data is until eoy 2024 though) arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 25/03/2025

Justo después de que no hiciese falta invitación para abrir una cuenta entonces. Sólo había unas 10K ceuntas posteando en español

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 24/03/2025

Comparing richer and poorer neighbourhoods with Nextdoor data we found strong similarities between US and UK wrt the content posted (ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...) and nuanced differences wrt political attitudes (arxiv.org/abs/2407.03255). Would be interesting to combine the data...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 17/03/2025

Westminster tube station feels like a pic of Modern Times

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 17/03/2025

Humans alone cannot fix it. AI can fill in the gap. But only with AI standards. UK to invest in cloud, education, digital standards --Minister for Future Digital Economy and Online Safety, DSIT aistandardshub.org/global-summit/

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 12/03/2025

Likely to show --previous events did: 1 Bsky open registrations, 2 Brazil's X ban, 3 X's blocked users can see content, 4 US elections, 5 Brazil, 6 Indonesia. Hard to differentiate by language though --see the large share of starter packs with description in Portuguese arxiv.org/pdf/2501.11605

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 10/03/2025

There were quite a few Japanese speaking users in Bluesky --this is from April when there were 5.5M accounts dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 07/03/2025

We are seeing the EU coping with the US, how long until we see the struggle of the US coping with itself? This should be another reason for strategic EU-independence. Great from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com (per country right-left difference might be nice to see too!)

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 03/03/2025

Looking into that at the moment, though. Mean time, co-authorship might give you some insights sodestream.github.io/paper-the-we...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 03/03/2025

La Agonía de Francia (Chaves Nogales, 1941).

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 02/03/2025

And it has been growing over time sodestream.github.io/paper-charac... also some analysis from Geoff Huston at RASP RG datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 02/03/2025

We had a stab at that here sodestream.github.io/paper-errare...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 27/02/2025

Más bien segundo 😉 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1.... Los datos están anticuados (6 veces mayor). Para un analisis reciente arxiv.org/pdf/2501.11605

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 07/02/2025

I wonder why, because users *are* active arxiv.org/pdf/2501.11605

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 07/02/2025

Was Mastodon different or inferior? Less appealing interface/welcoming culture, harder set-up (instance choice),? Aren't functionality differences mostly under-the-hood? eg, regardless of instance choice broad interaction are possible (instance switching in fig) www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/file...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 07/02/2025

Musk was also a main driver in the Mastodon migration. Network effects did not seem to kick in in full force. www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/file...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 30/01/2025

Curious: is GoP (Trusk aside) better? We compared right and left-leaning politicians (5.5M twitter posts) with their electorate (21M nextdoor posts). Expected big differences. But... saw almost none 🤷 Both in terms of content & style --could look into posting frequency 🕵️ arxiv.org/pdf/2407.03255

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 29/01/2025

Details on @bsky.app growth (and the role of starter packs). Guess the reasons for the growth peaks 🙃 arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 27/01/2025

Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 22/01/2025

Wikipedia *does not* call his nazi salute a nazi salute. Wikipedia states says that many people said so and even includes musk's comments on it

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025

Lots of historical data: causality analysis should be possible arxiv.org/pdf/1810.10963 Curious how those figures would look now

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 19/01/2025

We actually measured that: the richer the neighbourhood the greater the gap ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 19/01/2025

The topics covered by feed generators is also very wide. More on the [6/n]

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 19/01/2025

3) open-content-recommendation is also very popular with a proliferation of feed generators (ie, recommendation algorithms) that are also popular as well [5/n]

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