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Richard Barnes

@ipv.sx

Trying to do right by the world, in part by using computers and cryptography. (πŸ¦‹ DMs disabled, please use Germ 🦠) I'm on Germ DM πŸ”‘ anchr://ger.mx/A46ldT_5bbYOQUqi2yqmX0E0X7tBOtXWFw2S1tMcK0u_#did:plc:43l77wm7hyxizh4atc2gnrnt

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If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

06.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 1887 πŸ” 609 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 13

Electrification of transportation is a national security and economic resilience strategy, which would work well for this exact scenario we are in right now.

05.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

I feel like we shouldn't normalise a senator breaking the arm of someone who was clearly not presenting any form of danger to anyone?

05.03.2026 06:14 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

You're absolutely rightβ€”that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leadersβ€”they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

05.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 2297 πŸ” 320 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 9

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

05.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 4364 πŸ” 1798 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 30

We were just watching and they literally went from pentagon to doha to ramallah to teheran to galle in the south of sri lanka to the turkish iranian border - a western network COULD NEVER

04.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 170 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

WASHINGTON (AP) β€” White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.

MADRID (AP) β€” Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.

04.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 2554 πŸ” 675 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 131
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Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

04.03.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 3628 πŸ” 506 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 81

Throw vulnerable people under the bus, we throw you out on your ass

04.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 248 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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β€œScripture is full of kings brought low by their own arrogance”

17.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 366 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7
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"War is not the solution, war is madness, war is a monster, war is a cancer that feeds on itself, engulfing everything!" #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

03.03.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing that MOQT offers over WebSocket or gRPC is that it is point-to-multipoint (vs. point-to-point). It basically lets you outsource the fanout of one firehose to many consumers from the smart PDS to a relay that only cares about moving data.

03.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol, no, sorry, I forgot to remind Suhas about the collision.

03.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@iame.li's livestream on Streamplace ATOM: AT Protocol Over MoQ Transport?!?! atproto MoQ sync from Cisco engineers?!? emergency stream #coding

@ipv.sx going to go through it on stream now! stream.place/iame.li

03.03.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Death and freedom in Iran. | James Stout Get more from James Stout on Patreon

I wrote a little bit about the long history of the US asking people to rise up in Iran and Kurdistan and then leaving them to die. www.patreon.com/posts/152084...

03.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ATOM: AT Protocol Over MoQ Transport This document specifies how the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol can leverage Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) for efficient data synchronization across decentralized social networks. The AT Proto...

@pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net if y’all ever get tired of WebSockets for one-to-many distribution, MOQT might be able to help.

www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

02.03.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

If the rumours are true and the kids and social media consultation opens today, here are two things I think should be banned from
social media:

1) AI bots
2) recommendations algorithms that optimise for time on site

Firm regulation of both of these things is possible and auditable

02.03.2026 07:39 πŸ‘ 359 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

28.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 2142 πŸ” 622 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 21

The US is really giving the game away by assassinating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who literally has not held political power since 2013.

Assassinating a former president has nothing to do with security, safety, nukes or missiles. You're literally just killing some guy at that point as a "fuck you."

01.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

12.01.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 3005 πŸ” 627 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 28

I direct my anger at everyone who is incapable of taking a principled moral stance, and doubly so for those who have power, and triply for those who have power and claim a moral superiority and yet never state their moral opposition to immoral acts.

01.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 352 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A Virginia license plate reading BALZAC

A Virginia license plate reading BALZAC

18.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
A Virginia license plate reading AYOOWTF

A Virginia license plate reading AYOOWTF

28.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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At least 63 girls killed in strike on school in southern Iran Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school

This account includes an eyewitness.

Also: β€œAt least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said.”

28.02.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 16

Remove the president or remove yourself.

28.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A graph of data center vs office construction, showing data centers basically tied with offices

A graph of data center vs office construction, showing data centers basically tied with offices

The US now spends basically as much on data center construction as on office construction

27.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
To move from the specific to the general: Let’s make a checklist to help in the discourse on public decision-making. Should one not ask of any public project or loan whether it: (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; (3) confers divisible or indivisible benefits; (4) favours people over machines; (5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and (7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?

To move from the specific to the general: Let’s make a checklist to help in the discourse on public decision-making. Should one not ask of any public project or loan whether it: (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; (3) confers divisible or indivisible benefits; (4) favours people over machines; (5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and (7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?

"Should one not ask of any public project … whether it (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; … (4) favours people over machines; (5) maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) favours conservation over waste; (7) is reversible or irreversible?

Franklin, The Real World of Technology, 1990

27.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

16.02.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 29550 πŸ” 5704 πŸ’¬ 215 πŸ“Œ 164
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting.

Legal experts called the order blatantly unconstitutional. Read the full, 17-page order belowπŸ‘‡ https://bit.ly/4l0gmXp

27.02.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 985 πŸ” 578 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 77
A family of snow-bleached violet toothed polypore mushrooms look exactly like a family of mollusks grown on the side of a log. All photos by me

A family of snow-bleached violet toothed polypore mushrooms look exactly like a family of mollusks grown on the side of a log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

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