notes bookshop link this was a dense and often redundant read with a lot of the classic, academic need to spend a lot of time on (re)naming things. to summarize … tunnels are the new internet. you might not necessarily realize/recognize what’s going on, but the focus of today’s internet is no longer end-to-end connectivity and addressing, etc. it’s what you can accomplish with tunnels. this is true, pretty much everything that you’re going to do in internet and enterprise engineering for the remainders of our life time is going to be in the service of some form of tunneling....

links, etc Not My Problem | NOEMA when you ask the AI, to riff on what the AI means for art, you’re going to get some interesting responses.

links, etc these links have been best coverage of the “local network access” permissions that arrived in macos 15 that i’ve seen to date. there’s excellent reading in here. Local Network Privacy FAQ | Apple Developer Forums TN3179: Understanding local network privacy | Apple Developer Documentation sheesh, amazon’s really getting their money’s worth out of this purchase. Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia - Ars Technica

notes bookshop link this was a disturbingly current read. it’s reasonably fresh off the press and i wrapped it up a couple of days before the election. it’s an exhaustively researched and referenced work that digs into the politically charged battles over education and the desire to create a glossy, positive history from those on the right. there’s a lot to unpack in this book despite it’s pretty short length. it ranges from discussing the german repackaging of history pre-WW2 to florida’s book bans and dismantling of their instutuions of higher education....

links, etc The Cure Returns With ‘Songs of a Lost World’ | Digs TIL, there’s a new cure album out.