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AI is the internet
OpenAI's Sora: amazing, right? It generates video from a text prompt. (Watch a video if you haven’t yet). As you watch it, open your browser’s developer…
Mar 5
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February 2024
The U.S. military loses satelite internet access in Taiwan
Thanks, Elon.
Feb 28
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Nick Merrill
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November 2023
IETF 118 - CDNs and States
Content distribution networks (CDNs) handle most internet traffic. These CDNs are brokers, standing between users and the content they request. How do…
Nov 13, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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October 2023
First, the burning sandalwood
First, the burning sandalwood Rising past my leaded glass. Then, the light. A candle would Have lit my hands as bright as that Sun, sinking low, under…
Oct 31, 2023
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Merrill's razor
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by depression or anxiety.
Oct 23, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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August 2023
What is progress?
Have we made progress? Medicine—our capacity to keep a person healthier for longer—has progressed. Our ability to apply that capacity consistently…
Aug 22, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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Review: People's Republic of Walmart (2019)
Is Walmart a new model of all-American socialism? People's Republic of Walmart (Verso, 2019) would suggest so. Reaching to Fredric Jameson's footnote in…
Aug 18, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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IETF 117 - Fragmentation & concentration: Beyond "free" & "closed"
Beyond "free" & "closed"
Aug 14, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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July 2023
Language of command
AI, work, and the end of the world
Jul 28, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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Why dream?
This world To what may I liken it? To autumn fields lit dimly in the dusk by lightning flashes —Minamoto-no-Shitago (911-93 AD). Source: Yoel Hoffman…
Jul 14, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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Steganography: the sleeping giant
Why regulating encryption will lead policymakers to your cellphone
Jul 7, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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June 2023
Taiwan & the internet during world war
Adapted from a talk at the U.S./Taiwan Science & Technology Cooperation Dialogue
Jun 2, 2023
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Nick Merrill
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