“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
I am at @fastly.com xCelerate London today and this talk by CTO Artur Bergman is really insightful about the impact on our networks AI agents and crawlers are going to make. Some really interesting data.
Eg pypi package management traffic is going geometric.
Welcome or block is a business decision
Evergreen post
It's messaging all the way down.
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
Blog post about the same data here cc @squillace.bsky.social
Doctors Warn Air Fryers Not A Substitute For Human Companionship https://theonion.com/doctors-warn-air-fryers-not-a-substitute-for-human-companionship/
I always meet folks from cool technology organisations at @fastly.com and @developer.fastly.com events. Just spent an hour with JD Sports and learned a lot about the market for caching, edge compute and bot management. Also got to meet @shutterstock.com and that was a vibe too.
