We live in a funny world: just making the most of it, one day at a time. Tweeter. Liberaler. Quiddler. Un buveur d’encre. A recovering frog after slowly cooking in Musks cauldron for too long.
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... ② and then the whole oil system becomes 'stressed'. Prices will rise.
oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
If you think things in the Gulf are easing off, might want to think again. Its true that more ships are moving. However, the deficiency in fresh supplies of oil and products is being masked as global stocks and reserve stocks are drawn down. Sometime in June, that will stop - its run out - ...
... ② can you imagine the angst this brings to some communities:
- politicians no longer able to have affairs/insider trading/ some grifting on the side
- bankers, who use burners to circumvent chinese walls and the like
- journalists, who need privileged sources.
- a whole bunch of spammers
... ② and in doing that upset the conventional (sound) wisdom of the fat tree hierarchichal networks that have long brought capacity and resilience to networking, replacing it with a flat *random* topology which is just as good but with better degradation characteristics. Phenomenal. ...
Love this story. How do you bring 1970s graph theory from maths via Penrose Tiling (not quite repetitive tiling) to the physical optical cabling/wiring and network router topology of an Amazon Cloud data centre outside Dublin?
perspectives.mvdirona.com/2026/06/flat...
... ③ Trump's ridiculous actions have sparked a race that inevitably fragments the web/interent as countries - quite rightly - ensure they cant be hobbled by a whim from the White House.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4845...
... ②the latest quantum-secure algorithm couldn't be used by non US entities. Its happened before - when export versions of browsers were limited to 40 bit encryption not 128. Is there a European (for example) chain of trust for certificates etc that can be used independently of any US entity.
Trump's Land of the Free Utopia is planning to require all handsets bought to be first registered - and with a government issued Id that must be provided. Bye Bye Burners.
www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
... ③ and kudos to the Amazon manager who allowed a theoretical approach to be deployed to a production datacentre. (ok, it helps you have a bunch of Professors backing the proposal and a ton of simulation).
Sometimes one (possibly erroneous) story sparks a wider issue. If US sanctions can block the use of SSL and other encryption tech (which the whole web relies on) by certain countries or at least their govt entities, arent we all at risk if suddenly the US decided (say) that ....
