George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽The Trump regime is engaging in ethnic cleansing. We need to say it aloud.
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Ivan Herman
@ivan_herman@w3c.social
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Retired; emeritus W3C team member, still active in digital publishing, semantic web, data, verifiable credentials; also interested in history, arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), photography, international politics, literature, music (mostly classical).
JA WestenbergPeople are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
If you make EPUB documents, or build tools for EPUBs, do you think EPUBs should continue requiring the XML syntax for HTML? Tell W3C what you think by filling the simple survey by the W3C Publishing Maintenance Working Group. 4 questions, responses anonymized:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/1/epubhtml/
#publishing #ereader #ebook #kindle #kobo #pocketbook #boox #nook
daniel:// stenberg://I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.
Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.
In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.
Proved my point excellently.
Natasha Jay
World Wide Web ConsortiumThe Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
This spec defines a core subset of MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-mathml-core/
Daniel AppelquistDigital Identities that Benefit Humans
Today I’ll be traveling to Geneva to attend the Global Digital Collaboration Conference which seeks to “foster wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.” I want to make sure that whatever comes out of this discussion really does benefit humans, and is therefore rooted in human rights. I have spoken publicly about how we incorporate ethics into our standards and specifications in order to make sure we ground them in human rights and “avoid […]
https://www.torgo.com/blog/2025/06/digital-identities-that-benefit-humans.html
Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5449166/authors-publishers-ai-letter
Just for the fun of it: the Belphegor's prime, i.e.,:
1000000000000066600000000000001
'How a Mathematician Turned an Obscure Number Into a Scary Story"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/belphegors-prime-number-superstitions
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