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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).

Home page	https://www.ivan-herman.net/
Lives in	Aix-en-Provence, France
Github	https://github.com/iherman

Ivan Herman 1d ago

European News 🇪🇺1d ago

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc

(https://archive.ph/bYVVj)

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

EUobserver

Ivan Herman 2d ago

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽2d ago

The Trump regime is engaging in ethnic cleansing. We need to say it aloud.

Ivan Herman Jul 3

JA Westenberg Jul 2

People 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...

Ivan Herman Jul 2

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

Information needed to answer Survey on the usage of HTML syntax in EPUB - Web-Based Straw-poll and Balloting System

Ivan Herman Jul 1

daniel:// stenberg://Jun 30

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.

Ivan Herman Jul 1

Natasha Jay Jun 30

They are starting to get it ...

Ivan Herman Jul 1

World Wide Web Consortium Jun 30

The 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/

Ivan Herman Jun 30

Daniel Appelquist Jun 30

Digital 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