Stuart Langridge

@sil
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I told you, you can have an ice cream when we get there.
Websitehttps://kryogenix.org
TTRPG stuffhttps://tabletop.social/@sil

The layer where every human activity became a venture-backed destination... a machine for producing more things to interrupt you with.

Underneath that layer is another internet: older, slower, less polished, harder to monetize, and much harder to kill.

It is not utopia... but it has one enormous advantage over the platforms that replaced it in your imagination.

No one owns it.
-- @tg

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier
This is what peak new grandad looks like

Just catching up on news and… Google are going to stop searching the web and instead start only paraphrasing it?
Here’s an idea: do a thing, do it well, then keep doing it?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/19/google-glasses-search-ai

Google announces glasses are back and search is getting an AI makeover

At annual I/O conference, company debuts a product for everyday consumers to create autonomous AI agents

The Guardian

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116597962329615671

look Bruce did too! Interesting stuff all round

cool, I got to hold a particle detector from the Large Hadron Collider! And ask a whole bunch of questions to a dark matter scientist, after discovering a bunch of stuff I didn't know about dark matter, such as: there's loads of dark matter here, it's not something that's only in far-away galaxies. Your pint of beer contains probably five dark matter particles.
Off to Pint of Science, which is about dark matter and similar uncleftish beholdings
https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/smash-hits-and-missing-matter/
Smash Hits & Missing Matter

What is the universe actually made of, and why are we still missing most of it? Join us for a night that dives from the world’s most powerful particle smas…

Pint of Science

The EU’s Digital Markets Act choice screens are working 🇪🇺

Since March 2024, more than 6 million people in the EU have selected Firefox as their default browser, roughly one every 10 seconds. 🦊

User choice and merit should drive browser competition, not control of operating systems.

📖Read more:
https://cybernews.com/news/firefox-mozilla-eu-dma/

After a day of doing a whole bunch of very boring housekeeping tasks I have just giggled myself almost sick making this, which I don't expect anyone else to find anywhere near as funny as I do but I am unworried! Cheered me up no end. I think I might go to the pub.

…which then washes off in the dishwasher.

Goddammit.

Gone through all the saved plastic boxes from Chinese takeaways for storing stuff and… paired them up with the correct lids and labelled them. I’m like the 2020s Marie Kondo.