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a day with laiyi <3 laiyi woke up 3 hours before me but we went to bed at the same time laiyi journaled, ran, then did pilates i did yoga, journaled, then ran she runs in a high pony i run in a low pony laiyi has a dog (molly) i have mesclun and radish sprouts (telos) we ate our first meal at home laiyi has various official titles (pm, lecturer, performer) i currently have none we prioritize movement we take care of ourselves to start and end the day

Thank you @laiyi____ and @index_space Chinatown for letting us share our experience as creative tech educators. We found that many of us in higher ed are struggling with similar questions. full video link in bio ! @dragon_of_the_yeast @carrie_re7l @ogbabydiesal

Can you vibe-code learning? Lai Yi Ohlsen and a panel of educators explore what it means to teach creative technology in this age of AI. Catch the discussion on the debut episode of IRL @ Index, a live event & video series about paying attention and imagining what’s to come in tech, design and culture. Link in bio to watch / listen. Video edit by Alex Bliss

A conversation with Vint Cerf, the co-inventor of TCP/IP and the so called “father of the Internet.” Vint and I met during my time at Measurement Lab and I was interested in documenting the way he thinks about the world, or at least the one he’s had a hand in creating. We discuss data sovereignty, the Protocol Wars and his famous three piece suits. Also somehow Stephen Colbert and the Matrix. Enjoy :)

note to self: you can do it !!

On potential Internet dimensions, and what we mean by splintered — Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist at APNIC, has called centrality and fragmentation two “diametrically opposed perils” that those who architect the Internet must deal with at simultaneously. When considering how whole or fragmented the Internet is, one could imagine many more dimensions that we oscillate must make decisions about the trade offs between. Perhaps the definition of Internet is not a “whole” entity that exists on one side, fragmentation or another, but one that is able to traverse between the extremes of these tradeoffs with relative ease. The Splinternet might then be less about the degree to which the Internet is fragmented but the degree to which it’s stuck in one particular state of fragmentation. Maybe the Splinternet is not the anti-internet but the static Internet. The Internet which cannot evolve and repair itself from fragmentation as it inevitably occurs. — More on Substack, link in bio. Animations by me in p5.js.

Published today on Internet Index: What is the Splinternet? An adaptation of my keynote at Splintercon Paris, hosted at the Siège du PCF. Over my years working in censorship circumvention and Internet measurement, I started to notice a looseness in the way we talked about the Splinternet, the concept that the Internet is splitting apart and most often associated with Internet shutdowns and national firewalls. For one thing, the term itself suggests that there was a whole Internet to begin with, a sort of virtuous sphere that we had allowed to fissure over time. This quasi religious tone always felt a bit orthogonal to the piecemeal way I understood the architecture and protocols of the Internet to have grown, and to this day the way it continues to scale. Infinite in its improvisation, the network of networks is a combustion of wires and tubes glued together by capital, control and the personal relationships of men at extremely dorky conferences. What could be more splintered than the distribution of power? The Splinternet has become a sort of (western) shorthand for “bad” Internet, a conception of digital sovereignty that defies key virtues of openness and interconnectivity. Countries such as China, Iran, Russia and Venezuela have always been the poster children for these fragmenting behaviors but in recent years the Internet good Splinternet bad dichotomy has been complicated by governing bodies like those of Canada and Brazil and the EU itself expressing a desire to have more control of their networks and a freedom from Chinese and American technical hegemony. The concept of the gothic double comes to mind - but instead of just double, the Splinternet references fragmentation, or balkanization, of the many-to-many-th degree. Within the shadow twin of the Internet can be multiple internets, a nesting doll of networks of networks, each of which constitute an internet which is not the Internet. What happens when we begin to see ourselves in the mirror of our gothic double? What does it mean for something to split that was never whole? More on Substack and Splintercon Paris Report. Photos by @kkaterine

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Me and my friends !!

it’s getting light out earlier

in all seriousness