Dan York

@danyork

Working for open, secure Internet for everyone. Internet tech, , , . Wikipedian. Dir of Online Content, . Enjoys

Shelburne, VT
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Joined October 2006
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 6

    This year at I'm leading a project to understand benefits - and challenges - of low earth orbit satellites () for such as Starlink, Amazon's Kuiper, OneWeb, and many more. Always interested to talk/speak about it!

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  2. May 12

    The Return of Digital Authoritarianism - Internet shutdowns in 2021 - Coalition

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    May 12

    DNS root signing about to commence. The 45th. All about transparency, so follow along at

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  4. May 12

    I do enjoy that there is a *lengthy* Wikipedia article about "Extreme Ironing" -

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    May 11

    “It’s difficult for me to see a future where poorly regulated technology with built-in perverse financial incentives will magically result in fairer, more accessible systems.” - The paradox of the web3 hype versus the crypto reality.

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  6. May 12

    "People are not unbanked because of some technological failure. ... These are not problems that can be solved solely through the addition of a blockchain." Excellent interview with about , , ,

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    May 12

    This is a really great day in the history of the effort.

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  8. May 12

    And now we see Amazon's Project Kuiper filing for testing out their system for ..

    They will be testing links to consumer terminals, gateways, and TT&C terminals. "Amazon further requests authority to operate customer terminal units and telemetry, tracking, and control (“TT&C”) and gateway Earth stations,"
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    May 11

    1/ This is a slide from this week's Wireless World Research Forum held in Ottawa that identifies one phenomenon produced by work from home. Photo credit is .

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  10. May 11

    Ha! This! 🤣

    Replying to @David_Gergen @CNN @ACCooper
    Your book mentions "Millennials" 21 times, "Gen Zers" 9 times, and "Gen X" once, only in your notes, as a link. So typical, yet... Elon Musk? Gen X. Zelensky? Gen X. We're in power, quietly. I'll put my 62 million Gen Xers up against your 140 million Millenials+Gen Zers any day.
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  11. Retweeted
    May 9

    Broadband is a necessity, not a luxury. The 's Affordable Connectivity Program helps people get online and stay online. All eligible households please apply to enroll today: .

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    May 9

    So hard to get one's mind around 1 million deaths. This graphic helps with the magnitude & the timeline. But however we try to absorb the scale, it's crucial to try to think about each death as its own unfathomable (and often preventable) tragedy.

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  13. May 9

    So just as it has seemed like more people were starting to realize that buying receipts for artwork (a.k.a. NFTs) wasn’t really worth all that much.. Instagram decides to give it a bit more oxygen.. 🤦‍♂️ There are so many better ways they could spend engineering time 🙁

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    NFTs on Instagram 🎉 This week we’re beginning to test digital collectibles with a handful of US creators and collectors who will be able to share NFTs on Instagram. There will be no fees associated with posting or sharing a digital collectible on IG. See you next week! ✌🏼
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  14. May 9

    Internet Shutdown in Khuzestan and Nationwide Throttling in Response to Protests (Iran)

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  15. May 9

    But of course the change to Wordle only takes effect if you refresh/reload your browser. And there's really no reason for me to do so... and as a result I had the original word this morning. While others who recently started playing - or refreshed - will have a different word.

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  16. May 9

    I solved today's very early this morning (US ET) and said to myself: "Huh.. that's an interesting choice of word given the recent US Supreme Court leak." It turns out the NY Times decided to *change* the word based on that fact:

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  17. May 7

    Excellent! passes the 40% deployment mark in Google stats for the first time! News from -

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    Apr 29

    This nicely articulates one of the main reasons I love this genre.

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    May 6

    “The era we’re in now started with Egypt. And it’s not stopped.” How authoritarian regimes use internet blackouts to silence dissent

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    May 6

    something like , i assume

    Wikipedia article screenshot: "Extreme ironing (also called EI) is an extreme sport in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron items of clothing. According to the Extreme Ironing Bureau, extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."[1]"
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    May 6

    Online traffic continued to grow in 2021 📈, pushing Internet infrastructure and capacity close to its limits. 👉Learn more about and their role to support the Internet’s growth:

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