Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion

Damn, Instapaper is the shit: "New Website, Instapaper 10 for iOS" | Instapaper Blog https://blog.instapaper.com/2026/07/28/instapaper-10/

Fully expected my blog to choke on Knuth up-arrow power towers, but somehow the typography didn't turn into a complete dumpster fire.

@joebeone Those are big words for Elmo

In my latest post, I try to write down the smallest and biggest numbers. Because if I have to read one more article comparing chess games to the "number of atoms in the universe," I am going to freaking lose it. 1/5

The cosmos itself actually has a hard volumetric limit: roughly 10^185 Planck-sized pixels. Once you hit that ceiling, we have to stop counting physical *stuff* and start counting *states*. 3/5

I channeled my frustration into writing a proper tour of absolute scale, from the Planck length all the way to the boundaries of transfinite logic. Read it here: https://josephhall.org/blog/limits-of-scale/ 5/5

Comparing a shuffled deck of cards to a galaxy doesn't teach you anything about cards, and it certainly doesn't teach you about astrophysics. The physical universe is just a stepping stone in our quest to count things. 2/5

Then, when combinatorics breaks down around 10^715, we have to abandon standard math entirely for algorithmic recursion, power towers, and numbers that break Turing machines. 4/5

@joebeone Because Ackermann functions don't grow quickly enough!

@joebeone sure thing boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN8pWdZhVaM

Knuth's up-arrow notation is a trip. One arrow is a normal exponent: 3↑3 is 27. Two arrows mean stacking them, or 3^3^3; so 3↑↑3 is 3 to the 27th power, or roughly 7.6 trillion. Now build the "power tower".

Three arrows (3↑↑↑3) means a stack of tiny superscripts 7.6 trillion levels tall, physically stretching past the Sun. At four arrows, that solar-system-spanning stack is merely the starting equation to set up the next step. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_up-arrow_notation

Tomorrow I am dropping a post on the smallest and biggest numbers. We map true scale: starting at the Planck length, blowing past lattice cryptography, breaking Turing limits with Rayo's Number, and ending in a ZFC crisis.

First all-woman a cappella group to take the world championship, Girls Quartet. Their winning song: "Mothers and Daughters" https://youtu.be/237MVL5y8ac (worth the six minutes)

Can a content delivery network be a "public electronic communications network"? Italy's AGCOM says yes. We think that's wrong—legally and technically—and the stakes reach well beyond Italy. 🧵 1/5

Anthropic said its investigation was consistent with its "blameless postmortem culture." Bullshit! There's absolutely blame here; both OpenAI and Anthropic published blog posts literally detailing their crimes. If companies can't keep their own dangerous tech safe, they should face the consequences.

@SpaceLifeForm

For any example you can give come up I will give you a counter example. It's going to be regrettably blurry - as you say - and drawing lines is not feasible.

@joebeone

When the Lights Went Out: What the Iberian Blackout Taught Us About Internet Resilience | ISOC Pulse https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026/07/when-the-lights-went-out-what-the-iberian-blackout-taught-us-about-internet-resilience/

Can a content delivery network be a "public electronic communications network"? Italy's AGCOM says yes. We think that's wrong—legally and technically—and the stakes reach well beyond Italy. 🧵 1/5