Tim Bray
@tbray.org
Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
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“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing
Humanist Plumbing
www.tbray.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing
˚The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like.”
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
After the Bubble
www.tbray.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
˚The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like.”
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
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Tracy Numbers: “Here’s a story about African rhythms and cancer and combinatorics.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/02/Bell-Combinatorics
(Also #caturday)
(Also #caturday)
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Tracy Numbers: “Here’s a story about African rhythms and cancer and combinatorics.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/02/Bell-Combinatorics
(Also #caturday)
(Also #caturday)
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In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL) […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL) […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
I thought the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social suspension was an interestingly nontrivial moderation scenario. I wrote up a little case study/explainer on how it might have been handled on Mastodon. Probably only for people who care about moderation nitty-gritty.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I thought the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social suspension was an interestingly nontrivial moderation scenario. I wrote up a little case study/explainer on how it might have been handled on Mastodon. Probably only for people who care about moderation nitty-gritty.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s becoming any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. I’ve been on Mastodon for 3 years and am convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Time to Migrate
www.tbray.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s becoming any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. I’ve been on Mastodon for 3 years and am convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
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Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
When I Loved New York
Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
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Over the weekend I ripped Google search out of my blog because it doesn’t work very well any more and replaced with PageFind, which is really pretty cool. Details: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/01/Blog-Search-Pagefind
Bye, Google Search
www.tbray.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Over the weekend I ripped Google search out of my blog because it doesn’t work very well any more and replaced with PageFind, which is really pretty cool. Details: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/01/Blog-Search-Pagefind
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“Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia. Here are early impressions.”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia
Grokipedia
www.tbray.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia. Here are early impressions.”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia
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Reposted by Tim Bray
News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Check out the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how we can make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real, with existing technology: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Social Media Provenance Challenge
www.tbray.org
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Check out the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how we can make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real, with existing technology: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
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Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.
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In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #genai: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions
GenAI Predictions
www.tbray.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #genai: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions
Does Bluesky Social PBC publish any financial disclosures? I'm super interested in the economics of post-Twitter decentralized social media. (I'm similarly poking around the Fediverse and OMG it's complicated.)
September 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Does Bluesky Social PBC publish any financial disclosures? I'm super interested in the economics of post-Twitter decentralized social media. (I'm similarly poking around the Fediverse and OMG it's complicated.)
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Last week I gave a talk at the IPTC’s “Photo Metadata Conference”. Here’s a blog-ified version, with lots of juicy digging into exactly what works and what’s broken in C2PA in 2025. Also strong opinions about provenance. And a link to the YouTube recording […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Last week I gave a talk at the IPTC’s “Photo Metadata Conference”. Here’s a blog-ified version, with lots of juicy digging into exactly what works and what’s broken in C2PA in 2025. Also strong opinions about provenance. And a link to the YouTube recording […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
This Thu is the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker ( on #C2PA). Looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and so on.
iptc.org/events/photo...
iptc.org/events/photo...
Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.
iptc.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This Thu is the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker ( on #C2PA). Looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and so on.
iptc.org/events/photo...
iptc.org/events/photo...
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Got bright Maritime colors if you want ’em: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/01/Maritime-Colors
#maritimes #photography
#maritimes #photography
September 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Got bright Maritime colors if you want ’em: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/01/Maritime-Colors
#maritimes #photography
#maritimes #photography
Due to my persistent yelling about C2PA and provenance, I’ve been invited to speak at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025: iptc.org/events/photo-metadata - September 18th.
It’s a free Zoom thing, so if you’re interested in this stuff, sign up and drop by.
It’s a free Zoom thing, so if you’re interested in this stuff, sign up and drop by.
iptc.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Due to my persistent yelling about C2PA and provenance, I’ve been invited to speak at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025: iptc.org/events/photo-metadata - September 18th.
It’s a free Zoom thing, so if you’re interested in this stuff, sign up and drop by.
It’s a free Zoom thing, so if you’re interested in this stuff, sign up and drop by.
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I'm still digging into #c2pa and have a problem: I don’t have a camera that is equipped. If anyone reading this has such a camera, I’d sure appreciate it if they could take a picture of, well, anything, with embedded C2PA, and shoot me a copy. Should the work ever go public, I’d provide […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
September 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm still digging into #c2pa and have a problem: I don’t have a camera that is equipped. If anyone reading this has such a camera, I’d sure appreciate it if they could take a picture of, well, anything, with embedded C2PA, and shoot me a copy. Should the work ever go public, I’d provide […]
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About birds, bees, a lovely garden, and a remarkable old lens: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/30/Maritime-Wildlife
#photography #maritimes
#photography #maritimes
August 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
About birds, bees, a lovely garden, and a remarkable old lens: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/30/Maritime-Wildlife
#photography #maritimes
#photography #maritimes
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Just came back from vacation in Canada’s Maritimes. Doesn’t mean I have any insights to offer about the area, but it’s super photogenic and my blog is going to be bulging with pictures over the next few days. Starting here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/27/Maritime-Vacation
August 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Just came back from vacation in Canada’s Maritimes. Doesn’t mean I have any insights to offer about the area, but it’s super photogenic and my blog is going to be bulging with pictures over the next few days. Starting here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/27/Maritime-Vacation
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Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library […]
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
August 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library […]
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library […]