Just experienced outage in south Texas when viewing X posts in articles.
my second favourite forum is down. funny thing is yeah, the browser OK, the domain OK but cloudflare wont allow connections.
I visited their website, and they have HQ’s in about 10 to 15 countries, and they pride themselves on caching websites at more than 300 data centres.
Seems like that back-up is not working so well.
ah yes … some of my work platforms are down this morning …
i asked AI to give me a poem and here’s what it had to say:
A silent spin, the circle starts,
A digital void in fragile parts.
The modem blinks a sickly light,
A fractured signal in the night.
The bar dips low, then disappears,
Confirming all our sudden fears.
The stream begins to lag and seize,
A frozen face upon the breeze.
The chat room stills, the game has dropped,
Communication briefly stopped.
A simple text sent out to air,
Hangs in the balance, going nowhere.
We tap the screen, we curse the air,
A modern plea, a silent prayer.
For speedy bytes and stronger beams,
To bridge the gaps between our dreams.
The web has thinned, a ghostly thread,
We’re disconnected, left for dead.
A lonely scroll upon the wall,
And silence answers every call.
I had the cloudfare won’t allow connection too. I deleted latest security update from microsoft and problem was solved. (KB5068861) (26100.7171)
Excellent really enjoyed that pithy work.
… Why are we all expecting anything from a Dead Internet? 
… see Dead Internet Theory.
… The Internet … just like the Covid Vaccine - totally safe and effective. If you want to keep your Internet you can. Affordable Internet Care (only affordable with huge subsides). You can trust AI. Shall we go on?
… As Apple users discovered after Steve died … DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES UPDATE YOUR OS!
?We’re" a quarter century into the digital-forward, internet-fueled twenty-worst century, and the power of intermediaries has never been greater. The internet Could disintermediate our world, enable person-to-person relations, and relegate intermediaries to Helping buyers and sellers, rather than exploiting them.
BUT, IT hasn’t!
It’s the…
“Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.”
By Cory Doctorow, 2025
It’s the same old chesnut.
Liberty vs Security.
Cloudflare got implemented as the middleman ostensibly for the security.
But then, less liberty.
Interesting, have never come across this theory. I have come across the idea of how conspiracy theories are created and footnoted with previous theories as proof. 