Links From the Week of 10-04-2026

Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 10-04-2026 There were 5 links posted this week. 10/08/2026 @14:59 A unique piece of Internet history: A packet from the RFC1149 implementation is up for auction at Christie's!We implemented the Internet over carrier pigeon (RFC1149) in 2001. Twenty-five years later, one of the packets from the experiment could be yours!Obviously I don't expect many to be interested in buying one of the slips of paper from the experiment, but I think the whole saga is a unique part of Internet history and frankly one of the whimsical stories that makes me miss the Internet of yesteryear. Hard to imagine this sort of thing happening now. 10/07/2026 @18:34 Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no – Pivot to AIAnthropic’s been floating the idea that the chatbot is a conscious being, maybe, sort of. Their evidence is claiming the chatbot works a bit like some theories of brains, if you squint. You can’t prove it isn’t true!The main engine is Anthropic…