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Deirdre Connolly¹ ²

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 12h

let's read some legal agreements

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Is ML-KEM Patent-Encumbered?

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Bob E. Brown @buhbaynium.bsky.social · 1h

What’s Jim Leyland like? What does he smell like? I would think it would be like a combination of Marlboro Reds and cherry lip gloss

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1h

a cartoon character is wearing a uniform that says ephtrs on it

ALT: a cartoon character is wearing a uniform that says ephtrs on it

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1h

randy savage calling jake the snake roberts 'snake man' is too fucking funny

Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1h

careful now

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2h

We're all trying to find the guy who did this www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 2h

so Kevin Nash is terribly underrated, right?

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 2h

if you look closely enough we're all *connected*

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 11h

yep!

Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 12h

let's read some legal agreements

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmvf...

Is ML-KEM Patent-Encumbered?

YouTube video by Deirdre Connolly

www.youtube.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14h

A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 16h

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15h

Quantum computing company IonQ raises $2B by selling 21.5M shares and pre-funded warrants to Heights Capital at $93 each, a 20% premium over October 9's close (David Morris/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 16h

Apple announces a "major evolution" of its Security Bounty program, doubling the top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware attacks (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Apr 4

Bleh.

Anyways.

Another sketchbook comic. 4 panels

P1: title panel. FORK + FROG. beside each word, a lil fork and a lil frog

P2: The fork and frog begin to magically combine into--

P3: FORG. The frog just has the fork strapped to their back

P4: Forg stands in front of a raging fire, backlit and facing us.

In all lower case the text "burn it all down"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

i do like Rabi

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beeeeg moon tonight

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic)

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

extremely tempted

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

The `hax` engine from @cryspen.com, originally written in OCaml, is gradually being rewritten in Rust :D

Oh also they have a Lean backend now :D

Oh also also you can use Lean to specify properties on your Rust code now : D

hax.cryspen.com/blog/

Blog - hax

hax.cryspen.com

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

opening my inbox is like crossing the event horizon

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