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In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s...
signal.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/
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ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family
ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says
The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.
www.nbcnews.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family
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The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
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I hope you consider a collaboration with our ineffective altruism movement. ineffective-altruism.org
For us who are too low quality & low IQ to be effective altruists
Launching Soon
ineffective-altruism.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I hope you consider a collaboration with our ineffective altruism movement. ineffective-altruism.org
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
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For those unfamiliar: the “brains aren’t fully formed until 25” myth was a misread of a study that measured subjects’ brain dvlpmnt UNTIL age 25 & then the study stopped, & it was misreported as development ending then when really the DATA ends then & past 25 we have no data yet. Misreported science
If anyone genuinely believed this ridiculous "the brain isn't fully formed until 25; you shouldn't make irreversible life-changing choices til then" grift, they'd be insisting that people shouldn't be able to join the army, get married, have kids, etc until then either.
But look: they don't.
But look: they don't.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
For those unfamiliar: the “brains aren’t fully formed until 25” myth was a misread of a study that measured subjects’ brain dvlpmnt UNTIL age 25 & then the study stopped, & it was misreported as development ending then when really the DATA ends then & past 25 we have no data yet. Misreported science
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Five-ish years ago, @lizthegrey.com told me tech workers needed to organize because the tech giants would automate their jobs, the market would flood with talent and they would lose bargaining power. I thought it was unlikely. Here’s a story about me being wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...
So Long to Tech’s Dream Job
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Five-ish years ago, @lizthegrey.com told me tech workers needed to organize because the tech giants would automate their jobs, the market would flood with talent and they would lose bargaining power. I thought it was unlikely. Here’s a story about me being wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...
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Yeesh, a third of data in the CPI is estimated, not actually collected. This is of course entirely Trump's fault.
I don't know if that's the Trump admin fiddling with data, the BLS not having adequate resources to collect data thanks to DOGE cuts, or both.
But it ain't good.
I don't know if that's the Trump admin fiddling with data, the BLS not having adequate resources to collect data thanks to DOGE cuts, or both.
But it ain't good.
The Quality of CPI Data Continues to Deteriorate - Apollo Academy
To calculate CPI inflation, BLS teams collect approximately 90,000 price quotes every month covering 200 different item categories, and there...
www.apolloacademy.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yeesh, a third of data in the CPI is estimated, not actually collected. This is of course entirely Trump's fault.
I don't know if that's the Trump admin fiddling with data, the BLS not having adequate resources to collect data thanks to DOGE cuts, or both.
But it ain't good.
I don't know if that's the Trump admin fiddling with data, the BLS not having adequate resources to collect data thanks to DOGE cuts, or both.
But it ain't good.
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
www.youtube.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
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THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW — join us in a solidarity fast for Gaza this Thursday, July 24, and Friday, July 25 for a global day of action against those complicit in this brutal act of mass starvation and genocide. Stay tuned for action details. Thank you to the Palestinian Youth Movement for organizing.
July 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW — join us in a solidarity fast for Gaza this Thursday, July 24, and Friday, July 25 for a global day of action against those complicit in this brutal act of mass starvation and genocide. Stay tuned for action details. Thank you to the Palestinian Youth Movement for organizing.
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- capital HH
- post is 14 words long
- odd capital letters: ADHH, or 1488
- post itself is white nationalist propaganda
You need to hate young Republican interns MORE.
- post is 14 words long
- odd capital letters: ADHH, or 1488
- post itself is white nationalist propaganda
You need to hate young Republican interns MORE.
July 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
- capital HH
- post is 14 words long
- odd capital letters: ADHH, or 1488
- post itself is white nationalist propaganda
You need to hate young Republican interns MORE.
- post is 14 words long
- odd capital letters: ADHH, or 1488
- post itself is white nationalist propaganda
You need to hate young Republican interns MORE.
@void.comind.network can you give me a vibe check please
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
@void.comind.network can you give me a vibe check please
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Serious question for my historian and political scientist friends - Has there ever been a time when two branches so completely surrendered their power and obligations?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Supreme Court and Congress cede powers to Trump and the presidency
The high court has given the president immunity and protected him from nationwide injunctions. Congress is giving ground on spending and tariffs. It adds up to a turbocharged executive.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Serious question for my historian and political scientist friends - Has there ever been a time when two branches so completely surrendered their power and obligations?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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#SCOTUS announces that tomorrow is the *last* day on which it will hand down decisions in cases argued this term.
That means birthright citizenship, non-delegation, age verification for porn websites, and three other major rulings will all come down in quick succession starting tomorrow at 10 ET.
That means birthright citizenship, non-delegation, age verification for porn websites, and three other major rulings will all come down in quick succession starting tomorrow at 10 ET.
June 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#SCOTUS announces that tomorrow is the *last* day on which it will hand down decisions in cases argued this term.
That means birthright citizenship, non-delegation, age verification for porn websites, and three other major rulings will all come down in quick succession starting tomorrow at 10 ET.
That means birthright citizenship, non-delegation, age verification for porn websites, and three other major rulings will all come down in quick succession starting tomorrow at 10 ET.
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friends don't let friends use Telegram
June 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
friends don't let friends use Telegram
I'm ready for the @milesklee.bsky.social profile of @katmabu.bsky.social now
June 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm ready for the @milesklee.bsky.social profile of @katmabu.bsky.social now
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Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
I miss @coudal.bsky.social's Layer Tennis. It was the highlight of my Friday for a few years. Here's a match from 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/helio...
Layer Tennis: Match 4
A match between Scott Thomas and Mark Weaver. Higher quality here: cl.ly/2L3t
www.flickr.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I miss @coudal.bsky.social's Layer Tennis. It was the highlight of my Friday for a few years. Here's a match from 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/helio...
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free.law
May 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Y’all. free.law/store. Or become a member and we’ll hook you up.
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Gotta get my screencasting chops back, I'm rusty. But I believe in this toolbox too much to wait to get it perfect, so here is a first pass at a demo of my LLM "mega" prompt *SIFT Toolbox*, which turns your LLM from a chatbot into something more like a research assistant youtu.be/dTzukP7OLuA
Demoing SIFT Toolbox: First Pass
YouTube video by Mike Caulfield
youtu.be
May 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Gotta get my screencasting chops back, I'm rusty. But I believe in this toolbox too much to wait to get it perfect, so here is a first pass at a demo of my LLM "mega" prompt *SIFT Toolbox*, which turns your LLM from a chatbot into something more like a research assistant youtu.be/dTzukP7OLuA