Classic Star Trek moments that should definitely be made into Magic the Gathering cards 🧵

The bad guy's plan falls apart because it relies on tricking the crew to fire on a helpless ship. Picard may not have memories, but he still has morals.

"I do not fire on defenseless people" should be the absolute floor for ethics in military leadership, but the 1990's were a different time

I assume this happened to all of you.

"Lack of scalability is enough for Cloudflare to disqualify QKD outright: if a technology can’t bring security to the whole Internet, we’re not going to spend much time on it."

blog.cloudflare.com/you-dont-nee...

Yup

He's lucky to have a CS professor as a dad!

This was not me, but I'm glad to hear there's at least one more Chris Patton out there :)

Last days of summer scenes, Kenai River Alaska.

Even the strongest among us feel weak at times. Even the smartest of us feel stupid at times. Even the most confident feel doubt. There is no shame in feeling that you are not always at your best. A true warrior feels these things, but strives for better. That way lies glory.

Hey, fuck you Ticketmaster.

When's the next protest, gang?

ENGINEERING FRIENDS: This could turn out to be one of the most important jobs for the fate of Democracy. If you're a talented Engineering Manager and personally driven by mission for the betterment of America and the world, we need SecureDrop to remain a world-class product. Good peeps at FPF.

We're falling behind

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.

No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

My favorite slide from PETS so far

We updated our paper on Fiat-Shamir!

We now take a closer look at the gap between what symmetric cryptography has focused on for over 10 years (indifferentiability) and what is actually needed for the soundness of ZKPs and SNARKs (something stronger!).

eprint.iacr.org/2025/536

This evening there's an important webinar about the attempts to codify cuts to everything from global health to NPR: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work
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Nice

Slides of my talk titled "Lattices give us KEMs and FHE, but where are the efficient lattice PETs? -- By Example of (Verifiable) Oblivious PRFs" given at spiqe-workshop.github.io are here: github.com/malb/talks/b...

Thanks @kennyog.bsky.social and @jurajsomorovsky.bsky.social for inviting me.

Good luck today, Googlers

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