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Gabe The Engineer
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Current cyber insurance leader. Former lead data scientist @VZDBIR. Co-inventor of Attack Flow. Views are my own.
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patrickcmiller.bsky.social
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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malwarejake.bsky.social
This is drop dead sexy.
eatonphil.bsky.social Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 3d
Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.

No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.

h4x0r.org/funreliable/
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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cpsc.gov
Now is the time to prepare to not set your house on fire this Thanksgiving.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@cardsagainsthumanity.com, longtime supporter of libraries, organized a creative way to support ALA with presales of a special edition product—Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke—during Banned Books Week. CAH will donate 100% of proceeds to ALA.

ALA Explains the Donation: ala.org/CAH

#IGM25
Text in graphic: "Cards Against Humanity generously donated 100% of profits from their limited-edition informational product, 'Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke,' to the American Library Association. ALA Explains the Donation at ala.org/CAH." Illustration of a Cards Against Humanity box on top of a short stack of books.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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p-hunermund.com
According to signaling theory, some signals must be costly just to be costly—that's how you get a separating equilibrium. Think peacocks and their oversized feathers. So even if AI removes one costly signal, it doesn't mean we should stop technological progress — we'll just find new ones.
sarahoconnorft.ft.com Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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jomichell.bsky.social
Corollary of the 'lemons' analysis is that good candidates drop out because they won't accept the offered pay rate. Not clear if relevant to this labour market, given the bargaining imbalances. But highlights potential for AI to produce widespread informational asymmetries thus 'lemons' problems.
hern.bsky.social Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d
AI-written cover letters mean employers find it harder to spot good candidates, so offer lower pay across the board www.economist.com/finance-and-...
How AI is breaking cover letters
And leading to lower pay
www.economist.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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johannesbreuer.com
"dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap"
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13%

Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006)

The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%).
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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gopher33j.bsky.social
SUPPORT MANNY'S IF YOU ARE IN CHICAGO.
Mannys stating that if you come in during the first week of November and show your SNAP card, they will make a family meal for there or to go.
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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solomonkurz.bsky.social
New effect size just dropped: The PVPP
lakens.bsky.social Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15d
New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯
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November 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
gdbassett.bsky.social
Why are basic cyber security controls so effective?

There's no inherent reason the complexity of a control should affect its effectiveness. In fact, I'd expect fancier controls to provide better security than basic ones.
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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mikeyearworth.bsky.social
The OpenAi preprint on arXiv arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
arxiv.org
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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kordinglab.bsky.social
become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716
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September 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
gdbassett.bsky.social
Is there any way to keep Android/chrome from sharing Google links for everything?

I'm trying to share, not tell Google everyone I share with.
September 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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haneuljang.bsky.social
💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society
Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli
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September 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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mads100tist.bsky.social
And how!
A pic of my tattooed leg. The tattoo is a drawing by Ramón y Cajal, who founded the field of Neuroscience. The drawing depicts the cell types of the human retina, a sort of cross section of a layered cake full of blobs, longer ones, and horizontal lines. There are some that look like "balloons", as the tattooer called them. On the right, there's a tall and spiky dark guy called a Müller glia. Detail of the Müller glia. Imagine a medieval club, the kind you'll see at the Lord of the Rings movies: dark, long, spiky. It has some round shapes along and what look like electrical spikes at the bottom. Detail of the "balloon" shapes. They are arranged on several layers: more 'ballooney' on the bottom, and longer and slender at the top
September 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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erickapitanski.bsky.social
youtu.be/VzHcWZcqIA0

Dutch Waterfall scans coming out of the Netherlands, how you can tell over 1,400 IPs are working together, and novel temporal fingerprinting/visualization for scan traffic!

My PhD research.

lightscope.isi.edu
LightScope - See Your Scanners
lightscope.isi.edu
September 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
gdbassett.bsky.social
I've been torn on passkeys but couldn't explain why. I think I've got it now though.

It feels like we're saying "We can't trust you to give your password. So we've given your password to your device who we trust both to identify you and identify who's getting your password."
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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lookitup.baby
needlework is great because you get to stab things
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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librarianjones.com
Another librarian is fighting back. Let’s help her.
August 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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mapekala.bsky.social
Asparagus makes EVERYONE's urine smell weird, but NOT EVERYONE can smell that smell. For years, scientists thought that asparagus made only SOME PEOPLE's urine smell, because some folks reported that it didn't. This is an example of why it's so important to ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION.
August 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM