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Schuyler

@mrtowne.bsky.social

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Historian and Anthropologist of security technologies, once a great lockpicker, now mostly just a great dad. Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...

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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hi! I study the history & anthroplogy of security technologies, primarily locks, but have dabbled in door seals, encryption, etc.

Primary periods of focus are pre-history, 1700-1900 in the US/UK & modern era behavioral security in communities of affinity.

Formerly a competitive lockpicker.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 15h

Any math/coding geeks want to help me figure out a keyspace thing real (probably not actually) quick?

Medeco Biaxial locks have interesting internal limitations that are well documented but hard to calculate the effect of. Lmk if you have a minute to noodle & I'll send the very detailed details

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 17h

What a nightmare. ♡

For what it's worth, folks like you have given me both the confidence and language to comfortably and publicly rely on the assistive devices I need.

I'm still ambulatory without assistance more often than not, but I'm no longer ashamed and less afraid of the future. Thank you ♡

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 17h

I would add that the social pressure to perform ability is huge. My employees and boss all had visceral reactions to my use of a cane, it took a lot for me, just emotionally, to use it on days I needed it. Until I had more confidence I would often go without, exacerbating my issues.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 1d

Well would you look at that...

Wish you were here, I suppose!

A large sign advertising a current production waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 1d

Well would you look at that...

Wish you were here, I suppose!

A large sign advertising a current production waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing too exciting on the horizon. Going into more retail, but with nicer, more local company, so maybe an opportunity to lateral into a job with a chair someday.

SBux has had no future for me for a while now.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 3d

Goodbye forever, Starbucks. #209XXXX out!

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 5d

Probably worth reading a description of how it is typically staged so you have an idea...

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 5d

Have you read or seen Rhinoceros by Ionesco? That one is, I think, important to see performed, but Waiting for Godot translates well to audio.

The lead in the play in that recording actually points out that it was first performed on radio before it was ever staged.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 5d

Of a streaming option available either. That said, there have been some nice radio Productions of it over the years. A particularly lovely one, given that he was an Irish writer, was from this production company in Dublin:

archive.org/details/beck...

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 5d

I've read the script through a few times, as I workshopped some scenes from it back when I was in theater school in new york. The New York Performing Arts Library has many versions of it, but unfortunately they are all on physical media.

I don't know that it needs to be live, but I don't know...

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 5d

The best one since San Francisco Housing Crisis

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 5d

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 5d

My pleasure!

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6d

For music:
Orville Peck
Gong Gong Gong
Sleater Kinney
Dat Politics

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6d

For podcasts, @gayestepisodeever.bsky.social is closing in on like 300 episodes and is the only Patreon subscription I haven't canceled as finances got hideously tight this last year.

Also @adcreeps.bsky.social is my all time fav and though on a maybe indefinite hiatus, the back catalog is perfect

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6d

I don't watch a ton, just because of life, but I do love Dropout TV. Game Changer in particular, but all of it is very life affirming, as is their WHOLE DEAL and they are SUPER explicit about being cool with sharing passwords if you wanted to check it out w/out shelling out at the outset, just lmk.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6d

Mage Errant (a complete 7 book series that nails the landing) by John Bierce is my go to audiobook for people who like wizards in school but hate bigots. Very well performed as well.

He has a more recent series he just started that is a queer fantasy adventure love letter to Seeing Like a State.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6d

I think about trans liberation every day. Many times a day every day. I routinely search the names of artists and authors I have loved with the words "trans liberation" tacked on.

I am angry all the time.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7d

I have no skills
No training
No connections

But i cuss Nazis

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mav @mav.wtf · 7d

Weirdly I'm kinda happy I was here the day the CEO of this supposed public benefit corporation turned on the public for the benefit of their shareholders.

It's a pretty banal heel turn, as heel turns go, but still.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

The team is cooking on some things, including a “zen mode” that can serve as a feature gate for a bundle of settings that turn down the volume on outrage and toxicity.

More on the product direction:

bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 8d

"And in your ignorance you have arrived at the truth, as usual!"

- a thing I just screamed down the hallway, not unkindly, but a bit exasperated

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 9d

Giving me big Herzog "but do they dream?" vibes

Also: my parents 100% brought home and cooked live supermarket lobsters on the regular throughout my adolescence. I cannot picture my local supermarket without the lobster tank

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 9d

This is why I always expand the initial skeet.

Them surface scrollers don't know what they are missing down here.

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 12d

Fuckin' get 'em, Anil