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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Blameless postmortem, but blame a little

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Criticizing Linux on Mastodon is really the best way to make men type paragraphs, isn't it?

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Looks like NIST's servers are still online at the moment.

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Remember to download any NIST SPs you need before tomorrow, they will be unavailable during a shutdown

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss.

US Dems could learn a lot from their failure.

Great piece from S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn.

Democrats: There is no “middle ground” on equal rights. Take it from UK Labour.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry:

I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I know my wifely duties.

Screenshot of Signal chat with my wife, where I tell her about the knotting news of the discovery that the unknotting number is not additive under connected sums

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

John Oliver meets Bernd das Brot. It goes about as well as you expect.

Mist.

https://youtube.com/shorts/k315NvOdHvc?si=Rzo48AYKIFMKfOe8

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Me: I'm in a meeting!
@saraislet : I was in a meeting first!
Me: I doubt that, my meeting started at 8am
@saraislet : you were on the toilet!
Me: I was in a meeting while I was on the toilet!

Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15d

You can now use X-Wing and other post quantum KEMs on Cloud KMS, adding to the support for ML-DSA that was added earlier this year.

Note that it will still take a bit to make the TLS connections for Cloud post-quantum, so this is mostly for experimentation and does not give you full quantum […]

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Fuck these guys.

“The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.” […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Unicorns just leveled up.

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Apparently NIST made a rather embarrassing typo in SP 800-227, defining ML-KEM as "modular lattice key encapsulation method" instead of "module lattice key encapsulation method", and now @paulehoffman challenges me to a multi paragraph toot about this topic.

Let's start with a fun fact: while […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Sealed data

A letter, labelled "Sophie" on my work keyboard

The other side of the letter, revealing a seal.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26d

When you think about it, we really should call "Tesla autopilot" vibe driving

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26d

Petition to rename hypoglycemia into "cake or death"

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 26d

This is the point in american history where i would just load the save from september 10 2001 and try again

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Keywan Tonekaboni @keywan.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

… How it ended!

#cat meets #printer

Jetzt wisst ihr, warum ich nicht #duplex drucke.

#catsofmastodon #hp #drucker #mäusejagd #katze #LebenmitKatze
#fullduplex #Duplexdruck #duplexprinting #hunt #wildlifeofstubentiger

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26d

"Don't mock or you'll be deported" is the mark of a weak, decadent nation, a petty and insecure failure unworthy of respect.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 27d

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights

www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28d

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology! […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Binah: "Ah that's your problem right there, there are outlets that power the vacuum monster, I will fix that for you for free, no problem"

A black kitten looking up from behind the TV sound box

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

/9 By the way - we should also fight the inclination to abandon the rule of law because bad people are cynically abusing it. First, while bad things happen on a national scale, every day on a micro scale advocates use the rule of law to fight injustice and improve lives.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

/7 SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, the entire academic and intellectual infrastructure that brought us here: they're nothing but pretentious Trumpers. At least the guy in the MAGA hat and "fuck your feelings" t-shirt is honest about who he is. These people are not.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29d

@sophieschmieg AHEM https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1582-8

One neuron versus deep learning in aftershock prediction - Nature

Nature - One neuron versus deep learning in aftershock prediction

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