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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h

Discount Goebbels: Don't call us fascist.

Also Discount Goebbels: Can I introduce you to my buddy who thinks the Nazis were the good guys?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@heidilifeldman There may also be state laws protecting you, as there are in New York: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S3253

NY State Senate Bill 2019-S3253A

Relates to recording certain law enforcement activities; provides that a person not under arrest or in the custody of a law enforcement official has the right to record police activity and to maintain custody and control of that recording and of any property or instruments used by that person to record police activities, however, a person in custody or under arrest does not, by that status alone, forfeit such right to record.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

30 years ago, Bob Morris, then a senior scientist at NSA, gave a keynote talk at the CRYPTO conference (the leading conference for academic cryptographers).

He opened by telling us he would reveal the NSA's first rule for cryptanalysis (which certainly got our attention). "First", he said […]

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The Borowitz Report: "Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize" (https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-explodes-with-rage-after-gavin)

Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The committee recognized Trump with a "certificate of participation."

www.borowitzreport.com

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Part of an art installation outside Waterloo Station in London.

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Just noticed this: quite close to the NSA, there's a Snowden Pond… (I wonder if the pipes or streams feeding the pond leak.)

A screenshot of a map. In the lower left, you can see Snowden Pond; in the upper right, there's Fort Meade. They're about two exits apart via the Baltimore Washington Parkway.

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@lordnad.bsky.social @[email protected] Also worth noting: in the 7th Circuit, there is a First Amendment right to film police (ACLU v. Alvarez, 679 F.3d 583, cert. denied).

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Urban Dinosaurs @urbandinosaurs.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

A northern mockingbird, an eastern phoebe, a grey catbird, and two American wigeons (plus a third bird I can't identify), on the Blue Mash nature trail in Montgomery County, Maryland.
#birds #wildlifephotography #birdsforbecsnan

The bird is perched on a thin branch, with mostly sky behind it.

The phoebe is perched on a bird house, with greenery in the distance.

A front view of the catbird, which has its beak open (it was vocalizing). You can clearly see the red underparts.

Three birds on a distant shore. The first is upright; the second is preening. The third, which I couldn't identify, is laying down.

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d

SCOTUS: Supine Court of the United States.
https://flipboard.com/@washpost/politics-5lk2u4b7z/-/a-bwDFOMfASg2NLyUGfRYATw%3Aa%3A419161690-%2F0

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Donald of Orange? The King in Orange?

Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 7d

From the Forward, an old Yiddish newspaper, an op-ed at https://forward.com/opinion/772696/yom-kippur-liturgy-gaza/ — it's an addition to a traditional Yom Kippur prayer.

Al Chet additions for 5786

Al Chet for the sin of sullying the name of God and Judaism.
Al Chet for the sin of abandoning the mitzvah of redeeming the captive.
Al Chet for the sin of bringing death and devastation upon our neighbor.
Al Chet for the sin of imposing our own suffering on the other.
Al Chet for the sin of denying our neighbor’s right to live.
Al Chet for the sin of violating the dignity of other human beings.
Al Chet for the sin of waging a war of revenge
Al Chet for the sin of starving people, especially innocent children.
Al Chet for the sin of stealing another’s land.
Al Chet for the sin of mastery and supremacy over others.
Al Chet for the sin of indifference and blindness.

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@normative.bsky.social That's an awfully fine line—the Fed dates to 1913 and the FTC to 1914…

Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 8d

There are fairly disgusting, not to say dishonest, recruiting ads for ICE on DC-area TV programs. They're aimed at current law enforcement officers, playing on their oaths of office (sanctuary cities require you to not protect the people you were sworn to protect) and saying that ICE only […]

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Jeffrey Goldberg @jpgoldberg.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Something in #vscode just wrote a #jupyternotebook in my name, seemingly based on the name I gave to the #python project. When I saw that the file existed, I assumed it was just some “Hello, world” like thing.

Eventually I looked at it.
It was extensive had lots of sentences like, “I haven't […]

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Tl;dr: this is more Trump BS and PR. https://flipboard.com/@npr/health-930k6cv1z/-/a-O-EwpVq0SriJIbcmuyY-JA%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 8d

In a 161-page ruling, Federal District Court Judge William Young finds that noncitizens in the US have the same First Amendment rights as citizens, and the State and DHS secretaries violated the law by arresting and deporting pro-Palestinian protesters […]

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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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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@danielrigal.bsky.social @cstross Worth noting: smartphone use rates among people 65+ is noticeably lower than for younger adults. https://www.statista.com/statistics/300402/smartphone-usage-in-the-uk-by-age/ shows it at about 75% of mobile phone users—and it will be lower overall because it is […]

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Ben @jianmin.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Is this satire or nah? I can no longer tell.

Top 10 books radicalizing the left. Includes 1984, the Lorax, It Can't Happen Here, A Handmaid's Tale, etc

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Urban Dinosaurs @urbandinosaurs.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

A great blue heron and the moon at sunset.
#birds #wildlifephotography #birdsforbecsnan #astrophotography

A great blue heron, looking to its right. It's standing on the grass at the edge of a shallow pond; the pond is filled with what appear to be cut-down reeds.

A 40% moon over a sunset-lit cloud bank at the bottom of the frame.

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Umm, @cstross ? (From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/books/review/the-martians-david-baron.html, a review of David Baron's new book "The Martians", about Percival Lowell et al. and the belief that there were canals on Mars constructed by intelligent beings.)

A quote from the article:

Camille Flammarion, the public intellectual so admired that a countess dying of tuberculosis bequeathed him the skin of her shoulders to bind one of his books — and he complied!— fanned the flames by envisioning ways we could communicate with our neighbors in space, flashing them shapes like a preteen neighbor from a suburban window.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 12d

Could I teach quantum computing? After all, qbits are really non-binary.

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 12d

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

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Urban Dinosaurs @urbandinosaurs.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

A tree at sunset.

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