Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

I love it when people try to say bad stuff about Portland but we just end up sounding rad as fuck.

So funny that Noem's trip is being spoiled by perfect weather. It might be the nicest day of the year in this beautiful city.

Also, you'll see this is a screenshot by a video from a guy named David Medina. Medina was convicted for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and was later pardoned by Trump. He has since rebranded himself as a Trump-aligned social media influencer.

More here: www.opb.org/article/2025...

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

Oops! NYT seems to have accidentally published an editor's comment. There's no way to read "Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster." as anything other than a comment on the piece and its authors.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US.

ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon.

Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists.

This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/

jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers.

Some additional thoughts 🧵

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.

I’m begging people to realize that there is a link between these big tech investors, Andreesen in particular, their hideous racist politics, and the fact that so many of them are using vast fortunes and investments to prop up surveillance tech companies that blanket both cities and borders.

A-grade trolling in the intro: "Since factorization of 15 = 3·5 by a quantum computer, society is taking the threat of quantum computers more and more seriously."

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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generative AI is the most socially harmful technology since the automobile, but at least no one has to write shell scripts anymore

We teach a broad range of political perspectives here at Harvard... ranging from those of *checks notes*... center-right military officials to... *squints* ultra-right market absolutists, and you should be more grateful for that.

This was my classmate. He was a student in my ethics class, and we used to sit next to each other. Most dedicated person in the class to legitimate justice for all people. He legitimately cared. I am so horribly heartbroken

The data in the paper is a few months out-of-date at this point. I gave some more recent figures in my RWC 2025 talk.

New paper(!) on the "clubcard" data structure that we're using for WebPKI revocation checks in Firefox.

A clubcard is a membership test for an r element subset of an n element set. Size is ~1.13 log(n choose r) bits. Or (better!) ~1.13 Σ log(n_i choose r_i) where i indexes blocks of a partition.