Google voice app wants a government id now. So I deleted it.

For those outside academia who are curious: as someone who has taught for ~25 years, many of us now face an existential crisis in assessing student work. Anything you haven't viewed a student actually writing down with their own hand is basically suspect; it's a shitty feeling, to put it bluntly

This week on the Untitled History Podcast, I sit down with @piratebeckalex.bsky.social to explore the myths and reality of the golden age of piracy, including how pirate attacks actually worked. Watch below or listen via your pod app of choice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtW... #history

I find @chess.com puzzles to be really demoralizing. Get a puzzle right and you get 2–5 points. Get one wrong and you lose 12–15 points. Correctly solve two thirds and you lose points. The hint button is an immediate loss.

This is the scan of the story, I will post a summary of it below.

I went to log in to a website and this is what my browser popped up for suggestions for the username input field.

Read my latest:

I recall there's an arcane sequence of dpkg commands to copy the set of installed Debian packages to a new machine. All I can find now is advice saying to use apt-clone...which doesn't seem to exist any longer.

How long until the AI boosters claim Ford was just using the wrong model or perhaps giving the wrong prompts?

Engineers who put controls on top of things clearly don’t have cats. My cat Kirk just turned off my computer by standing on the power button. My other cats trigger the stove controls. (Fortunately, the stove won’t turn on the induction…elements?…if they don’t sense metal above them.

Third party dynamic libraries were a mistake.

The Bluesky moderators suck so much. Punching Nazi TERFs is the moderate position.

My cat, Reginald Barclay, likes to bring socks from the bedroom down two flights of stairs to the basement. This afternoon, I took 28 socks back up to the bedroom. In the past 15 minutes, Reg has moved 7 of them back to the basement.

Remember, Gillibrand's son worked his internship at A16Z — the same firm that hired a man as a partner solely on the basis that he strangled one of Senator Gillibrand's constituents to death.

If you enjoy variant Sudoku and Metroid, I recommend playing logic-masters.de/Raetselporta.... It's the most impressive puzzle I've ever solved and its a lot of fun. It took me _many_ hours over 4 days. Don't be intimidated by the difficulty rating. It's long but—other than boss 3—not too difficult.

for what it’s worth, trans women in a federal case I’m covering have been denied their hormones while being held in men’s facilities under federal charges. I feel like cis people don’t realize that this is happening at all

exciting to read about this work on rv, uv has made Python so much easier for me

MBARI captured these views of glass squids in family Cranchiidae. I want to talk about some of the unique adaptations these Ghosts of the Midwater have & how they're adaptive to life in the twilight waters of the mesopelagic zone (200 m to 1000 m). (📷: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

“Demanding and accusing people of voter fraud as if it was a witch hunt and, and scaring them with the children, following them in their cars to school and to work. I mean this was a full-out assault. I mean, we haven't seen anything like this since Selma."

I genuinely hate this buddy-buddy shit.

My loves, please stay doing your business on Signal

Anil Dash and I have something in common. (Probably multiple things, but this one is key.)

Hey look. An actual upside of Bsky’s ridiculous age verification: I don’t have to disable chats.

There’s a barred owl hanging out in my yard. 📷 by @pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social

Only in seattle

THE FLORSHEIMS FIT FINE is the updated version of

"A Project 2029 that has nothing to say about either the Senate filibuster, or an ideologically captured Supreme Court, or extreme partisan gerrymandering — among other concerns — is not a Project 2029 worth the time or effort." Amen. Democrats have to address the fundamental flaws in our system.

It’s official - I’m EFF’s Executive Director! These are critical times for rights, justice, and freedom. But together, I know we can meet the challenges and keep building a future where technology really works for people. Onward!

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Bsky thinks my age is under 18 and also that my birthday is 1/1/1970 (neither are accurate).

A gentle introduction to lattice-based cryptography (Alfred Menezes) ia.cr/2026/1098

I played 1.e4. Kirk, perhaps unsurprisingly, hasn’t played a move yet. If he isn’t careful, he’s going to lose on time.

Faithful hound snoozes.

Some really big news out of Minnesota today! Story time. On a cold night in February, ICE agents chased a Alfredo, a DoorDash driver, through Minneapolis streets. Panicked, he called his partner and his best friend Julio: both urged him to come home. He almost made it. /1

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

A legend. I feel so lucky that I had the chance to exchange ideas with Peter a few times. Always a beacon of intelligence, curiosity, and kindness. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

i don't think you should be able to edit your bluesky posts. i do think that you should be able to edit the posts of anyone else who has at least 100,000 followers. the rest of you have put up with our crap for long enough and honestly it's about time we were taken down a peg

I received an email with Sender: "A" <[email protected]> From: "B" <[email protected]> macOS's Contacts has entries for each address but with display names "X" and "Y", respectively. macOS's Mail shows Y but periodically rapidly switches between X and Y before settling on Y again. Weird behavior!

The number of times I've written echo -e "\033[33;1mNow some text\033[0m" makes me think there's got to be a better way.

If there are any researchers here who could use RIPE Atlas credits, I have a metric tonne of them. Reply or send me a Germ DM.

The mods here have just the thinnest possible skins.

12 years. 6 months. 26 days. Argentine star Faustino Oro will become the second-youngest chess GRANDMASTER ever after securing his GM norm! 🇦🇷📈

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

For an assignment, I've asked students to produce two different Python programs with the same MD5 hash that behave differently (without depending on things like file names). I gave them two 5-line programs to start with that have the same hash.

This is so gross. Teachers are out here buying snacks and books for their students and you want to give these ghouls another chunk of taxpayer money. On top of the overtime and toy budget. On top of the 6 digit public salary. Just gross.

I'm writing an NSF grant proposal now. How do I justify spending my time writing proposals to an agency that is targeted for a greater than 50% budget cut, has made almost no new awards in 2026, and clearly is being destroyed from the inside out according to the Russ Vought playbook?

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.