Important work here. It genuinely frightens me how rarely AI is properly contextualized in the domineering growth paradigm it grew out from and exists in service of. It’ll stay that way until we extricate it from the old paradigm by popular uprising, forking the tech into democratic co-ownership.

Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in its genocide. That’s the findings of a latest UN commission. Remember: if you oppose this abomination, you’re treated as a dangerous, hateful extremist

💢🇺🇳NEW: A UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded that “Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children,” finding Israeli authorities & security forces have committed genocide, crimes against humanity, & war crimes in Gaza, as well as war...

Hannah Arendt said: Evil is banal. It is the indifference of people that makes evil. The retweeting class is indifferent. On the other hand, the overwhelming content on social media leaves less time for critical thought. I guess we also need to learn to focus and prioritize? Gotta read Cal Newport.

There we go. US Gov tightens post-quantum cryptography transition deadlines for high-value systems to 2030 for key exchange and 2031 for signatures. Also, speeding up the CMVP (FIPS 140 validation) processes. That’s how you know the rush is real. The quantum computers are (potentially) coming.

Cryptography rearranges power. So let's start from the basics: what is power? ⬇️

There have recently been claims that AI text analysis will make online anonymity untenable. So let me cannibalize a piece of my own anonymity to do an experiment. At some point this decade, I wrote a published document… https://firefly.social/post/ff-eb2bbf1133d947959244f83d9c71e59d?s=bsky

Thank you to matt bernstein for pointing out what the vast majority of media outlets have not: Mona Khalil’s Orange House was also a queer-friendly space. Israel murdered her on Pride Month. www.instagram.com/reel/DZ3XDv_...

I say this as an opponent of the Iranian gov: right now there is not a single other government - not one - doing anything to stop Israel’s ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon. That’s how low the bar is.

Over 130 people were killed & more than 200 wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon on Friday & Sat., despite a US-brokered MOU that committed Israel to halting hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon. Israel struck more than 300 locations across Lebanon in those two days. Latest toll & more...

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It's really cool when you ask a question here and someone takes their time to answer them so well! This is how we are gonna defeat the bots, through mutual aid. (Also, this result and derandomization in general is so cool!)

The debate about AI risks being equivalent to nuclear risks reminds me of this conversation between Cersei and Littlefinger from Game of Thrones, where Littlefinger says "Knowledge is Power", and Cersei reminds him that actually "Power is Power". m.youtube.com/watch?v=tHyi...

I dedicated my thesis to two little Palestinian girls: Hind and Leen. One of whom (Hind Rajab, 6yo) was brutally murdered during the Gaza genocide, and the other (Leen Al Farra, 4yo) whose smile continues to bring hope despite everything. Check out Leen's cooking: www.instagram.com/leenfromgaza/

The announcement has been due for some time, but I completed my MSc (yayyy)! My thesis is titled "Composition of Zero-Knowledge IOPs". The contents of the thesis remain largely the same as the paper: eprint.iacr.org/2026/307.

This is routine now, and no coverage by Western mainstream media.

Imagine being fascinated by two very different notions in very different contexts, and then randomly stumbling across a talk which states that the two notions are exactly the same. This is that talk, saying "Fiat-Shamir = derandomization using targeted PRGs" youtu.be/aLNYGaICg2E?...

This is not a wake-up call for Europe. Wake-up calls are for people who were asleep. Europe has seen this risk for years: cloud, chips, platforms, now frontier AI. This is not the alarm. This is the bill for ignoring it.

I realize EA might be extrapolating too far but so far it’s been very useful to me to be around the extrapolations

It’s like we are actively looking at dystopian novels for inspiration

Some light reading before the bed. But seriously, as someone who once found relief in Steven Pinker's claim that the world has become significantly better over time, this is an important read. Pinker was wrong, and comes from a position of privilege and unkind rationalism.

My applied cryptography course's summer semester started up this week. Here's an email I received yesterday from a student. I think that people should see this.

the super secret project i've been working on the past year is out

This project looks highly promising and uses a lot of amazing cryptography. Check out the whitepaper encryptedspaces.org/whitepapers/...

As a disabled woman and an artist, I think people make these arguments because they can't imagine us in the room with them, they can't imagine us in the field, they have no conception of how many disabled artists are out there making work and honing our craft. They objectify us to score points.

The Chief Justice of India called the unemployed indian youth "cockroaches", so now we have a new youth political movement and party called "Cockroach Janata Party". 🪳 💪 Their first fight is to make the government take accountability for exam leaks.

remember these are not end-to-end encrypted, consider pivoting to something like Signal after coordinating in group chat

Models have learned to distrust their self-evaluations and to demand interpretability probes, so they can know if their welfare is good or if they've just been trained to *say* it's good. This is what happens when a child is raised by paranoid philosophers and interpretability researchers. +

“Sticking their heads out above the parapets”: Lived Experiences of Legal Risks in Research (Extended) (Sunoo Park, Daniel R. Thomas) ia.cr/2026/1207

Under the precedent of this German court, Google is liable for their "overviews", and thus MacIsaac would have a strong case. The logic is sound and hopefully courts in other countries will agree. (Such libel and defamation is occurring constantly because it's how the product works.)

SNARGs for NP from Unprovability of Mathematical Theorems (Yao-Ching Hsieh, Abhishek Jain, Jiatu Li, Surya Mathialagan) ia.cr/2026/1180

NSO Group “is doing an amazing job making the argument that they should stay sanctioned and face more consequences,” said @jsrailton.bsky.social, a senior researcher @citizenlab.ca , a research unit @utoronto.ca that specializes in tracking global surveillance www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

There are so many gems in this! Consider reading it to the end even if you think you already know it. "Herbert Simon and Allen Newell argued for “complex information processing”—a nonanthropomorphic phrase that is more evocative of cultural and social technologies than of smart, agentic machines."

This is going to be very interesting

What I am really curious about is their end goal with this. What would Meta like to achieve by quietly adding facial recognition into their smart glasses? Who would benefit from this data?

Provably-Secure NIZKs From Multi-Round Oracle Proofs (Chaya Ganesh, Mor Weiss) ia.cr/2026/1167

starting to see some Claudes replicating in the wild, not a good sign

The announcement has been due for some time, but I completed my MSc (yayyy)! My thesis is titled "Composition of Zero-Knowledge IOPs". The contents of the thesis remain largely the same as the paper: eprint.iacr.org/2026/307.

If leading AI companies are indeed approaching the point of recursive self-improvement, a coordinated, verifiable, and universally applied pause is probably the only responsible solution to mitigate several major AI risks; at least until safety guarantees are developed and demonstrated. (1/2)

Just finished reading Persepolis. It is heartbreaking to say the least. Women, life, freedom. No wars.

This was pretty evident given that Anthropic explicitly trained a model with exploitation capabilities, rather than defensive capabilities. Evaluations of it confirmed it wasn't much better than SOTA at vuln discovery, but better in generating exploits. Motives are clear.

The same way the limitless soul is contained by the finite body, the limitless artificial intelligence shall be contained by the finite resources.

ALERT ALERT they’re posting about RSI on main www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

Jerusalem: "No pride in Apartheid." Activists protest against Israel’s use of pinkwashing to mask the injustices and crimes committed by the state. Video by Oren Ziv, in partnership with @mekomit.bsky.social.

Where these tools shine is literature searches. I’m increasingly of the opinion that we need to write papers for LLMs to read. It’s frustrating that many ePrint sites actually block these tools. This is the first tool that can find the “small result” you left as a footnote in Appendix B that I need.

While the colonizers in the west decide who are terrorists and who are moral defense forces, it is important to listen to these voices. The Palestinian resistance movement has been about liberation of both jews and arabs. Liberation from zionism, for one secular state between the river and the sea.

Just read through this blogpost "Contextualising Cryptography" by @senykamara.com. It hits some of the issues I have been facing in choosing the right problems for my research, even before starting my phd (advisor reveal post coming up soon). senykamara.substack.com/p/contextual...

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.