I have been pretty offline due to ongoing postpartum health Stuff but just popping up to say how grateful I am to live in a time when croup is a minor scary instead of a terrifying and frequently deadly thing. Vaccines and dexamethasone are miracles.

Using this opportunity to talk about my really cool clock again

@indirect.io pleased to have introduced the cube rule to another person today 🙏

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

This is an absolutely fascinating article, coauthored by @hypatia.bsky.social, about how predatory behavior and fraud / financial impropriety often go hand in hand. It’s long, but well worth a read. hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/n...

I don’t regret to inform you that in between discussing AI sales forecasting models, the sales guys at my hotel bar are talking about how brave the people in Minneapolis are.

@mmasnick.bsky.social has it 100% correct

Finally some good news.

I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.

here’s me in @newrepublic.com back in ‘20 on coptalk, “resisting arrest,” the standard of “reasonable fear,” police impunity, painfully blatant lies, and more of what we’re seeing, again, right now newrepublic.com/article/1568...

the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

My mum is knocking it out of the park as a grandmother in many ways, but one of them is that she has wildcrafted two nice strollers from the curb just in her regular travels, not even looking for them on garbage day or w/e

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

If our little guy ends up somewhere on the spectrum, I’m sure it will be all the Tylenol I took during my pregnancy, and not the fact that both of his parents have ham radio licenses 🤪

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Having been in the US on one of these visas… lol, lmao

The thing Eisner identifies that so many have missed abt the dangerous & escalating 1A restrictions is that the overwhelming majority of us do not have the resources to challenge the state in this way. If our key institutions cave in this moment, that opens the floodgates.

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

It’s weird that “euthanasia” is how this is being described when what kilmeade actually suggested is an execution.

as noted in the @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode on his book, TCW has no theory of mind for the right and does not regard them as individual actors with agency. the right is merely a reactive force responding at all times to progressive excess

Today in unhelpful AI suggestions

Includes a good explainer on why actual “burner phones” are impractical overkill for the vast majority of people, and *not* equivalent to “secondary phone you only use at protests or in emergencies” (which is what most ppl seem to mean when they say “burner phone”)

September is Baby Safety Month.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I love this website because sometimes you're replying to someone and they're like "as someone who lives in a bowling alley..."

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

This should go without saying, but the best thing for Canada to do as the United States quickly spirals into fascism and corrupt autocracy, isn’t to try to seem more like the United States. It’s to quickly double down on being even MORE Canadian. That’s the big advantage, the big opportunity.

Hello I’ve been mostly offline the last few months and also wasn’t in Vegas for security summer camp this past week Please say hi to the reason for my absence, his name is Douglas and he’s the sweetest little potato He arrived in early June and we’re over the moon 🩵

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

the brilliant @hypatia.bsky.social co-authored this article, and yes. it works both ways. hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/n...

I’m not a cryptographer, but to the best of my (reasonably extensive layperson) knowledge this is possibly the best FIPS 140-3 implementation out there in terms of minimizing negative security impacts when complying with some of the more boneheaded parts of FIPS.

I am begging the media to stop covering “idiot says thing on Twitter” as “idiot has successfully accomplished said thing”.

Come work with me, supporting in-house technology and security to help a vital non-profit investigative newsroom work more safely and effectively using technology. This is one of those roles where you can truly make a difference. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

I just finished @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social’s “The Butchering Art” after absolutely loving her book “The Facemaker” last year – both were gory & fascinating, inspiring & surprisingly uplifting histories of pivotal moments in medicine told via the doctor/scientists whose work the moments hinged on.