this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

From: sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

Far harsher sentences than the worst J6ers, who are free today: “Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.”

America is a fascist wonderland. Jesus christ.

Reports from the Prairieland sentencing in federal court in Texas today are grim. (Yes, it’s the same Judge O’Connor you have heard of before.)

I might as well just leave the country at this point

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week and other self-help slop, is seeing his book sales crater because people are getting their advice from ChatGPT instead lmao

Why does anyone care that Trumps name is coming down from some stupid building? He’s still going to kill some brown people today. Maybe a few extra because he’s pissed

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

This paper (abstract below) on the lies the adtech/data broker industry tells courts has finally been published: yjolt.org/anonymity-co... Joint work with Joel Reardon at U Calgary and Ken Bamberger and Laurel McGrane at Berkeley Law. 1/

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

Accepted papers at CRYPTO 2026: iacr.org/cryptodb/dat...

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Their “distrust” in higher ed is predetermined, dogmatic. It is not seeking “to be heard,” nor does it ultimately care about evidence of higher ed working in good faith to make changes in line with their “concerns.” it is seeking nothing less than the destruction of the enterprise itself. 2/

Anyway, Platner is transparently a fucking nazi, this is textbook extreme domestic violence, and none of that should be a surprise because he was a fucking Blackwater genocidaire. And any of you dolts supporting him should get that demerit tattooed onto your forehead forever.

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The United States is an irredeemable place. We are living in evil times. The people who allowed and did this needed to be quartered.

Well well, an important new brick in the wall of evidence that the Indo-Iranian languages crossed the steppe to get to the places they're spoken today. The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

Me: hmm, what's the plural word for emeritus professors? My brain: Emiratis! Me: ... close enough

This blog post has an amazingly niche audience, but if you use the Helix text editor to write LaTeX, and are frustrated by its lack of support for SyncTeX reverse search, the following hack could work: snips.bearblog.dev/synctex-reve...

Here's a new long read from me, which is a return to a question from my PhD days, to a prehistoric time when prefixes were a lot more free, and to a bit of ancient syntax that got away from me. dannybate.com/2026/05/25/e...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Counterpoint: no, anybody who does violence for a living doesn't deserve better.

Leaving aside the obvious and intentional cruelty and xenophobia, this is also just a strategic blunder. For decades the US has been the target of highly-skilled immigration; there is no incentive for that any more. All the industries propping up the current economy will just die.

absolutely wild learning how many alt right trump supporter types were on h1b visas this whole time, there's no fell for it award meme big enough like c'mon

Anathem (Stephenson, 2008)

Why is this the case? Well the city & state have prioritized cars since about 1950 and either intentionally removed pedestrian crossings or didn't care to maintain them. Philly can create a much better Fairmount Park for its citizens simply by restoring a reasonable number of road crossings!

LogVOLE: Succinct and Efficient Chosen-Input VOLE for ZK and Beyond (Lucien K. L. Ng, Peter Rindal, Akash Shah) ia.cr/2026/925

Ben Brubaker (and Rahul Ilango) strikes again! A great article on a mind-bending result!

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

On the (Privacy) Harms of the European Digital Identity Framework (Christian Knabenhans, Shannon Veitch, Mathilde Raynal, Theresa Stadler, Sylvain Chatel, Wouter Lueks, Carmela Troncoso) ia.cr/2026/867

My time at RUB is coming to an end and I'm looking for an industry position. Primarily looking for remote or Rhine-Ruhr area positions, but will consider any exceptional offers. So if you're looking to hire a cryptographer to work on cryptographic protocols, or related areas, maybe we should talk!

I'm currently looking for some mix of Rust and LLM work, with a focus on Bay Area hybrid roles. I'm in the pipeline at a couple of places, but I'm open to exploring opportunities so please reach out if there's anything that you think might be a good fit (DMs open)

My new book, Lost Worlds, is out today! It tells a new story about how humanity went from hunting and gathering to the cusp of "civilization" that incorporates all of the stunning new archaeological work of the past couple of decades. I'm really proud of it! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

Lots to unpack in today’s US March trade data, but one, unsurprising data point, is a sharp increase in the cost of fertilizer imports. Big bump in value of US imports, especially from Russia (243m in the month including 147m urea), almost all US imports from Russia

Philly has the coolest anarchists

When we view various stateless indigenous societies not as primordially divine victims we must prostrate ourselves before, but as *peers* who explored and tinkered and connived and drama'd their ways into victories, insights and traps, we do them far more justice and open up far more opportunities.

Happy Sunday: 1,900-year-old Roman altar to the god of the sun discovered in Scotland The eyes, mouth, and six rays above the head of the god’s face are pierced to allow the sun to shine through. Busts of goddesses representing the four seasons are situated above.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

this is so cool

In the Northland, Tom Thomson 1916

Psychopathic army

As spring seems to have finally rolled around, I went out and took some photos along the Schuylkill. photos.pratyush.zip/spring-on-th... #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #philadelphia #NaturePhotography #StreetPhotography

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car