Damn, RIP PGN, the Sean Connery of computer security. I learned a number of valuable lessons about composability from Peter (voting systems are hard). He was always asking shrewd, careful questions, like a bright ray of sunshine.

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...

Umm, wow, Obsession was good and very scary

"Lady Gaga Drummer Hears Death's Crystal Mountain For The First Time" youtube.com/watch?v=W8my...

What the hell is this cancer, reCAPTCHA?

WANT: The Bastl Kalimba is a wild synth that thinks it’s a thumb piano | The Verge www.theverge.com/tech/927638/...

AI is the New Netflix – On my Om om.co/2026/05/13/a...

Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car www.understandingai.org/p/why-it-mig...

Btw, a potentially helpful custom Gemini instruction for creating accessible alt-text

I believe it's time to dance!!! … "FROZEN" by LOVE OBJECT (Single) youtube.com/watch?v=IYNY...

"How RightsCon Is an Unexpected Stress Test for the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance" - Sally Wentworth, CEO Internet Society www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/05...

Friend soon to be stationed in Djibouti. Trying so hard to get all the jokes out of our collective system... almost impossible task

"ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop" by Sam Cole at 404media www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

The best thing you can do right now is reduce your attack surface. This and my other thoughts on the #AI era of cybersecurity in this Infosecurity Magazine piece by @dannypalmer.bsky.social www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news-feature...

"Auf Deiner Haut (official video)" by Selofan youtu.be/5eAfFFhj2QM via @YouTube

Credit where due, the analogy is from James Reason's 1990 paper and enjoyed a rediscovery in the medical space during the pandemic. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

At the Google EMEA Fraud Summit, Timo Wagenblatt brought the perfect Swiss analogy to defense-in-depth. Securing the Internet takes complementary layers of protection, much like Swiss cheese, where each slice covers the holes of the last.

arXiv is requiring people who submit work to the repository to.... read it like, one time before they hit send www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

Demystifying RPKI-Invalid Prefixes: Hidden Causes and Real Risks — Internet Society Pulse pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026...

General relativity was summarized by physicist John Wheeler as “spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”

Jfc black kyanite is cool af

"If there's one thing I could tell people to do, it would be to use a password manager. Do not reuse old passwords." @racheltobac.bsky.social, on how to protect yourselves from hacks

I am so geeking out on general relativity lately... and I clearly need to bone up on real analysis and differential geometry

"You Are Being Recorded" by @yaelwrites.com blog.yaelwrites.com/you-are-bein...

Holy balls, this opinion: "As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors . . . will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case." (via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

AI Tools and Assistants such as Claude Can Now Connect to CourtListener's Full Functionality | Free Law Project free.law/2026/05/12/c...

And in an overlapping open call, the Common Good Cyber Fund application opens on June 23 and runs for six weeks. It will award $3.5M in two-year grants to nonprofits to secure infrastructure and high-risk Internet users. Info session on May 20: www.isocfoundation.org/grant-progra... 2/2

Sharing the Spyware Accountability Initiative's 2026 Call for Concept Notes is now open. It funds civil society organizations that investigate and prevent the abuse of commercial spyware. Apply by June 30th: stopspyware.fund/apply/ 1/2

How Hubble Got Bluetooth to Talk to Space, and Why an Embedded Engineer Should Care medium.com/@ishakalkus/...

"our observed universe did start out in a low-entropy state, and entropy has been going up ever since. That's the ultimate origin of the direction of time. ..." 1/2

Sharing the Spyware Accountability Initiative's 2026 Call for Concept Notes is now open. It funds civil society organizations that investigate and prevent the abuse of commercial spyware. Apply by June 30th: stopspyware.fund/apply/ 1/2

shebang llm is the Sixth Seal breaking

Opinião | Proteção infantil erra ao penalizar ferramentas de segurança digital www.poder360.com.br/opiniao/prot...

Browsing designer collections, I am completely captivated by these disco ball motorcycle helmets from Frederick Anderson's Resort 2024 runway. (To distract myself from the upcoming workweek, thinking orthogonally from work is best.) 1/2

Even if the EU’s age verification app and EUDI wallet improve data confidentiality and decentralize data to users’ phones, their promise of empowerment falls short due to centralized critical functions, writes Thijmen van Gend.

It’s probably worth noting that at this point in time, it’s nearly impossible to buy a new car that does not have a SIM card, which allows it to constantly upload data using cellular networks. This means even if the car manufacturer doesn’t outright sell the data, telcos still know where you drive.

Living on the East Coast means my radio-controlled atomic wall clock is completely deaf to the atomic (WWVB) signal from Colorado. In the attached video, I am using my smartphone to force the clock to sync to exact Internet time via a clever hardware hack. 1/4

Living on the East Coast means my radio-controlled atomic wall clock is completely deaf to the atomic (WWVB) signal from Colorado. In the attached video, I am using my smartphone to force the clock to sync to exact Internet time via a clever hardware hack. 1/4

Today, I was scheduled to be a presenter on a panel at Rightscon titled "Is Freedom of Expression Dead? Rethinking free speech in times of authoritarianism." Really sucks that it was cancelled by pressure from an authoritarian government.

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

Rachel Entrekin Wins Cocodona 250 Outright, Outrunning Sleep Deprivation and Entire Men's Field run.outsideonline.com/news/2026-co...

I love @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/03/07/g... and @apc.org AI policies. www.apc.org/en/apc-polic... Currently working on a policy to guide @okfn.bsky.social and I am learning a lot from them.

Excited to share this piece from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social on The Public's Science-the initiative I co-lead with @scijust.bsky.social. How do we build a research ecosystem that is genuinely publicly accountable, not just publicly funded? That is the question we are working with many others to answer.

fashion is so cool

Canvas is hacked and stressing out 230+ million students, teachers and staff during finals. What does this mean and how do we stay safe? What are the next steps for the 8,800 affected schools during finals. Answered below in my video:

I am back in the US after planning to be in Lusaka for this week. Re the Rightscon cancellation, read this first-person account "I was one of the Taiwanese civil society participants whose exclusion had reportedly become a condition for the summit to proceed." lezismore.org/rightscon202...

Ganymede is the only known moon to power a magnetic field. Now, it may also be the only known body to still be forming its core. 🌑 Read more in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti... #space #solarsystem #nasa

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

Where are my age verification law and policy nerds at? There's good news from Texas! A federal judge just denied the Texas attorney general's request to enforce the App Store Accountability Act while a legal challenge proceeds. Texans won't have to upload IDs or scan their faces to download apps.

We don't have to imagine an internet without intermediary liability protections like Section 230: in India, a YouTuber's review of a new Motorola phone has resulted in not only a takedown of the video but a civil defamation case against platforms hosting the review: restofworld.org/2026/motorol...