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UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry: I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]

I know my wifely duties.

John Oliver meets Bernd das Brot. It goes about as well as you expect. Mist. https://youtube.com/shorts/k315NvOdHvc?si=Rzo48AYKIFMKfOe8

Me: I'm in a meeting! @saraislet : I was in a meeting first! Me: I doubt that, my meeting started at 8am @saraislet : you were on the toilet! Me: I was in a meeting while I was on the toilet!

You can now use X-Wing and other post quantum KEMs on Cloud KMS, adding to the support for ML-DSA that was added earlier this year. Note that it will still take a bit to make the TLS connections for Cloud post-quantum, so this is mostly for experimentation and does not give you full quantum […]

Fuck these guys. “The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.” […]

Unicorns just leveled up.

Apparently NIST made a rather embarrassing typo in SP 800-227, defining ML-KEM as "modular lattice key encapsulation method" instead of "module lattice key encapsulation method", and now @paulehoffman challenges me to a multi paragraph toot about this topic. Let's start with a fun fact: while […]

Sealed data

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

When you think about it, we really should call "Tesla autopilot" vibe driving

Petition to rename hypoglycemia into "cake or death"

This is the point in american history where i would just load the save from september 10 2001 and try again

… How it ended! #cat meets #printer Jetzt wisst ihr, warum ich nicht #duplex drucke. #catsofmastodon #hp #drucker #mäusejagd #katze #LebenmitKatze #fullduplex #Duplexdruck #duplexprinting #hunt #wildlifeofstubentiger

"Don't mock or you'll be deported" is the mark of a weak, decadent nation, a petty and insecure failure unworthy of respect.

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology! […]

Binah: "Ah that's your problem right there, there are outlets that power the vacuum monster, I will fix that for you for free, no problem"

/9 By the way - we should also fight the inclination to abandon the rule of law because bad people are cynically abusing it. First, while bad things happen on a national scale, every day on a micro scale advocates use the rule of law to fight injustice and improve lives.

/7 SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, the entire academic and intellectual infrastructure that brought us here: they're nothing but pretentious Trumpers. At least the guy in the MAGA hat and "fuck your feelings" t-shirt is honest about who he is. These people are not.

@sophieschmieg AHEM https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1582-8

Calling linear regression "one layer neural network AI" going forward

Unenforced type checking and significant whitespace

Remember the time when the best and worst thing about computers was that they did exactly what you told them to?

Couldn't not do this

Also, “Executive Orders” are not laws. They’re orders to the executive branch of the federal government. If you don’t work for the executive branch of the federal government (say, for example, you’re a state election official), presidential executive orders don’t apply to you.

A key should always be considered to consist of both raw key material and all metadata required to fully describe and execute the associated cryptographic function.

Please do not vibe code reference implementations. FFS.

Teaching my wife German, one Sendung mit der Maus at a time

The EU published a roadmap for PQC that is only 15 pages long. I didn't know that it was physically possible for an EU document to be this brief.

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

Question: are morphisms that map anywhere but the domain called exomorphisms or ectomorphisms?

Since I keep seeing people refer to that paper on replicating quantum computing factoring records with an abacus, here is an equally reductive rebuttal of it: This is akin going to a car manufacturing line, pointing at a chassis that is somewhere at the beginning of the line, and replicating the […]

In Trump America, Kennedy assassinates YOU.

@saraislet , seeing a crab from an angle on my screen: turtle! Schildkröte! Schildkröte with too many legs! Schildspinne! I think we should petition Duden to rename Krabbe into Schildspinne

I did not expect my VP to casually drop his timeings for glitchless dark souls speedruns in a meeting. I should have, but I did not.

Damn girl "if you're actually an imposter, it's not a syndrome" https://youtube.com/shorts/xBilK3gT5e0?si=wjaHcqEdwb_DzhL9

SRE, noun: a person who is not afraid that a lightning strike will cut off power to one of their precious datacenters, but somehow cannot handle the inevitable march of time expiring their certificates.

I have always resisted merchandising my...err...brand (ew), but I might just have to have some mugs or t-shirts made with a few of these quotes (someone sent me this and it made me lol)

I feel like Spiderman should have at least two more eyes.

Modern life hack: when meditating, you are supposed to count your breath from one to ten, but nothing in the instructions forces you to do so in decimal. Use hexadecimal instead! You can simultaneously train your visualisation techniques by visualizing four lights, turning on and off in the […]

TIL that OpenSSH now warns if you aren't using a PQ cipher! https://www.openssh.com/pq.html

Team: what policy is that? Me: one second Me *type type type* Me: this policy

Work now wants me to support my team with how ML is transforming the industry. I feel like I've been doing a pretty good job with that so far, but it can't hurt to ask: what would you want to know about module lattices?

Colleague: on the other hand, it would be another opportunity for you to work a Dyson swarm into a serious work document, so maybe you should take this AI.

Dear giant SUV, who thought that your inability to fit into the right turn lane without taking up half of the bike lane combined with your desire to turn right allowed you just use it, even while it was occupied by me, this time I tested whether your paint had a Moh hardness of 2 (can be […]

My biggest contributions to the field of cryptography so far: - coining the term "fancy crypto" for anything beyond encryption and signatures - suggesting the name plants@ for the photosynthesis/Merkle Tree Certificates IETF mailing list. I can't claim the backronym "PKI, Logs, ANd merkle […]

Neurotypicals: "Just break big tasks into smaller steps!" ADHDer: breaks task into 108 micro-steps, gets overwhelmed by the long list, abandons task, start to research road building in the Roman Empire for 6 hours. #adhd