john yoo probably regretting some life choices these days

introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: - red fox - wapiti (north american elk) - sea lion - musk ox - european hedgehog

welp, kegsbreath and that mission commander done them some war crimes the second geneva convention and international maritime law are very specific about the duty to rescue shipwrecked people, including enemies the uk tried a u-boat crew over this in 1945 casebook.icrc.org/case-study/b...

doug mcilroy attended a seminar len and I gave at dartmouth during the very early days of language-theoretic security. he said it made a lot of sense and fit right into the unix philosophy thank you uncle doug, I hope we did good, and thank you for keynoting the workshop 🥹

you've just died. the 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. no cheating!

this is indeed dark as fuck, but I have to wonder whether the ukrainian units that are already gamifying their own operations are using this as a signal or if they've written it off already hell of a blow against prediction markets if the latter, and I think it can be reasoned from first principles

if you see this post an anime you love:

you'll be visited by three spirits the three spirits:

fascinating #longread about a guy in reconstruction-era north carolina who decided to compensate the people he had enslaved for their work under slavery, the wild backlash after he died, and the lopsided policing of deviance www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/p...

You probably wouldn't be surprised that there was a speech called "Rage Against the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine". Nor that it was given at DEF CON. You might be surprised that it was given in 2017. These problems ain't new. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Hx...)

I have two extra bones in each ankle and no underarm hair

some more pixels for everyone

nvidia seems to have more or less decided that if we really are all keynesians now, he who out-keyneses the competition wins

I don't get invited to policy workshops anymore

a thing I think a lot of people, even a few standard deviations above the median voter, don't entirely realize about organizations the size of a federal government is that by necessity they are made up of smaller departments and some of those departments *hate* each other

I've been saying for years before llms that it's going to be hilarious when "friendly ai" gets popped with a parsing vulnerability this prediction has paid off far sooner than I expected and in ever more hilarious ways

this is a great thread about how the mv dali crashed into the bridge unusually, they were able to trace the system failure back to a single root cause! nancy leveson's "engineering a safer world" is a good book about why this is rare direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

proof y’all are sleeping on the jewelry i weave

absolutely bonkers claim by dhs federal acquisition regulations have a *lot* to say about first-tier subcontractors and the information a prime contractor has to provide about them to the government, and agencies very much do have a say the word "subcontract" appears over 3500 times in the FAR

know your perverse incentives, advance review copy edition

house Rs have a much thornier decision to make than whether to accede to trump's threat to primary anyone who votes to release the files first, will there even be a trump org left to primary them once the dust settles? then they have to guess if their constituents will primary them if they vote no

hey there little dude

that time my dad went full on guerrilla activist inside exxonmobil: a thread my dad is a chemical engineer and spent his whole career there. during the '70s oil crisis, one of his first projects was a pilot oil shale refinery. exxon bought some land in colorado for this, including water rights

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the second "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM 2026, along with Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), The Linux Foundation, NLnet foundation, Prototype Fund 🥳 pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...

norman borlaug plausible bc epstein courted scientists especially hard for a while, and as a nobel laureate I figure borlaug would have been a target sad bc c'mon, he married margaret gibson in *1937* and they were together until she died in 2007. he went two years later. tale for the ages

My friend @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social wrote a great piece about the Ukrainian drone industry that features the only accurate diagram of a FPV drone that I think I’ve ever seen in a major publication: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

time for your regular morning cat burrowing under my arm

obligatory, really

good morning lil dude

good morning baby

whee, heading home

hell yeah apfelschörle o'clock

the drunkest I've ever been was on jagermeister and the stupid thing is it happened twice the first time I was trying to be friendly to a finnish grad student and matched him shot for shot the second time, at a hacker conference, my coauthor had to get me into a cab and put me to bed never again

whew, made it to bonn with about an hour of lead time before my talk I've been off the circuit since before the pandemic but I guess my "everything gets finished but only at the last minute" work ethic still lives chatham house rule, so no recording or slides, alas

dear theo francken: can we please please pleeeeease stand up some anti-drone falconry units the eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest raptors and a species of least concern; with a grip strength of up to 500 psi, an adult female can solo a deer

judge immergut: "I asked nicely. now I'm telling you." istg I could never be a federal judge; I'd constantly be jailing doj attorneys for contempt "oh now you're sorry? well you can think about how sorry you are for the next 30 days. oh you have a caseload? you can think about that too. bailiff?"

I don't know who needs a kitty headbutt right now, but here's one for you

a jury of my peers? twelve of the reviewers of my conference papers and journal articles?

tired pookie

nerd sitcom idea: "the odd couple" but it's a physicist living with a machinist for bonus laughs, have the machinist be the tidy one. a place for everything and everything in its place!

the late 90s/early 2000s are on the line and they want their neoliberalism back

she is hands down the most attached cat I have ever had if I'm lying down, she will run up and occupy my whole chest while pressing her head into my hand it is rather distracting but it sure is adorable

American Politicians cannot be expected to live up to the outrageously high standards of the Insane Clown Posse.

hydrothermal amethyst, from aliexpress. picture does not do it justice, it's a deep imperial purple and clear as a windowpane don't know what I'll make from it yet but it'll be something special

gotta feed the children

mirror, mirror on the wall who is the loudest baby of them all

debating whether "anarcholudism" rolls off the tongue better than "anarcho-game-theory" it's still mixing greek and latin, but that's slightly better than mixing greek and english

I love how in every aliexpress and temu product video the demonstration models are wearing proper ppe and then in every youtube video where some guy in his garage shows you a technique he's just yolo-ing his fingers

first welding lesson accomplished! I am not a good welder yet but I can officially weld @valkyrie.hacker.gf is getting her lesson now, we only have the two masks need to find out how to change the speed on the wire feeder to dial it in really nice but I'm happy to acquire this skill

I seem to be entering my uncle charlie era and I'm 1000% ok with this do stuff in the workshop erryday, accumulate roll of fifties