Inventing the #Renaissance: @adapalmer.bsky.social on Golden & Dark Ages. Great interview with Nikolay AKA 'Socrates' from SingularityWeblog. The book is only $3.99 on US Kindle at the moment. www.singularityweblog.com/ada-palmer-i...

I've just sent an email to [email protected] saying the following: I tried to send a message via your Bluesky address, but it wouldn't go. @support.bsky.team Why is the writer, Sarah Kendzior, suspended from Bluesky? Many of us here on Bluesky want to know. Thank you for addressing this.

Hey @support.bsky.team What is going on with Sarah Kendzior? Why was she suspended with no explanation? Are you doing this to lesser-known people that we’re never going to find out about?

@pfrazee.com why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?

En-shitification.

Laura Tingle: "The revelation that ASIO has identified Iran as being behind at least two of the antisemitic attacks seen in Australia since October 7, 2023 has both shone a new light on the Iranian regime's activities in Australia..." #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Oh yay, they announced it!!

i remain convinced a f500 company is going to nuke itself by accidently leaking every corporate secret it has. salaries, negotiations r&d, strategy, pii etc etc because of some janky model in like idk a sharepoint plugin

Finished over the weekend. Great job @jacobsilverman.com on this book. Worth preordering.

I second that.

The food in Beirut Airport on the departure side is really shit. Surprisingly bad in a country famous for food. #Lebanon

Great example of #cyberespionage from #Syria. #cyberwar #infosec newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

My buddy Kevin McDonald from the Irish Ranger Wing interviewed by @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social on @theteamhouse.bsky.social about #Peacekeeping and UN Security in Africa. Highly recommend his book 'A Life Less Ordinary'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwH_...

Wishing a very happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough, 99 years young. Is there anyone else so universally admired and loved? What an impact he's had on so many of us. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Thankfully I am not in the US, UK or Australia right now listening to their bullshit politics. I'm in Cambodia enjoying the Water Festival in Phnom Penh at the Zombie Birdhouse bar on Street 110.

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

US Tariffs: 20% tariff on EU 32% tariff on Taiwan 24% tariff on Japan 25% tariff on South Korea 10% tariff on Ukraine ... 0% tariff on Russia

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

This hasn’t aged well.

Insomniac? Love infrastructure? The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org has your back.

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

No chance I will go near the US as a tourist.

Avoid travel to the United States for the next four years. 🙏

Kennedy has the potential to kill millions with his incompetence.

Also, true story

I am pivoting to Taylor Swift there's no more security we gave Russia all the codes 😔

It’s always ridiculous to argue with the idiots who blame everything on the modern diet. The healthful lifestyle of Native Americans did not save them from European pathogens.

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.

If you work in the American tourism industry be prepared to bring a book to work because the world has no plans on visiting you.

For American Friends.

if you remade The Six Million Dollar Man today it would be about a normal american with a chronic medical issue

Who is also now a bureaucrat!

RAFFLE 🏆 Like, reskeet, and follow by Feb 25 (midnight EST) and you can win a signed copy of my Littoral Commander #wargame. May the odds be ever in your favor. 😉🎲 #wargaming

🧵 Y'all ever think about the way things that don't seem related very much are? I was thinking about America's literacy problems. Around half of American adults read at or below a sixth grade level. Only 37% read a novel or short story last year. That's bad. For multiple reasons.

Mass deportations could lead to higher food prices and construction costs. Immigrants without legal status make up about 50% of US farmworkers, many with specialized skills crucial to agriculture. Political science professors weigh in #immigration #ICE #farmworkers https://buff.ly/3QnuJ9P

If I'm reading Politico, I want expertise on U.S. politics. Seems pretty simple! This is like someone from WIRED writing that they don't know who Alan Turing is, or what he did. Which, BTW, would never happen.

I am so glad I never have to fly in the US.

Do you need expert technical knowledge and policy insight on drones, spatial data, GIS humanitarian aid, and privacy protection? I can help with that. I'm seeking work outside of the United States, as well as fully remote positions. Open to consulting, part-time, and full time work.

I found this podcast about hippie technologists in 1960s Boston by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social absolutely fascinating. Great for long plane flights. #technology www.sense-of-rebellion.com

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

I'm sure the Russians, Iranians and Chinese won't take advantage of this stupidity.

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

I won’t stop posting this.

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

I'm reminded of the scenario in @daniel-suarez.com near future science fiction novel 'Change Agent' where scientists abandon the US to work in Singapore because of the hostile environment.

This weekend I've decided to finally read Balaji Srinivasan's terrible fucking book, "The Network State." I've put this off for as long as I possibly could. Here goes. thenetworkstate.com/book/tns.pdf

This is why Space Caligula throttles posts with external news links on X. He encourages users to post their made up “citizen journalism” and conspiracy theories directly on to his platform. It’s much easier to manipulate vibes than it is to argue with facts.