I spent 18 months building Meutch, a non-commercial community lending site and it's live! Come check it out: https://samfirke.com/2026/05/12/meet-meutch/ Think a better version of Buy Nothing groups on Facebook, or a decentralized peer-to-peer Library of Things. To be useful you need other […]

New book, released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license: "Don't Get Hacked! Protecting Yourself at Home": https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/homesec/index.html Retoot for reach!

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116483896730844416 Is the passport still valid if you draw a little Hitler mustache on him? #uspol

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@SunOfStockholm/116449940428105777 can confirm

#a2council speed humps work! More please!

SIRENS!!!!!! 🚨

my favorite stones record ... by far! #rollingstones #vinyl #nowplaying

out to dinner

i feel like i have been packing for days ... (bc we started packing on friday)

national champions!

aw fuck it's late and errbody's gone to sleep

am i the only academic in the world who is too ... shy? ... to post their CV ? (i'd post anything for love but i won't post that ha ha)

jesus christ i asked an LLM to write a poem about a smart bomb that refuses to take a human life and when i read it i cried

after almost four years of french instruction (on duolingo), i can usually comprendre macron's twitter posts, and can mostly read le monde haltingly tbh, still, i'm pleased -- i (literally) flunked french in high school (drugs were way more interesting in the 60s ... way way more) and i abjured […]

i'm kind of ashamed to be ordering up the $20 monthly plan from anthropic ... but i'm asking Claude for a whole lotta ALT text tonight and ... well ... there it is 💸

i had coffee with dick haight this week. (he wrote find(1) !)

am i the only one who thinks these lunar missions are a stupid (and, frankly, boring) waste of scarce resources that we would be better off using to send robots to fucking tralfamadore, wherever? i'm really not interested in the science/technology of keeping humans alive in space! but glad they […]

i'm drinking cheap bordeaux and spinning old wax tonight what are you up to?

i'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street #vinyl #jazz #harryjames #leonthomas #theloniousmonk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/116381834489117133 @AADLeli do we have giant telescopes?

fool moon parade just went by. (hi @Erich, yes, still taking polaroids!)

X00Y #a2vanityplatespotting

i need to shop for a new suitcase — this one is only a couple years old and it's already full! (of stickers, i mean) also, it's too big. i am going to travel light on this trip I SWEAR I AM 😤

I post links about the quantum thing. That is my life now, I guess. Anyways, here is Cloudflare following suit and setting 2029 as target date, and Scott slowing losing his mind over people being dumb on the internet. https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/ […]

mood #jazz #vinyl #coltrane #johncoltrane #nowplaying

[sportsball] bta #goblue

family outing to see project hail mary noon matinee at the hell plaza octoplex

ann arbor pizza bracket (work in progress)

best dollar i ever spent! #sergiomendesandbrasil66 #bossanova #jazz #vinyl #nowplaying

A very nice explainer why "if you're so worried about quantum computers, why haven't they factored 21 yet?" isn't a very convincing argument. Look at the labels of the graph, and how extremely close the various lines are for factoring 21 and 2048 bit numbers. Polynomial scaling remains […]

honestly, i don't want to hear anything abut artemis or little finder guy

i don't ... love ... this LP, but it's fun to listen to! turn it up! #artofnoise #vinyl #synthpop #vinyl#synthpop#nowplaying

[i didn't actually fall] the view from here (i fell and i can't get up)

i have played the hell out of this LP since i bought it (over fifty years ago!) oh ha ha there's that stupid arrow on my scrawled signature, a phallic affectation that i picked up in high school, imitating tom wolfe, that i fortunately dropped some time in […] [Original post on a2mi.social]

i'm not wild about this LP — it's ok, but maybe i should make space on my shelf and spin something new (i mean old) in its place i paid six bucks for it a few years ago ... i'll bet i could still get a couple bucks for it! it bears mentioning that paul chambers […] [Original post on a2mi.social]

i graduated from ann arbor community police academy this evening 🎉🥳🙌🏾 we had cake and fresh fruit and chips, they spared no expense. i brought a dozen doughnuts (glazed and crullers from dunkin') bc i heard cops like doughnuts. (they all laughed)

who's the boss?

guest lecturing again, this time to seven students

stressy stressy me #alas

It is hard to maintain an appetite for political reconstruction. People want to forget awful times and awful conduct and paper over problems and conflicts. But we can’t ever have secular, pluralist constitutional democracy in the U.S. if we don’t do the work of disqualifying those who have […]

a conversation with claude

I dined at the CSE faculty meeting where one of the agenda items allowed me to shout things like SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI (extremely sarcastically) and I TOLD YOU SO (in a very mean and nasty way) and HA HA HA HA (triumphantly) into a mic. (AFAIK it is hard to revoke an emeritus appointment … […]

back in the saddle! i’m lecturing (to the six students who bothered to attend) on smartcards in the undergraduate security class.

who doesn't love johnny hodges? who doesn't love duke ellington? (get out of the room) #vinyl #oldvinyl #dukeellington #johnnyhodges #jazz

I made the mistake of asking Claude to suggest some updates to my steganography lecture and now I am stuck reading an inch of papers this weekend.

North Campus Diag under a partly cloudy blue sky

Oh wow, that’s cool! I’ve always really admired Gilles Brassard in particular! #turingaward

[sportsball] getting started on my bracket #goblue

Adjusted for atmospheric refraction, today there will be 11h 58m 30s of daylight and tomorrow there will be 12h 00m 58s. That means it's the refraction-adjusted equinox, which comes a few days before the astronomical equinox. Happy Springfraction!