Financial Cryptography Final call for papers FC26 fc26.ifca.ai/cfp.html Submission deadline: 20 September 2025 Conference: 2–6 March 2026 St. Kitts Marriott Resort

Constraint-Friendly Map-to-Elliptic-Curve-Group Relations and Their Applications (Jens Groth, Harjasleen Malvai, Andrew Miller, Yi-Nuo Zhang) ia.cr/2025/1503

Financial Cryptography '26 call for papers is up fc26.ifca.ai/cfp.html Paper submission deadline is September 16

Fairness in the Wild: Secure Atomic Swap with External Incentives (Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan) ia.cr/2025/1086

We've been given an amazing opportunity with our round of funding to build out the next generation of the social web. Today, we're starting an experiment in paying that forward. Introducing Graze Grants, a project to help get other ATProto projects off the ground.

River Bandit Wildlife Rescue

whenever I'm up early I make sure to send a lot of emails

cops have their own distinct verb tense... like "I'm gonna have to ask you to step out of the vehicle" well go on then

what makes a good abstraction? (and other weird thoughts and tangents) Blogpost here: lmao.bearblog.dev/minimal-abst...

pilots address the cabin "the winds are from the east at 3 knots and the cloud layer starts at 7000 feet" like that means anything to the passengers. I think theyre just pretending to be so unselfaware as to think everyone else is as obsessed with the weather too, affected hyper focus

up late making slides for a conference that doesn't exist

good terminology clarity for people who are still confused by the idea of an "AppView"

Financial Cryptography 2025 begins now in Miyakojima fc25.ifca.ai

As such, we’re excited about this opportunity to put into practice the research ideas around individual and societal recommendation quality that our team has been thinking about (proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/..., dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...)

Our vision is state-of-the-art paper recommendation that takes the best of "social" (what made academic twitter great) and "content-based" (using modern NLP). Overtime, we will add (optional!) features using follower graph, interactions, text… Only possible using Bluesky algorithmic feed features

While right now the feed is based only on users you follow, over time we plan to build opt-in algorithmic recommendations to help you discover paper-related content matching your interests from across #academicsky

firefly is kind of an "authentication methods" playground, android app is my favorite though

Who was in charge of font spacing for this episode of MR. ED?

Beavis and Butt-Head go to Silent Hill

Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate

"I contend that my knowledge is complete!" "Per what?!?" "Per Martin-Löf."

Field-Agnostic SNARKs from Expand-Accumulate Codes (Alexander R. Block, Zhiyong Fang, Jonathan Katz, Justin Thaler, Hendrik Waldner, Yupeng Zhang) ia.cr/2024/1871

Amigo: Secure Group Mesh Messaging in Realistic Protest Settings (David Inyangson, Sarah Radway, Tushar M. Jois, Nelly Fazio, James Mickens) ia.cr/2024/1872

Tried reading the dictionary in bed last night. Didn't finish it. Got up to P.

I extended the record creation API a little bit to allow arbitrary base64-encoded DAG-CBOR bytes 🙃

This is a great community ethos. Did you know there’s also a “Newskies” feed with first posts from new users? I sometimes go in there and say hi to new folks coming on.

You don't know any undocumented people. I repeat: You don't know any undocumented people.

got oauth with bluesky to work with @mary.my.id's github.com/mary-ext/atc... library! everything worked the way it said it should here is a super basic example app I made that just logs in and shows you 5 people you follow github.com/jvns/bsky-oa..., just needed to fiddle with importmaps a bit

At least once a week I think to myself "maybe the rightwing ideologues are right, I live in a bubble so maybe my analysis is tainted by that." Then I remember: I'm reacting to things that Trump says on directly camera, unvarnished by any intermediaries.

One thing I'm really not a fan of is losers camping out in my replies to post about stuff completely unrelated to whatever I posted. My mentions aren't a goddamned open mic.

I've entered my first graduate recruitment season as a professor, and I am going to go crazy reading these rec letters. Writers, please remember...

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A #cryptography paper I like by J. Bonneau and @socrates1024.bsky.social: what if we didn't have public-key cryptography? It turns out that, in principle, we could still make a blockchain by using commit-and-reveal to prove knowledge of hash preimages jbonneau.com/doc/BM14-SPW...

lol the detective from 1971 just orders two cheeseburgers for lunch dig in tough guy

Every scene in the "computer room" from Mannix season 1, 1967 m.youtube.com/watch?v=liz3...

lol the detective from 1971 just orders two cheeseburgers for lunch dig in tough guy

Biopic must be short for Biographical Moving Picture

This is not a hole of hell. It is a hole of glory

Interesting,I l learned a about Mastodon by tweeting screencap from X

the best way to predict the future is to eat it

Antique luncheon meat

You've probably never seen an NFT with private metadata before, it requires a TEE based blockchain or similar, in this case Secret Network. twitter.com/socrates1024...

weird dream about visiting a cat therapy place, with hyperactive cats you can pet but Also just bounced around doing backflips and playing with toys. If you made a hoop with your hands they'd jump through it. There was also a low energy poodle, and grilled cheese and chocolate sandwich