It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that. —Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags. You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

I know that if we all completely stopped reacting to Alex Jones he probably won’t just die, but it seems to me we should give it a shot.

Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Love and thanks to everyone who has checked out my new album, “The Resurrection Game”. It’s been out for five days now! 10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙 You can listen to it here: ffm.to/pm4q3vm

The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years

Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.

A fun project I've been working on for a while is out now, In Formation Magazine, tagline: "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." I'm a contributing editor and columnist. informationmagazine.com

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

#NoKings in San José.

so i'm teaching a course on "hope" and what's being described here is literally despair

Long but good read on Martial Law in the US. If you are being fearmongered about the issue, it's complicated and not nearly so linear or universal as those talking about it suggest. And it's not anything the US military is prepared to do by doctrine/geography. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

My first song in 5 years came out last Wednesday. It’s an indie-folk song I wrote about being a deeply romantic person living in decidly unromantic times. Here’s the link if that sounds like it might be your kinda thing: ffm.to/n35r6m7

I've recently discovered that a fun way to get over any lingering anxiety about releasing an album is to immediately start making a follow up 😹

Thanks to @theneedledropnews.bsky.social for the first review of my new single, “No Happy Endings” 💜 theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...

Emma’s new single: moving swiftly already! Yaysville!

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

President Declines Gift (1925)

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it

Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.

This is literally how toddlers act

In my quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, I just filed my reply brief in support of my motion to unseal. The govt had opposed the motion, pointing to the need for secrecy in an open investigation. But that's what redaction is for. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you’re not following Riana Pfefferkorn’s efforts to unseal search warrants in the case of Indiana University professor Xiaofeng Wang, you should check out her recently filed reply brief; it’s a must-read!

Thanks to @midnightpals.bsky.social for publicizing this. It's over $4500 as I post. I've contributed, you should, too. Just a few bucks will help. gofund.me/3a08f14b

Future cybercrime will be 90% AI personas from different police departments proving to each other that they're real people by committing various test-crimes. archive.is/202504191120...

@iainthomson.bsky.social, well done here. @tamzen.bsky.social laughed so hard our eyes watered. Of course the default access code is 1234, of course. www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/u...

Heads up! Ahead of next week's markup, civil society & security experts are sounding the alarm, urging changes to the TAKE IT DOWN Act. We're seriously concerned it threatens encryption. www.internetsociety.org/open-letters...

Meme stolen from @yaelwrites.com

@theliamnissan.bsky.social, muchacho. Is there a way to send you a tip on something that might trend on The Bad Place?

OUTSIDE of you, there are MILLIONS of wolves

To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.

Reading about Microsoft canceling Skype is like reading about the death of some celebrity and thinking, "Oh, that's so sad. I didn't realize they were still alive. I will miss them."

Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨 Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

I know the folks behind this project and it is well worth backing to get information about what's going on in the US government and more. I backed it. If it sounds interesting to you, why not do it, too? www.kickstarter.com/projects/gov...

I am also proud to be a part of this letter.

Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data | Computer Weekly https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619260/Top-cryptography-experts-join-calls-for-UK-to-drop-plans-to-snoop-on-Apples-encrypted-data

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org is fighting for the digital rights of everyone in the USA. We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.

It deserves to be Bluesky's slogan, thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com.

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Submissions are OPEN for the Enigma track at USENIX Security 2025; submit your killer talk by 7 March 2025! https://sec25enigma.usenix.hotcrp.com/ (CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/enigma-cfp )

@mattlewishistory.bsky.social and @goingmedieval.bsky.social, thanks for this episode. @tamzen.bsky.social and I listened to it over dinner while enjoying cider from Posterity Ciderworks, which to us is like what we used to get when we'd visit Devon.