I have a great memory from high school of watching two men drive up in a golf cart to one of those electric construction signs, reprogram it to say “Hey Barney!” and then drive away cackling. Inspirational.

The original cache of DataSet 8 (with the incorrectly redacted files) has been added to @ddosecrets.com

I pry open the crab shell but instead of sweet crabmeat I find a tiny, bustling city filled with people who have my face. It tastes terrible

In the last several months, @ddosecrets.com has been powering through archives of Epstein emails and files and releasing them for free to the public. No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release. They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

Underexplored genre: atomic steampunk. It’s steampunk, but they use radioactive rocks to boil the water. Victorian Chernobyl.

This is a reckless and self-destructive decision by ACM. It violates trust to cover up the peer-reviewed abstract with a lousy, error-ridden counterfeit. It sets a bad example for the community, implying that LLM "summaries" have epistemic value and that reading isn't necessary.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

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Great rundown of the Section 230 debate and why its necessary to preserve by @backdrifting.net! backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...

CDs were a wild technology. “Oh yeah, there was this era where we all had high-precision lasers at home and burned data into reflective platters, like a sci-fi reenactment of etching the early written word onto clay.”

Walking to my car, I pass two men in button-downs and overhear an adamant voice: “I have seen people levitate. I have seen someone crawl up the wall.”

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

If you are lonely go to the woods, there are bloodless things there that breathe, things that would love to card through your thoughts like wind through autumn leaves. Things that would keep you company in your own mind, curl around your moonlit flesh like roots forever.

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

I'll be joining the folks from @2600.com and @offthehookradio.bsky.social to talk about the Epstein emails released by @ddosecrets.com.

Cinnamon was wearing broccoli as a hat

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

That scene in Attack of the Clones where C-3PO has his head attached to a battle droid and talks about how strange it feels is probably one of the only instances of the droids having body dysphoria, because the rest of them are CIS

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

In 2022 I gave a HOPE talk about the underground abortion movement that was covered by journalist Jessica Bruder for an Atlantic cover story: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc... Sad to hear that HOPE lost its venue because of radical zines.

I've never been prouder of @2600.com and speaking at @hope.net than now. 2600 has apparently been told HOPE can't return to St. John's University - allegedly because some attendees last year were ""too anti-police."" Censorship won't stop the signal - especially not 2600 Hz

HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...

applying for jobs again

I just saw a tiny girl, swiping at her phone in banal disinterest from her stroller, while her mother sprinted to drive the chariot before her, and it was like Cleopatra being spirited by her servants on the royal litter

Reading police radio transcripts. “Unsure if related to this protest, but three people have just walked up with a tuba, a trombone, and a drum. We’ll keep you updated on that.” Ten minutes later. “It’s an update on that protest. They have added a tambourine, but they remain peaceful at this time.”

Very cool work featuring several students from my lab! Analysis of how some publications (NYT) set the agenda on coverage of trans discourse for local media in some states, who lead agenda setting for other states' local media - all measured via topic modeling and transfer entropy

hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated) doi.org/10.57814/557...

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People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know - Your friends' friends' parents - Your partner's parents' friends - Your boss's kid's teachers - Your friend's doctor's parents - Your ex's partner's colleague List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria

Part Two of the #ForeclosureFiles reporting explores how the Trump regime gutted the CFPB, which was investigating the type of "zombie loans" reported on in Part One www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... Donate now to help DDoSecrets keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

right to repair, but for all the relationships and trust you broke while surveilling your friends with your glasses

signal is the birth control pill of phone encryption, it’s 99.99% effective when used correctly. the only way to be 100% assured of fail-proof safety is to never use Phone, but abstinence-only education doesn’t work, so

Baby on the T is crying because the brakes on the green line screeched too loud. Me, too, little guy

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

This may come as a surprise to people, but access journalism has caused this mess in the first place. Do the work. Screw the press creds. Be journalists.

Getting my Covid booster, “How are you?” “Living the dream - stabbing people.”

A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

This is shameful. While I doubt I'll have an impact, I've written to my alma mater (#RPI) urging them to reconsider their vaccine-autism research contract, as are many others I know.

The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵 apnews.com/article/vacc...

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

Walking to my car, I pass two men in button-downs and overhear an adamant voice: “I have seen people levitate. I have seen someone crawl up the wall.”

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...