The value of pi π is 3.141592653589793, I thought I'd deconstruct why. cybersect.substack.com/p/pi-is-exac...

I wonder about history. Historians describe such corruption in the past, where everyone acknowledges now that "yes, it was corruption". But they fail convey how it wasn't clear to the people at that time.

I wonder about "rhetorical questions" in the age of AI, when you can simply ask the AI the question. There's nothing particularly interesting happening here, it only sounds interesting, "single Senator can stop legislation" because you haven't had an AI explain why it isn't actually.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it. Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.

This very long thread keeps reappearing in my timeline because some quality people do good things in the world.

Dad told me the Nazi judge who sentenced him the first time for resisting (Dad was a recidivist) berated him as the worst type of criminal too.

Damn interesting video!

A reminder that while this is a comic book account, comic books are absolutely political because they ALWAYS have been.

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid http://theonion.com/rfk-jr-mandates-all-americans-drink-mysterious-glowing-liquid/

If you haven't read Asimov, you should. I read them in random order, but I think the best way is to read them in chronological order, starting with books like Caves of Steel. A lot of Asimov's books were ret-conned into the Foundation universe, so selecting the proper books may be hard.

This "60 Minutes" segment proves JD Vance was right about censorship in Europe. We know it's accurate because it's been approved by CBS's government-mandated bias monitor.

I attempt to explain the FBI Epstein dump redaction failure. cybersect.substack.com/p/unredactio...

that time

On one hand, we know the back story, RFKjr is doing crazy anti-vaxx stuff trying to make it look like it's sane. But just because we know their side is wrong doesn't mean we can be lazy. This NYtimes article is incredibly lazy. Vaccines are technical, we deserve technical information.

The only change left is to rename it "Ministry of Truth".

I had some notes about Rubio's war on woke fonts. tl;dr, there are good fonts that satisfy both sides, like the Georgia font used by the New York Times. scytaleprotocol.substack.com/p/the-woke-f...

I had some notes about Rubio's war on woke fonts. tl;dr, there are good fonts that satisfy both sides, like the Georgia font used by the New York Times. scytaleprotocol.substack.com/p/the-woke-f...

The lab leak theory isn't a conspiracy theory. Some believe it ACCIDENTALLY leaked from the Wuhan lab. There's no "conspiracy" in this theory. Far fewer believe it was DELIBERATE from a "conspiracy". Bad faith people deliberately conflate the two.

I asked ChatGPT to grade the essays given the class criteria. It gave her essay a 9/25 and mine 24/25. I also asked for it to give feedback why it gave such scores. chatgpt.com/share/692e51... chatgpt.com/share/692e51... Maybe she didn't deserve 0/25, but she still deserves an F.

So I did a thing. There was viral outrage over a student getting a failing grade on homework for citing the Bible. I can opine like everyone else, but first, I though I'd demonstrate basic competency by ACTUALLY DOING THE HOMEWORK MYSELF. scytaleprotocol.substack.com/p/homework-r...

I've been researching this. As it turns out, I was wrong. While the appliques/mouldings are very close to what you can buy on Temu, Home Depot, and Amazon, they aren't exact. It's still just mass produced acrylic items that have either been painted with gold or had gold leaf applied (i.e. cheap).

Winning. This feels like we are winning. I think some care more about the schadenfreude of celebrating their loss rather than celebrate our win.

Tom is probably right, we should probably just focus on authoritarianism or illiberalism. Also, the audience is too dumb, they don't know anything more about "fascism" other than it's an insult. But for the educated, there are important parallels.

Some in cybersec were debating how much VPNs protect your privacy while on public WiFi hotspots. I wrote some technical notes. cybersect.substack.com/p/experts-vs...

Techies often learn the "OSI Model" to explain networking. It's false, it describes IBM mainframes of the 1970s and not the modern Internet. I have some comments here. cybersect.substack.com/p/yes-osi-mo...

Some comments on the Louvre Heist relative to cybersecurity. cybersect.substack.com/p/louvre-jew...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

If you want to stand up for free-speech, the time to do it is when you own side is violating it, such as during Biden's pressuring Internet companies to censor "misinformation". If you only defend the speech of your own side, what you are defending is your side, not free-speech principles.

My sister lives in the Portland area and I'm trying to convince her to drive downtown to take video of the Rose City Antifa protests outside the ICE detention center.

"In 2025, Americans may be reading this novel with somewhat different eyes than in times gone by, when strongman rule, cult-like worship of leaders, and reality-denying propaganda were things that happened somewhere else." www.thebulwark.com/p/animal-far...

License plate readers are growing fast. These days, they are cheap to own and operate. Essentially, a $100 burner phone with a $5/month prepaid account can be made into a license plate reader. It's gonna solve a lot of crime, making it impractical to drive anywhere to commit crime.

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Lol. LMAO, even: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

James Comey was just indicted by a grand jury. Back in the Obama admin as FBI director, he defended government encryption backdoors by claiming that the DoJ would never abuse it's authority, and if it did, the courts would stop them. Has he changed his mind?

As far as I can tell, all the good people have been raptured.

As far as I can tell, all the good people have been raptured.

In yesterday's discussion of that UN SIM farm story, I mentioned the conflict between techies and the sorts of "people who matter" that the NYTimes quotes. Today, I write a blogpost that expands on that. cybersect.substack.com/p/techies-vs...

Current status: watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

"Well, there's your problem..." #DonaldTrump #Escalator

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Back in the day as a business owner, I think we had 2 H1B visa employees out of 100 employees. They added important skills we couldn't otherwise find, but not worth the added $100k each. There is a the "long tail" of small businesses where H1B is important.