9/28 around 5:00pm, just South of the University Bridge. I had biked through there a few minutes earlier (strava.com/activities/788…). Minutes from being a witness, or a victim.

Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas as Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. Discuss.

Bravo. I did this (well, not live-streamed) as soon as I could after joining Axon. It was really important for me to experience what we make.

Neural nets when you ask them to explain even a single output

"Am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?" youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1_Pu…

In 1914, a 29 yo engineer with the Ministry of Agriculture put an end to centuries of village feuding over water rights in rural Japan by inventing the Circular Water Diverter, "Entobunsui". A no-tech unmanned automatic cistern that fairly divided set amounts of irrigation water.

If you had the most cynical view of humanity, you’d expect government agencies to be making a *huge* push to end encryption right now; or at least adorn it with mass-scanning infrastructure. And sure enough, that’s exactly what we’re seeing. globalencryption.org/2023/04/statem…

Voi non vedete la brace incandescente?

Hey, uh, Proton Support... 🤨

The EARN IT and STOP CSAM Acts currently moving through congress, if passed as they are, will grossly impinge on the freedom of Americans to communicate privately (e.g. using end-to-end encryption) in digital spaces. Here's my naive summary, and why voters should act now.

As a user, don't use SMS for your multi-factor authentication. If as a service, your MFA implementation *requires* people to have SMS as a factor, you're doing it wrong. bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

I feel seen. I feel attacked.

Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran. 🧵 1/4

13. Destroying the orcs of Isengard.

I say this a lot, but: I genuinely believe this is one of the few areas where most people can agree. The government should not be able to steal from its own citizens. The Supreme Court has to get this right. It's about basic fairness & justice. /end reason.com/2023/07/11/pol…

This article with quotes from Apple on why it killed the CSAM photo scanning initiative is the first thing I’ve seen from the company explaining their decision. wired.com/story/apple-cs…