When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

"We need anarchist pansexual intellectual promiscuity and reach our tentacles in every direction to seize any concept and any technique." #NetSci2024

Do your homies text like this?

Time-lapse of snail-inspired robotic swarm by CUHK-Shenzhen.

Jorge Luis Borges: "In my short story "On Exactitude in Science" I invented the 1:1 scale map as a cautionary tale" Adobe: "At long last, we have created the 1:1 scale map from Borges' classic tale

🎉🎉 Big congratulations to Sam Rosenblatt & Milo Trujillo on defending their PhDs!!! 🎉🎉 And bravo Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Jean-Gabriel Young on the winning mentorship. Links to Zoom recordings below. youtube.com/watch?v=xfLHz5… youtube.com/watch?v=bmkaFu…

I defended my dissertation! 🎓🎉 x.com/uvmcomplexity/…

also worth noting that DDoSecrets being basically the only org rn doing this kind of work isn't by design and as far as im aware they would be more than just glad if other people and orgs also took on a similar mission

One of our objectives at DDoSecrets is to document our social structure, successes, and shortcomings, and open source our tooling, so that future whistleblowing orgs can do this work better than us

one of my favorite little bits of lore is that 8 years ago darigold confirmed that yes, milkwalker was in fact a real design used on their cartons, but also they have no record of who created milkwalker. milkwalker simply is and always has been.

this is my emotional support carwash. whenever I get sad I ssh into this Montenegrin carwash I found on shodan 12 years ago and spin the rollers a bit. makes me feel real again

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"Mental health IS health" PhD student Bryn Loftness delivers an impassioned TEDx talk on her research University of Vermont w/Nick Cheney, Ryan McGinnis & team youtube.com/watch?v=lvCoGD…

Naive group tries to burn down a library that speaks truth to power, claim they're somehow making a statement against genocide. Sounds more like a cry for attention with some retroactive political aspirations.

happy birthday to DDoSecrets! one of the most important institutions of the current day free internet

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