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Jairus Khan

@jairuskhan.bsky.social

Noisemaker, adversary, internet blah blah blah, recovering goth. Formerly @ Mozilla, ISOC.

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evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One more time for the people in the back: I will always hate your real names proposal. I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal. I will always hate your hack back proposal. These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.

Jairus Khan@jairuskhan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

While I may have launched this tool at the worst possible time in Destiny 2's history (post-EoF), I've nevertheless updated the Winnower vault tool to support the Monuments of Triumph updates, and the db will update with more data on the new guns as players get their hands on them. winnower.garden

Destiny 2 vault tool Winnower showing 5 Kinetic Rapid-Fire Auto Rifles. Each row lists power level, name, two perk columns, range/stability/handling/reload stats, and an analysis note. Two "Everburning Glitz" rolls are rated as godroll PvP/PvE combos; Chroma Rush and Eidolon Ally are solid keepers, while Rufus's Fury is flagged in red to cut.Destiny 2 vault tool Winnower showing "Why you don't need this weapon" comparison. A Mos Athanor IV hand cannon's four valuable PvP perk combos (Keep Away + Opening Shot, etc.) are shown on the left, with curved lines linking each to two other Mos Athanor IV rolls on the right that already cover those same perk combinations.
John Scott-Railton@jsrailton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order "safety" is risky. 1/

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Jairus Khan@jairuskhan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today is the release of @nataliezed.bsky.social's second novel, Villain. I've watched it develop over the last six and a half years (!) from spitball to hardcover. I've been lucky enough to read the very first draft, its four rewrites, and countless versions, variants, and variations in between.

Screenshot of an email with the subject "Sequel Plots" from Natalie Zina Walschots, dated Jan 24, 2020. The email begins: "Things I know (I think)"
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

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Tess@itstessinadress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"