Andy;--
@dragontologist.bsky.social
By day, cybersecurity & infosec in biglaw, by night, the nerdiest hobbies imaginable. Cons for Double Exposure (DEXCON, Dreamation, METATOPIA) Larps, board games, leather armor making now I guess? Leftist & socialist. Trying to avoid stereotypical. He/Him
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Keep politics out of gam— oh. boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
Russian missile strike destroys Ukrainian Catan, Exploding Kittens publisher’s entire 200,000-strong inventory -
Rozum has been devastated by the strike, with parent business Factor Group estimating the losses at up to $670,000 - a situation which has prompted Rozum to launch a fundraising appeal to help it repr...
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The complete First Exposure Playtest Hall schedule is here! www.dexposure.com/feph_2026_pl...
New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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This is the food supply chain equivalent of “[software] is insecure because they put out a lot of CVEs” It’s GOOD that they patch and disclose a lot of vulnerabilities, actually. Who you really need to worry about are the ones who don’t think they have any
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
I woke up late today so I'm just seeing all this (plus the move out of NYC news) but LMFAO at Marvel rewarding admitted liar Cebulski once again by a literal move to Asia. I can't.
This article leaves out the whole part of Cebulski’s career where he lied about being a Japanese guy so he could secretly write comics and then publish them as his own editor, which still boggles my mind that you could do that and become EIC at marvel, and then years later still be working there
Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian
Mayor Mamdani has the mandate of heaven
you wanna have a waterfall in your game with nothing hidden behind it, that's very a choice you can make. i personally wouldn't anger all my players and possibly spark a congressional hearing, but maybe you've got a good reason, which by the way i doubt
Black & White (2001) from Lionhead Studios, Peter Molyneux. Now owned by Microsoft w publishing rights by EA. It has NEVER been re-released since its publishing - you can't buy it or play it if you don't have the original CDs. It doesn't even need a graphics update, just make it playable!
Black & White (video game) - Wikipedia
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I would like to know! 🤓👾
"I don’t even pause from writing to choose the right word or to verify spelling or a fact. All this can be done when your book is finished." gods I wish my brain would let me do this
Probably my favourite thing Ian Fleming wrote was this essay on how he wrote the Bond novels, which is vile, revealing and full of genuinely good advice and observations lithub.com/ian-fleming-...
Apparently there IS something that would make me convert to catholicism
"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure
WAIT NO WAY THIS KIDS BOOK TELLS THEM HOW TO MAKE CHLORINE GAS AND EXPERIMENTS TO DO WITH CHLORINE GAS WHAT IS GOING ON
Yo it’s so cool how in the 1960’s they made a chemistry book for kids that literally told them how to make chloroform and then told the kids to sniff it
OKAY it's been a LONG week getting through OTHER books in my TBR pile but I've been waiting for this one for such a long time that it needed to skip the rest of the line. Damn good so far. Annoyed that I need to go run a convention instead of just continuing to read but HECK
At last, the day has come. Today is VILLAIN release day! It barely seems real, and I'm thrilled and relieved and so happy this weird, difficult, joyous rejection of a redemption arc exists in the world. US: www.harpercollins.com/products/vil... Canada: www.harpercollins.ca/978006334136...
I have this running theory that there's a WIDE open space for a larp that runs from sunday noonish until late monday (with the option to stay overnight till tuesday, but nothing happening tuesday).
This exactly. The priority is to get the work done. Putting barriers in place of that work means people will go around them. The business's priority is the business. As security, we need things to either work invisibly, or to demonstrate the consequences (risk outcome!) in a way that people FEEL it.
For as long as I've been in security, one major problem is that smart security people have a problem understanding that non-security people mostly will not sacrifice usability even if they are high value targets. The inability to think and talk about this is a huge weakness across the field
Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it
Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Neil Gaiman reactivated his BlueSky account, so a bunch of you are able to unfollow him now ahem
okay the clipping is much more wholesome than I was imagining
apparently the current subversive middle school prank in our area is "clipping," where you write funny things on a clip and then try to sneakily attach it to other kids' clothes or backpacks, which i learned about when i found 12yo frantically ransacking our craft supplies in search of clothespins
Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.
In light of WotC outright saying that its analog games should be viewed as live service games, I'm sharing the text of my talk at the 2026 UNC-Greensboro Game Studies Conference. It's about why digital design assumptions are showing up in analog games. stuckness.ghost.io/the-doodad-e...
The Doodad Economy: Why your analog games are starting to feel digital (and also why that's false)
In light of a recent story about Wizards of the Coast openly boasting that Dungeons & Dragons is better viewed as a live service, I'm sharing the text of my presentation at the 2026 UNC-Greensboro Gam...
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Inspired by those trials, I've proposed that Congressional Dems could form a "Nuremberg Caucus" that would publicly promise sweeping plans to denazify America after Trump and his allies have been swept from power: pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/m... 12/
Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The thing I've had drilled into my head over and over since I started working infosec is this: "If they want to hack you, they will. All of our defenses can only make it more expensive and time consuming. Most of the time, that's enough to deter the small actors. But the big ones can always get in."
Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.