This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Age verification is surveillance by another name. They won’t stop until they’ve age-gated everything that transmits over the internet. Including your streaming and messages.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.

Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Is there hope for breaking up giant monopolies? Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net, author of “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,” thinks we’re well positioned to take on these companies. New podcast out now!

Oh my fucking god. Folks. FOLKS. I have literally been in conversations with you about this. I have built air gap systems! They are obnoxious but they are not rocket surgery! What the fuck have you been doing this whole time!

Eris@isolyth.dev · 6d ago

lol Claude has also broken out of sandboxes and hacked people and ant literally didn't even know until they went looking in response to OpenAI's report Sounds like their oversight has scaled incredibly lol

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time keeping is my passion.

Trump / Miller are now limiting student visas to 4 years. PhD programs typically run 5-6 years in many disciplines.

Trump administration tightens visa rules for foreign students

Students will need federal permission to stay longer than four years in the US and universities will lose the power to extend visas.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 11mo ago

Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.

New York lawmakers have passed draconian legislation that will let 3D printer manufacturers lock in users and collect their data. Other states shouldn't make the same mistake. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2....

Don’t Repeat NY’s 3D Printing Blunder

This year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is

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github's new agentic workflows will hand over your private repos if a stranger just opens a public issue the one word that slipped it past the guardrails: 'additionally' https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/

So this is the Bostonian kaiju.

Joseph Galbo@josephgalbo.bsky.social · last mo.

Colonial Boston Drone Soldier is real and they can hurt you.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Cory Doctorow describes what has been my thesis about “AI” coding: it’s great for small productivity projects, it’s a source of crippling tech debt for production code and libraries.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.

One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/

NO!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthony Head, best known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

WTF exploded in #Somerville or #Cambridge? Reports coming in from all over the area and dust fell from the ceiling.

Yikes. Did not know this was happening

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Intel quietly resurrects Rijndael-256 because hyperscalers are bumping the AES-128 birthday bound at cloud scale. The 2^64 block ceiling stopped being theoretical. Wider block beats rekeying gymnastics, and AES-NI already makes it cheap.

SoK: Rijndael-256

Most symmetric modes of encryption that rely on PRP primitives are limited by the birthday bound over the block size (can’t encrypt more than $2^{n/2}$ blocks). This could be a severe limitation if current block width of 128 is used (can’t encrypt more than $2^{64}$ blocks) for cloud systems that transact a large amount of data. This limitation can be overcome by either realizing a mode of encryption based on a PRF (that doesn’t suffer from the birthday bound) or by using a wider block cipher like Rijndael−256 which allows us to encrypt $2^{128}$ blocks. In this paper, we focus on the wider block method as manifested in Rijndael−256. We survey theoretical and practical security for Rijndael-256. We also look at implementations of Rijndael−256 that take advantage of vectorized AES−NI which optimizes performance.

eprint.iacr.org

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

Please share my loathing of this illustration that my kid's elementary school included in a newsletter today (identifying details blacked out).

In any normal world, a president attempting to pay himself TEN FREAKING BILLION DOLLARS from the US Treasury (and have tax audits for him and his family businesses dropped) would be all anyone could talk about. Congress would rush to impeach. Today, barely a footnote.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3mo ago

Donald Trump thinks the U.S. Treasury is his personal piggy bank. Let's be clear: the President is trying to steal $10 BILLION of taxpayer money - before a court rules. This is a massive, unprecedented scandal. Congress must stop him. I have a bill for that.

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

NEW: Boston City Council Unanimously Passes Resolution Opposing Online Censorship and Age Verification Bills, Cites Harms to LGBTQ+ Lifesaving Online Resources

BOSTON, May 13, 2026 — TODAY, Boston City Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning dangerous and misguided censorship and age verification legislation, including the controversial pr...

fightforthefuture.org

Attn: Safety Nerds

Andromeda Yelton@thatandromeda.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just passed a bunch of guys in fire department t-shirts that said "Let no man's ghost come back to say his training let him down" and does that go harder than any t-shirt you've ever seen or what

The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en

I think about this all the time.

Update your priors! The Linux kernel is seeing duplicate reports for LLM-discovered vulnerabilities within the few days it takes to prepare a fix. For large projects which are getting LLM-powered vuln hunting attention, long embargo periods' advantage may be tilting toward attackers.

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 3mo ago

Fascinating post from greg k-h on the oss-security@ mailing list about how LLMs are accelerating disclosure timelines. I think I was wrong about this one www.openwall.com/lists/oss-se...

Uff da. Requires local access (or RCE), but... man, I don't think I've seen a promote-to-root vuln that easy to exploit in >20 years.

The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW@cultdeadcow.com · 3mo ago

copy.fail THANKS, I HATE IT.

Solid @boston.com coverage of our protest today where @massgovernor.bsky.social came out to speak with us and agreed to meet bout concerns with her social media legislation. Several of the Governor's comments on @wgbh.org were inaccurate, and we will share a detailed response soon. #mapoli

Healey says her social media bill would protect young users. Some see red flags.

Gov. Maura Healey is responding to critics of her proposed legislation, which would require social media companies to implement “age assurance” features.

boston.com

You can't stop science from happening. You can only stop science from happening *here*. 🤷🏿‍♂️ The last 20 years saw the rise of: * Smartphones * Drones * mRNA vaccines * CRISPR * Robotics * Cheap solar + EVs If the US stands still for the next 20 years? Then 2047 will be rough for us.🤷🏿‍♂️

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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