Richard Barnes
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Trying to do right by the world, in part by using computers and cryptography. (🦋 DMs disabled, please use Germ 🦠)
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
Teach your children ‘democrats are not always good, but republicans ARE always bad’ and in 2026 you’ve covered like 90% of their practical civic education wrt voting.
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 21h agoThe best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.
Running bad faith Islamophobic attacks is a losing strategy
Looking at this after having gone to the rodeo the other day, all I can think is that that thing looks way easier to rope and tie than a steer. Perhaps we'll see a return of some classic skills.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · yesterdayAt the park with my toddler and ATF is demonstrating its robot dog while Beyoncé plays as part of a violence intervention event
this is why we shouldn't just decommission the infrastructure of cruelty and racism but reduce it to unusable rubble
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · yesterdayThe privately owned prison in Appleton, Minnesota, that was shuttered 16 years ago will reopen in the fall to hold detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Germ now joins Signal and iMessage in bringing you post-quantum cryptography. The journey to quantum-secure cryptography is one we all should be taking. MLS implementers can find our open-source library here. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
ANOTHER death in ICE custody, this time at the controversial Delaney Hall facility. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. His mother says he was denied adequate medical care for chronic conditions, a common accusation ICE has strenuously denied.
Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d agoBreaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup
We've come full circle and have arrived back at the Four Humors: Testosterone, Estrogen, Cortisol, Dopamine.
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Good day for a reminder that any individual member of the House can, at any time, all on their own, no permission needed, force a privileged vote on expelling another member.
“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d agoThose who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
I feel like we’re going to look back at that time in summer 2026 when we thought it was so surprising that models could find new mathematical results that we still wrote Twitter threads about it. I wonder what life will be like then.
the three guys who voted in favor of that birthright citizenship EO should be impeached and removed just for that alone. it's sufficient! you simply cannot do the job you were assigned to do. time to go. kavs lawyer-weaseling around it just barely saves him
It fucking says a lot that CPS took Pete Buttigieg’s kids away on the basis of an anonymous complaint, while Max Miller still has joint custody of his child.
this is why i think bruce ackerman's proposal to basically give everyone a capital grant of like 80k after they become an adult is broadly underrated as a policy proposal
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 4d agowe could probably reduce income inequality with either transfers or policy changes, but imo what people are really mad about is wealth inequality
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Again, as with monetizing the presidency in plain sight, this stuff is the most elemental Are We A Federal Union Or Not? thing that should immediately end a presidency. Reverse nullification. A constitutional order that cannot punish this is not worth saving. We need massive institutional reforms.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
key points here being ERROR IN CONFIGURING THE TEST ENVIRONMENT
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 5d agoAnthropic reveals its own rogue-model incidents: Due to human error in configuring a test environment, three Claude models hacked outside organizations during CTF exercises. Two proceeded despite realizing they were on the internet. www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
Mars - Cloudy Olympus Mons - CNSA Tianwen-1 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qNdKuC
Great news! Germ DM is now quantum secure! We’re deploying post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in 3.0.9, available today. 1/7
Germ Network@germnetwork.com · 7d agoWith 3.0.9, Germ DM is now quantum secure.
