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Chris Palmer

@noncombatant.org

Music for life, software safety engineering for a living, for now. https://noncombatant.org/

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Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 20h ago

I'm so excited to be back at @canconsffh this weekend! Here's my schedule, which includes a deep dive into my nonfiction book STORIES ARE WEAPONS. I also have a few character cards to give away, with gorgeous illustrations of the main characters from my new novel A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD.

Can*Con Annalee Newitz SAT 11:30-12:20 Being Outside Rome During the Fall Network SAT 4:00-4:50 Stories are Weapons Dissected: Annalee Newitz in conversation with Brandon Crilly Network SUN 11:00-11:50 Putting the "Science" in Science Fiction Deciders
Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 22h ago

Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay!

The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.

words.filippo.io

Ron Deibert@rondeibert.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncovered an Israeli firm using online ads to run vast spy operation This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. 45 devices at @aljazeera.com confirmed infected citizenlab.ca/research/how...

Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab

This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Ca...

citizenlab.ca

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump

In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

nytimes.com

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d ago

The anitdote is similarly obvious: solidarity. Fight together and keep our freedom or fight alone and be enslaved. It's frustrating how many people in power seem to not understand this and say we can just sacrifice part of our coalition in order to save the rest of us. It doesn't work like that!

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · last wk.

Alrighty. I have completed today's service to design. Here is a link to the text of The Decline of Industrial Designers, the article Victor Papanek alludes to in the preface to Design for the Real World, which is apparently otherwise unavailable. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Decline of Industrial Designers | FORTUNE February 1968

Note: This is the article Victor Papanek refers to in the preface to Design for the Real World. The images were taken from a photo of the original magazine, so they are a bit askew. Photos of the enti...

docs.google.com

dante@dante.cool · 6mo ago

HAN SOLO: Hell, I never would have flown a spaceship if it wasn't for the daring exploits of Ben Quadinaros, famed podracer... He inspired all of us kids back on Corellia. LEIA (NODDING): Yes, I also know and love Ben Quadinaros. The boy, Han... let's name the boy after him

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 6d ago

guys that cloudflare chart is about automated content crawling not social media bots, Yandex is an indexing site, when one of its DCs go down they do less crawling of the web. please learn to read.

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 6d ago

everyone is making pretty bold anecdotal claims about the Yandex DC going out resulting in less right wing content, but all the actual data I’ve seen has been saying it hasn’t moved the needle at all. I would be very skeptical of these claims; they will almost certainly turn out to be totally false.

Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sunday domestic bliss hour, home all lamplit, still & spotless, smelling of cooking & laundry. The honeyflood of well-being before the schoolheart, soulsink, doom-dread shatters the cosy contentment like a tin bath of daft oul downhill dicks barrelling through the window of a mattress shop

Yvonne Lam@yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 6d ago

Clearly I have to read @annaleen.bsky.social's A Wall Is Also a Road (I loved Four Lost Cities). cc @ruthmalan.bsky.social for this bit from the interview

Walls and roads are architectural adversaries. A road is supposed to take you into a place, and a wall is supposed to keep you out of a place. And it’s super weird that we are always building them next to each other, and so I started thinking about what would it be like if you lived in a civilization where there was no contradiction between wall and road, and that was when I came up with the architecture for
Vanessa Armstrong@vanessa-armstrong.com · 6d ago

Excited to share my interview with @annaleen.bsky.social about their latest novel! A Wall Is Also a Road brings an alien slime mold to ancient Pompeii. It's weird, it's earnest, it's a good read. Check out our interview below, and buy the book! www.tubetalk.media/p/annalee-ne...

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d ago

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out. I am, Sir, your faithful Servant. Charles Dickens".
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last wk.

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last wk.

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose Favor Oppose Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10 Limited terms for justices 79 21 Increase number of justices 53 47 Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
John Breen@breen.tech · last wk.

Man, this answer from Ta-Nehisi Coates about how he felt about Kamala Harris saying that she wants to have “the most lethal fighting force in the world” is really good. He talks about why she might feel like she has to say that, but gives most of his response to the victims of that lethality

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · last wk.

The audiobook for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD is low-key blowing up, and it's all because of the incredible narrator Jess Nahikian, who is delivering queer David Attenborough vibes. Here is a delicious sample for you to hear! Get the audiobook wherever they are sold, or check it out from your library!