If a technology *can* be abused, it *will* be abused. This goes doubly for those in positions of power. Technology policy can be difficult, but we should never lose sight of this fact.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 4d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

The Italian Job Mini Cooper on Stairs

Alt: The Italian Job - Mini Cooper on Stairs

static.klipy.com

🏮Fernando Caire ~ Story Artist@botsandmagic.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Bob DyLean: A Framework for the Symbolic Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols in Lean (Théophile Wallez, Cas Cremers) ia.cr/2026/1493

fucking cryptographers

Finally

luv 2 think I'll make a quick release of a project with a new feature, and instead end up having to cut multiple bugfix releases as I find things I missed several years ago 🫠

My Raspberry Pi Tailscale exit node is not routing. I can't SSH in because I don't remember its password, and I don't remember which laptop I set it up from (for pubkey access). I can't change the password in the CLI because I can't find my micro HDMI adapter. Guess I'm reflashing it yet again! 🫠

That was fun! I've played similar games before but not that allowed using letters multiple times; that took a bit for my brain to route through.

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 4w ago

OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush

The outcomes from this Rust rewrite that interest me: - Introduced 19 regressions, all now fixed. - Fixed 128 bugs that were present in the Zig version. - Cost $165,000 of API tokens, took 1 engineer 11 days. Not feasible for any open-source codebases, but *way* cheaper than 3 engineers for 1 year.

Steve Klabnik@steveklabnik.com · 4w ago

the "claude ported bun to #rustlang" post is finally up bun.com/blog/bun-in-...

I don't get why anybody is listening to Jacob Applebaum. My cat has about the same expertise in cryptography, and has never been credibly accused of sexual abuse. She's also a lot cuter.

oh noooooo

That was exhausting just to watch!

I am not normally a football person, but games like this one are quite exceptional.

What a race.

Every time I think I'm getting a handle on the bounds of what an AI model can handle on its own, it makes a fuckup significant enough to force me to stop what it's doing and continue hand-holding it. And I have no idea whether or not this is due to the provider making their model dumber on the fly.

Did anyone set up an image/video post labeller trained on Mango Mussolini's face (and his associated cabinet)? @aendra.com maybe you have leads (or know of XBlock derivatives)?

Interesting artifact of the way @bsky.app does embeds: because they are stored in the post itself (via an app.bsky.embed.external record), they don't change when the article itself changes (e.g. this article has been retracted).

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · last mo.

SAM ALITO IS RETIRING: www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

I was *certain* the images in the quoted post were GIFs of an old CRT recording until I tapped them. @bsky.app you got a stylesheet bug somewhere, your gallery is vibing a bit too hard.

Ed@ed3d.net · last mo.

cigarettes were bad

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people. But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.

The ancient contracts call us forth once more.

TashasEv@tashasev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ehh fuck it

They're raising a white flag at the Kennedy center.

It's 5:30am in the UK and I am still watching. This is my World Cup.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

The privacy risks (very nicely outlined herein) are one of the core motivations for the personal assistant system I'm currently building for myself. That and I really want the hackability I get from a system I fully control (Per-task encrypted secrets? Seamless local models? Cyberdeck integration?)

Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...

"nudity today, political speech tomorrow" In five words, @signal.org has given a more trenchant critique of government surveillance tech than 99% of UK legislators, pundits, and NGOs.

Fun quirk: the app.bsky.embed.images Lexicon allows at most 4 images, so this post uses a new app.bsky.embed.gallery Lexicon without that restriction. The old app doesn't know about the new Lexicon, so it doesn't show any images. Would be nice to instead see "update your app to view this content".

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2mo ago

v1.123 is live! You can now attach up to 10 photos in posts. We listened to your feedback and redesigned the photo carousel. It only appears for posts with at least 5 photos. Swipe through to learn more.

Been a while since I had a post escape containment. Normally when I wake up to the 30+ notifications icon, it's because @eprint.ing.bot is posting 😄

Claude has successfuly convinced me that it is unsafe to use for large projects. It reads skills / user instructions at the start of the session, but once the project itself is in context, there is enough pressure even with 1M context that it is reliably forgetting both the skills and instructions.

Ooh, another bad Claude Code permissions failure mode from @anthropic.com: requests are a stack (LIFO) instead of a queue (FIFO). You can be in the act of pressing Enter after reviewing a request, when another request takes over the permissions UI (frequent with ultracode), and steals the approval.

Claude Opus getting progressively stupider since I started using it (at 4.6) has been both frustrating, and helped me work out how to (attempt) constraining it to not make mistakes. Doesn't help that it is now ignoring the actual text of skills in favour of its own memory of them from first load...