getting great results from this prompt: "Keep going. We need more 4D thinking here. We may even need 5D."

The supersingular isogeny problem in time and memory p^(1/3 + o(1)) (Benjamin Wesolowski) ia.cr/2026/1486

We're making good progress on upki, our collaboration with the rustls project to bring browser-grade web PKI capabilities to low level system utilities. #Canonical made a PPA available so you can try out upki in #Ubuntu. Give it a go and let us know! discourse.ubuntu.com/t/try-the-up...

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

Secrets & Lies --> Judge Dredd (1995)

The Brattle Theatre@brattletheatre.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

ICE is afraid of children protesting

“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

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Earlier this year, LWN.net featured an excellent article named "Linux's missing CRL infrastructure", and today Canonical announced it will be working with me and @jbp.io over the coming weeks to start bridging the PKI infrastructure gap. discourse.ubuntu.com/t/addressing...

Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure

Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled “Linux’s missing CRL infrastructure”. The article highlighted a number of key issues surrounding traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)...

discourse.ubuntu.com

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 9mo ago

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

Mass surveillance makes us less safe. www.404media.co/flock-logins...

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company

Senator Ron Wyden says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

404media.co

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained. Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

Naked Bikers and Federal Escalation

Around 4 p.m. on Saturday, I arrived at the ICE field office in Portland to find half a dozen protesters in inflatable animal costumes dancing to the upbeat sounds of the Unpresidented Brass Band, who...

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Alissa Azar@alissaazar.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

bulldog@harpua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Councilor Morillo was just on CNN and it was a good appearance (on the state-run media) gonna try to find a clip

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Mark Bray@mark-bray.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

I love it when people try to say bad stuff about Portland but we just end up sounding rad as fuck.

So funny that Noem's trip is being spoiled by perfect weather. It might be the nicest day of the year in this beautiful city.

Also, you'll see this is a screenshot by a video from a guy named David Medina. Medina was convicted for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and was later pardoned by Trump. He has since rebranded himself as a Trump-aligned social media influencer. More here: www.opb.org/article/2025...

Even some Pacific Northwest defendants are unsure what Jan. 6 pardons will mean

The Pacific Northwest became fertile ground for groups bent on political violence during the first Trump administration. A return to that era could hinge on the scope of presidential pardons.

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Alex Zielinski@alexzee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

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@coachbalto.bsky.social · 10mo ago

To the millions of people who tagged Benson Boone to join our #BikeBus, thank you. You helped make something truly magical happen. To #BensonBoone and his team, your energy and kindness gave our kids and community a memory we’ll never forget. 💛 Learn more about the movement at BikeBusWorld.org

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with? DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker Judge: You're a lawyer

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 10mo ago

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

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Oops! NYT seems to have accidentally published an editor's comment. There's no way to read "Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster." as anything other than a comment on the piece and its authors.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital

The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administration in October.

jackpoulson.substack.com

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers. Some additional thoughts 🧵 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy

In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...

eff.org

We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.

I’m begging people to realize that there is a link between these big tech investors, Andreesen in particular, their hideous racist politics, and the fact that so many of them are using vast fortunes and investments to prop up surveillance tech companies that blanket both cities and borders.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

nature.com

generative AI is the most socially harmful technology since the automobile, but at least no one has to write shell scripts anymore