Come play poker for digital rights at DEF CON this Friday. The @eff.org Benefit Poker Tournament is Aug 7, noon, Horseshoe Poker Room, Vegas. Total novices are especially welcome; the room is safe, respectful, and the dealers teach. Bring one curious friend. eff.org/poker

Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 34

The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 34! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Play for glory. Play for ...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 6d ago

Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fifth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament @defcon.bsky.social hosted by security expert @tarah.org. Join us on August 7 at the Horseshoe Poker Room and take home new prizes, including bug bounty pins! eff.org/poker

Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fifth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament @defcon.bsky.social hosted by security expert @tarah.org. Join us on August 7 at the Horseshoe Poker Room and take home new prizes, including bug bounty pins! eff.org/poker

Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF

The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 34! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Play for glory. Play for

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I have a suggestion for folk watching The Odyssey. Treat it like a rock concert and wear earplugs. After the first three minutes I put them in and I heard dialogue much better. The music is So Loud in it, and the dialogue is more intelligible when you’re not wincing.

I’ve got a secret joke about Oedipus, but the Jocasta come out eventually.

internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️@esquiring.bsky.social · 3w ago

I had a joke about Pan, but you have to appreciate satyr.

when sex workers do this they get debanked

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 3w ago

‘On Friday, after 65 bids, one of Huang’s pre-worn and signed jackets sold at auction at Sotheby’s for $960,000, much higher than the pre-sale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. He wore the jacket in 2023, at an event at Foxconn in Taipei, Taiwan.’ www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/l...

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago

‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.

Missed headline opportunity: “He’s about to publish his results.”

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

#OTD 1759: birth of #MaryWollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Letters from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), & many other works; wife of philosophical anarchist #WilliamGodwin, to whom she bore a daughter, #MaryShelley, author of Frankenstein; citizen of the world.

Godwin_lives@pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/n...

Anne Hathaway optioned and is bringing the novel “Yesteryear” about a tradwife influencer forced to live that life to the big screen. I simply pray that Alison Krauss does a dark af banjo cover of Paris Paloma‘s “Labour” for this. youtu.be/jvU4xWsN7-A?... vogueadria.com/yesteryear-n...

Paris Paloma - labour [Official Video]

YouTube video by Paris Paloma

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Minnesota Governor Deploys National Guard in a County Following Cyberattack

Minnesota Governor Deploys National Guard in a County Following Cyberattack - INCYBER NEWS

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order on April 7, 2026, stating that Winona County had suffered a cyberattack the previous day affecting

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Corrections to 2nd proof of The Letters of William Godwin, Volume IV (618 pages before indexing), now completed and awaiting collection by OUP van man. Have been working on them since 16 January... Thanks to all those watching and waiting. #TheLongestJourney global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The new US cyber security strategy just dropped. I'm a Claude user, and I suspiciously inquired of Claude as to the # of em-dashes in this 4 pg doc. Then I asked Claude to analyze the probability of this being LLM-written. Claude then throws some naughty shade. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Joe Menn is one of the longest serving and most trusted cybersecurity reporters, and his body of recent work speaks for itself.

Joseph Menn@joemenn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here we go. Free, no-reg versions of favorite stories from my four years at the Washington Post. First, three pieces from our Pulitzer-finalist series on how India's ruling party coerced U.S. tech giants into violating their own policies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

If I haven’t said this a few times: @zackwhittaker.com is a truly brilliant reporter and mind in cybersecurity and this newsletter is the only thing I read to fully catch up on what I needed to know in the field if I was out on vacation for a week. You should be doing the Patreon thing here.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 6mo ago

My newsletter this.weekinsecurity.com features all of the most important cybersecurity news, analysis, and reporting that you need to know so you can stay ahead. Plus, good news and a reader-submitted cyber-cat. No email link/open tracking! Sign up (or RSS!) for your weekly dispatch. Out Sundays.

I am thrilled to be a member of the new cohort of CDT Non-Resident Fellows, together with my HAI colleague Jen King. I was a CDT intern way back in 2007, and 20 years later, my career has brought me full circle.

Center for Democracy & Technology@cdt.org · 6mo ago

We’re thrilled to welcome CDT’s 2026–2027 class of Non-Resident Fellows — a remarkable group of scholars and experts whose insights will strengthen our work defending civil rights, civil liberties, and democratic values in the digital age. cdt.org/about/fellow...

Thanks, Stepto.

sixpenceee none the richer@kagredon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

If you enjoy sheer Gothic terror and early feminists wondering why we still have to protest this shit, maybe you'd like the two audiobooks I just released. "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror" amzn.to/45HoHsR "(On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship)" amzn.to/4aoAuyM

On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (Illustrated)

Amazon.com: On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (Illustrated) (Audible Audio Edition): John Aiken, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Tarah Wheeler, Red Queen: Books

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“I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time!” ~ H. G. Wells,”The Time Machine”

I don't feel like spending time writing a 300 character explanation of why you should read this blog post. Just go do it.

Adam Shostack@adamshostack.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hey I wrote a long thing about taking control of what you read. If you want to read it, it's at shostack.org/blog/take-co... I don't feel like spending time writing a 300 character summary of it.

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's mathematical capabilities, but I am so very tired of reading the "if she'd only been born a man" story. From an open 2017 Historia Mathematica article. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Federal court records systems are all alike; each state court records system is unhappy in its own way.

Susan Landau, @mattblaze.org, and Steven Bellovin unpack the U.K. government's latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups in Apple products and explain how it could make sensitive data more vulnerable to adversarial actors.

The U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping Poses Cybersecurity Risks

The U.K. government’s latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups could allow adversarial actors to gain access to sensitive data.

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I also support Aaron’s work and pay for a subscription. It is always worth reading, always informative. Thanks, @atrupar.com for your tirelessness.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

It's a slow morning on the Sunday shows, but if you appreciate me getting up early and bringing you the highlights each weekend please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. I think you'll enjoy PN and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.

At EFF, we were proud to publicly and loudly support the legal profession and, most importantly, continue to do our work challenging the government’s erosion of digital rights—work that became even more critical as many law firms shied away from pro bono work. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The holidays persist, but so do we.

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Working on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Hey, ma, look! I *finally* got into University of Chicago. :D cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/12/23/h...

Happy #WinterSolstice ❄️ Today marks the official start of winter in the astronomical calendar. 📷 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford

It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Strategies for Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing Transgender

Today's Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding bans on gender-affirming care for youth makes it clear: trans people are under attack. Threats to trans rights and healthcare are coming

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