Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029—only 33 months from now. That’s earlier than previous deadlines, and they proposed the new post-quantum

Quantum computers are coming sooner than expected. Now's a good time to check if your encrypted messenger has moved to post-quantum cryptography. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ICE’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement was tried once before – by Arizona’s notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio in the early 2000s The Trump administration’s immigration detention policies appear to be, in part, inspired by the heavy-handed tactics of the former Arizona sheriff.

ICE’s tactics aren’t new.

Years ago, sheriff Joe Arpaio turned Arizona into a testing ground for aggressive immigration enforcement including mass detentions, racial profiling and tent jails.

Much of it was later ruled unconstitutional.

Practical Magic 2 - Official Teaser Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland YouTube video by Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

Just fell to my knees upon being reminded that Lee Pace is in PRACTICAL MAGIC 2...the only possible improvement upon Jimmy Angelov's "Dracula cowboy thing."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPz6...

Shohei Ohtani pitching metrics go boom

Shohei went 50/50 as a side quest when he couldn’t pitch due to injury. Now he’s back on the mound to start a season fully healthy for the first time in years and he is taking days off from DHing and not attempting steals

18IP 1ER 18K so far. I need everyone to lock in here!!

Still poetry month. Still bringing the poets to messsy.

Latest wonderful poet is @mark-walton.bsky.social!

Link in bio.

We just peeped in the window and found "Heat" diner Kate Mantilini is still intact, booths waiting patiently for late night fans of "Those Potatoes" and everything else to come home again. Twelve years vacant due to a landlord who wouldn't negotiate--why does L.A. allow this?

Wow! I had no idea it’s been empty this entire time. Requesting a pop up with the old menu! (And of course, this space needs to be filled.)

BREAKING: We’re launching a campaign to educate voters on where Georgia Supreme Court candidates stand on civil rights and civil liberties issues, including abortion and voting rights.

Sunday! Registration is open. Come learn about script supervision and continuity!

www.patreon.com/posts/script...

This is what using your platform can look like.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

The Venn diagram of rape culture and abortion criminalization (well underway) is a clean and perfect, open circle.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Just a friendly reminder to contain the ableism while trashing those who are reckless, dangerous, violent and super icky.

Please name them as they are (rather than lame, idiotic, stupid, blind, moronic…).

TY 🫶🏼

This is why you have friends! 😆 Let them handle this.

Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills, early in their relationship.

No wonder every picture I've seen of Juliet Mills over the past 45 years is of her smiling.

🤣🤣🤣 Yes, he’s a coooool rider….

In the Parlors of Black Bibliophiles: How Arturo Schomburg Built a Library and Made History They were “Damned Old Fools on Books.” That’s what the Philadelphia bibliophile William Carl Bolivar told Arturo Schomburg, his younger counterpart in New York, as the two men exchanged book lists,…

“The homes of Schomburg, Dorsey, and other collectors were important sites of Black intellectual culture: salon-like spaces for the bookish crowd. Until now, however, it has been hard to picture them.” How Arturo Schomburg built a library and made history.
lithub.com/in-the-parlo...

A 4-panel image depicting a conversation between Mayor Mamdani and Cardi B Mayor Mamdani: Universal 2-K deserves a universal jingle. Cardi B will pick the winner. Cardi B: Think you've got the song? Submit your jingle! Mayor Mamdani: Write the anthem for free childcare in New York City!

2-K JINGLE CONTEST RULES 1 Must be 15 seconds OR 30 seconds. 2 Must name "myschools.nyc" (2-K registration site). 3 Original music and lyrics. No remixes or Al! 4 Must be appropriate for all ages - this is for the kids! 5 Must be an NYC resident to win. 6 Bilingual jingles encouraged!

Submit your jingle by May 1st at nyc.gov/jingle!

White and light green text: "Meta: Stop being creepy. Don't make it easier for stalkers, scammers, and government agents to spy on us." Tinted blue photo of someone's faces as if being captured by facial recognition. White ACLU logo. Black background.

If Meta adds face recognition to their “smart” glasses, it would force their panopticon onto us all.

Take action to protect our privacy at aclu.org/eyewear_not_spywear

Quotation: "'The FBI had seen my immigrant Muslim community as a criminal network. An organized criminal network. What we actually are is a network of an immigrant community.' Assia Boundaoui, Filmmaker and journalist." Inside a frame around the quotation are the words "Arab American Heritage Month" and "ACLU".

Photo of Assia Boundaoui, a person with curly hair and wearing a silky shirt with blue, pink, red, and white stripes. Inside a frame around the portrait are the words "Arab American Heritage Month" and "ACLU".

Assia Boundaoui is an award-winning Algerian American filmmaker and journalist. Through her documentary “The Feeling of Being Watched,” she uncovered the unconstitutional FBI surveillance of her immigrant community near Chicago.

RIP Natalie Baye. 💔

The Book Supplement, Vol. 4 Manil Suri, Dur a Aziz Amna, Angela Pelster, and Anne Enright.

The fourth edition of The Book Supplement is here! This week we have a memoir, a novel, and two stunning new essay collections. Please read and subscribe *for free* to support independent book criticism 🙏📚. No paywall.

open.substack.com/pub/eamato/p...

I just want to own a bookstore in which indie authors have priority and successful, prolific, influential authors come in to shine a light on their work. And when those authors become prolific they come in to hold a light for the next indie authors. Is that such a big ask?

"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

Doorman and building staff may go on strike against building owners in NYC for the first time in 30 years+ next week, and I can say that among apartment building residents, there is a 50/50 divide between "Give them anything they want" and "Give them anything they want, you assholes."

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from seizing Rhode Island’s voter data as part of their effort to undermine our elections.

We're fighting to protect voters’ privacy across the country — and winning.