SoCal watch party for ietf 126?

Hate coming across Palantir on a LinkedIn or resumé because the person will absolutely talk about it like they worked for the CIA (“I didn’t do much of the crazy stuff really. Spent all day in Excel basically.”)

Tell me about the OKRs you had to undermine American democracy.

Palantir’s “intelligence” deepened the tragedy of the war in Afghanistan. It is actively tearing down the freedoms my country idealizes. They are a rotting apple that needs to be thrown out in the next Reconstruction.

Lots of smart folks with intelligent words about a profoundly stupid and evil statement.

All I have to add, as a Marine veteran, these guys are losers. No Marine infantryman asked for a “forward deployed” data analyst.

I have an entire PhD in political science and have never been sure what constitutes "The West" in a meaningful, consistent way.

What is the term meant to include - or exclude? Are the differences between "the West" and other "civilizations" greater than the differences within the so-called "west"?

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Cultural chauvinism isn't the opposite of moral relativism - and it presages some really dark stuff.

PSA: the Pitt season finale has a post-credits

I imagine the crew looking like this when they land

Why Become a Fellow – Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Apply for a Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship and become one of the thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate

"It matters now more than ever" is a phase that comes to mind every year the fellowship announces their new cohort. Today I celebrate these immigrants and children of immigrants as they pursue graduate degrees and remind us that there is nothing more deeply American than being a new American.

It's truly a joy to welcome the 2026 class of @pdsoros.bsky.social Fellows!

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason How did Netgear do it? Nobody’s saying.

My days of not buying netgear are certainly coming to a middle

www.theverge.com/tech/911888/...

these motherfuckers said it would splashdown at 8:07 and it splashed down at 8:07. after going to the fucking moon. fucking a man. god damn

A fitting time to restart For All Mankind from the beginning

LET THE MOON PEOPLE REST

Screenshot from the article reading "Having encountered my share of liars and developed something of an expertise in their tells, Mr. Back’s demeanor — his shifty eyes, his awkward chuckle, the jerky movement of his left hand — struck me as fishy. When the credits rolled up, I replayed the sequence several times on my TV."

Starts skimming article before looking at the byline.

Who is it that's claiming to have experience with the tells of liars?

Oh. John Carreyrou

Fair

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

Do Not Stick Out: The Dynamics of the ECH Rollout Lessons Learned-ech-traffic-stuck-out" href="#why-ech-traffic-stuck-out" class="toc-anchor">Why ECH Traffic Stuck Out">The Paradox of Privacy Adoption: Standing Out to Disappearss="toc-anchor">Case St...

ECH exposed a hard truth about privacy technology: you can win at the protocol layer and still lose at the deployment layer.

I wrote about it here:
cdt.org/insights/do-...

People get stuck on the potential for LOAC violation - ah, I caught you, that’s a war crime - without engaging with why it’s a matter of law. Yes, humanity and morality, but also and importantly: stopping a spiral of horrific reciprocity.

Germ Is a (Protocol-Native, End-to-End Encrypted) Social Media Messenger — Germ Network We spent the end of March in Vancouver at the Atmosphere Conference, and being with fellow builders in the protocol ecosystem powering Bluesky and 1000s of other apps solidified something about our pl...

It clicked for us in Vancouver.

Germ is a social media messenger.

www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-is...

So the old system wasn't good, it was just stable. It maintained a shared picture of reality, but that picture reflected some people's experience far more than others. That exclusion created legitimate grievance long before social media existed.

E-3 on its way west from Anchorage. Maybe don’t park it in a WEZ

Bluesky aggressively tried to autoplay the gif and I aggressively avoided it as a result.

This is probably true, but there’s also a structural issue having to do with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars being taken out of CENTCOM’s direct control and placed in the hands of new 4-star theater headquarters 20+ yrs ago, leaving CENTCOM with little to do *but* plan for confrontation with Iran.

What I remember from summer 2014, when ISIS had advanced to the outskirts of Baghdad, was that ODA's and their Quds Force counterparts were both roaming Baghdad, warily eyeing each other but busy rallying their respective partners into a common (in principle) fight.

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.

Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.

Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Justice Jackson is the only justice on the bench who understands the moment in history we are in.

Stuck listening to Malcom Gladwell narrating a dynamically inserted ad on repeat is some kind of hell.