My normie midwest Mom absolutely loves him. I've come around partly thanks to her, partly thanks to seeing him actually be able to mix it up with MAGA stooges

Pete is actually alright at this

a flag that is a brown bar top and bottom, then a red bar in the middle and a yellow squiggle

just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag

You can oppose the patriarchy without making complaining about men into a personality. In fact a lot of obsessive misandry just ends up reinforcing patriarchal ideas: men are uniquely harmful and powerful → women are inherently meek and tame

I'm of the opinion that griping about any gender a lot is freak behavior

I just ran into the first olive I didn't like. Blue cheese olive garnishing a martini. Noticed a distinct fuzz on it. Like mold. Didn't touch my olive for once

famous music video with first mate schee in the corner

That’s Smee in the corner

lmao

To all who celebrate

How about instead of sticking our heads in the sand and forcing everyone to buy worse shit from American companies, we figure out how to make American cars not suck?

no, *you* stop crying yourself to sleep watching Showtime's Couple's Therapy

at the phase of burnout where I'm naively fantasizing about other professions that *seem* like they would be far more pleasant

what a fucking week, god damn it

Stock market on a tear today! Kind of makes you wonder why he doesn't threaten some insanely destructive action then walk it back every single week...

I would hate-watch this so hard

bugs bunny would wipe the floor with Q from star trek

I really do hate it here

I don't like prognosticating. I have no idea what this will mean. But I think it COULD change the balance between the two approaches I mentioned. If securing un-securable software becomes less viable, do we see more tools embrace open-source and leaning into cryptographic security?

I believe that the status quo, where "cognitive dissonance" is a workable approach to securing software, has only been true because software is hard/expensive to build and there isn't much money in building software that breaks things.

This changes when software becomes very cheap to build

A different approach to this problem is to surrender to it. Something like Signal relies on open source exposure to catch more obvious vulnerabilities and cryptography to provide security guarantees. You might find access to encrypted data but we know exactly how hard it is to decrypt without keys.

This has mostly succeeded! My experience has been that the friction required for regular consumers to make use of exploits—jailbreaking phones, pirating media, accessing proprietary software—has increased sharply for the last 1-2 decades. Though there are many notable failures here.

There's a lot of theory behind this including Godel's incompleteness theorem.

The modal approach over my years has been cognitive dissonance. Engineers who believe it is fundamentally impossible to do so are still tasked with designing software that is exploit-free.

If you work in and around tech long enough and you absorb several beliefs—closer to spiritual convictions than math proofs. Naming things is hard. With enough users, all bugs become obvious. etc.

One of those is roughly: No system or software can be made perfectly secure.

Tufekci's keynote here remains the best framing for how to think about AI, IMO. The key changes will be in what things become cheap/easy and what things remain expensive/hard. AI will remove a lot of friction. Some of that friction is load bearing.

bsky.app/profile/zey....

Compelling evidence that this is legitimate. The most interesting part to me is how this might be extrapolated forward. How do AI coding tools change the balance of 'how costly it is to make software more secure' vs 'how costly it is to exploit software'

Okay this is a huge bummer

Am I crazy or does it feel like we just got to test "If the President told the world he'd flatten a country in an unprovoked attack and gave the world 12 hours notice, would we be able to stop him?" And the answer is no

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

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