Hotter take: conferences should have a 15 page limit. Computer checkable proofs go in unlimited supplemental material. All non-computer checkable proofs must be in the body of the paper. Submissions that can't conform go to journals.
Parallel Grover search on T machines costs C*sqrt(N/T) ops per machine with a huge constant C. Total cost C*sqrt(NT). Total cost of classical search is N (independent of T). You need a huge value of T to get the job done in less than a year, and projections for C basically spoil the quantum speedup.
Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
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)
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...
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...
ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
I only skimmed the paper, but it looks like the gate takes 225μs. So you're looking at a surface code cycle time of a couple ms and a <1 kHz logical clock rate. Factoring a 2048 bit modus would take hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours.
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:
Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.
Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…
pamela-fitzsimmons.bsky.... @pamela-fitzsimmons.bsky.soc... Yes. Sadly, those are what's left of Portland's bragging rights -- great food, beer, wine, coffee and donuts. Oh, there's also cannabis and sex shows.
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...
bsky.app/profile/coac...
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. 🧵
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.
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!!!
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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:
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/
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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...
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.
A-grade trolling in the intro: "Since factorization of 15 = 3·5 by a quantum computer, society is taking the threat of quantum computers more and more seriously."
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
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