I couldn’t be more excited for next year – bring on the locusts!

I got to hang out with friends from long ago and to give attendees a great experience. The staff and volunteers for @districtcon.bsky.social put on a great show, I’m especially grateful to @winnona.bsky.social and the founding Year 0 organizers for letting me help out this year.

Just one week late posting this after being snowed into the hotel for two days longer than planned. How lucky was I to help get something new(ish) off the ground in its second year amidst its second calamity and to help speakers showcase their work in the CFP and on the mainstage!

I know how to get people to like me at a new job and it's bribes (treats like caffeine and chocolate)

That and actually responding to emails right away

Goddamn so much of the system relied on high integrity and professional shame and once that was stripped away by lack of consequence it was just a ticking bomb right.

We thought the system was protecting us and we could fuck around electing anyone.

But we were supposed to be the system.

That the torture memo author and the administration that operated under its auspices never saw punishment was basically a warrant to do anything forever as long as you Find A Guy, wasn't it.

Only 2 days left until #BSidesPyongyang! Get ready for a day of engaging talks, interactive panels, and valuable networking opportunities. Don't miss out on the excitement – mark your calendars for Nov 18th! #BSPY25

Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

I liked when people liked me that was fun for a while

And then I became a person

Which is always a really bad move

This may be a controversial option, but I will happy to never see a Funko Pop figurine ever again. They are ugly, pointless little plastic things that only fill store shelves like a brain tumour filling a cranium.

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

We're also excited to share our Policy roundtable Moderators are now live! www.districtcon.org/speakers

As part of our commitment to do cool sh*t, we accept a handful of compelling ideas for lively roundtable discussions on topics at the intersection of cybersecurity & policy.

An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room

Post the recordings!

This is going to be SO good!

owning the libs by showing up to counterprotest in my clown car

Beat your Ring camera to death with a bat

You've got less than 12 hrs to submit to our CFP, which closes at midnight TODAY ⏰

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LAST DAY

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Three days left for @districtcon.bsky.social CFP! Submit submit submit!

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

You're going to hate how much you love this incredible show

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

EFF is always so proud to represent security researchers doing important work. Our Coders' Rights Project often works with DEFCON presenters, and two of our clients are presenting today about schools, bathroom vape detectors, and audio recordings. www.wired.com/story/schoo...

hear ye hear ye
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✨Tomorrowwwww!✨

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Someone recently pointed out that a huge portion of those who die from measles without vaccination are in fact those with other conditions. That is actually the goal of RFK Jr. It's a cull.