Amazing congratulations so well deserved

You handled this shocking display of misogyny with such tact and grace mixed with utter contempt that I wish I could have bottle your response for future use.

Donner Party Site (and State Park)

It should have two competing personas that add and delete Oxford commas at arbitrary times.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Happy Tom Lehrer Tuesday! Worried about WW3? Remember the bright side, no funerals to attend!

Bolstering both the Privacy Act and FOIA should be on the (very long) list…

An extremely rich gathering—the philosopher - historian nexus needs to happen more often on all these concerns.

The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said.

The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

O for the halcyon days when it seemed that the phrase “self-own” was headed for the history books as a footnote rather than a fundamental organizing principle for understanding a decade and a half.

Whoda thunk that wiretapping infrastructure might be vulnerable? I’m shocked, shocked there’s gambling in this establishment.

Isaac Newton refused to frame a hypothesis on the cause of universal gravitation to get out of his interview of Chotiner.

The historian Adrian Johns has a fantastic chapter on the Physiology of Reading in the 17th, telling the tale of how too many novels spoiled poor Robert Boyle’s mind

les dames dont je kiffe les mots en anglois :
* Malka Older
* Premee Mohamed
* Tamsyn Muir
* Mary Robinette Kowal
* Martha Wells
* Becky Chambers
* Mur Lafferty
* Sharon Lee (avec Steve White)

j'ai un blanc.. c'est pas tout

An Aufhebung of middle school if you will

Picture of three snow colored trees, with coloring that appears as if a silver print.

Current conditions in NJ: bright as day with a slight Eldritch horror vibe as winds begin to rise

Funny (not funny) how all the so called “implausible hypotheticals” that privacy and civil liberties defenders raised keep being realized. Who’da thunk it?

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

It’s such a great book—this is just outrageous.

bingo!

Doonesbury was low key the vector through which I initially learned American politics from Nixon through Reagan and beyond.

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection!
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Exciting!

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I really adore Kelty’s Two Bits on recursive publics on just this moment/aspiration. The world we have lots indeed.

caillou en forme de manette xbox

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

Luke and Obi-Wan from Star Wars

'Tough break with your Aunt and Uncle, but they should have complied with the Stormtroopers'

Robert Boyle would like to have a word …

I know there are a lot of
speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.