@eqe (Andy Isaacson)
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this account is out of service, see @[email protected] instead. he/him (sometimes wearing a skirt.) alt @eqe00 PGP: https://t.co/bk2brjKmoi…
Joined September 2008
Been off of Twitter for quite a few months. Highly recommended, folks. Do it if you can.
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I’m not sure that I agree with all conclusions here, but the analysis of ecofascism herein is essential reading.
Today is both Christchurch and #ClimateStrike. Let's talk about how they are related. "If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die." - Pentti Linkola, Finnish 'deep ecologist' CW: climate, violence
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Which is not to say that I dislike or disrespect cDc. Those old textfiles made the world a better place. Respect for y'all's past achievements, but we don't get to sit on our laurels or avoid recognizing that we have power and a responsibility to use it justly, now.
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@matthew_d_green 's wonderful analogies. Three of these were in the same thread recently, but the bacon house thing is a classic. There must be much, much more.
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It's more like finding out that bernie was in Skull&Bones tbh. The ongoing refusal among tech to recognize that we have power now is getting ridiculous.
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@kaepora @brynosaurus @ruescasd @SarahJamieLewis The very worst thing we could do as cryptographers is convince people to move critical societal functions into opaque experimental-quality cryptographic systems they can’t understand or even argue with. And then implement those systems incorrectly.
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Frank Chu is back on the hoof. Not all that is good has gone.
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Wait what wait what wait what wait _what?_ (via @rrmutt)
Indeed, in 2018 a Maxwell's Demon which extracts more work than the delta in thermodynamic free energy was experimentally demomstrated, and has since been replicated. Information must be explicitly accounted for as a source of work. https://t.co/yKCE6R7Ysc
https://t.co/Sa6BbVpyN4
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This is a really fascinating paper: _Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights_, by @SanjuktaMPaul
https://t.co/KGtwSRZjjH
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10.0.0.0 addrs look like roman columns or steel i-beams; institutional, serious, plain. 192.168 evokes the aesthetic of consumer electronics; silver paint flaking off a gracelessly sculpted gray ABS shell. 172.16.0.0 looks like someone made a mistake
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“Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which can be adequately explained by structural alignment of incentives.” -Hanlon's Razor as revised via @kevinakwok
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RT if you’ve gotten more radical as you’ve gotten older trying to destroy a right wing talking point
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We live in a world where we don’t trust software because we inspected it and it was crap. So we “fixed” it by putting all our trust into hw that we made inspection resistant so that we don’t know it is crap.
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Congratulations to California Attorney General @AGBecerra for bringing such a huge amount of attention to a public interest document!
freedom.press
Reporters obtained a list of police convictions through a public records request. California’s Attorney General, claiming its mere possession is a misdemeanor crime, is threatening them with legal...
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The soap is, in fact, woke.
RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE.
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