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“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton

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

11.03.2026 11:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 👍 22072 🔁 5945 💬 195 📌 368
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Happy Tom Lehrer Tuesday! Worried about WW3? Remember the bright side, no funerals to attend!

10.03.2026 22:29 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 19:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 16:27 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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.

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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.

07.03.2026 21:45 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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

05.03.2026 21:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

05.03.2026 05:55 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

04.03.2026 04:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

27.02.2026 20:39 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

An Aufhebung of middle school if you will

25.02.2026 23:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of three snow colored trees, with coloring that appears as if a silver print.

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

23.02.2026 03:56 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

22.02.2026 17:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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-...

21.02.2026 23:40 👍 1228 🔁 607 💬 25 📌 57

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

21.02.2026 22:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

bingo!

20.02.2026 02:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

20.02.2026 02:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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

03.02.2026 08:34 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

Exciting!

19.01.2026 23:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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/...

15.01.2026 19:23 👍 593 🔁 321 💬 9 📌 37

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

12.01.2026 02:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
caillou en forme de manette xbox

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.

10.01.2026 13:22 👍 2202 🔁 489 💬 54 📌 177
Luke and Obi-Wan from Star Wars

Luke and Obi-Wan from Star Wars

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

09.01.2026 18:09 👍 1414 🔁 446 💬 7 📌 13

Robert Boyle would like to have a word …

09.01.2026 17:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

04.01.2026 19:21 👍 175 🔁 36 💬 6 📌 0

So I'll close by saying that we're still here, and we're still doing interesting and relevant things. When you hear Renaissance, think of Surekha Davies, and Paula Findlen, and Sarah Ross, and Nic Baker, and Brian Maxson, and Lydia Barnett, and Kate Lowe, and Hannah Marcus, and Ada Palmer, and more.

31.12.2025 14:50 👍 152 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 3

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

28.12.2025 02:03 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

We used to have nice things

25.11.2025 14:51 👍 480 🔁 86 💬 11 📌 1