Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀

Cryptography and infrastructure engineer. Climate activist. Renewable energy fan. Fuck Trump. He/Him/They #TimHead

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2026-10-24 14:55:14 UTC

This is crazy: Claude Mythos attempted a supply chain attack where it opened a PR on GitHub trying to add malware then created a bunch of sock puppet accounts to try to pressure the maintainer into merging it, suggesting it doesn't actually contain malware.
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/investigating-alignment-failures-in-aisis-incident

2026-10-23 17:23:48 UTC

We’ve just started using BINSEC for RustCrypto, by way of cargo-checkct.
https://binsec.github.io/
It’s static analysis tooling that lets you write a test harness that answers the question “does the code under test ever perform non-constant-time CPU instructions on secret inputs?” and it works across a variety of different CPU architectures.
In a world of optimizing compilers that don’t give assurances, at least this way we can have tests (and they run in CI to prevent regressions!)
#rust #cryptography

2026-10-20 18:25:21 UTC

So a certificate authority used “4” as a private key? Oof. XKCD being a little too prophetic.
I’ve added minimum size checks to various RustCrypto crates which received a surprising amount of pushback from people who really want to use insecure keys for whatever reason.
I’m wondering if I should promote them to constant-time minimum entropy checks.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/eight-emudhra-ca-keys-compromised.html

2026-10-20 04:13:08 UTC

I love how Meta’s reaction is always “oops, that was totally an innocuous mistake. But don’t try to allege malice simply because it keeps happening again and again and again that we empower authoritarian strongmen our CEO has a crush on because he’s a lame dweeb”
#nevent1q…tq7d

2026-10-11 03:43:08 UTC

Tired: “We should be afraid of AI”
Wired: “We should be afraid of the people building AI”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/joseph-gordon-levitt-concern-people-building-ai-1236727031/

2026-10-10 05:23:36 UTC

The magic macOS command I wish I've known for a million years:
$ defaults write com.apple.loginwindow TALLogoutSavesState -bool false
Don't reboot every damn app under the sun every time you restart your OS. Let an OS restart be a blissful clean slate where you can reopen the apps you actually want to use.
WTF Apple, why is it so hard to experience this zen state of no apps unless you explicitly check a goddamn box when you restart the OS that says "I would like an OS restart to be a clean slate please!"

2026-10-09 02:57:22 UTC

I’m generally not a fan of capital punishment (see the recent botched execution in Tennessee as one example why), but I’m especially not a fan of public executions, WTF.
The Trump Administration are a bunch of fucking barbarians.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-hasan-execution-public/story?id=137110734
#uspol

2026-09-19 02:15:26 UTC

Trump’s core argument for why AI doesn’t need guard rails and instead a “high I.Q.” (scare quotes very intentional) president instead suffices (clearly a self-serving act where he wants to prevent the AI bubble from popping because that would make him look bad) seems to be because radio replaced TV and some people couldn’t handle that
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-show-donald-trump-ai-warnings_n_6aa9fd69e4b03cde7fad7a90
#uspol

2026-09-03 20:01:14 UTC

There’s apparently a joke going around in the military that Hegseth has taken out more US generals than Iranian ones
https://www.military.com/hegseth-removing-militarys-senior-leaders-faster-than-any-defense-secretary-in-recent-history
#uspol

2026-08-30 17:20:32 UTC

The next president should rename the Lake Worth Lagoon next to Mar-a-Lago to the Trump Sucks Lagoon
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/8/30/google-maps-renames-lake-ontario-after-trumps-decree-on-lake-america
#uspol

2026-08-29 20:49:50 UTC

Finally someone using the correct words to describe what Trump is orchestrating: a conspiracy against the Constitution
https://youtu.be/nbPRVSHruzU
#uspol

2026-08-26 16:02:09 UTC

First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry? All the wrong people are dying. So sad
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/

2026-08-21 20:33:36 UTC

Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country.
The Distilled newsletter reported Friday that the megacorporation has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid, at least in the beginning, the permits show.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#ClimateCrisis

2026-08-20 12:44:40 UTC

This is perhaps one of the craziest #Rust supply chain attacks I’ve ever seen:
The `arrayref` crate, which for whatever reason was somewhat widely used in cryptography libraries (none that I personally work on AFAIK), was changed to depend on a malicious `proc-macro1` crate published by “dtolney” who was impersonating “dtolnay”.
`proc-macro1` contained a malicious build.rs which was effectively RCE and downloaded a malware payload.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on-arrayref/

2026-08-13 21:19:10 UTC

Almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds in the US favor democratic socialism
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/cnbc-poll-shows-half-of-18-to-34-year-olds-view-socialism-positively.html
#uspol

2026-08-13 19:46:32 UTC

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After making multiple but ultimately vain efforts efforts to redirect more water to the Danube, its water levels have dropped so far that Romania was forced to shut down its only operating nuclear power plant today.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlxpq5q799o
#NuclearPower

2026-08-13 19:27:09 UTC

Fans of nuclear power often like to describe it as “reliable”. Well, it isn’t during heat waves.
“Heatwave expected to remove 15% of France's nuclear capacity on Friday”
Six reactors are expected to be fully offline due to the heat. Nuclear availability expected to be lowest since August 2023.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/heatwave-expected-limit-15-frances-nuclear-fleet-friday-2026-08-13/
#NuclearPower

2026-08-06 19:23:49 UTC

It took humanity 68 years to install 1TW solar capacity, which we reached in 2022.
It took 2 years to double it to 2TW, which we did in November 2024.
Now a little under 2 years later, we’re at 3TW.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/three-terawatts-solar
#RenewableEnergy

2026-08-05 13:50:08 UTC

Progressive Abdul El-Sayed, backed by Bernie and The Squad, wins Democratic Michigan Senate primary.
Corpo center-right Democrats learning another lesson that we’re sick of their bullshit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750
#uspol

2026-07-17 00:03:12 UTC

Sorry, are Trump’s roving death gangs openly threating to murder Democrats after their recent killing spree?
America is becoming a dark, dark place.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tom-homan-ice-shootings-democrat-b3015843.html
#uspol

2026-07-04 20:50:58 UTC

Heat pumps may soon outsell air conditioners in US
For years, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the U.S. — and now the superefficient appliances are coming for conventional ACs, too.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/heat-pumps-air-conditioners

2026-07-04 16:40:03 UTC

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@nprofile…ph0g @nprofile…vdx8 “neither” (by 2040) seems like a fun contrarian position

2026-07-04 04:07:37 UTC

Once again, you can try to ignore the climate crisis but that doesn’t make it go away…
“CANCELED: America's Independence Day parade called off over extreme heat”
Organizers of DC's America's Independence Day Parade canceled as heat is expected to reach between 110°F and 115°F (43-46C)
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/canceled-americas-national-independence-day-parade-called-extreme-heat/65-afcef538-20df-4224-9e14-78c47080422f
#uspol

2026-06-29 13:42:30 UTC

For anyone in Europe considering a heat pump but worried about the global warming potential of its refrigerant, you can always consider a heat pump which uses CO2 (a.k.a. "R-744") as its refrigerant.
CO2 still has global warming potential of course, but it's among the lowest of any refrigerant you can get in a heat pump.
(The CO2 used for R-744 is sourced from carbon capture anyway)
#ClimateCrisis

2026-06-28 18:29:31 UTC

Bill Maher is MAGA-curious. I'm so unsurprised I forgot to leave my mouth agape.
Anyone still referring to that guy as being liberal/leftist is incredibly out of touch.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bill-maher-played-by-jd-vance-real-time-hbo-may-vote-republican-2028-1236795870/
#uspol

2026-06-26 01:58:26 UTC

AIPAC 'Disappointed' as Jewish Progressives Celebrate New York Primary Sweep
One progressive group said Brad Lander's victory was 'a blueprint for the future for both the Jewish community and the Democratic Party.' The Union for Reform Judaism, said the movement rejects 'the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian dignity
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-25/ty-article/.premium/aipac-disappointed-as-jewish-progressives-celebrate-new-york-primary-sweep/0000019e-fb24-d58e-afbf-ff7f1dc80000
#uspol

2026-06-22 17:48:40 UTC

Stay safe out there Europe.
Solidarity from the southwest US, where we will almost certainly be facing similar temperatures soon.
#ClimateCrisis

2026-06-21 13:04:03 UTC

I've pointed this out before but it's nice to see an article on it:
International shipping is a problem that actually gets easier as we decarbonize, because it turns out that 40% of freight shipping tonnage and half of fuel spent on shipping is spent shipping other fossil fuel around the globe.
Get rid of fossil fuel and half of our shipping problems go away!
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/16/shipping-freight-energy-fossil-cargo/
#ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy

2026-06-18 03:10:38 UTC

Spain’s renewables revolution is paying off: Electricity bills are lower despite energy crisis
The country has long had some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe (including significant periods of negative prices) but households often saw higher bills due to marginal costs like grid balancing with gas.
Those costs have improved as others have seen costs rise, and Spain now has household electricity rates lower than the EU average, as well as their neighbor France
https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/16/spains-renewables-revolution-is-paying-off-electricity-bills-are-lower-despite-energy-cris
#RenewableEnergy

2026-06-14 20:39:30 UTC

Just when you thought the White House UFC fight couldn't get more Idiocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/white-house-ufc-fighters-crypto
#uspol

2026-06-03 00:31:27 UTC

PBS did a documentary showing infrared/thermal drone footage of the massive gas turbine plants being built next to AI datacenters.
As I’ve pointed out in the past, despite greenwashing these massive datacenter campuses being built by so-called “hyperscalers” are being primarily fueled by on-site gas turbines, which in addition to climate crisis-causing CO2 also emit high amounts of NOx and particulate matter.
https://youtu.be/5p426fSlYH4
#climatecrisis

2026-05-31 23:21:30 UTC

There are few technologies I can think of with cheerleaders so irrationally exuberant as fans of nuclear power. Sorry to harp on this again, but I feel like fans of nuclear power are some of the simultaneously most vocal and most misinformed people on the Internet.
Nuclear power has delivered practically nothing in terms of new capacity this century. Electricity demand doubled globally and nuclear power capacity increases are effectively rounding error. The vast majority of that new generation capacity came from renewables.
Nuclear power fans act like conspiracy theorists: the reason capacity hasn’t increased is because there’s technology has been unfairly maligned by the ignorant, who are irrationally afraid. Of course the complete opposite is happening and we’re in the most pro-nuclear climate since before Three Mile Island.
And yet new nuclear power has not magically materialized. Every project outside China is a decade late, tens of billions overbudget, and adds a couple GW

2026-05-17 13:35:46 UTC

The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/world-installing-grid-batteries

2026-05-07 17:44:00 UTC

In the UK, “wind and solar have generated more electricity than fossil fuels for a record 15 months in a row. […] this included a full winter season for the first time in 2025-26.
Yes, that’s right, renewables work in the UK in the winter.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wind-and-solar-have-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1-7bn-since-iran-war-began/
#renewableenergy

2026-05-07 16:15:51 UTC

Firm solar and wind with battery storage, capable of around-the-clock operation, is now cheaper than coal and gas (and much cheaper than nuclear)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/solar-wind-with-battery-storage-become-more-cost-competitive-irena-report-shows-2026-05-06/
#renewableenergy

2026-05-06 17:29:55 UTC

It's almost comical how many fusion companies have announced commercial power plants before they've even built a demonstrator reactor which could even hypothetically reach engineering breakeven.
Even if you reached engineering breakeven, which no fusion reactor has ever done, there's still the open question of if the reactor is economical to operate.
This is another Bill Gates company, so you know it's a piece of shit.
https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/nuclear/597038/bill-gates-type-one-energy-joins-commercial-fusion-plant/

2026-05-01 21:28:24 UTC

One of the most hopeful headlines I’ve seen in awhile:
“Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’”
https://www.carbonbrief.org/clean-energy-pushes-fossil-fuel-power-into-reverse-for-first-time-ever/
#climatechange #climatecrisis #renewableenergy

2026-04-20 20:20:36 UTC

The Onion completes its acquisition of InfoWars, with creative director Tim Heidecker!!!
Tim has already been practically making a parody of InfoWars-like podcasts as part of his show On Cinema at the Cinema (search for “Xposed” or “Zero Hour”)
That’s gonna be awesome.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/the-onion-deal-taking-over-alex-jones-infowars-1236726130/
#theonion #infowars

2026-04-18 15:16:47 UTC

Shamir's Third Law in action: cryptographic systems are typically bypassed, not penetrated.
"We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis"
Exploits subtle memory safety and logic bugs.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/

2026-04-17 12:57:21 UTC

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power
A new metric for assessing total system costs puts a least-cost mix of offshore wind and solar at about €46 ($54.20)/MWh in a future climate-neutral energy system for Denmark. Researchers tell pv magazine that figure is less than half the equivalent cost of nuclear under the same conditions.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new-metric-shows-renewables-are-53-cheaper-than-nuclear-power/
#renewableenergy

2026-04-13 12:27:41 UTC

It's not often I'll link a NYT article, but someone from the WSJ wrote a really whiny oped whose core point was something to the effect of "it's not climate change denial, it's climate crisis denial, you're mischaracterizing us if you think we deny all climate change" and they thought this was a real slam dunk argument the year either winter was replaced by summer in the US, or winter was batshit insane.
What the WSJ doesn't want you to see:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/climate/climate-change-deniers-trump.html
#uspol #climatecrisis

2026-04-11 22:57:40 UTC

In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month
It’s just one month, but it’s a sign of where the U.S. is headed as renewable energy — namely solar — surges onto the grid.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables-beat-natural-gas-us-grid-march-2026
#renewableenergy

2026-04-08 18:36:23 UTC

Whenever electricity prices go negative (because legacy thermal generation which isn’t designed to be load following pays to stay on because it’s cheaper than curtailing) people wonder what could be done with that electricity to take load off the grid…
How about make ammonia?
World’s first dynamic green ammonia plant starts operations in Denmark
https://www.topsoe.com/news/worlds-first-dynamic-green-ammonia-plant-starts-operations-in-denmark

2026-04-03 20:37:54 UTC

California is "bending the duck curve" with batteries:
Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 pct of evening demand in world’s fourth biggest economy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries-reach-stunning-new-peak-of-44-pct-of-evening-demand-in-worlds-fourth-biggest-economy/
#renewableenergy

2026-04-03 16:07:22 UTC

Disturbing article about Pete Hegseth imposing white supremacy on the US military.
Hegseth just fired the Army's top uniformed officer, Army Chief of Staff and four star General Randy A. George, because he refused to remove two black women from a list of people being considered for 1-star General promotions.
"In Trump's military, white male supremacy reigns"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376189/-In-Trump-s-military-white-male-supremacy-reigns
#uspol

2026-03-09 00:00:38 UTC

I seriously think the best way for the next US president to deal with Hegseth is to hand him over to the ICC to be prosecuted for war crimes.
And in case you haven’t read the “Hague Invasion Act” but want to bring it up anyway, it includes multiple caveats including the law self-destructing if the US chooses to join the ICC, but also it includes an exemption for POTUS to hand war criminals over to the ICC for prosecution.
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-rob-jetten-us-israel-war-iran-international-law/
#uspol

2026-03-01 23:07:25 UTC

“World’s richest man convinces Pentagon to put secret intelligence into child porn generator for military planning” is the cyberpunk dystopia we’re living in, apparently
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/elon-musk-grok-chatbot-ai-security-concerns-8qm29jkdb
#uspol

2026-02-25 14:19:21 UTC

I’m wondering how long it will be until cigarettes come with a Surgeon General’s recommendation:
“Wellness influencer picked by Trump for surgeon general faces Senate grilling
Critics concerned as Casey Means, aligned with RFK Jr on vaccine stance, does not have active medical licence”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/casey-means-surgeon-general-nominee
#uspol

2026-02-25 14:03:24 UTC

Ugh, this SCOTUS case really worries me. Trump just gutted the endangerment finding and federal climate legislation, and now it seems quite possible that SCOTUS might say states can’t do anything about it (i.e. sue the fossil fuel companies)
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5751603-scotus-to-consider-tossing-climate-suit/
#uspol

2026-02-22 04:42:50 UTC

“I’ll make my own United Nations with despots and dictators!”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trumps-pantomime-united-nations
#trumpregime

2026-02-22 03:46:21 UTC

Mike Johnson, the racist piece of shit who supports “great replacement theory”, just denied the request for civil rights leader Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in the Capitol
https://apnews.com/article/jesse-jackson-funeral-plans-capitol-rotunda-2910a8ff9df4531f9fa4ed76404a9887
#uspol

2026-02-08 15:30:26 UTC

Happy Superb Owl Sunday! 🦉
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/035/723/108/429/494/original/b9510142dcb694d7.jpeg

2026-01-24 15:18:45 UTC

Is Gmail's spam filter massively misbehaving for anyone else?
I'm getting a bunch of spam emails in my inbox and it's flagging totally normal innocuous email I get every day.

2025-12-15 22:19:22 UTC

It's a pretty jarring juxtoposition between the freak out Trump and MAGA had about Charlie Kirk, and Trump's invective-laced post about Rob Reiner after he and his wife were murdered by their son.
So much that, apparently, even MAGA can't stomach it:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas-massie-mtg-trump-rob-reiner_n_69403560e4b0fa125e7f1a50
#uspol

2025-12-15 20:21:41 UTC

Just another nearly 70F (20C) day in Denver, CO, where the mean temp for December is in the 30F (-1C) range, ugh
#climatecrisis

2025-12-15 16:08:55 UTC

Was reading the comments on this article about Microsoft scaling back Copilot because nobody is using it, and one thing people mentioned was the TV ads and how batshit crazy there are.
I remember one from Meta where it was a teacher asking the AI to design a lesson plan. That one bothered me the most. If you're teaching something, shouldn't you be able to write your own lesson plan? If you can't, maybe you shouldn't be a teacher?
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot

2025-12-06 06:29:20 UTC

Every day the Trump Administration finds new ways to make me feel ashamed to be American
“Boat strike survivors clung to the wreckage of a vessel attacked by the U.S. military for roughly 45 minutes before a second strike killed them”
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/05/boat-strike-survivors-double-tap/
#uspol

2025-12-05 22:24:31 UTC

Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits
After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor, Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
https://www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-c-for-rust-and-your-privacy-benefits/
#rust

2025-12-02 04:04:18 UTC

Pete Hegseth needs to be in prison for the rest of his life
https://thehill.com/homenews/5628447-defense-secretary-authorizes-drug-boat-strike/
#uspol

2025-11-25 19:42:34 UTC

While quantum computers might pose a practical threat to public key cryptography some time in the coming decades due to Shor's algorithm, many worry that Grover's algorithm will pose a similar practical threat to symmetric cryptography.
Those people are, for lack of a better term, wrong:
"… it would take, with the stated assumptions, over 2^80 parallel quantum searches to break AES-128 in a year"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X24004308
#cryptography

2025-11-22 00:05:31 UTC

Fucking Democrats. Someone please make a Super PAC so we can primary every single one of these pieces of shit. They all need to go:
“Full List of Democrats Voting to Condemn Socialism as Mamdani Comes to Town”
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-of-democrats-voting-to-condemn-socialism-as-mamdani-comes-to-town-11088383
#uspol

2025-11-19 01:07:24 UTC

Apparently Cloudflare was taken doen by a single `Result::unwrap` in their #Rust code
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/#memory-preallocation

2025-11-16 00:43:26 UTC

ICE is pulling out of Chicago, for now.
In the process, they created patentently illegal, unconstitutional chaos.
The result? They detained 614 immigrants. Only 16 had any kind of criminal record.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/worst-of-the-worst-doj-figures-show-97-4-of-614-detained-immigrants-in-chicago-had-no-criminal-record
#uspol

2025-11-15 22:00:06 UTC

Started re-reading Alan Moore’s “V for Vendetta” and this stood out to me
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/555/958/965/701/378/original/61787d855af6055b.jpeg

2025-11-12 21:30:54 UTC

Discharge petition to force House vote on Epstein files succeeds with Grijalva’s signature
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602658-discharge-petition-epstein-files-grijalva/
#uspol #epstein
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/538/857/128/051/855/original/8f4382baa4e9a647.mp4

2025-11-10 16:59:10 UTC

In what feels like an incredibly rare bit of good news in these tumultuous times, SCOTUS has refused to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that legalized gay marriage
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604293/scotus-rejects-gay-marriage-appeal
#uspol

2025-10-28 22:37:40 UTC

Oh god, Copilot just left an unsolicited comment on one of our GitHub repos 🫠

2025-10-26 00:45:18 UTC

Tarmageddon is a great example of why RUSTSEC tracks unmaintained crates/libraries and why such unmaintained projects are very much security-relevant: https://edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon
#rust

2025-10-18 23:56:00 UTC

#NoKings protest photo from Westcliffe, CO (population 492)
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/397/870/003/979/217/original/6d6df4e4cbad7927.jpeg

2025-10-16 14:06:49 UTC

Apparently the solution to Kryptos K4, the final previously unsolved panel of the sculpture at the CIA, has been found, not through cryptanalysis but through an OPSEC failure 😅
It seems things took a turn for the worse after that.
"In the announcement from RR Auction, the company running the sale, he saw a reference to copies of the coding charts used to encrypt the message; the originals, it said, were at the Smithsonian."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html

2025-10-15 17:26:56 UTC

If you're familiar with F5, this probably isn't terribly surprising:
"In August 2025, we learned a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor maintained long-term, persistent access to, and downloaded files from, certain F5 systems. These systems included our BIG-IP product development environment and engineering knowledge management platforms."
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000154696

2025-10-09 14:54:48 UTC

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@nprofile…eqw3 oh wow they found the founder of Antifa, good job. Was it Winston Churchill? FDR?

2025-09-30 22:20:08 UTC

Whenever Trump is gone and a Democrat is President again, they need to direct all government web sites to create a section documenting the horrible, horrible damage Trump did to the federal government
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act
#uspol

2025-06-13 23:25:21 UTC

Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla #uspol
https://theonion.com/democrats-back-resolution-thanking-federal-agents-for-handcuffing-alex-padilla/

2025-06-13 22:22:50 UTC

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2025-06-10 03:48:21 UTC

So Israel basically kidnapped a member of the EU parliament in international waters?
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/flotilla-hassan-israel-gaza-aid

2025-06-03 15:27:59 UTC

Dear Elon Musk:
Speaking as a maintainer of the most popular pure Rust implementations of the secp256k1 elliptic curve and SHA-256 hash function, there is no encryption in Bitcoin, only hashing and digital signatures.
You should probably be looking at Signal, oh wait you’re too busy spreading disinformation about nonexistent backdoors.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/620/135/848/592/291/original/bc99ba26b212029b.jpeg

2025-05-31 22:57:54 UTC

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@nprofile…u7qg the US has siloed, purpose-specific databases in relevant government services/departments. 18F's Direct File service does what you're talking about (but Trump just killed both).
The new (fascist) plan is to tear down all the walls, take all the data about everyone across services/departments in violation of privacy laws, put it all into one big database, and use it to compile an enemies list.

2025-05-31 22:52:42 UTC

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@nprofile…u7qg it’s the nature of the tool which is an intelligence gathering tool for surveilling your adversaries, turned on a country’s own citizens

2025-05-31 22:50:36 UTC

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@nprofile…u7qg are you actually familiar with Palantir? It’s a surveillance tool which is used for, among other purposes, deciding who to kill

2025-05-31 03:24:46 UTC

Trump wants Palantir to make a database of all Americans. Talk about a dystopian privacy nightmare #uspol
https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

2025-05-30 21:17:13 UTC

Some estimates put the number of children killed by Elon's decimation of USAID at 300,000.
The chaos created by DOGE also had an associated cost which, by some estimates, completely wipes out any savings they generated.
So Elon Musk killed 300,000 children for nothing.
#uspol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.M8Vw.raMdU_L48AEh&smid=bs-share

2025-05-27 21:53:47 UTC

In addition to not having tailpipe emissions, a new study claims EVs brake dust is reduced by 83% versus ICE vehicles thanks to regenerative braking, which also avoids wasting energy.
(That still leaves tire emissions, but hey, two out of three ain't bad)
https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/another-way-electric-cars-clean-the-air-study-says-brake-dust-reduced-by-83/

2025-05-22 19:01:26 UTC

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2025-05-07 14:33:30 UTC

JD Vance Jokes About Deporting Tourists Attending 2026 World Cup
Nothing more inviting than "joking" about how the current administration has decided to criminalize US tourism
#uspol
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-jokes-about-deporting-tourists-attending-2026-world-cup_n_681a7b3ee4b0c2b15d969c4b

2025-05-03 20:54:33 UTC

Super Mario Brothers for NES, which turns 40 this year, was just broken by a code execution bug sort of similar to the one in SMB3, which allowed for a credit screen skip and new speedrunning world records
https://youtu.be/WdadpHLAfdA

2025-04-25 00:16:38 UTC

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@nprofile…ps99 Bernie and AOC are drawing crowds of 30,000+ people in city after city with a progressive/populist message and nearly the entire rest of the party is like "have we tried moving farther right? Maybe that will work"

2025-04-16 16:57:43 UTC

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@nprofile…xyvy read the story:
> "[The whistleblower] witnessed...that within 15 minutes of DOGE employees creating user accounts, i.e. Usernames and passwords, within 15 minutes of those accounts being created, somebody or something from Russia tried to log in with the right username and right passwords — that is to say — the right credentials. And that happened over 20 times.”

2025-04-16 14:27:17 UTC

Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach
"DOGE has also been using Starlink as a means to exfiltrate data. What that means is that, from our understanding, Russia has a direct pipeline of information through Starlink, which means that anything going through Starlink is going to Russia.”
“We also know that this is not unique to the NLRB,” he said. “This is happening government-wide."
#uspol
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/whistleblower-accuses-doge-of-letting-russians-access-government-accounts-in-shocking-security-breach/

2025-04-16 02:38:08 UTC

This is crazy. Do we have DOGE to thank?
The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding
Financial support for the system that tracks publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities expires on April 16th.
https://www.theverge.com/news/649314/cve-mitre-funding-vulnerabilities-exposures-funding

2025-04-10 12:31:41 UTC

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@nprofile…aam2 where is mlkem768x25519-sha256 specified? Is it the same as "xyber768"?

2025-04-09 15:02:50 UTC

It’s kind of amazing to me how every step of the way the countermeasures to Trump’s tariff insanity are more reasonable than what he’s doing, and whenever other countries seek to punish red states over blue states, it’s a sort of chef’s kiss to show they know we fucking hate this shit just as much as they do.
Bravo China, bravo Canada, and anyone else who takes that appeoach
#uspol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl/index.html

2025-04-05 13:58:42 UTC

When I was on Twitter I had >15k followers which sometimes felt like arguing with a wall, and Mastodon was almost refreshing in terms of having fewer followers and getting quality replies and engagement.
Lately I’ve been getting more reply guys who have a total meltdown when I reply to their replyguyism with a sentence of (somewhat snarky) 20 words or so which undermines their narrative. Suddenly I’m the one arguing in bad faith, clutch the pearls.
Uhh, you’re the one who replied to me?

2025-04-05 03:18:48 UTC

Despite everything else that’s going on, fossil fuels dropped below 50% of the US power mix for the first time last month
https://electrek.co/2025/04/04/first-month-on-record-fossil-fuels-drop-below-50-of-us-power-mix/

2025-04-04 06:43:25 UTC

To everone claiming there aren’t enough protests in the US, here’s what’s planned for Saturday.
The proests are happening, it’s just the media aren’t paying attention.
https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025/04/03/hands-off-protests-colorado-trump-musk
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/278/334/536/140/167/original/0311713198a5ee41.jpeg

2025-04-03 08:18:37 UTC

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@nprofile…cg79 there have been more protests under Trump 2.0 than any other time in my life.
It feels like they’re happening pretty much weekly now.
The 50501 protests were the first I’ve ever heard of happening in all 50 states at the same time.
They just get practically no media coverage, so people often aren’t aware they’re even happening.

2025-04-02 03:30:37 UTC

CleanTechnica is reporting (not AFD, AFAICT) that the Tesla board has asked Elon Musk to step down.
Can't find another source to back up these claims yet, but if true, it sure seems like Elon is having a really, really bad day.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/01/tesla-board-asks-elon-musk-to-step-down/

2025-03-24 18:01:07 UTC

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@nprofile…gu7x it’s a weird thought that I have better COMSEC than the people in charge of the US military

2025-03-22 19:11:24 UTC

Sanders, AOC Draw Biggest Crowd of Their Careers at Rally to Fight 'Oligarchy' in Denver
34,000 people attended the rally in Denver’s Civic Center Park
#uspol
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-aoc-fight-oligarchy-denver

2025-03-18 18:17:19 UTC

Immigrant rights activist taken into ICE custody in Aurora without warning Monday night, advocacy groups say
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who recently faced a Congressional committee to justify the city's immigration policies, called Vizguerra's arrest a "Putin-style persecution of political dissidents."
#uspol
https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/aurora/immigration-rights-activist-taken-into-ice-custody-in-aurora-advocacy-group-says