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¹ isogenist, co-host SCWpod
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I finally got a tight edit up of the Signal PQ Ratchet deep dive:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUE...
Signal's Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet
YouTube video by Deirdre Connolly
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Apple and WhatsApp vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration
Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
it's officially Cold™ over here and i don't like it (yet)
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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AWS Private CA now supports post-quantum digital certificates

AWS Private CA now supports ML-DSA, a post-quantum digital signature algorithm standardized by NIST. This enables organizations to transition PKI toward quantum-resistant cryptography.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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This book also has PTSD in the form of surviving UC-Berkeley’s Philosophy 178 - Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as taught by H. Ginsborg
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
tom wambsgans is such a good actor
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
tahoe is so..../round/
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I think this sums up how everyone is feeling tonight:
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Under Schumer's leadership, eight Democrats (Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, King, Rosen, & Shaheen) joined the Republicans in moving forward a bill to reopen the government without ACA subsidies—Dems' stated key aim—or any other real concessions from the status before the shutdown.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
everyone watching football: what the fuck is this
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises.

But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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What is a particle? In one hypothetical answer, the properties of space-time — its robustness, its symmetries — essentially come from the way 0s and 1s are braided together. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-pa...
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Visually, Blade Runner 2049 blows it out of the water. But beneath the surface of Freddy Got Fingered lies an authenticity not even the Tyrell Corporation can replicate
July 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
i know sean duffy is not qualified whatsoever but at least he seems to be giving a shit
Sean Duffy: "The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, 'I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I'm gonna offer them to you.' I don't know that I can, Jake, because they're not certified in the airspaces that we need them. But if I can, I'm going to use them."
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sean Duffy: "The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, 'I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I'm gonna offer them to you.' I don't know that I can, Jake, because they're not certified in the airspaces that we need them. But if I can, I'm going to use them."
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
my oatmeal companion
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM