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Prawn dumpling in miso and a side of trek
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Prawn dumpling in miso and a side of trek
steak, miso, ramen, pakchoi
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
steak, miso, ramen, pakchoi
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“In short, the new rules would mean that all federal science research would need to be approved by a political appointee who may have no expertise in the relevant areas, and the research can be canceled at any time if the political winds change.”
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arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Trump executive order
Letter urges Congress to take action to safeguard integrity of independent peer-review system.
arstechnica.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“In short, the new rules would mean that all federal science research would need to be approved by a political appointee who may have no expertise in the relevant areas, and the research can be canceled at any time if the political winds change.”
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arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Chicken in okra....
August 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Chicken in okra....
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When I repeatedly say the government isn't intellectually intelligent enough to understand tech, "delete your emails to save the environment" is what I mean btw www.gov.uk/government/n...
National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall
Five areas remain in drought with six more in prolonged dry weather
www.gov.uk
August 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When I repeatedly say the government isn't intellectually intelligent enough to understand tech, "delete your emails to save the environment" is what I mean btw www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Note this too - my main concern, explicitly confirmed by the MetPolice: “Anyone showing support for Palestine Action can expect to be arrested. An arrest under the Terrorism Act can have very real long-term implications – from travel, to employment, to finances.” OUTRAGEOUS!!!
August 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Note this too - my main concern, explicitly confirmed by the MetPolice: “Anyone showing support for Palestine Action can expect to be arrested. An arrest under the Terrorism Act can have very real long-term implications – from travel, to employment, to finances.” OUTRAGEOUS!!!
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📄✨ New paper! Emilie Ma (kewbi.sh) and I looked at the problem of users of end-to-end encrypted apps recovering their private keys if their device is lost, broken, or stolen. We found a cryptographic approach that is decentralised and resilient against social engineering arxiv.org/abs/2507.21122
Kintsugi: Decentralized E2EE Key Recovery
Kintsugi is a protocol for key recovery, allowing a user to regain access to end-to-end encrypted data after they have lost their device, but still have their (potentially low-entropy) password. Exist...
arxiv.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📄✨ New paper! Emilie Ma (kewbi.sh) and I looked at the problem of users of end-to-end encrypted apps recovering their private keys if their device is lost, broken, or stolen. We found a cryptographic approach that is decentralised and resilient against social engineering arxiv.org/abs/2507.21122
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Nice that the Bluesky firehose is now becoming a live dataset on which to demo streaming databases
We have a new blog post up at @materialize.com about analyzing the Bluesky firehose (Jetstream, really) through Materialize. You can grab a copy of the community edition of MZ and follow along, or invent your own ways of looking at the data, live!
materialize.com/blog/analyzi...
materialize.com/blog/analyzi...
Analyzing Live Social Data: Exploring Social Trends on Bluesky
Bluesky provides a public firehose that we can stream into Materialize, through which we can observe live social behavior and trends.
materialize.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Nice that the Bluesky firehose is now becoming a live dataset on which to demo streaming databases
this s very cool jakelazaroff.com/words/homomo...
Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com
Homomorphic encryption allows a computer to run programs on encrypted data. Learn how homomorphic encryption works through interactive examples, build a homomorphically encrypted CRDT and see whether ...
jakelazaroff.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
this s very cool jakelazaroff.com/words/homomo...
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Now I've had a chance to read Andrea Sella's article in @chemistryworld.com on why he returned his Royal Society Faraday Medal. I recommend that you read it too. It's inspiring, though inevitably also disturbing, in these troubled times.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...
Why I returned the Faraday prize to the Royal Society
Andrea Sella explains how inaction over Elon Musk's membership motivated him to act
www.chemistryworld.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Now I've had a chance to read Andrea Sella's article in @chemistryworld.com on why he returned his Royal Society Faraday Medal. I recommend that you read it too. It's inspiring, though inevitably also disturbing, in these troubled times.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...
israel disses Greta Thunberg et al's Madleen mission as "instagram activism" - Israeli government is so out of touch they obviously have no clue what happens to places that get famous thru insta. next, maybe we'll see half a million boats show up, then see what the criminal IDF do about that.
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
israel disses Greta Thunberg et al's Madleen mission as "instagram activism" - Israeli government is so out of touch they obviously have no clue what happens to places that get famous thru insta. next, maybe we'll see half a million boats show up, then see what the criminal IDF do about that.
Chili beef Miso ramen Pak choi....num num
June 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Chili beef Miso ramen Pak choi....num num
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
genocide www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 50, hospital says
The hospital says 22 children and 15 women are among the dead after several homes in the Jabalia area were hit overnight.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
genocide www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though?
If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.
If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.
All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.
May 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though?
If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.
If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.
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Just published an update to yesterday's blog post with an addendum with our view of how Starlink customers in Spain were re-routed from their PoP in Madrid to PoPs in London and Milan.
www.kentik.com/blog/lunes-s...
www.kentik.com/blog/lunes-s...
May 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Just published an update to yesterday's blog post with an addendum with our view of how Starlink customers in Spain were re-routed from their PoP in Madrid to PoPs in London and Milan.
www.kentik.com/blog/lunes-s...
www.kentik.com/blog/lunes-s...
As with the illegal Iraq war, Tony Blair has now, without actual evidence, declared war on the net zero targets. He's wrong again.
April 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
As with the illegal Iraq war, Tony Blair has now, without actual evidence, declared war on the net zero targets. He's wrong again.
it is true - it is hard to get cited when you write about negative results;- E. Peltonen et al., "Perspectives on Negative Research Results in Pervasive Computing," in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 63-72, 1 July-Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/MPRV.2023.3273718.
April 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
it is true - it is hard to get cited when you write about negative results;- E. Peltonen et al., "Perspectives on Negative Research Results in Pervasive Computing," in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 63-72, 1 July-Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/MPRV.2023.3273718.
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may be of interest to some policy ai folks arxiv.org/abs/2503.08725
The Algorithmic State Architecture (ASA): An Integrated Framework for AI-Enabled Government
As artificial intelligence transforms public sector operations, governments struggle to integrate technological innovations into coherent systems for effective service delivery. This paper introduces ...
arxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
may be of interest to some policy ai folks arxiv.org/abs/2503.08725
Wonder if streaming (or reading) figures for Haris' excellent but fictional Conclave will now increase, or decrease, with the advent of a real instance so soon?
April 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Wonder if streaming (or reading) figures for Haris' excellent but fictional Conclave will now increase, or decrease, with the advent of a real instance so soon?
BBC manages to write an article about chips and US/China etc, without mentioning ARM. doh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tariffs fallout: The US will struggle to take on Asia over chips
America is trying to create a chip industry through isolation and protectionism, when what allowed it to emerge in Asia is the opposite: collaboration
www.bbc.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
BBC manages to write an article about chips and US/China etc, without mentioning ARM. doh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...