Amanda Walker
@aw90.bsky.social
security & privacy geek by day, decorative artist by night.
Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
This is amazing: byte.tsundoku.io
The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.
The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.
Byte - a visual archive
byte.tsundoku.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is amazing: byte.tsundoku.io
The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.
The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.
Sad Is Your Passing
YouTube video by Connie Kaldor - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Anyone have a good photoshop of a Spirit Halloween banner on the Rayburn building?
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Anyone have a good photoshop of a Spirit Halloween banner on the Rayburn building?
Lake Tahoe from the air, taken during a cross country flight last month.
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Lake Tahoe from the air, taken during a cross country flight last month.
Office archaeology: the first computing device I bought with my own money, working at a computer store in high school. It still works, after giving it new batteries. Somewhere I should still have the card reader and barcode reader accessories for it.
October 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Office archaeology: the first computing device I bought with my own money, working at a computer store in high school. It still works, after giving it new batteries. Somewhere I should still have the card reader and barcode reader accessories for it.
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Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
September 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
From 1984, but still timely.
It Won't Take Long
YouTube video by Ferron - Topic
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
From 1984, but still timely.
As a friend of mine noted this morning, the inscription on the Department of Justice building that says "WHERE LAW ENDS, TYRANNY BEGINS" is a warning, not a goal.
August 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
As a friend of mine noted this morning, the inscription on the Department of Justice building that says "WHERE LAW ENDS, TYRANNY BEGINS" is a warning, not a goal.
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just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
August 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
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If your most effective management skill is insisting people work 80 hours a week, you might want to consider learning some new management skills.
August 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If your most effective management skill is insisting people work 80 hours a week, you might want to consider learning some new management skills.
Rare work related post. Project Zero continues to do great stuff!
While most vendors ship timely patches for vulnerabilities reported by Project Zero, they don’t always reach users. Today, we’re announcing Reporting Transparency, a new policy to encourage downstream fixes
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...
Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition
Posted by Tim Willis, Google Project Zero In 2021, we updated our vulnerability disclosure policy to the current "90+30" model. Our goals we...
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Rare work related post. Project Zero continues to do great stuff!
I just got home from a short work trip to Silicon Valley & San Francisco, so have a picture of a blue sky.
July 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I just got home from a short work trip to Silicon Valley & San Francisco, so have a picture of a blue sky.
Dear person sitting next to me on the plane, having a very sensitive phone conversation about legal negotiations with my employer: you never know who is within earshot. You are fortunate that I have scruples about privacy.
July 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Dear person sitting next to me on the plane, having a very sensitive phone conversation about legal negotiations with my employer: you never know who is within earshot. You are fortunate that I have scruples about privacy.
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This. 💯
I will never refer to “Congress” only the “GOPs in Congress.”
I will never refer to “Congress” only the “GOPs in Congress.”
“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget.
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This. 💯
I will never refer to “Congress” only the “GOPs in Congress.”
I will never refer to “Congress” only the “GOPs in Congress.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbJ...
My direct ancestors immigrated between the early 1600s and late 1800s, but of course more recent immigrants have married in, so we're a very mixed bunch.
Immigration has always been one of America's biggest strengths, not a weakness.
Happy Independence Day.
My direct ancestors immigrated between the early 1600s and late 1800s, but of course more recent immigrants have married in, so we're a very mixed bunch.
Immigration has always been one of America's biggest strengths, not a weakness.
Happy Independence Day.
"I Am An Immigrant" - Sing Out the Vote Ohio
YouTube video by jm1946
www.youtube.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbJ...
My direct ancestors immigrated between the early 1600s and late 1800s, but of course more recent immigrants have married in, so we're a very mixed bunch.
Immigration has always been one of America's biggest strengths, not a weakness.
Happy Independence Day.
My direct ancestors immigrated between the early 1600s and late 1800s, but of course more recent immigrants have married in, so we're a very mixed bunch.
Immigration has always been one of America's biggest strengths, not a weakness.
Happy Independence Day.
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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
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I honestly think ANDOR is more inspirational and rousing than like, the past 20 years of democratic messaging.
July 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I honestly think ANDOR is more inspirational and rousing than like, the past 20 years of democratic messaging.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
June 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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"[A]utonomy means losing the plot. Humans are about to find themselves on the outside looking in, facing security decisions made by AIs whose reasoning isn’t just complicated—it’s fundamentally inaccessible."
@daveaitel.bsky.social and Dan Geer on how AI is reshaping code security.
@daveaitel.bsky.social and Dan Geer on how AI is reshaping code security.
AI and Secure Code Generation
AI is reshaping code security—shifting metrics, unknown bugs, and autonomous decisions humans may never understand.
www.lawfaremedia.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"[A]utonomy means losing the plot. Humans are about to find themselves on the outside looking in, facing security decisions made by AIs whose reasoning isn’t just complicated—it’s fundamentally inaccessible."
@daveaitel.bsky.social and Dan Geer on how AI is reshaping code security.
@daveaitel.bsky.social and Dan Geer on how AI is reshaping code security.
This is really good. Worth watching.
Exactly.
"Borders are increasingly mobile, portable, omnipresent, and ubiquitous realities... sorting, recategorizing, and reclassifying people to select anew who is whom, who should be where, and who shouldn’t, for 'security'."
- Achille Mbembe, Bodies as Borders* talk @ 17 min
*text is online
"Borders are increasingly mobile, portable, omnipresent, and ubiquitous realities... sorting, recategorizing, and reclassifying people to select anew who is whom, who should be where, and who shouldn’t, for 'security'."
- Achille Mbembe, Bodies as Borders* talk @ 17 min
*text is online
Bodies and Borders // Achille Mbembe // AMP 2019
Die Albertus-Magnus-Professur der Universität zu Köln wurde in Gedenken an den mittelalterlichen Universalgelehrten Albertus Magnus (1193 bis 1280) eingerich...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is really good. Worth watching.
Time to brush up on NPS1. www.science.org/content/arti...
What if a nuke goes off in Washington, D.C.? Simulations of artificial societies help planners cope with the unthinkable
Agent-based models are gaming out disasters with millions of synthetic people
www.science.org
June 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Time to brush up on NPS1. www.science.org/content/arti...