Randall
freehandle.bsky.social
Randall
@freehandle.bsky.social
Curious. Mechanical Engineer. Developer. Fascinated by the world and befuddled by people.
@anthropic.com LOL Claude

● Great! pqcrypto.sign.ml_dsa_65 is available. Now let me check if it supports seed-based
key generation:

● ...

● Damn! pqcrypto also doesn't support seed-based generation. Let me check if there's a
_derand or seeded variant:
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
@anthropic.com I used Claude Code to troubleshoot a networking issue. You guys have created a monster! Like having a Linux networking expert on call. All this focus on coding, but giving an AI agent CLI access opens up many new potential use cases.
May 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
One of the most insightful and disturbing articles I've read recently.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
www.theatlantic.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.
Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.

“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Excellent article.

“To scare universities straight,” Max Eden, then a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in December, Education Secretary Linda McMahon “should start by taking a prize scalp. She should simply destroy Columbia University.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake
If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?
www.theatlantic.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
While having a line item "Trump Tax" would be most effective and accurate, "Tariff Surcharge" is pretty close:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...
Consumers now face "tariff surcharges" for some goods as companies pass along costs
U.S. businesses are starting to add a tariff fee to customer bills and shopping carts to offset rising import costs.
www.cbsnews.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Tesla vandals, listen up. You're giving MAGA ammo. Integrity is maintaining your values in every situation. Valdalism is not civil disobedience.
March 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Claude Malhuret - a member of the French Senate, speaking on Ukraine and how the United States: "has become the court of Nero"

I've subtitled the video quickly from French to English (sorry quick grammatical to get it out)

A powerful message of how the world sees that the US cannot be trusted
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Good job @chrismurphyct.bsky.social We need more of this. Everyone needs to spotlight and not normalize the corruption.
youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
youtu.be
March 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For insight into the GOP siding with Russia against Ukraine, look back at Paul Manafort. www.propublica.org/article/lets...
Let’s Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine
President Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies.
www.propublica.org
March 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Greenland is a distraction. This is the news you're being distracted from. Donald Trump says he understands Russia's concerns about Ukraine's possible membership in NATO

ground.news/article/dona...
Donald Trump says he understands Russia's concerns about Ukraine's possible membership in NATO
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine should not be part of NATO, and he lamented that he will not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin be...
ground.news
January 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I asked Claude: In the double slit experiment, observing particles moving through the slit affects whether or not a wave interference pattern is formed. Why is that?
December 12, 2024 at 3:11 PM