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In the early hours of this morning, 87 years ago, Nazis entered the stores, schools and homes of their Jewish neighbors smashing and destroying. Thousands of men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.

The world watched #kristallnacht happen. Some people took action.
The Kindertransport - When Britain Came to the Rescue - Messy History
We discuss the Kindertransport program through which around 10,000 children were saved from Nazi occupied Europe from November 1938 until German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940.  ImageA pic...
www.messyhistory.net
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Please be aware of cybersecurity. If you encounter cybersecurity, DO NOT APPROACH IT. Back away slowly. Protect children and pets. Make noises to scare it away.
October 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
TFW you realize it's likely that your kids have gotten around to reading more banned books than you have. www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 2010-2019
ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in ...
www.ala.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Lurking a mailing list debate while in a completely different headspace and the acronym 'QSF' keeps popping up. I have zero recollection for it. Go back and check the paper: 'Quantum Superiority Fighter'.
July 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The AWS team published a key-committing variant of XAES (https://words.filippo.io/xaes-256-gcm/)!

Still FIPS-compliant, and with a proof.

Key commitment ensures the ciphertext can only be decrypted with one key, to avoid issues in higher-level protocols.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf
May 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This weekend I realized my daughter needed a particular sand toy for her kinetic sand standing sandbox.

I described it to ChatGPT, o3 thought about it for a minute and gave me the requested OpenSCAD and I hit print.

45 min later we had the part in the sandbox.

"Tea, Earl Grey, hot.", yo.
May 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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“We all thought it was a joke, ‘Ah, it won’t amount to nothing, just another political party.'”⁠
- Edward Adler, Holocaust survivor, on the rise of the National Socialists in Germany

collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."
 
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
March 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM