thanne
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thanne
@thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
I'm also thanne on the Well, aka RuthAnne Bevier. Former CISO at an academic research institution, still active in infosec part time, and happily spending more […]

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Visiting family in Croton, NY and spotted what I’m pretty sure is the first Covid memorial I’ve seen. There should be more.
December 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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💙 Season’s greetings to all the Fediverse moderators, admins, and community builders.

Thank you for the time, care, and emotional labour you give to keeping online spaces safer, fairer, and more humane.

Your work often goes unseen, but it truly matters […]

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December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Just to be clear: should I have the terrible misfortune to be killed in a mass shooting, please feel free to politicize the hell out of it. And go ahead and do so immediately. No time will be “too soon”.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me
A member of the House Republican caucus said this.

Oh. So things are BAD bad.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I saw a new exhibit of some of hiroshige’s 100 famous views of edo today and this one stopped me in my tracks
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Something just occurred to be about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers […]
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mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This is a natural reaction of your brain to repeatedly seeing horrific things. It will pay less and less attention to those images and have less of a visceral reaction. You can accept horrors.

This is what the fascists want. They want you to accept things continually getting worse and more violent.
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
[No Kings Rally]

Nice turnout in DC.
October 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!

Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day

Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I've been doing election recommendation pages for over twenty years. Usually there are dozens of state and local measures to sort through. This years there's One. And it's and easy choice. Vote YES on 50 to help stop Trump and the Republicans. http://acme.com/jef/propositions/
October 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Mike Johnson tried tonight to characterize the upcoming No Kings 2.0 day on 10/18 as a “Hate America” movement. Wrong. Utterly wrong. To reject dictators, authoritarians, and tyrants is to love America, to love the very idea at the heart of it.
October 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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GGB #gradient checks in.
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I had just assumed Steve Bellovin was in the Internet Hall of Fame, but he's not.This seems like something that needs remedying when nominations open up again.
October 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Seen today in DC
September 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I want us to be at the point where "Were you exposed to AI brainrot in the workplace? You may be entitled to compensation" ads by lawyers are filling all the top ad slots.
August 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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In a stunning reversal,
the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal weather forecasters
—just days before it was set to end.

The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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The Trump administration is set to incinerate nearly 500 tonnes of emergency food, enough to feed 1.5 million children for a week. Despite repeated requests from USAID staff to distribute the food, which was intended for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the new political leaders of USAID […]
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mastodon.world
July 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Breaking: The Supreme Court provides the Trump Administration with a stack of pre-signed, blank orders.
July 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Fun game a reader sent me: www.word.golf
word.golf
www.word.golf
July 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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On the awfulness that this way comes.

Later.

After the votes are counted.
July 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM