Eleanor Saitta

Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.

The pettiest hill that I will die on is that if your cool character in a historical novel is rolling their eyes at social conventions, no they're not, eye-rolling didn't become a widely described gesture in English literature until the *1980s* books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

This whole thread is informative but the key take-away is this

Don't just demand digrams for state machines, demand declarative specifications for them that are converted to procedural code *deterministically*. Nothing else works reliably, including human post-hoc review of code.

I am tired of watching (and dealing with the fallout of) progressives/the center left/"liberals" across the west giving up on the idea of universal human rights and instead fighting to throw people to the fascists to save their own skin. It never works. Fight where you stand or die where you kneel.

The purpose of prototyping is *learning*, not the production of a prototype

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

Contractually obligated to repost anything that moderation labels as "intolerant against men"

(It is, forgive me, a bit funny that people writing programming languages competing with C have spent a decade agonizing about not being able to convincingly beat C’s speed specifically on Brotli compression, and now it turns out C’s fast Brotli was insecure.)

Fire everyone on the cybersecurity team who had anything to do with this. What are you even testing here?

Section 230 is really short and really important, but the collective online sense of it is really strange. You can just read it. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Correct. Unless it's your job to absorb the horrors (like me) you do not have to absorb the horrors 24/7.

@kissane.myatproto.social Do you know anywhere that's tracking the state of AI cognitive deficiency research? You seem like one of the most likely people to have an easy answer to this who I know.

Bloody assholes and their wishes for interesting times in security

In today's news, "4" is not an appropriate private key for your root CA cert, no matter what XKCD tells you.

again: if you watch the new harry potter, I will think less of you. Not telling you that you can't, just telling you that I will think less of you.

A new essay on preventing social engineering that uses voice cloning. This one isn't just for companies, as these attacks are being aimed at individuals too. Along the way, we'll learn about security theory and see how it helps us address real problems. structures.systems/blog/social-...

'Are EU Kidding Me?', my critique of the EU KIDS Act, the EC's chaotic social media ban, is now forthcoming in the excellent Georgetown Law Technology Review. It's updated w/ some extra bits here files.michae.lv/papers/veale... (You can also respond to the consultation: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...)

"Men read less than women, this must be because—" You awake in your bed, bolt upright. It is 1972 and you are Bob Metcalfe. Ethernet must never be allowed to happen.

A new essay on preventing social engineering that uses voice cloning. This one isn't just for companies, as these attacks are being aimed at individuals too. Along the way, we'll learn about security theory and see how it helps us address real problems. structures.systems/blog/social-...

1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.

I would like to renew the proposition to name hurricanes after politicians who deny climate change

Are we the baddies

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

I'd put all translation tasks involving natural languages into the category of "theoretically impossible, but humans do it anyway because we have to". This is a philosophically annoying but very useful category.

software architect works in concert with the software engineers in the same way an architect works with structural and materials engineers the way tech startups have evolved is a bit like if the construction industry had been taken over by DIY YouTubers whose primary goal is views & sponsorships

This!! Also and I say this because I come from a broadly "security" rather than "safety" space - systems that do not function within specifications are not rationalisable to the democratic public.

seeing like a state machine

@emptywheel.bsky.social Thoughts on effort NSPM-7 unlocks additional collection authorities, either within FBI/DHS or on the NSA side? Or possibly, whether it's likely to have been interpreted that way even if it shouldn't be?

> Cryptogyny is the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions to, or of their very existence in, a field of study.