Aaron Segal

"You Can See Everything" was phenomenal. I'm so glad Sir Patrick Stewart finally got to make his movie

I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

Anyway, it all worked out for the best. I ended up marrying a wonderful, beautiful woman who got me a Bi Pride Flag refrigerator magnet as a Hanukkah present last year. Happy Bisexual Visibility Day!

God forbid someone take a maximalist approach to human rights

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Cryptographer: i can prove to you that I know how much is in the cup, but you don't get to know the actual amount

My PhD thesis (from 2016) was about how cryptographic techniques could be used to extract only targeted, warranted information from cell tower dumps. The technology to preserve privacy has existed for a while now, and the government just doesn't want to use it!

Many such cases

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I gave my son five banana slices, but he kept insisting there were only four. Now I feel like a Cardassian

Between this and the French with the sign on the Eiffel Tower, good reminder these things are bigger than the current admin and moment

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

I may not have much of a reputation, but I am a cryptographer, and this is true. The problem with people using Signal isn't Signal, it's people.

Happy 1 year anniversary to Musical Transients! That's pretty neat. :) youtu.be/MAW84RRNw84

What's your sign? (These and these are both the words of the living MTA, but the halacha is like the escalator)

lol

I want to self-publish a #Pathfinder2e one-shot. I have all the text and stats and all, I just have to figure out how to get it into a pretty pdf.

Sorry, but this article about Israel has annoyed me personally, so now I must destroy it with a point-by-point breakdown. Mute this thread if you're not interested.

He's already named James.

I dreamed last night I was on a boat to Heaven And by some chance I had brought my dice along And there I stood And I hollered, "Roll a Will save!" But the people there, their Wisdom was strong

the extent to which so many men are sex pests is just baffling and depressing you can just Not Do That there is shit that's hard for me! remembering to take in the trash cans is hard! checking the calendar is hard! starting a design doc is hard! not being a sex pest: not that hard

Since I'm ranting about this: the person who is credited with coining the phrase "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" is Admiral Grace Hopper, and she was referring to work situations, not interpersonal situations, or flouting laws or societal norms.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

There's a reason "hurt people hurt people" is a phrase but "hurt people commit acts of terrorism against random Jewish toddlers" is not

The fact that the Union for Reform Judaism feels the need to support this illegal war just because the Israeli government supports it - even though the Israeli government openly disdains Reform Jews in return - is part of why institutional American Judaism is in crisis.

This is actually something my team worked on!

Saw someone at the gym wearing this t-shirt. I wonder how it would go down if I showed up with a shirt that says "I'm not religious, I'm on team Pharisees"?

Feed that collects all posts that says "the [number] genders"

Here's a political hot take: The United States Congress should pass legislation declaring English and Spanish to be the official national languages.

ICE hates America because of our freedoms

As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

When are the Minneapolis police and national guard going to start protecting citizens from ICE?

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1