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Just saw that security researcher Dan Kaminsky died on Friday. A great loss for the online world and the white hat community.https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/25/dan_kaminsky_obituary/ Kaminsky’s family issued a statement + his niece

One of life’s greatest honors—I approach the cleaning of a friend’s vacuum cleaner with the seriousness of a cardiac surgeon removing an arterial blockage. This patient was a particularly serious

“Long life and prosperity to our Motherland!” (1949 Soviet propaganda poster) “Glory to the Soviet Teacher!” “We are growing up under the standard of Lenin-Stalin.” (1935) “Glorious Our Free Motherland

Non-zero sum story hour:• Racial justice is an imperative• Critical race theory has valid points• Some CRT beliefs are untrue• Diversity trainings range from effective/useful to utter nonsense• There are

Manhattan has been called Manna-hata, New Amsterdam, New York, New Orange, and Manhattan. Name changes are no big deal over time. And it is banal that name changes happen when

Truth is under attack and Christianity is torn down when people who are affiliated with it lie and spread slander. Shaun King is an ordained Christian pastor. He was talking

This is among the best summaries of Donald Trump's criminal milieu (the mob + Russian mafia in NYC). Goes back generations. Fascinating. Twisted. Juicy. Intrigue. → Reads like a great

Gotta love your friends when they let you explain MMT for five minutes in a Happy Hour Zoom. This is a good thread on MMT and the coronavirus response by

People obsessed with status, lying, humiliation & false image often have very low self-esteem. Once you realize Donald Trump has very low self-esteem, his persona makes sense. Performative. Obsessed with

Conservative thinktank AEI says that before states can move into Phase II (gradual re-opening), they must have in place the capacity "to test all people with COVID-19 symptoms, along with

The New Jersey governor’s press conference today was really good. Clear, articulate, compassionate, firm, informational. I KID YOU NOT that Governor Phil Murphy put out a call for COBOL programmers.

Before Rome and Carthage conquered the area we now call Spain, the majority of its inhabitants were Celts. We might think these Celts migrated from Ireland/Britain but genetic testing is