Natanael, Tech janitor
A nerd who likes cryptography. A bit weird, a bit witty, a bit whimsical
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorI do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorEliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorIn the First Crusade, the soldiers were promised forgiveness of all past and future sins and that they'd go straight to heaven. They massacred everybody. Now it seems that Hegseth, unable to beat Al Quaida, has decided that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- Dozens of articles yesterday reported on Trump's rambling, profane remarks at National Prayer Breakfast. But I was only 1 to cover the more dangerous #ChristianNationalist remarks by Pete Hegseth: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-nationa...
- And they say this overrides your passport... www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorA professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorAnother US lethal strike on a boat, this one in the eastern Pacific. Total attacks now up to 38, killing at least 128. As with previous boat bombings, in violation of US law and international treaties, without any causus beli, when the US wasn’t attacked, and hasn’t even advanced stated goals.
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- Stolen valorhalla publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-nationa...
- How many laws does this break? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorICE surge news: Minneapolis Public Schools has extended *optional* distance learning until April 6.
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- Mixing up antitrust with right-of-reach is absolutely not the best solution
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorWith a few exceptions, the items in this list are already the law. Republicans are saying it’s unrealistic for Trump’s goons to follow the law.
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorDocuments show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.
- RFK Jr said during his Senate confirmation hearings that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a devastating measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines." Documents obtained by @us.theguardian.com and @apnews.com undermine that testimony. Details here, by me and @aliswenson.bsky.social ⬇️
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorWe preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults. ↓
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- The wild shit you see when you get submissions from randoms. Since LLMs we get so much more nonsense in cryptography forums, for example. Base rate easily went up 10x. Only a tiny handful of people acknowledging LLM use seem to be capable of using them right.
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorThere are major federal tasks forces operating still in Memphis, New Orleans, Miami-Dade, Phoenix, South Texas, still raiding homes, kidnapping people, black-bagging people from courthouses. If ICE does controversial things but doesn't *say* controversial things, it disappears from the news.
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorThe fact that mainstream media stopped covering ICE kidnappings in LA isn't because ICE stopped kidnapping (they didn't) Or ICE slowed down (they have actually increased their tempo) Or that resistance to ICE slowed down (it never stopped, it grew) It's the "political showdown" that stopped.
- Voice of a MAGA
- FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Oopsie What does the lawyers here think?
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorYou have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorGood. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitor‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorEvery president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017. He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.
- Donald Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, if he were to win or get a settlement, would be paid entirely by U.S. taxpayers. trib.al/eiYvT8m
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ
- cool. glad we protected her identity at least www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitor"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorICE and CBP face-scanned 100,000 people last year. So EFF is proud to support Senator Markey’s “ICE Out of My Face Act,” which will stop these agencies’ biometric surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorImportant paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social
- Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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- This man never passed 50%
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorThe mainstream media do seem to be covering Ukraine less. I've gathered some useful voices from inside the country here, if it helps.at://did:plc:lksn23472ywsc7u2vdupxnu2/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lsaqrrsvu42y
- I've seen phone case printers doing this now, physically in place in malls
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorNot happy that my supposedly prestigious alma mater is a complete shithole these days, from the tenured misogynistic Epstein buddies, to the admission of fake candidates, to conservative donors taking over everything (like Grand Strategy) and making David Brooks a "presidential senior fellow."
- This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Sounds like trademark violations, and possibly copyright violations to just take images and all
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorOn January 16, researchers with @bellingcat.com wrote about EZ-17's (Vazquez’s) behavior at just one scene in Minneapolis where he was counted firing his 40mm launcher at people five times within five minutes:
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorAmid the debate about whether bodycams do or do not add to accountability, @unraveledpress.com just IDed a particularly abuse CBP officer, Michael Sveum, by matching his phone lock screen, as seen in bodycam, to a 2021 tweet. 🤣 unraveledpress.com/identified-t...
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorExactly the same reason why e.g. the Iraq War report and Forde were instantly binned and never mentioned again: the lads wanted to keep interviewing these horrible people and inviting them on television. And you can’t do that if everyone hates them and won’t vote for their projects.
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- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorA special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.
- Reposted by Natanael, Tech janitorA resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
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