Jon Martin, Ph.D.
PhD-haver in Digital Humanities. Security dork. Fan of hacking, ethnography, and the history of computing.
Mostly just poking around. Often found @jon@cyberdeck.social
- Headline just now: "Wild mushrooms keep killing people in California; 3 dead, 35 poisoned." I'm intrigued, but also a little too afraid to ask how they killed the three that weren't poisoned...
- 10/10. I respect your skill, Thai restaurant.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.i highly recommend watching at least the first few minutes of the talk just to get an idea of the impact
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.www.bbc.com/news/article... Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN. Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
- It’s Doom’s 32nd birthday. Which means it’s nearly the 32nd anniversary of the epic grounding I received for the long-distance calls to exotic FTP servers… Still worth it. (Also, maybe schedule that colonoscopy…)
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- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Something similar happens in the software industry. A lot of engineers are being pressed by managers who generate a bunch of toy code using genAI over a couple of hours, then wonder aloud why the people who work for them are being so inefficient.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.i’m so happy for him
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Canadians! You can now vote for the Canadian Word of the Year! (If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)
- I was so excited to put the villain in villanelle, too...
- Oh sure, there’s a hyper-specific German word for every occasion… right up until you need to describe the overwhelming desire to belt out John Denver and wake people after Midnight. I mean, honestly.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.on your first day in prison, go up to the biggest inmate in there and ask them for the syllabus- it's actually more helpful than you think
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- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Just act casual.
- 💯 (Source: www.instagram.com/p/DRcHm9NjiB3/)
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Internet Archive has archived all the stories declaring the Internet Archive dead
- Secret police hate this one simple trick: When the security police eventually came to her flat to arrest her, she stripped and rang her friend Robin Hankey...She told the security police authoritatively: “You can’t possibly arrest me, I’m naked.” www.theguardian.com/media/2017/j...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
- You mean there's *another* reason? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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- Breathe in for luck, breathe in so deep This air is blessed, you share with me This night is wild, so calm and dull These hearts, they race, from self control Your legs are smooth as they graze mine We're doing fine, we're doing nothing at all
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- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D."Uber geek hall of fame" material.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.is zohran president now i am a few hours behind
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.This is the way. Do Not Comply.
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- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D."don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?" apparently, yes
- Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Methodology
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
- When I was three, I realized that wet, pulpy paper and wet, pulpy Ritz crackers looked pretty similar. My paper making efforts were, uh, mixed… But lots of things have electrons, and I have lots of things. I’m so going to buy an island when this is all over…
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.MUPPET KNIVES OUT
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- It's not often you see a page counter anymore... but there it is, right at the bottom. Shine on you crazy diamond... www.westerndesigncenter.com
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.It not just down -- it's
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
- To quote my mother, the Internet’s broken: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
- Here, at the "Heat Death" end of burnout, I feel like someone out there gets it...
- Also, like, way to capture the mood of 2025 in one title, fellow sad person.
- Never a karma cop around when you need one...
- Sundays, man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.*FINAL MUSTER* CULT OF THE DEAD COW is saddened to report that longtime cDc Ninja Strike Force member, Delchi, has passed over the great rainbow teleconference bridge. He can now be found amongst the most blessed celestial engineers, venerating the great DemonSeed Elite, k-rad be his name. **
- Things you say on Friday, at work, because it’s 03:30: “Man, by now, I bet Dinosaur Jr. has junior dinos of its own…” Big “there, there grandpa” energy in the responses I got…
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.10/10 take. No notes.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.william shakespeare was such an influential content creator
- “Fuck it. I just want to listen to Hüsker Dü and finish writing this stupid step function” is not a sentence I *expected* to say today, but here we are… Now we just need to get that ready for standup. Maybe change it to The Replacements? 🤔
- Some have suggested that "you got to know your limits with a boombox," but what will you do when the boombox is limitless? www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VP...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Bluesky rn
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way. by Ezra Klein
- I mean, ok, but should we maybe check Exegol just to be sure about this? www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
- 2025 final boss battle revealed? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- I think, in our hearts, we all knew this was where things were heading: www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/m...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid theonion.com/priceless-jewels-st…
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE BROWN
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.AWS (Antifa Web Services) doing the #NoPings protest today
- Being a somewhat failed academic allows for a surprising amount of freedom to experiment with prose. To that end, I will be replacing all future Works Cited sections with a simple "Greetz" section like I'm writing an issue of Phrack or something. (Is this why I don't get to teach English anymore?)
- Mondays, but especially this Monday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CE...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 4EVR www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
- Look, just hear me out… gizmodo.com/new-jersey-t...
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.REMINDER, KIDZ! CULT OF THE DEAD COW recommends that you turn off the GPS/Location function on your phone whenever you're not actually using it. Bonus points for turning off Bluetooth and WiFi when you're not using them, too!
- Courtesy of the CBC, this is the best out-of-context sentence I've come across in a while: "Practically every month, somewhere in the country, some person comes under fire for claiming their ancestors frolicked with the moose instead of merely watching from the bushes."
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.www.schneier.com/blog/archive... This is worth your time.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
- In these miserable times, I present to you the first thing I ever watched on YouTube. It has not yet been surpassed in quality: youtu.be/k3EN4YS0OLg
- Happy Frank Mills Day to all who celebrate: youtu.be/SyLEyVDkhq4
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.dog ear a book and Mayor McCheese will beat your ass
- Ah, yes... who could forget this classic cover to Dark Side of the Moon?
- The first line of that info blurb is really something, too... ("The Dark Side of the Moon is a little like puberty: Feel how you want about it, but you’re gonna have to encounter it one way or another.")
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.you guys are being a real bummer about the collapse of a society
- Withdrawn. Just a human blog source without attribution. So, I guess that’s fine. 🙄
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.This thread is amazing.
- Reposted by Jon Martin, Ph.D.we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it
