Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Three Marines charged with taking part in the January 6 insurrection were transferred into sensitive new intelligence assignments after the riots.
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/06/january-6-marines-nsa/

"After reading supposedly secure messages for five months, authorities then arrested the alleged owners and some users of [encrypted phone service] Exclu."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnve9/dutch-police-read-messages-of-exclu

this was quite possibly the best political meme of our generation

@garethpotter @NanoRaptor yep. Goteks. They act as a floppy drive, but load disk images off a USB stick.

USB Type A Nanofloppy for covert data exfiltration

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

there are a lot of problems still to solve with rapunzel. collaborative reputation management is a key one.

but i have thoughts on what that might look like: https://ariadne.space/2022/12/03/building-fair-webs-of-trust-by-leveraging-the-ocap-model/

ring logs are:

- cryptographically attested logs which can be forgetful. e.g. they can support a quota, where old data is evicted from the ring log to make room for new data.

- merkle trees in the same way git repositories are merkle trees (e.g. messages are like git commits)

- optionally witnessed by trusted notaries: this is intended for people who want to reduce trust in the ring log storage providers they choose, by ensuring that the ring log provider is serving them the same data as the witness.

Some chef's kiss film leader transferred to a UMATIC tape that I digitized. This was a pile of tapes destined for a discard bin someone bought from a recycler.

I am officially deceased after reading this Wall Street deli owner's response to the question of whether he asks his customers for stock tips:

this cart is now property of

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@bobbyd0g Has a good view on the local bridge

Some strings attached, though.

View from the inside of a cello (photographer unknown).

"If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half. Because they're just carrying #coal and #oil and gas" -Bill McKibben on Bird.

Port of Long Beach exports a good deal of #petroleum coke & coal that are deemed too dirty to burn in the US. #Shipping fuel is itself filthy (dirtier than diesel).

Map is a screenshot of global marine traffic (red vessels are #tankers), via http://marinetraffic.com

EDIT: for my reply guys: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

just trying to make sure everyone who followed me for my politics understands the mistake they've made