In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
#XiaofengWang Xiaofeng Wang
Computer scientist goes silent after FBI raid and purging from University website
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
Bernie Sanders @SenSanders • 2d
We must demand that the extremely
wealthy pay their fair share. Period.
Elon Musk @elonmusk • 2d
I keep forgetting that you're still alive
ChongsCalls @ChongsCalls
The richest person in the world
shitting on the nicest person in the
world is capitalism summed up in two
tweets.
You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.
I find it weird how many people refuse to believe we live in a racial and gender caste system whose wealthy white nobility control both major political parties.
White Americans are so heavily propagandized and so inclined to go along because they think they're proximal to power.
There’s an ongoing joke in Star Trek where replicator food is considered inferior to hand prepared meals.
Replicator rations are perfectly balanced, produce exactly what asked for down to the molecule. Nothing more, nothing less.
But it is soulless.
Anyway, thinking about AI.
Thimbleweed Park released 8 years ago today. A damn fine game, if I don't say so myself.
If you haven't played it, add it to your bucket list today. Also available on Switch, Xbox, PS, iOS and Android.
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal do...
Tilly Bridges 
I have to say, I am really disappointed Devin Townsend's #TheMoth featured AI-generated art projections. They were uncanny and distracting at best even if you look past the ethics of it. And now it's occupying my mind and distracting me from talking about the actual music of his 10 years in the making project...
The Canadien Government has made an ad for the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT_n4Khmq0o
Incredible structure near Öhringen, #Germany by Unwetter-Freaks 
More from Unwetter-Freaks: https://bit.ly/unwetterfreaks
Proposed California ballot initiative ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ would make it harder for insurers to deny medical care | KTLA
https://ktla.com/news/california/proposed-california-ballot-initiative-luigi-mangione-act-would-make-it-harder-for-insurers-to-deny-medical-care/
Mentioned this over on Bluesky but in case you're here and not there...
Every Californian with an email address and an internet connection can now visit California’s Bookshelf and access more than 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks via the Palace Project app. Linked PDF describes the program.
https://www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025/03/pressrelease-2025-03-26-californiasbookshelf.pdf
