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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 
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
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.
30 March 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agnes Littmann, was born in Miskolc.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
"... and in other news, USA is being sued by a company that will be founded some time in the future, when time travel is invented. Apparently, the company will offer 'punch a nazi' tours, with exclusive rights to 1933-45. But competitors will start to offer similar tours to USA 2025-28, and..."
My husband and I know this man. My husband taught his kids. He's an incredible sweet guy. He is in the country legally- he pays taxes, he's married to a US Citizen, he has no criminal record and now he's in ICE detention. For those who thought "it can't happen here" it is happening here. #FreeKarim https://www.instagram.com/p/DHzAZhxJHcF/?img_index=1
The Signal leak is a reminder that they may be bad people but they're also just bad at their jobs.
I went out to test drive a Volkswagen id.4 today and I was impressed.
I still remember how the first electric cars left so much to be desired, but not anymore.
I remember the talk about range anxiety, but this new version had a range of 570 km.
It was very quiet on the road too. And the fit and finish looked stunning — no Tesla panel gaps or clunky doors.
I wonder how anyone dares by a gasoline car these days — the resell value of those cars must suffer badly when gas stations start closing.
Billionaires don't 'create jobs' - consumer demand creates jobs. Billionaires just hoard the profits those jobs generate.