In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.
I did a lot of talks on student surveillance last year, including talks aimed at college administrations trying, to convince them that turning the campus into a surveillance state was not a good idea. I have not been invited to do a single talk on student surveillance in 2025 for some reason.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/universities-students-search-warrants.html
The New York Times · How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now
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
Ars Technica · FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
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.
www.nature.com75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leavingMore than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
Here’s tonight’s 60 Minutes piece on the silencing of the Voice of America. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/voice-of-america-sunday-on-60-minutes/
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
The complete bliss of a new hay bale (they were actually making yummy noises while stuffing their faces into the bale to get the best parts, super cute)
Trump doesn't comprehend soft power because it requires vision, patience, and an ounce of humility — qualities he neither possesses nor respects. And while he plays the strongman, the rest of the world sees what he is: a small man screaming at a mirror.
https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-too-weak-to-understand-soft-power/
The Index. · Donald Trump is Too Weak to Understand Soft PowerDonald Trump is too weak and too insecure to understand soft power. He defaults to tantrums, threats, and brute force—because it’s all he knows.
I live in a coastal town and draw tons of inspiration from water. We went for a swim today and I could feel the relieving effect the crisp water had on my body. Like everyone, I worry about plastic. There’s always some type of litter at the beach. In a few months, it will be hurricane season during which time we have to confront the raw power of nature and the consequences of living out of balance. I’m here for it all, good & bad, peaceful & terrifying. I’ve never felt so connected to a place.
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.
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
Crown imperial.
Maurice Pillard Verneuil, from "La plante et ses applications ornementales" by Eugène Grasset, Paris: [ca. 1896] #illustration #art #design https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/crown-imperial/
I just cannot state strongly enough how profoundly this misunderstands what I want from a vacuum cleaner. https://www.theverge.com/news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages
The Verge · Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages
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.
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/
KTLA · Proposed California ballot initiative ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ would make it harder for insurers to deny medical care
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.