@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
I’m not sure that I agree with all conclusions here, but the analysis of ecofascism herein is essential reading.
Today is both Christchurch and #ClimateStrike.
Let's talk about how they are related.
"If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die."
- Pentti Linkola, Finnish 'deep ecologist'
CW: climate, violence
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
@matthew_d_green 's wonderful analogies. Three of these were in the same thread recently, but the bacon house thing is a classic. There must be much, much more. – at Aylesbury, England
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
The very worst thing we could do as cryptographers is convince people to move critical societal functions into opaque experimental-quality cryptographic systems they can’t understand or even argue with.
And then implement those systems incorrectly.
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
Wait what wait what wait what wait _what?_ (via @rrmutt)
Indeed, in 2018 a Maxwell's Demon which extracts more work than the delta in thermodynamic free energy was experimentally demomstrated, and has since been replicated. Information must be explicitly accounted for as a source of work.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
phys.org/news/2018-01-effici…
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
This is a really fascinating paper: _Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights_, by @SanjuktaMPaul
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
10.0.0.0 addrs look like roman columns or steel i-beams; institutional, serious, plain. 192.168 evokes the aesthetic of consumer electronics; silver paint flaking off a gracelessly sculpted gray ABS shell. 172.16.0.0 looks like someone made a mistake
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
“Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which can be adequately explained by structural alignment of incentives.”
-Hanlon's Razor as revised via @kevinakwok
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
RT if you’ve gotten more radical as you’ve gotten older
trying to destroy a right wing talking point
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
We live in a world where we don’t trust software because we inspected it and it was crap. So we “fixed” it by putting all our trust into hw that we made inspection resistant so that we don’t know it is crap.
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
So much this. It seems like there are always two big vulnerabilities that are disclosed around the same time: one that everyone talks about and one that everyone gets pwned with.
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
This is where I'm going to call the media out. We have a highly critical drupal RCE which likely affects thousands of sites. Yet more media attention has been drawn to the memory issue in password managers, which won't be an issue for almost all users of them.
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
Huh, we were worried we’d build a paperclip maximizer, but instead we built an engagement maximizer, and it might be just as bad.
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
This thread is universal required reading now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
BREAKING: The City of Sandusky, Ohio has just canceled Columbus day, instead utilizing the day off for Election day every year.
Why can't every single city in this nation do the same?
Thank you @cityofsandusky
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
I have very little nostalgia for old technology—modern computing is a huge technical improvement over what we had in the ‘70s/’80s/’90s. I have a lot of nostalgia for old tech business models, though.
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
"High prices & carefully controlled access to knowledge is no different from taxes and limits on salt. Sci-Hub has been termed a pirate site, but in reality it is an unlicensed salt factory, the users of which are students thirsting for knowledge."
thewire.in/education/who-may…
@eqe (Andy Isaacson) retweeted
I wrote up a long-form post about how artificial intelligence algorithms get 🦒 giraffed 🦒 into biased, incorrect beliefs abad1dea.tumblr.com/post/182…
h/t @JanelleCShane for getting me on this rant
