@tarah@infosec.exchange2024-06-14 20:40:23
So, today, a lot of folk are talking about how a very bad man named Sean Hastings has been violently threatening Adam Shostack for years and years.
I know Adam and think of him as a friend and we are connected professionally and personally, and of course I knew about Sean Hastings, but I was unaware that today was the day that Adam was going to finally talk about his nightmare, and he didn't ask me to say anything about my own experiences with Sean or coordinate with me on this.
I can't speak to Adam's experience but I do feel the need to tell people what Sean Hastings did to me.
The first thing Sean Hastings did to me was give me money in 2015. I didn't know him. You can actually see his name right in the front of the acknowledgements to my book on women in tech - because he contributed $500 to the 2015 Kickstarter I ran to fund it.
This is before I'd met Adam Shostack; Adam and I met in early 2016 when we sat on a Federal Trade Commission panel together in Seattle on startup cybersecurity. Adam's a major nerd and we bonded immediately over game design and his incorrect preference of Star Wars over Star Trek.
But soon, I would find out that there were strings attached to Sean's contribution. Apparently he thought that by contributing to a Kickstarter, he could turn guilt screws on me about who I could talk to, and demanded my time to help him publish books on girls in tech.
He began sending me harassing messages and emails after I'd probably RTed something from Adam, demanding that I pay attention to his claims about Adam Shostack. I did what any normal femme in tech does, which is go do the grey network check on Adam. In 2016, I spoke to several extremely prominent and trusted friends and members of the infosec community. The “Good Guy vs. Creeper” check on Adam came back from my folk with a resounding "Adam's the victim here". And I know some serious operators in the "keeping women in the infosec world safe" space.
Sean subsequently began publicly and privately bombarding my social accounts and email with demands and guilt and claiming that he was behind my success and funded me. This looked to me like a man who tries to control women and others with money, and I would wear out the red flag emoji if I tried to properly emphasize that. There's plenty more on Xitter if you want to go searching.
I didn't and don't want to think about this, any more than anyone else wants to think about awful things, but violent angry dangerous men like Sean do seem to operate on their own schedule, and I anticipate that Adam's public statement may trigger Sean Hastings making another outburst against me and the many other people I'm now seeing coming forward.
One last thing. I've experienced some of the same kinds of horrific stalker behavior that Adam and others in the community have, and while it's not relevant to this here, Adam was a profound support to me when my life was getting torn apart by two very dangerous, angry, violent people making false claims about me several years ago. He knows exactly what it feels like, because I think he's lived it for a couple of decades.
So, it occurs to me that I've actually continued to benefit from that $500 that Sean Hastings contributed to that Kickstarter. In my experience, it makes people apoplectic to learn that their money went to something that they hate. So, below, you'll find some screenshots, and the last image is my proof pic for a $500 donation just now to Operation: Safe Escape, which supports victims of cyber stalking and domestic tech abuse like those Sean Hastings has targeted. That makes me feel a lot better and I didn't even realize I was carrying any guilt over it until just now.
https://safeescape.org/ I strongly urge you to donate there as well if you were affected by this.
@philippsteinkrueger@zirk.us2024-06-14 07:32:42
Über 2.000 Unterschriften. Stark-Watzinger hat sich bisher nicht einmal zu einem Kommentar herabgelassen. Früher hatten Politiker wenigsten noch den Anstand, einen "Fehler" einzuräumen, bevor sie dann nicht zurückgetreten sind...
https://docs.google.…
@x_tof@verkehrswende.social2024-06-13 11:41:19
die Hauptradroute 1, an der täglich mehrere tausende Radfahrer:innen gezählt werden, hat jetzt für die Fußball-EM eine neue Schikane bekommen. Hinterm Innenministerium ist jetzt eine solche Schwelle auf dem Boden, damit man drastisch abbremsen muss um Stürze oder verlierendes Gepäck verhindert.
Aber klar, ist ja eh nur Schrittgeschwindigkeit angeordnet - ob wohl es laut demokratischem Beschluss für Tempo 30 ausgelegt sein muss!
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@tarah@infosec.exchange2024-06-14 20:40:23
So, today, a lot of folk are talking about how a very bad man named Sean Hastings has been violently threatening Adam Shostack for years and years.
I know Adam and think of him as a friend and we are connected professionally and personally, and of course I knew about Sean Hastings, but I was unaware that today was the day that Adam was going to finally talk about his nightmare, and he didn't ask me to say anything about my own experiences with Sean or coordinate with me on this.
I can't speak to Adam's experience but I do feel the need to tell people what Sean Hastings did to me.
The first thing Sean Hastings did to me was give me money in 2015. I didn't know him. You can actually see his name right in the front of the acknowledgements to my book on women in tech - because he contributed $500 to the 2015 Kickstarter I ran to fund it.
This is before I'd met Adam Shostack; Adam and I met in early 2016 when we sat on a Federal Trade Commission panel together in Seattle on startup cybersecurity. Adam's a major nerd and we bonded immediately over game design and his incorrect preference of Star Wars over Star Trek.
But soon, I would find out that there were strings attached to Sean's contribution. Apparently he thought that by contributing to a Kickstarter, he could turn guilt screws on me about who I could talk to, and demanded my time to help him publish books on girls in tech.
He began sending me harassing messages and emails after I'd probably RTed something from Adam, demanding that I pay attention to his claims about Adam Shostack. I did what any normal femme in tech does, which is go do the grey network check on Adam. In 2016, I spoke to several extremely prominent and trusted friends and members of the infosec community. The “Good Guy vs. Creeper” check on Adam came back from my folk with a resounding "Adam's the victim here". And I know some serious operators in the "keeping women in the infosec world safe" space.
Sean subsequently began publicly and privately bombarding my social accounts and email with demands and guilt and claiming that he was behind my success and funded me. This looked to me like a man who tries to control women and others with money, and I would wear out the red flag emoji if I tried to properly emphasize that. There's plenty more on Xitter if you want to go searching.
I didn't and don't want to think about this, any more than anyone else wants to think about awful things, but violent angry dangerous men like Sean do seem to operate on their own schedule, and I anticipate that Adam's public statement may trigger Sean Hastings making another outburst against me and the many other people I'm now seeing coming forward.
One last thing. I've experienced some of the same kinds of horrific stalker behavior that Adam and others in the community have, and while it's not relevant to this here, Adam was a profound support to me when my life was getting torn apart by two very dangerous, angry, violent people making false claims about me several years ago. He knows exactly what it feels like, because I think he's lived it for a couple of decades.
So, it occurs to me that I've actually continued to benefit from that $500 that Sean Hastings contributed to that Kickstarter. In my experience, it makes people apoplectic to learn that their money went to something that they hate. So, below, you'll find some screenshots, and the last image is my proof pic for a $500 donation just now to Operation: Safe Escape, which supports victims of cyber stalking and domestic tech abuse like those Sean Hastings has targeted. That makes me feel a lot better and I didn't even realize I was carrying any guilt over it until just now.
https://safeescape.org/ I strongly urge you to donate there as well if you were affected by this.
@mlawton@mstdn.social2024-06-14 14:08:27
The pleasant weather we’ve had for days is now a distant memory as the forecasted “heat dome” is settles in. Too hot for mid-morning, by far. I might be back on night running soon.
The sprinklers at the end were an absolute delight. I felt like a kid, standing there, arms outstretched, as they oscillated back and forth across my body.
#Running
@arXiv_csMA_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-06-18 07:31:11
Tree Search for Simultaneous Move Games via Equilibrium Approximation
Ryan Yu, Alex Olshevsky, Peter Chin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10411 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10411
arXiv:2406.10411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural network supported tree-search has shown strong results in a variety of perfect information multi-agent tasks. However, the performance of these methods on partial information games has generally been below competing approaches. Here we study the class of simultaneous-move games, which are a subclass of partial information games which are most similar to perfect information games: both agents know the game state with the exception of the opponent's move, which is revealed only after each agent makes its own move. Simultaneous move games include popular benchmarks such as Google Research Football and Starcraft.
In this study we answer the question: can we take tree search algorithms trained through self-play from perfect information settings and adapt them to simultaneous move games without significant loss of performance? We answer this question by deriving a practical method that attempts to approximate a coarse correlated equilibrium as a subroutine within a tree search. Our algorithm works on cooperative, competitive, and mixed tasks. Our results are better than the current best MARL algorithms on a wide range of accepted baseline environments.
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-06-14 06:50:20
Understanding Jailbreak Success: A Study of Latent Space Dynamics in Large Language Models
Sarah Ball, Frauke Kreuter, Nina Rimsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09289
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-06-18 07:00:04
X-Ray spectral and temporal properties of LMXB 4U 1608-52- observed with AstroSat and NICER
Sree Bhattacherjee, Ankur Nath, Biplob Sarkar, Aru Beri, Suchismito Chattopadhyay, Yashpal Bhulla, Ranjeev Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10666
@philippsteinkrueger@zirk.us2024-06-14 07:32:42
Über 2.000 Unterschriften. Stark-Watzinger hat sich bisher nicht einmal zu einem Kommentar herabgelassen. Früher hatten Politiker wenigsten noch den Anstand, einen "Fehler" einzuräumen, bevor sie dann nicht zurückgetreten sind...
https://docs.google.…