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I am sad: I was going to get tickets to the annual Tolkien Lecture here in Oxford. It is Brandon Sanderson this year, and yeah, I know, but it was the only time I was going to get to see the lecture. Tickets went on sale 3m ago at noon British time on Eventbrite. I was logged in, good to go, and the whole event locked up at precisely 12:00 with a flood. I got no tickets and the next refresh showed the whole thing sold out. It was faster than ShmooCon. I can only assume there was a flood of S…

Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. https://www.saa…

I did ten hours on #PostScarcitySoftware yesterday, and then slept a bit, and then woke up with an intention to rapid prototype a '#Lisp structure editor in the browser' idea I've been thinking on for a while. I did about five hours on that, and it's looking promising.
I&…

The experiments, process adjustments and elimination of environmental factors shall continue until the desired results are obtained (and morale improves again... 😅)
Also, Kallitype chemistry is a wondrous/finicky beast and reproduction requires strict discipline, cleanliness and detailed log keeping of pretty much any aspect... The main difference between these two prints is that the red one involved spraying/misting the paper with distilled water 15 mins prior to coating the emulsion.…

Lots of exciting work happening around the MISP project, we’ll reveal more once things are ready 👀
Meanwhile, a new MISP extension for Ghidra is under active development and steadily growing with awesome new features.
https://github.com/MISP/misp-ghidra

GitHub - MISP/misp-ghidra: Ghidra and MISP
Ghidra and MISP. Contribute to MISP/misp-ghidra development by creating an account on GitHub.

Another project proposal reviewed, another four hours of community service for a foreign funding agency, and, unfortunately, another bad proposal.
It’s frustrating having to recommend projects to be rejected, but hopefully the funder can use the money to support better projects.
#AcademicChatter

Another project proposal reviewed, another four hours of community service for a foreign funding agency, and, unfortunately, another bad proposal.
It’s frustrating having to recommend projects to be rejected, but hopefully the funder can use the money to support better projects.
#AcademicChatter

Another project proposal reviewed, another four hours of community service for a foreign funding agency, and, unfortunately, another bad proposal.
It’s frustrating having to recommend projects to be rejected, but hopefully the funder can use the money to support better projects.
#AcademicChatter

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning
as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud
MAGA rep Bryan Steil’s "Make Elections Great Again "bill would ban universal voting by mail
and prohibit the counting of ballots received after Election Day.
It would ban ranked-choice v…

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.