EricLaw 🎻
Seek first to understand.
Impatient optimist. Dad. Zetetic. Author. Speaker. Made Fiddler & SlickRun. My code runs in your browser. @ MSFT 18y+ on web and security. My words are my own.
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- /2 The proposition that American government and institutions should unite to use official power to punish and suppress criticism of Israel is unacceptable. It should be fought by law, by defiance, and eventually if necessary by force. Free people cannot be prevented from speaking about wrong.
- /3 The student in question was clearly terrified. But he did it anyway. “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...
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- The PM’s assertion that strangers are bad or wrong is awful.
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View full threadWe can, at best, only have a few hundred non-strangers in our life at any one time. A country this big will ALWAYS by definition be a country of strangers. It’s totally facile to believe otherwise.
- Kind of the point of civilization and society is that we’re mostly strangers and we should all get along anyway
- IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” *Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
- Secretary Noem appears to not want to say if the picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand is doctored Swalwell: I have a 7 year old, a 6 year old, and 3 year old. I have a bullshit detector. I’m just asking you a question
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- Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump running a multi-billion dollar crypto scam from the White House, both men tested the limits of presidential propriety.
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- Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
- We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works great except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-p...
- I’ll be honest I’m bored as hell hearing about old ass Joe Biden and if he was old, and whining about the news is basically all I do, so I doubt if a normal person is clamoring for Steny Hoyer to write some mea culpa
- This is nuts. wapo.st/3YLpWUo
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View full threadAlso if we’re gonna be upset about an extremely old guy who cannot mentally do the job of President and how bad it is to miss the story on that…uhh I mean, are you serious about NOT MISSING THAT STORY EVER AGAIN? Is this a CONTINUING EXPECTATION? That we SHOULD REPORT THAT IF IT WERE TO BE AN ISSUE
- Jake Tapper be like: it is an moral stain on America that we didn’t know how much Joe Biden mentally deteriorated, we must never miss this story ever again…now in other news President Trump has pardoned the Noid from Dominos, saying “beautiful man the Noid, people say Donald, the pizzas, NUMBERS”
- RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
- I appreciate the dedication that Epic has put into being a thorn in Apple’s side. Real “hater of the year” energy. They’ve probably cost Apple billions of dollars over the next few years with the recent court decision forcing Apple to allow external payments.
- I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.
- No lawmaker in Congress — with access to all kinds of non-public information — should own, buy, and sell individuals stocks. It's time to BAN congressional stock trading.
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- Anyway, ANDOR is the best thing on TV in a long time. And I love how it looks like there’s a row of old coin-op video games behind Mon Mothma in this shot.
- A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book (spoiler: the book & words are by, er, me) www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- Hold on let me try something, I love Boeing, I love when doors fly off the hinges when I am in a tube in the sky, I love the Qatari government, I call them “the Handsome Guys Who Don’t Do Corruption,” unrelatedly did you know there is no upper limit in the donation field at membership.theonion.com?
- i'm losing it
- when you're trying to make the chatbot dogwhistle but you press the wrong button and accidentally make it do racist airhorn
- at long last, the AI is turning on its master
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- The second season of ANDOR was somehow better than the first, and perfectly tailored to our moment. If you're not a Star Wars fan, it's a gripping drama about resisting fascism, starring Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard and other brilliant actors, from the director of MICHAEL CLAYTON. Trust me.
- the thing is, people really do believe that trump can’t be corrupt because he’s rich, and it is hard to persuade people that trump has a different relationship to money than the rest of us (it is a literal fetish object for him)
- Breaking character: Just got a very funny fake call. Someone pretending to be ICE, asking for personal information. It's weird...things like this don't jump out as fake so much if they involve ICE since ICE is so insane. I wonder if we will see a lot of scams like this. Anybody else heard of one?
- I had never thought of this before but when the country is run by a scammer and federal law enforcement is a cross between the keystone cops and the Gestapo, it really is a scammer's paradise out there.
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA these dipshits never take a day off, do they?
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- The danger in ignoring the voting rights of citizens in more than half the country is that it creates a two-tiered democracy. Voters in swing states benefit from rigorous legal protections, while voters elsewhere are left to navigate burdensome rules without meaningful support or scrutiny.
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- OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
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View full threadFor 9 days, this seawater sloshed back and forth like disturbed bath-water, transferring energy into the bedrock of the fjord with every impact... And that regular 90-second beat rippled out across the WHOLE DAMN WORLD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5et6... 8/
- For 9 days, the whole of our planet rang like a bell. BONG BONG BONG. We are all connected by bongs! (No, I don't mean....ok, I might try to disable the replies on this bit.) And when the paper on all this was published a year later... 9/
- A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
- I saw an article titled "Late Night Monologue Takes On Carney Trump Meeting" from a Canadian news outlet and was annoyed there are no Canadian Late Night Monologues... so I made one.
- Another comedic hit from @brittlestar.com! As a fan of Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel—& the best, Oliver—I’d love more of these mock ‘Late Night Monologues.’ 40% of 🇨🇦 conference-goers now avoid the U.S.—'bad vibes', not safe. Sorry 🇺🇸! #SafeNotSorry
