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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
To clarify- this is about Elizabeth Friedman, a cryptologic badass who led an amazingly interesting life.
A somewhat under-appreciated and remarkable aspect of Elizabeth Friedman’s legacy is that she came to cryptology from a traditional literary background, just as it was shifting to being a chiefly mathematical discipline. Yet she continued to make central contributions.
She was also unafraid to call BS on her employer’s loony pet theory about hidden codes in Shakespeare’s writings.
Sorry, Elizebeth, not Elizabeth

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3 Jan
The thing that gets most deeply stuck in my craw here is how the thousands of dedicated election workers who worked tirelessly to give us an amazingly smooth election at significant personal risk are not only being denied the thanks and recognition they deserve, but vilified.
To get a sense of what an accomplishment this election was, consider this short writeup from March on pandemic voting: mattblaze.org/papers/Emergen… . Almost all of the challenges came to pass (and more) and almost none of the suggested federal support materialized.
Essentially, most counties had to run TWO elections simulaneously - one in person, and one by mail, with no way to be sure in advance of how many voters would use which. And local election workers somehow did it. Really well. We own them a huge dept.
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2 Jan
It's important not to allow the fact that high-level officials and media personalities have promoted these claims of election fraud to obscure just how utterly baseless (unsupported by serious evidence, easily refuted, or downright impossible) they have uniformly proven to be.
It's very easy to lazily conclude that because there are so many claims, and because prominent people have repeated them, that there must be SOMETHING to this. But there isn't anything to it. It's all just obviously fabricated nonsense.
A large volume of fabricated nonsense is still fabricated nonsense.
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1 Jan
Wow.

This would be a great move for Indian science. Though part of me understands scientific journal subscription fees the same way I understand paying ransomware.
For those not in science: authors and their institutions aren’t paid for their papers (sometimes it’s even the other way around). The journals don’t support the research in any way, but they insist on copyright transfer. Subscription fees are just pointless rent-seeking.
I wrote this rant ten years ago. Shockingly, it’s still relevant. mattblaze.org/blog/copywrong…
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31 Dec 20
Radio nerditry: getting Medi-1, Nador Morocco on 171 KHz(!) loud and clear right now. Because radio is still magic sometimes.
And also BBC Radio-4 on 198 KHz (weaker but entirely readable).
Medi-1 Morocco on 171 KHz booming in amazingly loud and clear on the east coast of the US again tonight. French and Arabic programming.
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31 Dec 20
The new hall at Penn Station looks like a big, welcoming improvement, but:

- it doesn't fix the serious capacity problems (esp the tunnels)

- it requires a longer walk to the 1, 2 or 3 trains, through the entire depressing length of the current station.

nytimes.com/2020/12/30/nyr…
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see a nice (if largely cosmetic) improvement, but until they add urgently needed capacity to the tunnels, rail travel into NYC is still going to be a mess.
That said, after 9 months of this pandemic, I'd practically kiss the ground of even the old Penn Station if I could travel again.
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30 Dec 20
There are genuine weaknesses in some of the voting tech used in the US, which is why experts advocate for things like risk-limiting audits. But this is not by itself proof that any election was "rigged", an extraordinary claim that requires specific, persuasive evidence.
I am not aware ANY credible evidence of technical flaws being exploited to alter the outcome of any race in the 2020 elections for any candidate, regardless of party. Beware of self-promoting charlatans (across the political spectrum) making alarming claims without evidence.
Trump and his supporters are getting a lot of attention (and have been doing a lot of damage) with claims like this, but they are by no means the only people trying to use the mere existence of vulnerabilities to cast doubt on election outcomes they don't like.
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