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16 Sep, 6 tweets, 1 min read
A blockchain voting guy informs me that he’d can’t take me or any other actual experts on elections seriously because we’re obviously “bigoted” against his favorite data structure. We should probably also smile more.
Data structures have feelings too.
I’ve been contacted by at least FOUR aspirational blockchain voting startups on recent weeks. Must be something in the kool-aid.
Seriously, before you waste your time on schemes like this, at least make the effort to understand why blockchain voting (and remote voting generally) is warned against for US civil elections. Unless your business plan is to rip off your investors before bankruptcy, you’ll fail.
And if you expect me to say nice or encouraging things about your idea out of politeness, be warned that I can be very rude sometimes.
They get really mad when you call it a data structure. “IT’S NOT JUST A DATA STRUCTURE! IT’S AN ENTIRE INFORMATION LIFESTYLE!”

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13 Sep
This is a great list, and most of these are hard to find.

Missing a few obvious titles (e,g., The French Connection among others) and less obvious gems (The President’s Analyst).
So I’d add, at least (either filmed on location or capturing something about NYC well):

Book of Life
Ghostbusters
North by Northwest
Prince of the City
Taxi Driver
The President’s Analyst
The French Connection

Plus several films by that rapey director I can’t watch anymore.
Obviously any list of quintessential films about NYC is going to be incomplete.
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13 Sep
By debating extremists about basic, obvious facts (that Covid is dangerous, that US elections aren’t rigged by Venezuelan hackers, etc) you’re giving credence to the notion that these things are debatable. That’s exactly what they want.
A disease that’s killing hundreds of thousands of Americans is dangerous. Vaccines work. US elections aren’t rigged. The Earth isn’t flat. We went to the moon, and back.

If you don’t already believe these things, I can’t convince you. You need help and pity, not fake “debate”.
My election security colleagues and I spent months meticulously refuting, point-by-point, utterly lunatic claims of how the 2020 election was supposedly stolen. Now they’re gearing to make the same claims, presumably with slight adjustments, about the California recall election.
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11 Sep
If you need a break from 9/11ing, there’s a rocket launch at @NASA_Wallops in 12 minutes.
@NASA_Wallops Currently delayed due to winds, but still could launch any time until 7pm ET.
@NASA_Wallops If they do launch today, doesn’t sound like it will be visible outside the DelMarVa peninsula.
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11 Sep
Individual, private loss and horror, but also universal memories. The xeroxed missing posters up everywhere. The lingering smell. Involuntarily ducking at the roar of fighter jets patrolling the NYC airspace. Desperately wanting to do something, but not knowing what.
Each time you saw the smoke rising through the altered skyline from a new place was a punch in the gut.
I’m not surprised that I remember - that we all remember - these things 20 years later, but it’s still so fresh.
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28 Aug
The horse-paste COVID grift is a morbidly fascinating example of how the snake oil sales grift has evolved in the Internet era. The grifters profit less from directly selling the snake oil than they do from monetizing the attention they get from advocating the snake oil.
As far as I can tell, the Ivermectin manufacturers are as horrified by all this as anyone.
The horse paste apologists standard talking point seems to be “ha ha stupid blue check doesn’t know Ivermectin is also a WHO-approved human drug”.

They do know that drugs aren’t just randomly interchangeable to treat different diseases, right?
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27 Aug
In-person classes start next week, for the first time in a year and a half. Although my school is taking just about every precaution (vax & indoor mask mandates, random asymptomatic testing, etc), I'm nervous. Delta feels like a potential game changer of unknown magnitude.
I honestly believe my university is being as responsible as possible here, and is committed to doing the right thing even if that's expensive or inconvenient. And that makes me willing to go in next week. But it still feels like another shoe could drop at any moment.
I can't imagine what it must be like for faculty (and students and staff) at less responsible (or politically/legally constrained) institutions. At this stage of my career, I'd probably retire early rather than be part of something likely to result in needless sickness and death.
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