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Jan 30 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
It's been a very strange weekend here, so here's a needlessly high resolution photo of the Lincoln Memorial.
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And here's the 59th Street Bridge, looking like it's dressed up to go someplace fancy.

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Here's the UN Secretariat building, looking all mid-century, not only before it was uncool, but before it was cool. flickr.com/photos/mattbla…
Meanwhile, the Smithsonian Castle is trying to figure out how it ended up on the National Mall.

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On the improbable chance you've never seen it before, here's the US Capitol, looking almost normal just six months after fascists tried to sack it. flickr.com/photos/mattbla…
Here's a really terrible photo of a seagull.

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Washington, DC's Connecticut Ave (Taft) bridge, in all its recursive glory. It probably compresses really well.

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One World Trade Center, trying and failing to look inconspicuous.

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Philadelphia, at its most beautifully post-industrial. flickr.com/photos/mattbla…
The most uptight park in all of New York City. flickr.com/photos/mattbla…
Skyscraper under construction, apparently being built entirely out of abstract sculptures.

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Alcatraz Island, in a standoff with Carl the Fog. flickr.com/photos/mattbla…
Being eaten by the Duke Ellington Bridge. flickr.com/photos/mattbla…
That's it for tonight, I think.

Most of these were shot with a Phase One technical camera with a high resolution (150MP) monochrome back. This is a fairly compact (as these things go) and flexible setup that works well for the architecture and urban landscapes I mostly do.
"Technical" cameras are portable view cameras designed mostly for normal- and wide-angle architectural photography where moderate shift movements are required. My field setup is bigger and heavier than a DLSR, but smaller than a full bellows-style monorail camera.

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Jan 29
Heh. Guy just threatened to boycott Georgetown because I canceled my Spotify account.

Go for it, bro.
I'm a little surprised this guy was apparently OK with me until he found out I no longer have a Spotify account. I guess that was the last straw or something.

Sorry, Georgetown fundraising department.
General consensus, however, is that I must be a moron, an imbecile, a spoiled millennial, or a censor. Several people suggested I perform an act that, frankly, seems beyond anatomical plausibility.
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Jan 29
I just closed my Spotify account; I have no desire to enrich dangerous pro-virus propagandists. Fortunately, it's easy and painless to move (almost everything is available elsewhere). @violetblue has great instructions for finding alternatives and migrating playlists, etc. below.
@violetblue I don't do this lightly. I know the revenue from my account is relatively small, and that the anti-vax stuff is only part of their offerings. And I do things like subscribe to newspapers that print editorials that sometimes offend me. But Spotify has siimply lost its way.
@violetblue In particular, when I signed up with Spotify it was a music streaming service with a few podcasts. Now it's basically a podcasting platform (giving exclusive multi-million deals to dangerous propagandists), with music streaming on the side.

Not for me.
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Jan 26
This gets more and more on the nose each time.
Perhaps they're OK with books about the Holocaust, as long as they aren't unpleasant or anything.
I didn't read Maus in middle school, because it hadn't been written yet. Instead, we had visits and lectures from Holocaust survivors, who shared what they witnessed and experienced.

It was (necessarily) far more profane and disturbing than Spiegelman's (or any) book could be.
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Jan 25
I'm not in the UK, and not steeped in the details of this proposal, but this is a broadly terrible idea that will do serious harm to computer security.

"Non professional" researchers often find and report critical vulnerabilities. Excluding or discouraging them is insane.
Computer security has a long history of contributions from people without formal education, training, certification, or affiliation. The idea that such people should be regarded as inherently "suspect" is not just classist and offensive, but empirically false.
The only people who benefit from proposals like this are those fortunate enough qualify to be in the official "legitimate" group. Everyone else, including the public, loses.
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Jan 23
One of the former "Voatz" people just crawled out from under their rock to cry about criticism of insecure voting systems (like Voatz). If you're not familiar with Voatz, here's an example of what the kinds of researchers he's complaining about have found: usenix.org/conference/use…
So, yeah, I can see how people associated with that company would really dislike the concept of independent security analysis of voting system. It must really irk them.
To be fair, he says we should just give more credit for "trying".
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Jan 23
Today on Twitter I've been taken to task for

(1) being too "negative" about bad voting systems;
and
(2) looking too much like Bill Gates

I'm guilty as charged on (1). (2) seems extremely dubious, but I intend to test it out as soon as I find out what bank he uses.
"Hello as you can see I am definitely Bill Gates. I would like to make a completely routine withdrawal, as billionaires like me often do."
The Bill Gates thing is more loaded than I originally understood.

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