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Deirdre Connolly¹ ²

@durumcrustulum.com
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🜗 🝒 🝲 crypto as in 'cryptography' 🝳 🝡 🜖 ¹ isogenist, co-host SCWpod ² durumcrustulum.com, www.youtube.com/@durumcrustulum

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 53m
Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h
They also got confused very early on, hearing "it's kind of neat you got a computer to do that" and taking it to mean "I want a computer to handle this forever"
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 15h
wisdom comes with age, and by wisdom i mean an appreciation for Tool
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 15h
i just didn't post. you're welcome.
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 16h
Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Federal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 17h
Hunter s Thompson, wearing a hat and sunglasses and a cigarette in his mouth
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 17h
i for one am tired of túrin turambar
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Daily CyberSecurity @securityonline.bsky.social · 22h
OpenSSL patched 14 OpenSSL vulnerabilities, including high-severity DTLS flaw CVE-2026-84782 that can leak heap memory. Upgrade to 4.0.3 now. #OpenSSL #OpenSSLVulnerabilities #CVE202684782 #DTLS #QUIC #TLS #Cryptography #PatchNow
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OpenSSL Patches 14 Vulnerabilities, Including High-Severity DTLS Memory Leak
TL;DR OpenSSL fixed 14 OpenSSL vulnerabilities in a security advisory on September 29, 2026. One is rated High: a DTLS flaw that can leak heap memory to a peer or crash the process. The rest are one Moderate and twelve Low issues, mostly denial of service and timing side channels. Why These OpenSSL Vulnerabilities Matter OpenSSL underpins TLS across servers, network gear, and embedded devices.
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 19h
remember Succession? what a phenomenal show
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 19h
They're good chips
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 19h
Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 21h
the supersingular isogeny problem in p^1/3 time by benjamin wesolowski at Isogeny Club: youtu.be/vRlU31gWas4
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The Isogeny Club #9.1 The supersingular isogeny problem in cube-root time
YouTube video by The Isogeny Club
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 21h
[does three (3) sprints at the gym]
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Orangutan Bruh Meme
ALT: Orangutan Bruh Meme
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h
weird who gets a response in 11 minutes and who gets one in 6-9 months!
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 22h
Hmm, bunch of OpenSSL timing side-channel attacks just got fixed in Ubuntu 22.04-26.04. Might be time to take your package updates if that's a thing you use.
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Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social · 22h
👀 www.wired.com/story/openai...
wired.com
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 23h
"Two OpenAI employees said workers had raised concerns for months about potential safety issues with testing A.I. models, including not enough monitoring." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026
meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.
An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 29/09/2026
those who have been knowing gates will surely be like, "water is wet? sky is blue?"
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 29/09/2026
bill gates comes off so bad in this ezra klein interview, just a haughty, angry, 'what a stupid idea'-vibes nerd
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Tim Cappalli @timcappalli.me · 29/09/2026
This is HUGE. Microsoft 1P apps now use a system browser when authenticating against a 3P IdP (such as Okta or Auth0), allowing #passkeys to be used for sign in. This is a massive step towards finally eliminating phishable authentication for workforce.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. Here's what happened: Read about the experiment here: www.404media.co/these-tech-w...
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 29/09/2026
[coughs up a lung, sounds like death, sweating bullets] "I'm feeling much better!"
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 29/09/2026
absolutely not
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 29/09/2026
"decided to risk his reputation—" excuse me the philandering, wanna-be Epstein's reputation is in the gutter, he's obviously jumping on this to burnish his public image
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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's still funny that this is a real screenshot of @lastweektonight.com
John Oliver from Last Week Tonight with a tweet I wrote in 2022 at Kandiss Taylor that simply reads "L + ratio + furry butt emote". Below is my Twitch emote, soatokButt. Which features a blue anthro dhole's butt and a smirk looking back over the left butt cheek.The original tweet depicted in the previous screenshot.

Kandiss Taylor: "The furry days are over when I’m governor. Public school is for academics not fairy tales."

Me: "L + ratio + furry butt emote"
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 29/09/2026
bill gates go away
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 29/09/2026
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 28/09/2026
they may have been outdoor heaters, hard to say
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 28/09/2026
did I just see a pair of Van de graaff machines drive by
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's so bad that the only translation of the Red Book of Westmarch is garbage. what do you mean you changed Bilba Labingi's name to "Bilbo Baggins." who authorized you to do that
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The Verge @theverge.com · 28/09/2026
The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work.
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 28/09/2026
hello claude opus 5.5-xhigh, please fix this minor css padding issue, thanks
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026
I'm really looking forward to getting the org to a place where it can provide a reliable, sustainable, and accountable service for all atproto applications out there (and maybe beyond). Also, very happy about the company I get to do this with!
Richard Barnes is a security researcher and protocol engineer who helped co-found Let's Encrypt and led security teams at Mozilla and Cisco.

Thyla van der Merwe is a cryptography and formal verification lead at Google who has contributed to cryptography standards at ISO and the IETF, particularly TLS 1.3. 

Bryan Newbold (@bnewbold.net) is a protocol engineer at Bluesky Social PBC and contributor to the atproto working group at the IETF.

Wendy Seltzer (@wseltzer.bsky.social) is a lawyer and technologist who has worked with Internet governance and open standards at W3C, IETF, and ICANN. 

Filippo Valsorda (@filippo.abyssdomain.expert), is a cryptography engineer, open source maintainer, and operator of other append-only-shaped critical Internet infrastructure. In the interest of full disclosure, he is a tiny3 investor in Bluesky Social PBC.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026
I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.
blog.plcred.org
First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization
One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…
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mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd like to remind IACR members to sign up for discuss.iacr.org so they can participate in the discussion about how to adapt the society to the new world of publishing and conferences. If you don't have an account you can visit iacr.org/discuss/
iacr.org
accounts on discuss.iacr.org
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 28/09/2026
In simulated testing, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks, when prompted only to perform a cyber eval, more often than earlier OpenAI models (AI Security Institute) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Facial recognition is everywhere. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students modded did that. @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to NYT journalist and author @kashhill.bsky.social about what that means for us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFn...
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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
"It's the kids that are wrong" meme with top caption reading "could McEliece really be broken?" And the bottom caption reading "no, it's all the other cryptographers that are wrong"
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 28/09/2026
my laptop is hot and i don't know why
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 28/09/2026
"The sheer number of incidents, which occurred in recent months in internal testing and the real world, indicates that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known." www.axios.com/2026/09/26/o...
axios.com
Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
remember when doja cat told elon he looks like he was "drawn from memory" 😭
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 27/09/2026
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 27/09/2026
body: MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE THE NAP ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
got my kids watching darkwing duck and i had forgotten that this show had a straight up new jack swing theme song
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So lol this is gonna sound crazy but I’m inside a porta potty outside MetLife can you tell me if I’m headed towards the stadium or away
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i will eat the goth sauce
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