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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6h

Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door inadvertently depicts Peach as the quickest typist in the world. She is able to type up a 126-word email in exactly 3 seconds, making her 8 times faster than the current typing speed world record.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Peach sends multiple emails to Mario during the plot. Almost all of them take her exactly 3 seconds to type.
The length of the emails she types in 3 seconds varies from 54 words to the longest one seen below, at 126 words.
Peach: I'm OK
My Dearest Mario, I send this letter in the hope that it reaches you safely. I am being held against my will in some strange place. Though I do not know where I am, I remain unharmed and in relative comfort.
Those who have captured me seem to be after the map I sent to you earlier. They may be hoping to use it to find objects they call the "Crystal Stars." I do not know what they are planning, but I have a feeling it is not anything positive.
Mario, please collect these Crystal Stars before they do. You must! They are already aware that you have the map, so please be very careful.
And please... Don't worry about me.
-Princess Peach-
At the current world record typing speed of 319 words per minute, Peach should have been able to get about this far into the email.
In order to finish the email in three seconds, she needed to type with an a speed of 2520 words per minute, 7.9 times the world record.
While the quick typing is clearly merely a way to make the scene move along more quickly and should not be taken as accurate depiction of Peach's typing skills, it is still humorous to imagine the implications arising from it if taken at face value.
Source: analysis inspired by @nintendostuff.bsky.social

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Rivaldi Tandra @rivalditan11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lebanon Official Entry to the 99th Oscars Best International Feature Film

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 27/09/2026

I am now 36 years old. This is, according to my wife, much better than me being 30 years old, because at 30, I was “an idiot”.

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 27/09/2026

🚨‼️BREAKING: MY MOTHER DESCRIBED MY HUMMUS AS “PERFECT”

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 27/09/2026

My mother is visiting me in France and we have combined Gogeta-style to make THE ULTIMATE HUMMUS

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He's only given one final week to live but having a salary is nice. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/all-ri... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is practicing for an interview in front of a mirror. He says "hey, that’s all right. Hey, we all make mistakes. Hey, who could’ve seen it coming? That’s it. Nailed it. Ready for the interview." The caption below the panel reads "The last available human job was being the thing AI apologizes to."

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Rei8bit @rei8bit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

⚡️Electro x Funkyy⚡️ 好きな音全部入りChiptune Used SoundChips: Generic Insts. - Square, Triangle, WaveTable, Sine FM - OPL2, Generic 2-OP NES - Namco163 PSG - SunSoft5B, SSG PCM - OPNA, PCM (11track) #KiraStudio #Digifu

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Rei8bit @rei8bit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ことばのぱずるもじぴったんDS / Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan - Menu (harmonic picnic) [AY-3-8910+SCC Arrangement] Original by Satoru Kōsaki #Chiptune #FurnaceTracker #MSX

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Carbonadoks @carbonadoks.com · 24/09/2026

Pleometrics PC-98 P(Doom) video is so good.

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What is "thought", how do you *know* there is none? Is it only thought if humans do it? Only if neurons are the substrate? We shouldn't anthropomorphize machines, of course, but we also should accept that we'll eventually have to grapple with hard questions, like what are thought & intelligence.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 23/09/2026

Hello from the musical event of the century

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 23/09/2026

Thanks! Seven years of hard work 😄

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 23/09/2026

The new Verifpal Workbench is the best web IDE in existence for designing, prototyping and analyzing cryptographic protocols, and you simply have to check it out: verifpal.com/workbench

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 23/09/2026

Claude Opus 5.5 rewrote Verifpal's 18,000 LoC engine into a 4,500 LoC engine overnight, making it 2.5x faster on average, passing the entire (extremely comprehensive) 1,330-test test suite, and having it catch five additional missed attacks. Where are we heading?

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 22/09/2026

I asked my wife if she’d like to go to the circus. She stared me right in the eyes and said “I’m at the circus every day.”

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Miro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We finally finished the universal signature forgery for 1024-bit RSA! 2^32 oracle queries, 1200 core years precomputation, 180 core years for an individual forgery, and 3 years of human labor (no AI involved) by Laura, Adam, Nadia, Emmanuel and me to pull of this computation against real HSMs.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21/09/2026

The US military was preparing to intercept and board the ship, with air support, before officials discovered that a chatbot had inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.

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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 21/09/2026

I built palestinebanner.com, a free, copy-and-paste banner for your website: 🇵🇸 “Freedom, dignity, and justice for Palestinians.” No JavaScript or tracking. Clicking it leads to donation options for PCRF, MAP, and UNRWA.

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Palestine Banner — Free HTML Banner for Your Website

Add a free Palestine solidarity banner to your website. Copy and paste the HTML to support Palestinians and link visitors to donation options.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Part of why I think AI may move faster than people think is that a lot of breakthrough ideas are, like, kinda stupid? arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21032 This paper basically says if you have more agents and they communicate, that's better than taking the best results from independent agents.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why TeX is Slow and How We Rebuilt It in Pure Rust > ratex is a pure-Rust TeX rebuild that compiles documents 10–70× faster than TeX Live via in-memory packages and smart caching.

Image: Why TeX is Slow and How We Rebuilt It in Pure Rust

> ratex is a pure-Rust TeX rebuild that compiles documents 10–70× faster than TeX Live via in-memory packages and smart caching.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 18/09/2026

Current status (DISCLAIMER: MY WIFE BROUGHT ME HERE)

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 18/09/2026

My wife is now using my strong affinity for Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte as further evidence that I am actually a white woman named Valérie.

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Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca · 18/09/2026

Screenshots of the Philip Morris website. (reminder: they're a leading cigarette company) It's a good calibration point for how good modern marketing is at dressing up pretty much any corporate (or, for that matter, government) behavior and making it sound responsible and safe.

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 16/09/2026

Had a great discussion with my Lebanese students today about learning formal modeling of protocols 🙏🙏🙏 #blessed

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 16/09/2026

THE PRINCE, ALONE IN DEEPEST DARK

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 15/09/2026

A few months ago a student asked me who do I look up to. After thinking about this question for a while, I think my definitive answer is: Salman Rushdie and Norman Finkelstein in terms of intellect and character, and Toby Fox in terms of poetic and artistic output.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wonder if the cost of chips has cut down on conspiracies. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a beard sits in the left corner, agitated, stating "Bill Gates put microchips in me! Hundreds of ‘em!" A man wearing glasses swiftly turns towards him, asking "really? What year? Do they have onboard memory? Where are you sleeping tonight?" The caption below the comic reads "The RAM shortage takes a dark turn."

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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our latest “Crypto in the Wild” project, analysing secure email gateways. We give 29 cryptographic attacks on 4 different products, from SEPPmail, Cisco, Proton and CipherMail. Paper to appear at ACM CCS 2026.

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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

TL;DR: using compression before encryption is much weaker than we thought. Tiny length differences can be amplified - almost without limit - and noise-based or bucketization countermeasures are then easy to bypass. Joint work with @prefix-free.bsky.social and Lenka Mareková, to appear at CCS 2026.

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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer · 14/09/2026

Currently waiting outside of a French university in my car to pick up my wife after she finishes teaching her course. That’s right! My wife is now a university professor and I’m so proud of her!!!!

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