Schuyler

Hi! I study the history & anthroplogy of security technologies, primarily locks, but have dabbled in door seals, encryption, etc. Primary periods of focus are pre-history, 1700-1900 in the US/UK & modern era behavioral security in communities of affinity. Formerly a competitive lockpicker.

Long day, but I still love all y'all.

NEW: Rashida Ng reviews MoMA’s Architects of Liberation, on modernist architecture in postcolonial western Africa. "It’s easy to feel swept up in the expansive optimism of this exhibition," Ng writes. Still, the curators are careful to acknowledge that liberation remains an incomplete project.

I hope this email finds you, in this world full of betrayal and misery.

Looking for an old paper while working on my academic CV & found myself cited in a 2020 paper titled "Unclonable photonic keys hardened against machine learning attacks"! It's a bit of a throwaway (This guy says keys are pretty old!) but regardless I was _delighted_ :D pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...

Got my copy yesterday, dug in while chilling with my girls at the Y today. Loving it.

Working on my grad school applications while being a fun dad ready for a party at the Y.

Indigenous language revitalization print, created with my colleague Megan Sekulich & commissioned by @filsonhistorical.bsky.social - 100% of proceeds go to the Myaamia Center at Miami University: www.etsy.com/listing/4593... #indigenouspeoplesday

A lost oblique strategy has been found!

Hyyyyyyyype

I hope this email finds you within reach of my castle, I will hunt you like a beast.

This is a very good joke

I hope I get to do the things I love & am good at a little more than I do now. I'm finding it hard to go from flexing 20 years of expertise for one hard but wonderful weekend (teaching lock stuff last week) back to feeling barely competent at a job I'm happy to have but struggling to enjoy.

Ross: And Duncan's horses — a thing most strange and certain — Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind. Old Man: tis said they ate each other Ross: Fuuuuuuuuuck

Truly the softest shirt. I love it so much

The number of things I've learned about myself from filling out what I expected to be boring surveys is wild. Still happening at 42. So hard to know what normal is when your data set on any given life experience has an N of 1, you know?

"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"

Look for me on stage!

I do hope some of y'all listen to bbno$ (baby no money) The music is so good and the musician is wonderfully unproblematic.

As angry as I get scrolling, I also feel such real and deep love for y'all. At least we are here together. ♡

🎙Stark, hollow town, Carson City lights

This hot air balloon was such a magical surprise that despite forgetting to smile like a human being in this pic I still feel compelled to share it. And for those following closely, I did indeed enjoy a pre-dawn walk around Carson City listening to Orville Peck. A lovely trip thus far.

Off to Carson City for a couple of days where I hope to enoy my annual tradition of walking the streets at 4 am listening to Orville Peck.

Been working on a Lego model of an ancient Sikkatu lock for a Classicist friend: www.bricklink.com/r3/studio/de... Pleased with how it's turned out. Pick whatever colors you prefer if you'd like to build it. Full build instructions can be found here: schuylertowne.com/sikkatu-inst...

Love this one

Been working on a Lego model of an ancient Sikkatu lock for a Classicist friend: www.bricklink.com/r3/studio/de... Pleased with how it's turned out. Pick whatever colors you prefer if you'd like to build it. Full build instructions can be found here: schuylertowne.com/sikkatu-inst...

super excited that this zine is finally out! i've been working on it with marc and Brett from Temporary Services, and we got amazing input from librarians from LAPL, Multnomah, & the Free Library of Philly...

We're starting off with a two-part series on things I've learned over the past nine years of building security programs at startups, specifically focusing on how you get the actual work done: structures.systems/blog. Give it a repost so the folks who need this can find it!

back on my bs a new #yoyo trick using some 3D printed counterweights some friends sent me. Music is "Deep Blue" by #ChatPile

Where is the lecture for the other side of the hoped for majority? Why aren't these blue no matter who people excoriating left-leaning bigots to swallow their hate & vote to preserve trans personhood in order to topple the fascists? One is asked to live in discomfort, the other to cease to exist.

God damn right

Hell yes it is and this is a very fine selection. Here's mine, please quote and share your own ♡ collections.artsmia.org/art/40961/do...

So hype to get my 17 year old Acer netbook with Ubuntu to boot! So sad to be confronted by an 17 year old password I will never ever remember :'(

One of the things that also pisses me off is that in a vacuum, this technology is value-neutral. It's development in conjunction with the profit motive is what causes the worst aspect of it to manifest. The problem is not the technology itself, but is and has always been Capitalism.

The Virgin Suicides Score Never seen the film but listened to the score in full, start to finish, hundreds of times.

I was involved in Pestival 2, which attracted around 200,000 visitors. Shame on Rentokill! More here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

OK, let's move in a more direct manner than me doing some big auction or something. I have four of these GET LAMP coins. They are numbers 2350, 2381, 2379, 2357. They were returned to me from 10 years ago which is why I have them. I'm offering them for people who want to buy them.

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.