Aaron Turner

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

As much as I support the EFF this is really goofy, verging on sovereign citizen type shit. Just cut down the flock cameras like a normal citizen.

From the October 1978 issue of Natural History Magazine.

Reminder that Columbus was put in prison for the atrocities he committed against the Tainos in the Caribbean (by the way, we still exist). There’s nothing to celebrate about him. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day 🪶

I've noticed myself saying "oh fuck off" a lot again, and I realized something

This is clearly not acceptable

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Possums delayed by one hour because I have accidentally slashed ethernet cables while pulling out and inserting an unrelated server in the rack for maintenance

lmao

I love the reaction of cat lovers upon seeing a cat. Every single time the level of excitement is like they've read about cats for decades but never actually seen one in real life and they're SO EXCITED. Every. Single Time. Even if it's the hundredth cat they've seen that day.

@nytimes.com Thanks for clearing that up! Investigative journalism #FTW

Really rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...

he got him. he finally fucking got him

😦

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

This is a very important tankie concept. -When it comes to crimes of USSR, Russia is *not* the USSR -When it comes to "defeating nazism" & being the self declared successor state thst gets the UNSEC council seat, it *is* the USSR It is the Union of Schroedingers Soviet Republics.

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

Well, day has already peaked.

The NY Times writes that “Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.” As if it’s just a run of bad luck instead of an ongoing con job against the American people.

I think about this a lot.

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.

The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My legacy may not be much, but at least it won't be this.

Good morning!

I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”

This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

You have never laughed as hard as the Washington Post reporter who wrote this sentence.

This is a painting from a few years ago Northern Radiance 20x20 acrylic on canvas

Some Dreamcast love. ♥️

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.