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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
#XiaofengWang Xiaofeng Wang
ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican
L: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/28/ice-arrested-and-detained-a-us-citizen-for-hours-because-he-looked-mexican/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527275
posted on 2025.03.30 at 16:20:00 (c=0, p=6)
I believe in artists and their need to make art. I even want them to get paid. However, the world of art sales is a decrepit hell hole of Biblical proportions. Most of the shit you can find in a gallery or museum is artificially inflated garbage.
“I duct taped a banana to a wall.”
Good for you. If we get really generous, that’s worth $10. Jesus, just give me one decent grift before I die. What do these rich pricks want?
They don’t make movies like this anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=R7fDSBvJP7gkl1zw&v=T_bbcB780J4&feature=youtu.be
Rail and bus services ramped up for the Grand National Festival: RAIL and bus services are to be increased for next week’s Grand National Festival at Aintree – which is expected to attract 150,000 racing fans. https://lcr-news-updates.merseyreporter.com/index.php?id=1975&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Mentioned this over on Bluesky but in case you're here and not there...
Every Californian with an email address and an internet connection can now visit California’s Bookshelf and access more than 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks via the Palace Project app. Linked PDF describes the program.
https://www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025/03/pressrelease-2025-03-26-californiasbookshelf.pdf
@jackyan Nice! I saw that the purple colour was around 1996, but there were no good screen captures of it when I looked.
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