Letters to Hyperreality: Dispatches, Essays & Quiet Moments
Travel notes, reader letters, metamodern musings, quiet reflections from the latest edition of Hyperreality – our evolving weekly newsletter| This Is Glamorous (TIG)
Catherine Connolly won the most votes of any candidate in the history of the Republic, but the election was marked by low turnout and a campaign to spoil votes, raising questions about whether Ireland is as stable a democracy as most presume. The post Spoiled votes and celebrity campaigns: Ireland’s presidential election reveals exhausted state of its democracy appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“The presence of warships and the disruption of marine livelihoods within our Caribbean waters represent real and immediate threats to regional stability and to the welfare of our nations,” the region’s bishops said. The post Caribbean bishops raise concern over Trump’s military buildup in the region appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Bishops, nuns and lay activists came together in an act of solidarity with the migrants currently enduring the Trump administration’s immigration roundup. The post Catholics witness ‘man-made’ disaster for migrants at ICE detention center in Newark appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Will the upcoming canonizations of José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros and Mother María Carmen Rendiles Martínez, the first saints born in Venezuela, encourage a renewed effort toward the common good in the South American nation? The post Can canonizations in Rome help free political prisoners in Venezuela? appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Holy water is a pretty regular feature at Catholic churches, so why were some commentators on social media in an uproar over Pope Leo's blessing of ice removed from a Greenland glacier? The post Pope Leo ice blessing sets off social media meltdown appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill. The post Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Travel notes, reader letters, metamodern musings, quiet reflections from the latest edition of Hyperreality – our evolving weekly newsletter| This Is Glamorous (TIG)
LIZA KATZ DUNCAN ”The earth, as blue and green / as a child’s drawing of the earth— // is this what disaster looks like? My love, think / of the dragonflies, each migratory trip / spanning generations. Imagine // that kind of faith: to leave a place behind / knowing a part of you will find its way back, / instinct outweighing desire.| The Common
BEN TAMBURRI The beaches of Baileys Harbor are for birds, too pebbly and coarse to relax on. The water is cold, and the waves break at your ankles.| The Common
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR Contributor G. Patrick O’Brien on how the news of the end of the American Revolution was conveyed along the New York frontier in 1783. New episodes of Dispatches are available for free every Sunday evening(Eastern United States Time), first on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, […] The post This Week on Dispatches: G. Patrick O’Brien on the Cessation of Hostilities on the New York Frontier in 1783 appeared first on...| Journal of the American Revolution
PORTLAND, ORE. — Global capitalism begins with apparel. Slaves were brought to the American South from West Africa to do farm labor, and by the 19th century that largely meant cotton, a ubiquitous puffball that is easy to grow and aggravating to harvest. Seeds would be removed with a cotton gin, and the bulk of…| defector.com
ELI RODRIGUEZ FIELDER The gods must have been giant children squeezing drip sandcastles from their palms, back when this land was at the edge of a sea. This used to be a mouth, I say. It feels impossible that this peculiar landscape should suddenly emerge among farms and Dairy Queens.| The Common
MADELINE SIMMS After midnight, cottonwoods are inconsequential teeth, ripped from the ground by the Mississippi River. An elm snaps like a bird’s neck: an egret. The current betrays every fluttering heart and rages on. A rock becomes sepulcher to the uprooted nest. The river could be less cruel, the winter, more forgiving.| The Common
MADELINE SIMMS After midnight, cottonwoods are inconsequential teeth, ripped from the ground by the Mississippi River. An elm snaps like a bird’s neck: an egret. The current betrays every fluttering heart and rages on. A rock becomes sepulcher to the uprooted nest. The river could be less cruel, the winter, more forgiving.| The Common
Chasing solutions to the skills shortage in the auto sector The auto sector is no different than other highly-skilled and tech-based industries that face a wave of retirements in the coming years. And while skills training and recruitment has been a priority for several years, there is a need to step up efforts to address this critical challenge. Our industry is rapidly evolving and the NCDA has received extensive feedback from members, suggesting we are approaching a tipping point — especi...| Canadian Auto Dealer
Imagine you are touring Italy and a stranger joins you at your table during lunch. After some small talk, he wants to share his Vietnam War experience with you. He has to tell his story, and you li…| CherriesWriter - Vietnam War website
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR Contributor Josh Wheeler on Loyalist David Fanning’s raid against Patriots in North Carolina after the British surrender at Yorktown. New episodes of Dispatches are available for free every Sunday evening(Eastern United States Time), first on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Amazon Music, and the JAR Dispatches web site. Each […]| Journal of the American Revolution
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, CCI convened Part 1 of the Good Food Finance Network’s Data Systems Integration Forum. This virtual discussion forum focused on work needed to activate insi…| Climate Value Exchange
This piece was originally published in 2019 as a comment on the COP24 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Katowice, Poland. It is republished here in recognition of the fact the pervasive an…| Climate Civics
Key messages: New finance commitments are meaningful progress, but funding targets must be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Much more is needed to achieve justice and the practical resourcing of the…| Climate Civics
Climate Value Exchange briefing note, reporting from December 2024 monthly meeting During the December 2024 monthly planning meeting for the Climate Value Exchange, we shared views on the COP29, it…| Climate Value Exchange
Today marks 9 years from the day the Paris Agreement was established as the consensus outcome from the COP21 round of UN Climate Change negotiations. That moment was one of jubilation, relief,…| Climate Value Exchange
Key messages: New finance commitments are meaningful progress, but funding targets must be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Much more is needed to achieve justice and the practical resou…| Climate Value Exchange
A few weeks ago, several hundred academics, students, and professionals gathered at the University of Pennsylvania for the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science: two-and-a-half days packed with presentations and posters. This post attempts to highlight some of the work I found most exciting and briefly summarizes the presentations Kevin Zheng and I gave […] The post Recap: Interntional Conference on Computational Social Science appeared first on Initiative for Digita...| Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
ML-KEM private key seeds are vastly preferable to expanded decapsulation keys as a storage format. A plea to standardize on them.| Filippo Valsorda
A short document describing how I maintain open source projects. It talks about how I prefer issues to PRs, how I work in batches, and how I'm trigger-happy with bans. It's all about setting expectations.| Filippo Valsorda
Hardware secure elements make it possible to use low-entropy secrets like PINs for encryption.| Filippo Valsorda
filippo.io/mlkem768 is a pure-Go implementation of the post-quantum key exchange mechanism ML-KEM-768 optimized for correctness and readability.| Filippo Valsorda
As we near the end of Week 1 of the COP28, there is consensus that ambition needs to rise quickly. Accelerated timelines & mobilization of expanded funds for transformational climate action are…| Climate Value Exchange
The COP is, as we all know, a vast and complex landscape of actors, alliances, and initiatives, all of which have contact with the negotiation process. We are seeing that wider landscape push the p…| Climate Value Exchange
If you are having doubts about our deprogramming methods, the main thing you need to keep in mind is that reality itself is a type of fiction.| Vast Abrupt
Seeking enlightenment and energy drinks in Shangri-la – Alec Ash Listen to Kaiser Kuo read an audio version of this story The plane juddered in a stomach-turning lurch as it banked steeply to the left, clearing a hilly ridge to reveal Shangri-la. It was a moment we have all had: a sudden jolt of turbulence, or drop in altitude, that reminds us we are in a metal box miles above the hard ground – before a safe landing makes us feel like milksops for ever doubting. Yet here the irony was ...| China Channel
Courtney Han visits her ancestral home in China My Dad grew up in a small fishing village about two hours northwest of Shanghai. His stories about his hometown sound more like Mount Olympus than a poor Chinese village with a flooding problem. According to him, nowhere else in the universe was the air as sweet, the trees as lush and the jade-toned water as beautiful as in the laojia. I was born in Beijing, where my mother’s family lived, and moved to the US when I was five. My father’s e...| China Channel
Jonathan Chatwin visits a new museum dedicated to Party Discipline in Wuhan “Do you know where Mao’s old house is?” the hotel receptionist asked his colleague. The screen of my phone was zoomed in on a small grey square, labelled ‘Comrade Mao Zedong’s Former Residence’. Neither of them had heard of it, so they called their manager over, and the four of us stood in the echoey, white-tiled reception of my cheap Wuhan hotel, reorienting my phone to try and figure out where I was goin...| China Channel
How much linear algebra and polynomials do you need to know to implement Kyber? Turns out, very little!| Filippo Valsorda
We are very proud to launch Gay Lynch’s historical epic Unsettled.| Ligature
We are delighted to be reissuing Eleanor Nilsson’s beloved young adult novel The House Guest. This is a love story and a ghost story, blending the 1980s suburban adventures of a Spielberg film with the most haunting elements of an MR James, Henry James or Shirley Jackson thriller, and drawing in literary threads from Ursula K Le Guin to the Old Norse author of Njal’s Saga.| Ligature
We’re delighted to announce the publication of another Ligature First: Katy Barnett’s thrilling young adult dystopia The Earth Below. | Ligature
We’re thrilled to publish Peter Doherty’s The Knowledge Wars internationally for the first time. Peter was joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his work on the immune system and was named Australian of the Year in 1997.| Ligature
A treat for our non-Antipodean friends: we have released two more recent plays by Tim Winton in e-book form. Following on from Rising Water (2012) we now have Signs of Life (2013) and Shrine (2014). The new plays show a deepening and a broadening of Tim’s theatrical technique while continuing to explore the ways that great expanses of time and geography can be compressed into an hour or so on a single stage. | Ligature
All of Bernard’s work is deeply funny and profoundly serious — much like Bernard — and we are thrilled to publish electronic editions of his pre-antibiographical novels, featuring covers painted by Bernard himself and beginning with the multi-award-winning post-modern mystery The Blindman’s Hat and his first novel Tourism, which firmly established Bernard’s propensity to defy and define genres and forms. Both are available worldwide and DRM-free from the Ligature bookshop or your f...| Ligature
Elliptic curves are standardized, instead of being generated like Diffie-Hellman parameters. There's good reasons!| Filippo Valsorda
Announcing a $12,288 bounty (tripled to charity) for cracking the five seeds selected by the NSA in the '90s for the NIST elliptic curve standard.| Filippo Valsorda
I want the extended-nonce 256-bit reduced-rounds XAES-256-GCM/11 AEAD. It has infinitely randomizable nonces, a comfortable margin of multi-user security, and nearly the same performance as AES-128-GCM. Only issue is that it doesn’t exist.| Filippo Valsorda
A description of my password management solution based on passage, a fork of pass that uses age, and YubiKeys. Its main feature is resisting post-compromise exfiltration.| Filippo Valsorda
A recent issue in scalar multiplication makes for a good case study of how unsafe interfaces, undocumented assumptions, and time lead to vulnerabilities.| Filippo Valsorda
Go 1.20 was a big release. Go 1.21 has some exciting API work on crypto/tls, and some follow-up work including crypto/rsa performance.| Filippo Valsorda
Protocols that use randomness should make it a deterministic function that takes a fixed-size string of random bytes, so it can be tested.| Filippo Valsorda
It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.| Filippo Valsorda
A lot of new cryptography is landing in Go 1.20, including the new crypto/ecdh package and math/big-less RSA and ECDSA backends!| Filippo Valsorda
age currently only provides confidentiality. We look at how a couple small tweaks can introduce authentication, when you'd need it, and how it is different from signing.| Filippo Valsorda
I updated the whoami.filippo.io dataset! I explain how it works, and how I fetched the new data.| Filippo Valsorda
We look at how fuzzing should have caught the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability, and why that code was even necessary in the first place.| Filippo Valsorda
Go 1.20 is adding an interning cache for reused certificates. The entries are reference-counted with the help of the garbage collector and finalizers.| Filippo Valsorda
Having a direct line to the maintainers of Open Source project is reciprocally valuable, and made possible by high-touch contractual relationships.| Filippo Valsorda
