AYA LABANIEH You raised me, tayteh, rocking me in your lap, spooning Quranic verses into my little ears, scrubbing the living daylights out of me in the bathtub. Slapping your thighs, “Ta’a, ta’a, ta’a,” you’d say to the lovebirds we raised, “Come, come, come,” and they’d fly, all three of them, out their cages in a flurry and land on your breasts, climb your gold chains, nestle against your cheeks.| The Common
LUCHIK BELAU-LORBERG It frustrated me, probably because I’m that way too, what with the unread books and dirty dishes. So IHOP made sense for us both. Like all quintessentially American fast food chains, it’s instrumental, noncommital, infinitely replicable. In other words—simple, safe, unmournable by design.| 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
Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about escalating deportations. The post Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
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
MORIEL ROTHMAN-ZECHER This afternoon I am well, thank you. / Walking down Main Street in Danville, KY. / The heavy wind so sensuous. / Last night I fell- / ated four different men back in / Philadelphia season lush and slippery / with time and leaves. / Keep your eyes to yourself, yid. / As a kid, I pledged only to engage / in onanism on special holidays.| The Common
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
Dispatches, a feature-length vérité documentary I’m currently co-directing alongside Kira Boden-Gologorsky, follows protesters and student journalists covering the fight for free speech on Columbia University’s campus at protests which made international headlines and faced mammoth political backlash. But more than just chronicling those events, Dispatches explores what it means to report from within an institution while it’s in crisis and to film the story when you are already inside...| Filmmaker Magazine
CLARA CHIU We are holding the edges of the fabric, / throwing the center into the air. / & even in dusk this cloth / billowing over our heads / makes a souvenir of home: / mother & child in snowglobe. / Yet we are warm here, beneath / this dome, & what light slips through / drapes the dining room white.| The Common
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 […] The post This Week on Dispatches: Josh Wheeler on David Fanning’s Murderous Raid appeared first ...| Journal of the American Revolution
SHANLEY POOLE I’m asking for a new geography, / something beyond the spiritual. // Tell me again, about that first / drive up Appalachian slopes // how you knew on sight these hills / could be home. I want // this effervescent temporary, here / with the bob-tailed cat // and a hundred hornet nests.| The Common
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian JAR Contributor Elizabeth Reese about the life of George Washington’s granddaughter, Eleanor “Nelly” Parke Custis, whose life began to spiral after the President’s passing. New episodes of Dispatches are available for free every Sunday evening (Eastern United States Time), first on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Amazon […]| Journal of the American Revolution
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and distinguished professor Franklin D. Rausch on an early, pivotal battle between Patiots (Whigs) and Loyalists in South Carolina, with the Loyalists trying to dislodge the Whigs from their strong point at Savages’ Old Fields. The battle was instrumental in drawing up the lines of what […]| 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
XAES-256-GCM is a new AEAD extended-nonce algorithm designed for high-level APIs and FIPS 140 compliance.| Filippo Valsorda
Una reflexión al pasado para un ordenamiento en el futuro REDACCIÓN María Lázaro │ IMÁGENES María Lázaro y Jessica Lázaro [This story also exists in a modified English version. Translation by Andrea Vargas and Peter Tonkin. — Ed.] [Esta historia también existe en una versión modificada en inglés. Traducción de Andrea Vargas y Peter Tonkin.| Terralingua
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