Rand Arete

way more visual than mine github.com/rand/homer.

and good riddance

My Heroku values My Heroku values. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

this will remain near and dear to my heart: gist.github.com/adamwiggins/...

Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”

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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

This is the beginning not the end of how surveillance will change America. We could stop it. We should. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

hey democrats, theyre burning the first amendment, time to wake up and say something

The Hole in the Puzzle Primitives for Intent-Oriented Development

i've been spending some time thinking about a future of Intent-Oriented Development, and working on building some of the primitives that can help realize that future in a way that i find compelling.

nulldivide.com/blog/hole-in...

LOL that’s a beauty.

“.. They were previously hunted down by the U.S. Department of Justice,” but that “does not seem to matter” to the current administration, he said.

@washingtonpost.com
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New in Arize AX: Evaluator Hub 🚀

Evaluator Hub introduces reusable, versioned evaluators that can be shared across evaluation tasks, instead of being redefined per task.

This makes evaluation behavior easier to reason about as tasks, datasets, and models evolve.

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

more money for training will not fix this

CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.

i got bingo pretty quickly.

The Names They Call Themselves *Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

"Fascist" and "Nazi" weren't slurs applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That's what they called themselves. This madness will not end until we make the names Trump's regime calls themselves universally acknowledged slurs.
daringfireball.net/2026/01/th...

Abolish ICE is not enough.

Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.

We need prosecutions and trials.

Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys If you think using Microsoft's BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption keys to unlock the laptops of Windows users charged in a fraud indictment.…

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

you need the sleep. humanity needs the shaming. win win.

What Would Norbert Do?

nulldivide AI agents need a fundamentally different security model than humans. Here's a nuanced take on what that model looks like.

securing agentic systems is a different game. i'm putting together some thoughts on the space: nulldivide.com/blog/agentic...

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

the new PR page on tangled showing off the 3 panel layout.

hello tanglers, its release time! to kick things off, we first have:

✨ a brand new pull-request review page ✨

you can view the file-tree, diff/interdiff and review comments, all in one page with this new 3-panel layout!

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OMG I thought Arthur was joking about what the terms would be but I just read it and he isn’t

I grew up during the cold war when the right claimed to support liberty, democracy, western alliances, the rule of law and free markets. It turns out that was all bullshit. What they really support is inequality, monopoly and unlimited power for the rich.

i called all 3 and told them ABSOLUTELY NOT. “that asshole executed renee good while filming with his iphone and leaked the footage. it’s a trophy. cameras do nothing.”

www.5calls.org makes it easy. tappable phone numbers.

literate world leaders are a thing