I am going to NYC later this month for an awards ceremony at the Cipriani since the AP package I contributed to won an Overseas Press Club of America award.

I'd like to meet people doing cool or interesting work in the cybersecurity/privacy/human rights/etc. space. Anyone I should connect with?

There was no good way to see what CT logs are actually used by CAs, so I made a dashboard of Censys data on exe.dev.

There are some interesting patterns, but the main one is that Let's Encrypt is the only CA that evenly spreads load. Other CAs are mostly using older logs, or their own logs and Google's.

(Of course, LE is 50% of issuance, and GTS is 25%, so the rest don't matter much.)

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/ct-policy/718571cb-a841-4102-bcfa-3fe3feab63ae%40app.fastmail.com

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ovid/116334866923361500

My earlier thread on 4,000 years of enshittification got some great responses. One question kept coming up: if the extraction pattern is deeper than capitalism, what is the root cause? I think I have the start of an answer, but it means annoying people across the political spectrum.

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Just one study but we have seen clear decreases in human attention spans, esp since 2012...

"Watching fragmented short videos rather than a single continuous video leads to poorer memory recall and alters how the brain retrieves information. A recent experiment revealed that fast-paced episodic media formats disrupt the neural systems responsible for integrating details and maintaining cognitive control." via PsyPost

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-short-videos-impair-memory-and-disrupt-neural-pathways/

#Science #Psychology #SocialMedia

My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking.

Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.