David Bahry

Evolutionary biology and biology of aging. 🇨🇦

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@SaybrookRam @IhabHassane I'll also note that the illegality affects the practicality.

Consider when Barak proposed to permanently steal 10% of the West Bank, but framed it as a generous "offer" to "give" Palestinians 90% of their West Bank. No progress can be made until the West stops backing such lies

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@SaybrookRam @IhabHassane The relevant answer is "not Israel's." Even Israel's own high court understands that the West Bank is occupied territory.

If you want to focus on other aspects, you can. But there's no practical benefit to jumping in here to falsely deny that the settlements are illegal.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@SaybrookRam @IhabHassane I agree that, on top of their illegality (also recognized as illegal by ICJ and UNSC etc), they're a major barrier to two-state.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@SaybrookRam @IhabHassane They are unambiguously criminal, as you know. Art 49 par 6 of the Fourth Geneva Convention did not stutter.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@IhabHassane They've since made it even worse, removing the word "illegal" entirely.

This attempt to conceal the fact that the settlements are illegal, period—a fact, not a mere opinion—is a severe violation of the Thomson Reuters trust principles, @Reuters.

[christine 🌿 @xtinemarx]

calvin’s dad would hate 2026 soooo much

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Good to see the Israel supreme court ordering Red Cross visits to the 9,000-plus Palestinians held as security prisoners. If Netanyahu thinks that reports of rape of prisoners are false, he should welcome investigation and exoneration by the RedCross. https://t.co/LsrmomsR73

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

Is that why DOJ is flailing, pretending that paying spies to spy on neo-nazis = funding neo-nazism

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@preta_6 Plenty of trans women *do* still have them. You want us to lie and pretend they don't?

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@spergpartytime The mom is free to stop lying that she "lost" anyone, whenever she likes.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@colorblindk1d Are you gullible or just a nazi?

[Duchess of Darksaber Light @DarksaberLight]

Bookmarking this because … this kinda shifted my perspective of everything??

[sai @icemjjfish]

the way it’s not even tiktok that caused this but this fuckass bird animation 😭

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Little duckling drinking water on a lotus leaf

[𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓏𝓏𝓎𝓁𝒾𝓉 @drizzylitfw]

please keep my cat in your thoughts tonight. she's not sick or anything. she just needs everyone's attention at all times including at night.

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every annoying password rule you follow, the capital letter, the number, the symbol, changing it every few months, came from one man at a US government office in 2003. He was mostly guessing. Years later, he went public and apologized to all of us.

The password is older than that rule, and it was a mess from day one. It was born at MIT in 1961, when a scientist named Fernando Corbató built one of the first computers many people could share at once. Since everyone shared that one machine, he needed to keep each person's files separate. His fix was the password. He never meant it as serious security, just to stop casual snooping.

It didn't even do that much. Every password sat in one plain file anyone with access could read. In the spring of 1962, an MIT student named Allan Scherr hit his four-hour-a-week limit and wanted more. One Friday night he asked the system to print that file, then grabbed the whole list Saturday morning. He logged in as other people and passed the list around to friends. The password was about a year old, and it was already broken.

The man behind the rules you hate was Bill Burr, and in 2003 he wrote an eight page guide on building a password. He told everyone to add a capital letter, a number, and a symbol, and to switch to a new one every 90 days. Banks, schools, and offices copied it word for word. That is why your login still wants a symbol and a number you can't recall. He had almost no proof any of it worked. He leaned on a paper from the 1980s, before the internet existed, when almost no one had studied what made a password safe.

In 2017, he came clean. He told the Wall Street Journal, "Much of what I did I now regret." Forcing a new password every few months just taught the lazy move, bumping Rosebud1 to Rosebud2 to Rosebud3, which a computer cracks in seconds. So the same office threw the rules out. The new advice is to skip the symbols and forced changes and use a long, plain phrase. A cartoonist named Randall Munroe ran the numbers. A phrase like "correct horse battery staple" would take a computer about 550 years to crack, while a rules-style password like "Tr0ub4dor&3" falls in three days.

People have leaned on spoken passwords for roughly 3,000 years. Roman soldiers had a code word for the night guard, and during Prohibition you needed the right phrase to get into the bar. But there was only ever one of them, just for that night. The same brain that once held a single code word now has to track 120 of them, each with a capital and a symbol, half guarding accounts you forgot you ever made. So no, the human spirit was not built for this. One man's shaky guess in 2003 just made it hurt a whole lot more.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@RockChartrand Sounds like you entirely missed the point of the poem.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@sebastianjunger This "some say" shit is deliberately dishonest. Shame on you. It wasn't "uncomfortably close" to a totenkopf, it was a totenkopf.

[David Bahry @DavidBahry]

@xenocryptsite There's a surreal emotion one sometimes gets in some spaces. Often it involves something feeling out of step, like an abandoned mall (which was built to be bustling)

Possibly it includes the uneasy-equivalent-of-nostalgia