Ariel Segall

Geek. Gamer, mostly LARPs. Chocolatier. Crafter. Writer. Computer security engineer. they/she/he. Opinions my own.

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

Hello, new followers! I'm more likely to tweet about chocolate or politics than infosec, if that's your cup of tea. But I did write a book.

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

@AO3_Status Y’all are wonderful! your hard work is super appreciated & it’s clearly been a day from hell! I would love a general sense of cloudflare costs so donations to cover it can scale properly.

For debugging: some specific fics and authors still time out, even when the rest work fine

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

Someday I’ll have the spoons to figure out which non-Twitter platform to move to to follow my lovely organically-grown collection of interesting people.

Meanwhile I’m going to laugh at the ‘snowflake’-mockers being offended by cis. Is heterosexual also an insult now?

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

In honor of #Juneteenth here is a paper talisman written by enslaved African Muslims in early America.

These paper talismans were used for protection and to organize resistance. They also highlight the high levels of literacy.

[Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson]

I tend to take claims like these with a grain of salt.

But I just went line-by-line through the DeSantis education bill. And you guys, it’s *bananas*. A road map for wrecking one of our great state systems of higher education. 🧵 1/

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

*falls over laughing in As You Like It*

[Dr. CathyCab @CathyCathycab]

This thread is amazing and infuriating. Fair warning -it's all I'm going to be talking about for a while

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep.

"Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries"

An early sketch:

[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

I don’t even. This is incredible.

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

@coralinetheblue Those are stunning!!

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

@XiranJayZhao You get paid twice?? My (pitiful and thankfully irrelevant to my finances) royalties are once-a-year events.

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

Highly thought-provoking essay, regardless of position; while officially about prison abolition, it asks a whole lot of questions that don’t come up much about our unconscious assumptions around crime, incarceration, and the justice system. Answers left to the reader.

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

For skeptics (and the already-converted too), I highly recommend Thomas Ward Frampton’s recent essay in the Harvard Law Review (https://t.co/5OZdh4gZnE), which follows on Dorothy Roberts’ remarkable work also in HLR on “abolition constitutionalism (https://t.co/351YkpqcJw) 19/

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

@EversourceMA just wanted to say that all of your people I interacted with during this weekend’s Waltham crisis were kind, helpful, and doing a very good job in terrible circumstances. I’d love to know what happened, but please give your folks a proper appreciation.

[Dana Schwartz - on hiatus @DanaSchwartzzz]

Why is anyone wasting their breath arguing that a "mermaid shouldn't be black" when instead you could be talking about the time Hans Christian Andersen showed up as a guest at Charles Dickens's house and absolutely ruined his life for a month straight

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

There are *massive* issues of wealth inequality and affordability on Martha’s Vineyard, and I wish less political weighted immigrants got the same help. But I’m still proud of the MA residents and deeply embarrassed on behalf of the USA.

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

Hilarious internet mischief or newbie-friendly introduction to real information security problems? Yes. Yes it is. (The whole thread’s good, this was the best thumbnail imo.)

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Best one yet https://t.co/HFULxbMG0X

[Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins]

I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives.

The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science.

IT IS AN OUTRAGE.

If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention.

Let me explain. 🧵/x

[Ariel Segall @asegall]

…I can’t help but think that whoever suggested *Charles* as the name for an heir to the *British* throne was secretly anti-monarchist. And I rather expect him to live up to the name. Hopefully with less civil war and more redistribution of royal wealth.