erasmios

not big, not clever

[Karthik Sankaran @RajaKorman]

The world’s largest oil producer started a war that led to massive negative oil supply shock, sanewashed as a masterstroke against the world’s largest oil importer, but the political economy of the largest importer was less stressed by the war than that of the largest producer.

[erasmios @erasmios]

would love to see see a breakdown of this trade surplus by industry / sector

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

But at the end of the day it is just a crazy story -- a positive to exports is leading to a soaring trade surplus and domestic equity market ... and also massive foreign selling of said market and record currency weakness.

7/

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

But at the end of the day it is just a crazy story -- a positive to exports is leading to a soaring trade surplus and domestic equity market ... and also massive foreign selling of said market and record currency weakness.

7/

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

Who Owns Scotland?

Since September 2022, I have been building an online platform that enables you to find out who owns rural land in Scotland. It is the latest iteration of a project I started over 30 years ago in 1994. Today I am publishing the latest update (June 2026) which contains ownership information on 5025 landholdings covering 5.9 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77% of rural Scotland 1/3

[𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢’𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚕 @SalvadorDafti]

Curtis Mayfield - No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)

A dollop of butter-smooth soul teeming with gratitude and joy. While he’s saying no to drugs, he never lectures; he just reminds you there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

1972.

[Dino A. Dai Zovi @dinodaizovi]

In many ways, the cybersecurity field is still like fire safety in the 19th century. Think of competing firefighter brigades before FDNY existed and before building codes and fire protection engineering. We obsess about response because we don't really understand protection yet.

[Dino A. Dai Zovi @dinodaizovi]

Sometimes it confuses me how the security field today fails to remember why things like least privilege and privilege separation were built into qmail, postfix, and SSH long ago.

Then I remember that an astonishingly small percentage of the field today were around back then.

[Dino A. Dai Zovi @dinodaizovi]

What I mean is that the last ~15-20 years have been an era where exploits that affect roughly the entire Internet have been historically rare/hard. But in the mid to late 90's, remote and LPE exploits against big commercial Unixes dropped on BUGTRAQ every few weeks, early 2000's for Windows were that way also.

Situations like the above *caused* OpenBSD to exist, privsep to be implemented into those daemons, and custom hardening to be implemented at sites. It caused the Trustworthy Computing Initiative at Microsoft because the situation was so dire.

Today, a vocal and influential plurality of professionals in the field advocate "just patch faster" or "just rewrite the world in Rust" as security strategies, which are both oblivious to the architectural security engineering lessons from that era of planning for and containing security faults and failures. If increasingly powerful AI models are bringing us to another era where impactful exploits are common and easy, then I believe that those strategies aren't the right ones for vast majority of organizations to prioritize.

"Just patch faster" is oblivious to the latent vulnerabilities that are now significantly easier to exploit and it's a race that the attacker has an easier time winning than the defender. "Just rewrite in Rust" causes functionality and security logic bugs fixed decades ago to be reimplemented (see uutils/coreutils). Neither give the defender more leverage than architectural approaches, IMHO, for the simple reason that each additional security boundary requires the attacker to have another exploitable vulnerability, and the probability of them achieving their objectives is the arithmetic product of the probabilities of exploitable vulnerabilities existing in each security boundary along the minimum length attack path. Lengthening that path decreases the end-to-end probability the most and is in the control of both organizations that build and those that deploy systems.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

I've identified a gap in the fashion market: Modesty wear for the modern man 🤷🏽‍♀️
Below, you'll find a few items from my new menswear catalogue.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

I am amused that a critique of one political party is met by an assumption that you support another party. If only there were a party currently that didn’t disappoint me

[Steve Weis @sweis]

"Vulnerability Research Is Cooked" by @tqbf
https://t.co/c7vohQUXKP

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

It is very strange to publish an article on the gender dynamics of mass shooters and not mention that the two "female" shooters used as flagship examples here were biologically male. Males commit more than 90% of violent crimes.

[Ｓｕｅ Ｖｅｎｅｅr XX 💜🤍💚 @sueveneer]

I’m thinking of all the mothers of daughters murdered by men. No card or flowers today or any other day.

#MVAWG
#motheringsunday

[𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢’𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚕 @SalvadorDafti]

Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, two former ‘Wrecking Crew’ legends, reminiscing about past sessions, before gliding effortlessly into an exquisite You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.

In Session. 1983.

[Louise Quinn @ABCQuinn]

Nice reminder of this duet with Kid Loco ✨🇫🇷

If you didn’t catch Uisdean Murray’s incredible short film for it you can watch it here:

🔗 https://t.co/0Ke8HbJjQx

[erasmios @erasmios]

@Hoidy the whole Iheanacho thing is weird - easily our best CF if fit / available

[Paul @pault1888]

An absolute doing. Midfield completely overrun. Maeda a pointless inclusion in current mindset. Murray an accident waiting to happen that invariably does. The title was gone last week, years of neglect by this Board now biting hard and deep.

[Georgios Stepharas @chibchenko]

With every passing game against a team better than bottom six level, it becomes even more painfully obvious that Callum McGregor is absolutely finished

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

I know I keep saying it.

But it bears repeating:

THANK YOU #virginiagiuffre ❤️

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

That bastard came to Lockerbie after the disaster and in the wreckage as the bodies were still being found around the town, the ice rink a morgue, and charred luggage and clothes gathered in play parks, told the press "of course, it was much worse for the Americans. Fuck him.