Preston Thomas

Curiophile and science communicator (sometimes professionally). Sailor, lockpicker. Boardmember of @TOOOL. IAAL/IANYL.

[Jim Manico from Manicode Security @manicode]

Brilliant talk from @coffeetocode on bonding security to developer productivity.

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Note that the Caselaw Access Project is not a PACER-killer, because it won't necessarily be updated, and definitely not in real time. But it's a huge step.

[lil (library innovation lab) @HarvardLIL]

Today we’re excited to launch the Caselaw Access Project (CAP) API and bulk data service, which puts the full corpus of published U.S. case law online for anyone to access for free at https://t.co/VMYgmv5zTJ. https://t.co/6ayaAqfH3q @hlslib @BKCHarvard @HarvardLibrary

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

This is amazing, and high time someone did it. It's not a full solution to making fully-text U.S. case law freely available to the public and professionals, but it is awesome.

[lil (library innovation lab) @HarvardLIL]

Today we’re excited to launch the Caselaw Access Project (CAP) API and bulk data service, which puts the full corpus of published U.S. case law online for anyone to access for free at https://t.co/VMYgmv5zTJ. https://t.co/6ayaAqfH3q @hlslib @BKCHarvard @HarvardLibrary

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

We now have even more friends up north! Welcome to @TOOOLOttawa, our newest @TOOOL Chapter. We're looking forward to great things from you!

[Patrick Thomas (@[email protected]) @coffeetocode]

How to get the best seat in the house for any fireworks show? Be the guys with the flares and nomex suits. Well worth the sweat and minor case of smoke inhalation. Happy 4th y'all.

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

The sages are on the stage, the chumps are waiting to be stumped: Tweet your burning lockpicking questions to @TOOOL #LettersFromLocksport

Philosophical, practical, esoteric, anecdotal...it's open mike and open season!

[TOOOL @toool]

Attention all lockpickers coming to (or watching the streams of) @hopeconf this weekend: Part of our Friday 8PM panel is going to be #LettersFromLocksport

We'll be answering questions not just from the audience, but also from Twitter.

Ask questions here, see answers there!

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

If you'll be teaching lockpicking at DEF CON, consider taking the mic on the Lockpick Village stage!
🗣️🎙️❤️
Whether you're a first time speaker or a seasoned pro, presenting new material or reprising favorite topics for a new audience, we want to hear from you! https://t.co/93wSLpn8xa

[TOOOL @toool]

TOOOL is happy to announce our #VillageCFP for @defcon 26: If you have an amazing LockSport talk to give or a workshop you're dying to run, tweet to us!

Hats already in the ring...
* Laws Around Lockpicking
* Challenge Locks
* Sesame Locks
* Handcuffs
* Master Key Escalation

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

@BLMGTN_FOOLS @toool I wish to hear more about this challenge... Please dear god tell me the input key was the bottom one. Please?

[John Gordon @indiecom]

"I was the keymaker," -- "make the keys and the plan will follow."

Hearing activist and political prisoner Tim Jenkin tell his story of escaping a maximum security prison in apartheid South Africa by fashioning keys for TEN doors has been the highlight of a fantastic #LockFest

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Networking to land a job is the weirdest blend of personal touch and robotic assembly line grind.

@coffeetocode nails the formula...

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Woot! Made it into the final round of the picking competition at #LockFest. Gonna get my clock cleaned, but at least I can look across the table at some real masters of the craft. https://t.co/eR51O3ppAc

[TOOOL @toool]

The competition is heating up at #LockFest with picking tonight! Who will be victorious?

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Yes, that's @KrystalMicrobio with a first author in Nature!!! Huge congratulations to her.

To everyone else, tell your friends: No only is urine not sterile, everything down there is connected in one biome that has big implications for female health. https://t.co/v33ds9JPen

[Krystal Thomas-White, PhD @KrystalMicrobio]

So proud to announce that my Nature Communications paper is posted online! https://t.co/Cv3F7QMS24

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Big ups to @enable_macros & @bmenrigh for the exquisitely designed Spymaster Escape Challenge!

In the grand tradition of @toool Gringo Warrior...but more blinkenlight (and more dignified).

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

The @tooolsf Lockpick Village is open for day 2 of @BSidesSF!

Come learn zen and the art of lockpicking.

🕉️OM --> OPEN!🔓

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Good morning @BSidesSF! The @tooolsf Lockpick Village is 🔓OPEN!🔓

Come learn the basics or pick up where you left off!

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

@tooolsf @exploratorium And after I characterized "Hollywood lockpicking" as stuff like "sticking a piece of chewing gum in the lock", Brett tactfully pointed me toward this video. https://t.co/yUXn5DZrlc

I guess I'll need a new humorous hyperbole...

[TOOOL SF @tooolsf]

Preston, speed teaching lockpicking @exploratorium After Dark for @tooolsf

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Those madmen and madwomen, they actually did it! So delighted by the initiative and sense of humor of @davidknauer @annmargar @nohackme and all the rest of the TOOOL DC crew.

(And oh yes, you better believe I recognize the bunny.) https://t.co/8348fJ83Z5

[TOOOL DC @TOOOL_DC]

Here's a refreshingly non-joke release today:

We made challenge coins!

Yes, we'll have them at the meeting this Wednesday!
Get your dose of shiny for just $15!

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Part of the fun of doing a @nerdniteSF talk is the anticipation of seeing which eclectic, funky musical pairings that sonic sommelier @djalphabravo comes up with for each talk. He did not disappoint!

(Though I lost a bet that Golden Earring, "Radar Love" would be on there.)

[Preston Thomas @PNTinDC]

Thanks for a great opportunity to share something I'm passionate about with a bunch of beautiful nerds--and make some great connections, too! https://t.co/omQCfjMDHN

[Nerd Nite SF @nerdniteSF]

Hey! Need a telecommunications slash legal specialist? @PNTinDC wants to become PNTinSF. Get in touch with him!