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austinreid.bsky.social
Physics (assistant) professor at Tennessee Tech. Origami, magnets, neutrons. Davidson, NCSU (TUNL), PSL (ÉNS), IU (CEEM), Trinity College, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi… I collect higher ed ID cards like Pokémon (my IU one is a shiny) he/him 🌻
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The morning after the election, I had a panicked thought: “My threat model is wrong.” I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies. Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

I find “people don’t actually know how things work” has a lot of explanatory power. I don’t mean this in a holier-than-thou way. I’m only vaguely aware of how my microwave or the car radio work. A lot of modern life is assuming the functioning of complex tech and models.

submitted 34 days ago • 59 comments

Photo Umit Bektas. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

“I have to wonder what you are saying about your life if even you can’t be bothered to think about it…. To farm out this task, of all tasks, to a machine is deeply disheartening…. it’s a broader degradation of our memories and our humanity.” @tmcallister.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Man has long looked up at the stars and wondered: What would it feel like to die up there?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

This is tragic. Anyone who was familiar with 18F knows those were some of the real heroes of government, who helped make government tech/digital services better for the public. They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.

submitted 72 days ago • 53 comments