Paul Crowley

@ciphergoth

Personal trivia, and the future of all humanity. I do cryptography for Android, but only very rarely is this account about that. I block for sarcasm. 🏳️‍🌈

Joined November 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 4

    Competition: help advance cryptology and make it faster to verify signatures on really big messages, win a $1000 prize paid out of my own pocket.

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  2. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    They need normies and, sufficiently deprived, will move to irony level 3 and become normies themselves.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    When POTUS walks into the room, all must stand, and wait until he sits before they can sit. That helps him not at all, but it feels great; everyone has to undergo a pointless inconvenience for him. So be wary of giving people easy ways to inflict visible pointless inconvenience.

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  4. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    when you see superbowl commercials saying "with our software, everyone can do their own taxes" you should be asking the question "why do we need to do our taxes"

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    12 hours ago

    yearly reminder that the only reason why things like turbotax are even relevant is because intuit and other tax prep companies lobby to prevent the government from just doing the work for you

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    I take no pleasure in reporting this

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  7. Retweeted
    12 hours ago
    Replying to and

    Taboos always create their own catch-22 because you can't decide whether or not you should taboo something without thinking about it, and we can't think about it if it's taboo. I really think the assumption should be that taboos are pretty much *always* harmful.

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  8. 12 hours ago

    I genuinely wish you all joy enjoying the sporting event if that's your thing - I just really like owls :)

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    14 hours ago

    How should we call “Gell-Mann amnesia, but for public services?” I.e. no entity provides you services that are anywhere as bad as the government — but I’m sure it’ll do great at X! “DMV-TSA amnesia?”

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    Next time someone asks me why I don't like Glenn Greenwald... (GG tweet is from 4 days ago btw)

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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    One of the most specific, weird talents I’ve seen on tiktok: perfectly emulating the nonsensical movement of video game characters

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    One of those apt juxtapositions that Twitter occasionally throws up.

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  14. 17 hours ago

    "Ethics: Our meta-analysis used only previously published data. All simulated scientists were humanely euthanized."

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  15. 19 hours ago

    Fuck me but this kind of comment is smug stupidity. Of course if coronavirus doesn't kill any more people, it will not have been a big deal. But Spanish Flu killed 50M and that possibility is why we're talking about it.

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    Maybe one of the greatest jpgs ever (h/t ).

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  17. 21 hours ago

    The worst news I've seen in a very long time.

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    Replying to

    I've long since forgotten the first person to tell me I was onto something, and will never ever forget the first person who sent me $1000 to pursue it.

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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    A lot of tweets about miss that 02 February 2020 is a palindrome in USA, UK and ISO formats; it is a palindrome day of the year (33) and there are a palindrome of days left in the year (333). This will never happen again. More details here:

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    Feb 1

    99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route!

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    Feb 1

    One of these days I’m gonna stop getting my life ruined by seismic societal shifts and then it’s over for y’all

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