Today I explained a potential audience for a tech policy talk to someone as "The Establishmen" and I stand by my typo.

Story time: This weekend, someone thought they could harass or hurt me by adding my Wikipedia page to the "Transgender Women Writers" category. You can see that here:

Tarah Wheeler: Revision history - Wikipedia

But there's an interesting issue here. You can see that immediately upon a change like this to a Biography of a Living Person page, Wikipedia automatically appends a tag cautioning that being added to a “trans” category might be “vandalism.” How fascinating that the act of adding someone to a category about being transgender is so problematic that it requires an automated vandalism tag. Now, I don't think you can *accuse* someone of being something that it's not wrong to be. Wikipedia has an accuracy problem, for sure. I don't actually happen to be trans, but I strongly object to the idea that being labeled as trans is something of which to be ashamed, or which must be concealed. I'm a lot of things. I'm an international hacking champion, a cybersecurity expert, a polyglot, a tanguera, a best-selling author, a well-paid keynote speaker, a public company executive, a foreign policy expert, a WSOP-cashing poker player, a cyberwar scholar, an essayist, a martial artist, a board of director member, an audiobook performer, and a lot of other things that tell you that I’m a congenital overachiever. Two nights ago a woman at a bar hit on me by saying I had a cut-glass jawline, which I found extremely flattering. So, I'm just. flat. better. than lackluster men online trying to shame me by "accusing" me of something that isn’t wrong. Plus I wear a fedora with superior style. In related news, feel free to edit women’s Wikipedia pages to add things they have actually done, instead of letting these incels make women’s public personae solely about their own threatened egos.

I protest.

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Gentlemen, I appreciate that courtesy isn't dead, and modesty won't forbid me from acknowledging that I look like a total smokeshow today but I beg you to cease holding doors open for me into secured facilities.

"what's their email address?" IDK "what's their phone number?" IDK "what's their last name?" I don't even know their first name "I thought you said this was a good friend. What *do* you know?" I have their Signal handle, their hacker name, and a raft of questionable collaborative activities. #BFF

Paste your favorite one liner that also says something about you as a person: for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -ab 320k "${f%.flac}.mp3"; done

Was doomscrolling and husband says “name some Wayne Enterprises executive who isn’t Lucius Fox and is also kind of sleazy” and I instantly perked up and said “William Earle, at least until the stock buyback” and then realized I’d been nerdsniped. Excellent husbanding, top marks, ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Dark have been my memes of late.

Absolutely chuffed to hear that I'll be presenting at @npub1j3q7...nnx8 with my good friend Dr. Jon Martin @npub1wchl...spkp. He's the digital archivist for the University of Cambridge. We'll be talking about the creation of digital monasteries to preserve knowledge in this age of #enshittification. Knowledge exists, but it's retreating behind bullshit paywalls, subscriptions, and segmenting into "content" based on its format, instead of being freely circulated online. Jon and I will talk about the history of this new Digital Dark Age, organizations doing good work, and some TTPs to join the good fight! Thrilled to see @Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @Wendy Nather keynoting, and folk like @npub14ta6...8a7c @npub1ly02...d6he there as well!

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Slack channels can be 80 characters and "these-trivialities-demean-me-i-must-away-and-tend-to-my-ravens" is only 62 characters. Do with this knowledge what ye will.