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October 28, 2026

Icepick - Distributed Denial of Secrets

"This dataset is massive in terms of both size and impact. It provides an unprecedented look into the Department of Homeland Security's organizational structure, highlighting which people do what work across multiple DHS agencies, including ICE," said journalist and cyber security researcher maia arson crimew.

Massive database and deep body of information to pick through about one of our current fascist agencies in the USA.

Symeon the New Theologian: Queer desire in devotional poetry | Byzantium and Friends Podcast
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These passages are unusual enough that earlier editors and scholars were made uncomfortable about them. We discuss their devotional context but also the broader context of homoeroticism and homophobia in the monastic world of that time. The conversation is based on Derek's recent monograph, Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge University Press 2026).