Six quick links for Monday evening

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People. 1982! I was 10 and Grace Hopper was more insightful about information technology in general than most people today. Smart, funny, and can talk coherently for hours without notes. Part one (of two).

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes. Someone made a website game with a million checkboxes open to the public to check on and off, prompting others to secretly encode easter eggs from simple messages to images, GIFs, and more.

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection. Look, we’re all going to end up on the wrong end of some security or privacy mistake at some point in our careers–sometimes more than once–but this is seriously amateur hour stuff (via Jon Eaves).

Misogyny Makes You Stupid. Misogyny leads people down a path of increasingly irrational and extreme beliefs, making them detached from reality. We all need to question our biases and the structural forces that produce them to avoid the trap of misogyny-fueled stupidity. As Brooke says: “You don’t want to be stupid, right? Question that shit.”

Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder. This stuff blows my mind. I can’t even begin to think in a way that would conceive of asking the right question, let alone discovering the answer.

Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse. I absolutely love the idea that humans are susceptible to a kind of (mental) model collapse, analogous to the way large language models are (via Baldur Bjarnason).