Truthfully - What?

Well staying away went well

The Dissolution

Let me try and put this in more manageable scale context. I once had someone with limited admin access in a small college network who went rogue. Escalating their own access and sending student data home, messing with logs to try and cover tracks

We closed it down, but they had to go

Unplanned god-like access to all of the data about federal employees, HR, management systems, payment and payment admin systems, network security systems

Locking people out of accounts using that access

Just as shocking as marching into a building and forcefully physically taking it over

Then Dad's ghost shows up (it was Dad's ghost that tipped Hamlet off to all the scheming)

Hamlet talking to the ghost doesn't do a lot to strengthen the case he's putting to his mother, but Dad says to go easy on her. She's not the villain in this picture.

Later we get to the quote

The son, Hamlet, is angry with his mother for not seeing it, while desperate to have her believe him

Hamlet, rightly paranoid, hears a sound from behind a curtain, assumes it is Claudius (the new husband), and stabs through the curtain. It is actually their family friend Polonius

What was happing in Act 3 Scene 4 of Hamlet?

A woman duped into marrying a man because she is powerless and vulnerable after her husband is murdered. She needed protection

The man she married is the one who murdered her husband (his brother) and is now plotting to murder her son

Trump names Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to key White House role For the director of the Office of Management and Budget, President-elect Trump named Russell Vought as his pick. Vought previously led that office for part of Trump’s first term. He is also a co-autho...

PBS source for that extract www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Far better informed folk than me will have more helpful views on this. Just tallies with the act first, ignore details, spin fallout, take naysayers and challengers to court MO of most parties involved.

When folk say they want government to work more like business and it's Twitter as blueprint...

This is fantastic Adam

I'm with you on this. So much of it is thrown together.

Filling in forms to book online I have warring factions in my head. The reason for doing it, hating the awful design, thinking about the data use, and putting things together to consider the quality of systems data will build.

Meme stocks are roaring again. Yes, again GameStop and other meme stocks are roaring once again, surging to dizzying heights suddenly and sharply.

*Memecoin, not memestock. Meme stocks are something different. This run down on what happened with GameStop involves similar dynamics. Acquire or create a big stake, build attention to get folk to bet on. Games of financial chicken. All gambling. apnews.com/article/meme...

Speaking of memestocks where folk who have the bulk of the coins can pump and dump to earn some capital.

Added fun when it's someone with power to control and / or gut related regulators and regulations bsky.app/profile/mmas...

Use is only allowed if you sing it exactly like Wicked's Popular

But did he stick the landing?

Have to admit I miss the feed full of ballons in the other place :-)

Saw that one, they nailed it didn't they. Cats, a lot like toddlers are FAFO machines with big people playing fielder :-)

This made me chuckle. Adore mine but not sure I'd roll back to Christmas prep with them about at that age again :-)

The counterpoint is that unscrupulous people who mislead about asset value, quality, safety, etc are meant to get their own market signals

Folk turning on them and bailing out. But too often it's the folk who mislead getting bailed out

Access to spare cash, legal teams, comms teams is very unequal

Regulation is meant to limit excessive harms that can result. Caveat Emptor (buyer beware) only goes so far

Free market mavens want to let folk make their own mistakes based on information available, or information they have inclination to find and check

Would like to say something devastatingly meaningful about what this tells us, but I've got nothing

Things with little to no inherent value have been sold based on perception of value forever, on and off more mainstream money markets

Hawk Tuah Girl Breaks Silence After Meme Coin Crash and Class Action Suit Haliey Welch, the influence better known as Hawk Tuah Girl, says she's cooperating with investors suing the crypto team who launched her meme coin.

The class action launched by folk who allege they were misled into losses is aimed at folk who built, launched and managed the coin offering. She is supporting the class action

A massive chunk of coins were sold when the price hit a high, tanking the value www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

A guard of honour - great photo

Probably :-)

Four pictures of sea urchins. One with a white Stetson, one with a black top hat, one with a white Viking helmet, and two others with black brimmed hats

I knew this rang a bell. Some more from an aquarium we visited in the summer. Love it :-)

I suspected so. Carey Lening, who I copied, has done a lot of deep diving into how content can be suppressed, masked, or otherwise removed from results for data protection erasure purposes, but this is altogether more complex

Very few folk have time or inclination to peel off marketing layers to grasp what lies under the big 'AI' umbrella

There are massive trade offs and ethical concerns to go with a more refined view of utility

Anyone near tech change has healthy skepticism about much of the last 2 years of GenAI positioning

Poised to 10x every staff member, sentience around the corner, will cure all global ills, barely a nod to gnarly integration challenges

Not sure that's captured here

Quick sorry to folk who kindly quoted something from me or replied to something lately. Just accidentally kicked off a post prune and flubbed the settings

I don't think anything will suffer for loss of them, but oops