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Had this conversation recently with my Dad, had to remind him they live in a low crime area and if his concern is the government he wasn't going to win that confrontation. He still bought a couple tho 🤷

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community

go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

He'll probably go with the Russian "special military operation"

Over time the regular hands on work has shifted to others and the role has become more of an architect role with emphasis on governance, advising on other people's hands on work, policy, improving processes, etc. There is still the occasional hands on project but much less.

I think it depends on the role but it can also change over time. I've got Sr colleagues who are and have always been very hands on day to day within the IR, SOC, VM, and IAM spaces. My Sr AppSec role started out hands on with pen tests, implementing and maintaining tools, etc.

Agreed, he could easily pay for or raise this himself there was no need to give him our tax dollars. Those dollars would have been better spent on many much smaller creators.

BREAKING: Kirk has died President Trump announces.

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

The config on this SSO is security theatre, especially if applied to all users.

I have similar requirements for admin access but constant reauth is ridiculous for anything that is not ultra sensitive.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights

JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you

Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

If anyone genuinely believed this ridiculous "the brain isn't fully formed until 25; you shouldn't make irreversible life-changing choices til then" grift, they'd be insisting that people shouldn't be able to join the army, get married, have kids, etc until then either.

But look: they don't.

A series I really love that may not get finished due to the author's passing is A Pattern of Shadow & Light. Even if it is never finished it is still tied as my favorite fantasy series with WoT (which I think Sanderson did a good job finishing). A series doesn't have to be complete to be good.

Whether GRRM does or does not finish GoT doesn't matter to me. If he releases the next one I'll reread the whole series but if not then I can appreciate it for what it was when I read it the first time. I don't know why "fans" continue to harass him about it, there are other books to read move on.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

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Addressing your grievances against the government by suing it as a class or individual is just being priced out of having rights, which is frankly the most American version of fascism I can imagine.

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Same here, didn't see them but could hear them for 5-10 minutes.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

The idea of education as effectively a preparation for industry, as providing us with the minimum required skills needed to be good, obedient workers, seems to have won.

Naturally, because the existence of a citizenry that can question, iterate, and investigate is antithetical to power.

By end of most days there is a coffee cup, soda can, and glass of water. Sometimes a tea cup, pot, or mug too.

Graphic showing two Truth Social posts from Donald Trump, with the first (dated January 29, 2024) boasting about economic success and claiming “THIS IS TRUMP’S STOCK MARKET, and the second (dated April 30, 2025) contradictorily claiming “This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s” after this morning’s GDP Q1 report shows the economy has contracted under Trump so far.

The Trump Playbook:
 
Take credit for the strong economy he inherited.
Crash that economy with needless tariffs.
Blame others for the mess he made.
Repeat.

Markets are experiencing Stockholm Syndrome right now but at some point the real world will have to reckon with the fact that 10% universal tariffs plus 125% tariffs on China (and maybe the EU?) and sector tariffs on steel, aluminum, lumber, and pharmaceuticals are still a huge problem

US politics right now is like that episode of Oprah where she gave away all the cars, but instead she kept giving cars and taking cars away and setting cars on fire and making people beg for cars and also didn't understand what cars actually were

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

I've been saying for some time that nobody should assume that the 2026 US midterm elections or 2028 presidential election will be free and fair. This case from North Carolina proves the point – Republican judges changing the rules of an election 150 days *after* it was held.

Screenshot of the cover page of Griffin v Board of Elections. Text reads: "IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA25-181 Filed 4 April 2025 Wake County, Nos. 24CV40619-910, 24CV040620-910, 24CV40622-910 JEFFERSON GRIFFIN, Petitioner, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Respondent, and ALLISON RIGGS, Intervenor-Respondent. Appeal by petitioner from orders entered 7 February 2025 by Judge William R. Pittman in Wake County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 March 2025."

Excerpt from the panel majority opinion in Griffin v. Board of Elections. Text reads: "Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards to expeditiously identify the military and overseas voters challenged under this protest and notify said voters of their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement or equivalent, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the notice to cure the defect, and upon verification, to include in the count of this challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters who fail to timely cure their deficiencies. Finally, as to the "Never Residents" voters, we conclude these purported voters are not eligible to vote in North Carolina, non-federal elections, and the votes cast by these purported voters are not to be included in the final count in the 2024 election for Seat 6. The Superior Court's order in 24CV040619-910, affirming the Board's dismissal of Griffin's protest as to these purported voters is reversed with instructions to remand the matter to the Board to direct the county boards to identify the votes from "Never Residents" and remove them from the final count of the 2024 election for Supreme Court Seat 6. The Clerk of this Court is ordered to issue this Court's mandate on Monday, 7 April 2025 at 5 P.M. It is so ordered. REVERSED AND REMANDED. Panel consisting of: Judges TYSON, HAMPSON, and GORE. Judge Hampson dissents by separate opinion."

BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem

appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...

Yoon is impeached.

In K my teacher confused me with another kid causing trouble and I ended up getting their spanking. I or my parents got an apology for the mixup later.