Mary Ellen Zurko

Second best stage direction ever.

Highly distributed systems need sign posts.

#handsoff Groton MA

Someone should put together a WWW luminary starter pack. Dame Wendy would surely be in it.

Makes me wonder how spies get paid.

I’m wondering if stagnant means declining

Weirdly still a gut punch for some of us around for the Challenger disaster.

Having been around at the time, this headline irked me too. I keep wanting to find an analogy of a very bad thing that was prevented instead of mitigated after the fact.

Good to know. What kind of audits are you talking about? I never worked in a compliance context.

Am totally a fan of more transparent and explicit reasoning, even when it’s lame (had to make a call, did it and moved on). Totally not a fan of people getting grief for doing the best job they can, which is found to be imperfect by couch coaches in the indefinite future.

I’m surprised that the majority of architectural decisions can be logically and explicitly articulated at the time they’re made. That is not my remembered experience.

This is great. I get opportunities in this space I can’t follow up on. Now I can point to this.

Nick Shelby’s perspective on law enforcement and cybersecurity made some similar points about the impact of tiered charging for cybersecurity. www.nationalacademies.org/event/43768_...

Good night blsky.

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I created a starter pack for researchers who work at the nexus of HCI & cybersecurity / privacy here.

Please do let me know if you would like to be added to the list!I'm sure I've missed many folks.

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I am making a Societal Computing starter pack for folks that (broadly) look at the impact of computer science on society. So far, mostly people affiliated with the eponymous program in the school of computer science at CMU, but pls respond to this thread if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/2avpExM

MIT “said in its announcement that 80% of American households meet the updated threshold”. Wow that’s cool.

Deactivated my X account. Posting was a source of joy when I was on the steering committee (and chair of) TheWebConf. Technology giveth, and technology taketh away.

I have three words for you. Weekly World News.

Not the same level (what could be) but American Utopia is worth the watch.

Sounds like my husband.

Flashback? I need to know that mittens is healthy and happy!

The Algorithm extends to actual user interaction choices themselves. Of course, but fascinating.

I’m confused about what he’s done to show skills since ‘95. Having been around since before then. Is he generally good as a trend spotter? If he spots a trend is it worth considering? Serious questions, since that would not be my skill area.

What the actual F. Validated with my fingers and my feed.