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I was trying to buy Athletic Club de Bilbao tickets to go with my parents, and there were only individual seats available (maybe at super high price point was different), so I checked Viagogo and was going to buy 3 seats together there.
The fees per ticket were €41! For reference, the tickets were €80 face value. Instead, we will all sit separately. The fees buying directly were less than 10% as high.
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one solution to the overpopulation of problematic birds around the airport is buying Schiphol Geese at the grocery store. it's locally sourced with only a hint of kerosene!
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Birds migrate nearly from pole to pole on this planet and with them they carry the seeds of many plants. If the seeds are stuck to the outside of the bird it’s called “epizoochory” if they are inside of the bird it’s “endozoochory”- if you map the regions of distribution you can see matching patches in the northern and southern hemisphere where climates are similar— vertically aligned with the paths of migration. (I learned this from CPBD!)
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I wonder if there are plants & little creatures that cluster around human airports? Maybe bacteria & mites are more likely— not the successful invasives who ride on planes & in shipping containers then spread everywhere on arrival— but a more fragile community of well-travelled living things transported by human zoochory? Human zoochory is written in our favorite crops, our least favorite pests. We view it as a crisis because we never think about it until up to our ears in kudzu & crazy ants.
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invasive "Tree of Heaven", (Ailanthus altissima) grows along railway lines and clusters at abandoned lots. : ) It's loved by several invasive insects, most notably spotted lanternfly.
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house spiders are an example iirc, their habitat (absent humans) is caves, but we were nice enough to build caves for them all over the place
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one solution to the overpopulation of problematic birds around the airport is buying Schiphol Geese at the grocery store. it's locally sourced with only a hint of kerosene!
Reminds me of the #strategygame #PlagueInc. To win, you have to create a pandemic that kills everyone.
A good strategy in the game is to make the virus asymptomatic and airborne. You can see it spread to all countries from their airports.
around Kyiv airport, there were lots of hares. Apparently, they couldn’t care less about the planes, while the birds of prey stayed away from that area
Idk if this counts, there was a fatal malaria case, when two elderly victims were infected by Anopheles mosquitoes in the Brussels (IIRC) airport.
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In Puerto Rico; the San Juan airport staff have to keep working to keep invasive fruit flies from hitching along in produce.
I also learned a few years ago that the eggs of many fish also stick to waterfowl, allowing them to spread even without a direct connection between bodies of water!
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The chequered skipper butterfly has been brought back to England, following 40 years of extinction. The 5-year project by wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation used a donor population from Belgium to boost numbers in Rockingham Forest in Northamptonshire, and they’re now expanding their range, which is good news for the UK’s butterfly biodiversity.
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This is kind of scary.
I uploaded my profile pic to
This is a site, setup by a former Google employee to show you, how Google would interpret a picture of you.
The result is not 100 % accurate (e.g. that I could be targeted with alcohol ads, but I hardly ever drink), but found the exact location and enough to be worried if they analysed a set of, say, a dozen photos.
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According to this thing I'm Polish. None of the products it thinks I'd be interested in, interest me.
My results were wildly inaccurate. But, that's also annoying in a way. And it decided for two very different photos I was "lonely" and "religious" which I'm not, in fact I'm the opposite of those things.
It also thinks I'm broke but I just think it's racist basically.
To be fair Facebook is better at serving targeted ads at me. It keeps showing me little gadgets made from titanium and early adopter gadgets of questionable utility. But, that is the kind of junk that I find tempting (last time I was there it was all skin products and makeup) So, somehow they know I like expensive little gadgets. "Better" in the sense that the products are "interesting" Still a waste of time and nothing I need.
And I like to buy gadgets from people I know best.
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I think I will leave Facebook after next weekend's #monsterdon give the few people over there one more chance to jump over here and have some fun. The creepy AI images are starting to look normal to me. I don't want to stay immersed in it anymore even though I'll miss some of the people there.
I will just try texting and emailing them instead. Happily I've discovered that the people I know don't post often there. So I'm not missing much.
I recently have rediscovered the joy of handwriting letters.
I even bought a lovely fountain pen for that.
part of what made me decide to delete Facebook years ago is I realized that I wasn’t actually talking or texting with my friends as much because when we would talk it was a lot of “so this is what I’ve been up to” then “oh yeah I saw you post about that cool”.
I mean obviously with my really close friends there’s lots of laughing and gossiping and deeper discussions about whatever would have been on Facebook, but there’s no point in reaching out to tell someone something if they saw it on Facebook already, so there was less real contact with my friends, which was sad.
The only hard part was that I had to put people’s birthday in my actual calendar again and remember to pay attention to that because I don’t have Facebook reminding me anymore.
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I think a very important point here is that the site in the original message is not using Google ads platform to infer any factual data. Instead, it uses multi-modal GenAI to confabulate a statement. No doubt it will be used to "enrich" the data, but Google knows where most people live with incredible precision, because we told them. As well as many other things.
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The image presents a solitary Seagull perched atop a structure, seemingly a rooftop, overlooking a coastal city near Marseille, France. The cityscape fades into the horizon, where the sea meets the sky under a pale, even light. The bird stands in the foreground, its gaze direct and unwavering, drawing the viewer into its silent domain.
We should all hold up signs telling them to F off...
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"The subject [...] displays an unsettling calm. Attire is nonexistent. Good hobbies include lurking, trapping, and observing while the bad ones include spinning webs, biting and hiding. The entity seems unburdened by emotion, detached from any conceivable political affiliation."
Ads: "Insect documentaries by National Geographic, advanced web spinning equipment by Acme Corp, extermination services by PestBusters, arachnid fashion by SpideyThreads, poetry about spiders by Poemify..."
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ok targeted advertisements for spiders is hilarious i'm putting a spider pfp everywhere from now on
OK.This is kind of scary.
I uploaded my profile pic to
This is a site, setup by a former Google employee to show you, how Google would interpret a picture of you.
The result is not 100 % accurate (e.g. that I could be targeted with alcohol ads, but I hardly ever drink), but found the exact location and enough to be worried if they analysed a set of, say, a dozen photos.
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@Stellar I wonder how the spider would feel about ads for extermination services...
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i uploaded a old pic of me and it was dead accurate on every point...
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I tried it that way... 😁
When I upload pictures of myself, it "thinks" I'm a woman. Well, that happens to me IRL quite often, even though I'm just an AMAB gender outlaw with long hair and a slightly androgynous face. I think the system hasn't been trained on many non-binary people yet.
Tried a picture of an ice-swimning hole in my home town.
It correctly identified the location and the activity, but not the content.
Living behind the wolf-border continues to be advantageous to some degree.. 🙂
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I have noticed it is laughably bad at deciding location. Only picture it got location right is one I took of stalled traffic with the Arch literally in background.
It kept calling me agnostic, which I am, and I don’t know how it determined that.
it kept using neutral terms for me, so apparently it couldn’t determine gender.
In my case, it recommended targeting me with gender-affirming products and services.
it really said they'd target me with "transgender clothing (unclockable)"
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When biologists say an animal is "basal" does this mean:
* the animal has more traits found in extinct animals than its close relations
* the animal is taxonomically isolated on a branch with few leaves
* because the animal is taxonomically isolated, it may have traits of extinct ancestors of a clade lost in most other clade members
I've seen it used in all of these ways. Is the isolation key? Or is it being similar to the ancestor that matters more?
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I assumed it referred to species that was unusually closed to the common ancestor.
I use “basal” for some plesiosaurs not others, but all plesiosaurs are extinct, so extinction isn’t a factor (for me). I think your definition 2 matches my usage the closest. Essentially, I use “basal”as an antonym for “derived” in a given phylogenetic context i.e. animals which lack specific derived characters. But then we have to define “derived”!
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I use basal to refer to the cool ones.
@nev 'based' is slang for children, we use 'basal' in formal professional settings where technical accuracy is important.
1/2 I'm not a biologist, but
when I hear "basal", I imagine a family tree of the group including the basal group, and imagine the "basal" to branch off near the base of the group in which it is contained.
so, for example, if someone says "Eodromaeus was a basal theropod" I imagine a tree something like this:
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and you can see in that tree Eodromaeus branches off near the base. Pigeons, on the other hand, are a highly derived group of theropods.
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my understanding is that, in cladistics, basal refers to the more "primitive" or ancient species or trait, i.e., closer to the origin. Basal here being the more accurate term than primitive because primitive has connotations of "less good" or "un-evolved". There are plenty of modern species that are more basal than others but do just fine, because those traits meet their needs for survival. Less basal species are often -but not always- more specialized.
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I use the term to mean "branched off the cladogram father 'down,'" essentially meaning "fewer steps (nodes) between it and the common ancestor than things farther 'up' the cladogram." This would translate to "having fewer of the apomorphies seen in taxa farther 'up' the cladogram," which I guess could be read as "more anatomically (and, presumably, genetically) similar to the common ancestor than are taxa farther 'up' the cladogram." It's certainly a loosey-goosey definition & usage!
@astory evolution occurs in two steps. Genetic drift, and natural selection. When the gen pool contacts it may center on the same position again, assuming a local maximum has been found. The gen pool will only centre around a new position if their exist a better fit for the environment.
Of course the world is more complicated then the models I base the above assertion on.
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Earlier today, China’s counter-tariffs went live, adding 10% to 15% levies on US exports of natural gas, oil, and coal, as well as some automotive parts and farm equipment headed for China. President Trump described the tariffs that went into effect against China on February 4 as an “opening salvo,” and experts are monitoring the situation to see if the trade war between the two countries will escalate or if the fight will be called off after further negotiations.
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Can you imagine the alarm bells they’d be sounding on conservative media if the FBI had released an anonymous warning letter about Kamala?
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A road will close to allow thousands of amphibians safe passage to their breeding grounds. Charlcombe Lane, near Bath, will be closed for 6 weeks until 25 March as the Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group helps toads, frogs, and newts reach their ancestral breeding lake. Each night at dusk, volunteers in high-visibility jackets will patrol the half-mile stretch of road, equipped with torches and buckets. To safely escort over 3,000 amphibians across the busy road.
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Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result
As an erratic president imposes his international doctrine, countries are forging more stable alliances. His US will be weaker, not stronger, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
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His chaos is our opportunity to “steer” things toward a desirable new future. We have to all accept that we aren’t going back to what was and the only path is forward.
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I don't know what's going on with America. I swear, if you look at the rest of the world you'll see I didn't make humans this dumb.
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Yes you did. I give you human history.
Yes, you did. Look what ended up in the Dutch Administration. Shame on you!
but you did somehow allow for the idiots to be the most influential
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America is built and owned by Satan
Tell that to Adam and Eve as they're driven from paradise!
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How about "Trump finds new way to do his favorite old thing--stiff creditors."
Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real
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Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real
I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump said on a plane and we won’t hear about it again. But after recents, who are we kidding?Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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so he’s trying to destroy confidence in our money? #republicans you are responsible for this
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The NYTimes will cover it as if it's real. They will look for quotes from some people that will say some TBills aren't real. And then, we'll be off and running.
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I thought Feb 9 was International US Laughingstock Day!
*In his own mind.
Trump recognized Feb. 9 as first ever ‘Gulf of America Day’*
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Fuck trump. In fact, fuck, fuck trump.
trump laughingstock day feb 20!
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I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.
Humor me?
From the time I was seven years old, I have wanted to be a scientist. The wonders of the universe, the delights of biodiversity, the cryptic secrets of number theory — I fell in love with these worlds and marveled that there was a role in our society for people who worked to uncover and share them.
Science, I realized, gave us superpowers. We evolved sensory capabilities consistent with our physical scale and temporal experience. But with science, we can understand what happened in the femtoseconds after the Big Bang, the molecular basis of inheritance, time dilation at the edge of a black hole, a 4 billion-year story of life on earth.
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When I was in graduate school, nothing in the world felt more important to me than publishing a paper in the scientific literature. It was not about getting a job or competing with my peers. It was about being part of something vastly larger than myself and profoundly meaningful human history.
I still remember the feeling of peace I felt when I made it happen. Even if I never achieved my dreams of being a research scientist, I had been able to contribute, in however tiny a way, to a community stretching over countless generations and striving toward a common and profoundly meaningful aim.
Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
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I think Clarke got it wrong and was being far too pessimistic.
There is no magic; just science we don't know about yet. Even if we're confronted with something totally unexplained in present terms, the idea that it will *eventually* be explainable is an important difference in attitude.
@wrog I think that's basically exactly what he said – just because we know, eg., down to the molecular level, how a plant sapling pulls materials for a tree out of thin air, it doesn't stop being magical
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If that's all he meant then he phrased it quite badly and it's certainly *not* the way most people have interpreted this quote over the years.
Remember, this is coming from the author of _Rendezvous With Rama_, _2001_, and _Childhood's End_, ... stories where god-like intelligence appears out of the blue and produces completely incomprehensible artifacts to which the only proper response is "give up now, you will never understand this in a million years,"
It's a sufficiently consistent theme throughout his work that when he says "magic", I'm pretty sure he *did* mean it in the sense of casting spells + invoking the gods + praying they're in a good mood.
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@wrog imho that's just two sides of the same coin – I'm a software developer; my job is literally to write spells that people can cast to make their electronic golems do what they want them to.
Try explaining someone from the time of the industrial revolution how your hand rectangle understands your words and can conjure up a large part of human knowledge on a whim
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Try explaining someone from the time of the industrial revolution how your hand rectangle understands your words and can conjure up a large part of human knowledge on a whim
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@vrandecic Thank you. And my intended final paragraph was omitted. I've fixed that now!
nah man, this ain't it... i was there too, following the same path, but it's not all it's made out to be... the Academy has failed in its most basic endeavors, and has never had to pay any atonement. science has lost its narrative: it was never meant to represent truth. Academic institutions have become clogged with failed traditions. the departmental structures and their respective fields of study are outdated. this is not a good way to reform it, but neither should we excuse it.
This is beautiful: “When I was in graduate school, nothing in the world felt more important to me than publishing a paper in the scientific literature. It was not about getting a job or competing with my peers. It was about being part of something vastly larger than myself and profoundly meaningful human history.”
I loved the way science made me feel like part of something bigger, something better than myself.
Listen it sucks for sure, but the crap that Republicans are doing like curtailing the CFPB, free online tax filing, ending government funded research and foreign aid etc. etc. are most likely just the medicine the American electorate needs in order to stop fucking up our elections
Civilization. The underpinnings and the achievements of civilization.
I recognise this feeling, it's like breathing.
Breathe in - read the papers, learn from them;
Breathe out - write one, contribute to the collective oeuvre;
And then someone else will read your paper, for *their* contribution.
The feeling of connection to other scientists, on a timeline that stretches out in both directions, is so powerful.
@CelloMomOnCars I like that simile a lot.
I personally had similar thoughts few years ago:
1. When I noticed “Defund STEM” protests (following the “Defund Polis” protests) - tolerated and even encourage by Biden’s administration
2. When I noticed that in my classes at the university there are significantly more STEM students from the Global South and almost none from Europe.
3. When the number of admin staff exceeded the number of researchers (in places like MIT, Heidelberg, Cambridge, …)
Sigh. Welcome to the Dark Ages 2.0.
Science is the enemy of the church. They want you illiterate and ignorant. Your local priest can instruct you on everything you need to know
they are attacking so many forms of learning and exchange of information.
As a kid, I remember four main occupations that interested me most: writer (journalist or author), marine biologist, architect and I wanted to be President. Later that clarified into wanting to be a diplomat or journalist (ideally political/foreign correspondent).
As a kid, I remember four main occupations that interested me most: writer (journalist or author), marine biologist, architect and I wanted to be President. Later that clarified into wanting to be a diplomat or journalist (ideally political/foreign correspondent).
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funny anecdote, both my younger sister and I wanted to be President when I was 7 or 8 (she’s 2 1/2 years younger), and I was actually concerned about who my parents would vote for 🤣
Much later, when I read Cheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, I was astonished to learn that it was much more common for boys to want to be President and only a tiny % of young girls said this (according to a study cited).
They are doing so much to destroy education and learning and access for all.
Much later, when I read Cheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, I was astonished to learn that it was much more common for boys to want to be President and only a tiny % of young girls said this (according to a study cited).
They are doing so much to destroy education and learning and access for all.
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“These elements of trust are part of the invisible bedrock of U.S. foreign policy. Allies in particular will be reluctant to share sensitive intelligence information if they fear that individuals with no government experience and who have not been vetted through typical security protocols will gain access to that intelligence. Musk and his team have found their way to the most closely guarded private federal data, and they will make the United States an object of mistrust to those who interact with the invisible machinery of U.S. national security.”
Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk? Uncertainty About Access and Authority Will Worry Allies and Tempt Adversaries
Uncertainty about access and authority will worry allies and tempt adversaries.James Goldgeier and Elizabeth N. Saunders (Foreign Affairs Magazine)
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I disagree with only one tiny part of this: not “they will make” but rather “they have made”.
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The best way to get cheap Insurance is to bundle your life, home and car insurance together. That's why I live in my car.
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Así nos llegaban anoche a @CarlosGS y a mi las ondas del terremoto de magnitud 7.6 ocurrido frente a las costas de Honduras.
Apenas necesitaron 11 minutos para llegar desde allí hasta la península ibérica.
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A proposal to tax scholarships?!?
Coupled with the attacks on education, they’re really leaning hard into only the rich being able to get a good education.
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House Republicans mull taxes on scholarships and changes to student loan programs
As Republicans in Congress look for ways to slash spending, some legislators are floating new taxes on college scholarships, an end to student loan repayment plans and a big hike in taxes on university endowments.CHEYANNE MUMPHREY (AP News)
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Guess they hate the libs even more than they hate taxes.
@gglockner and minorities 😓
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Since I switched from cycling to (trail)running as my main sport, I notice that I am less and less motivated to go cycling outside in winter. I used to cycle outside all winter long, but now I prefer the warmth on the indoor trainer 😆. Running outside in winter is not an issue 🏃♂️✅
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I’ve never been a big cycler for exercise (haven’t actually owned a bike since I was a kid, partly due to living in small apartments, but do bike share), but from bike share programs, I always felt the cold much more while biking than running. More wind.
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That's exactly what makes the difference. On the other hand. In summer the opposite applies. Go for a ride to cool down a bit by the wind 😊
That's exactly what makes the difference. On the other hand. In summer the opposite applies. Go for a ride to cool down a bit by the wind 😊
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I second visiting Puente colgante de Portugalete. It’s something really worth seeing in person
Later this month, I’m going with my parents to Logroño, San Sebastián and Bilbao. I’ve been several times to San Sebastián but only once 15 years ago to the other two.
Recommendations are welcome!
We are going to see Athletic ⚽️ (men) play at La Catedral, San Mamés.
Luego este mes, voy con mis padres a Logroño, San Sebastián y Bilbao. He visitado varias veces San Sebastián pero solo una vez hace 15 años a las otras dos.
Recomendaciones bienvenidos!
#bilbao #sansebastian #donosti #espana #spain
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@setmeravelles just if you have any recommendations of places to eat or things we should see, beyond the obvious like Guggenheim 😀
@setmeravelles thanks! I think going to take the train to Logroño and then rent a car from there.
A couple days in San Sebastián, and then I think a day each for me in the other cities but 2 days for my parents (I am only taking two days vacation plus the weekend, they’re here on holiday).
A couple days in San Sebastián, and then I think a day each for me in the other cities but 2 days for my parents (I am only taking two days vacation plus the weekend, they’re here on holiday).
@setmeravelles fantastic! Thank you very much for all of the recommendations!! ❤️
Very much appreciated. My dad can walk very limited distances, while my mom loves to walk, so we will have different things to keep in mind 😀
These are great tips!
Very much appreciated. My dad can walk very limited distances, while my mom loves to walk, so we will have different things to keep in mind 😀
These are great tips!
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I second visiting Puente colgante de Portugalete. It’s something really worth seeing in person
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Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which, used, lives th' executor to be.
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I don’t understand your point. I mean this guy is CLEARLY operating in good faith 🙄
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I've started posting on LinkedIn all the unconstitutional shit Trump and Musk are doing to undermine the security and integrity of our government. Mainly because that crowd needs to hear it most. It's incredible how many people in the infosec space are still defending the actions of DOGE and its dear leader(s). And they're not all crypto bros and AI peddlers; we're talking about people in some pretty important roles, tech-wise.
But at least when they reply with the inevitable "stay in your lane" or "I used to like you when you stayed out of politics," they are on record as complicit and totally okay with what is going on.
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for some reason, many people is embracing social Darwinism?
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If you think neoliberalism to the end, it's social darwinism.
Unfortunately, a lot of tech bros were raised under the assumption that their techiness makes them superior beings. So they assume, they'll be on the winning team forever.
@AdmSnackbar Yes you are right. And why are they taking their masks off just now? Is it that they are feeling the water up their knees (end of the game), and they don't care anymore about covering their psychopathy?
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Because solidarity didn't work.
At least in theory, there was the consensus after WW2 that a strong state that sets guidelines for the greater good was desirable. That meant taxes, regulation, large public sector (including military) and at least the promise of a better life.
That dream and the consensus were slowly eroded by rich people until we're now in a situation of collapse. Suddenly egoism is en vogue again.
people wrongly believe they will benefit and fail to realize if you aren't in the room right now you will lose
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a legal tracker ....
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.Just Security
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The general public is brainwashed by mainstream media.
the descent into full fascism seems to be going a lot smoother than many would have anticipated or hoped.
My main worry is how much damage will be inflicted on the US and the rest of the world in such a short period of time it’s hard to see how it won’t take decades to repair… if ever.
The parallels with 1920/30s Germany are far too real.
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@plambrechtsen It's reparable...If we can intercede and force him out of power. One way or another. If anything, best case is it reminds everyone what we do for the world that we normally don't make a big deal about. Also remind everyone we're the major power that be. Us going off the rails means they aren't long to follow. The entire international order goes into freefall.
But the longer he stays...The more that will become a self fulfilling prophecy.
But the longer he stays...The more that will become a self fulfilling prophecy.
Same! It's been a good way to prune the withering, infested branchet of my network.
I wonder if those people in important roles are being such enablers because they are afraid they'd get flak from any witch hunt that might happen (ex: FBI agents on J6 case) or they are kissing ass to get in good terms with the new king.
Or maybe that's just my way of lying to myself about the amount of shitty people this world is riddled with.
Or maybe that's just my way of lying to myself about the amount of shitty people this world is riddled with.
Also, isn’t cybersecurity in your lane?
I posted a slightly edited version of this post on LinkedIn, and added this bit in reply to the DOGE supporters in infosec:
For those folks, I would say this: There is zero daylight anymore between the prerogatives of national security and cybersecurity. If you seriously believe otherwise, you should probably go find another profession. As one goes, so goes the other. The systematic efforts by DOGE to dismantle various checks and balances on executive power are very much a threat to both.
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And I am sure that they have installed software to guarantee that they are in control of everything...
At first "DOGE's" subversive activities are a threat to the rights & liberties of us all.
Despite its lack of congressional confirmation & approval of being established as a government agency.
If you put the LinkedIn link here, it'd be easier for me to repost on there rather than tracking it down under your profile.
Thank you. Even if you put politics aside, attaching an UNAUTHORIZED, UNVERIFIED email server is BAD SECURITY. How can you be in IT/Infosec and defend those types of actions? If you feel that way, turn in your degree/certs/credentials.
Imagine if the Nazis had an “Internet” where individuals could record which side of history they were on for the world to see in perpetuity. Well imagine no more!
When people bitch about anything remotely about "This is a business site, and politics should stay out." My response is "I'll keep my politics out of business the day business gets out of politics."
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During the lockdown, I posted about a F2F job interview at a company where, after the masked job seeker walks into the interview conference room, several people are unmasked. The seeker asks about moving to a break area outdoors. It's shot down. "Thanks but no thanks. I'll show myself out." and the seeker leaves.
Crickets. No response from anyone. And recruiters stopped reaching out with "great opportunities". I set my profile to private and a couple months later just deleted the account altogether.
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just reply to them and say if you’re against these then you’re in support of segregation, concentration camps, and are against the rule of law.
Lot of LinkedInLunatic content lately.
The linked in crowd - and the wrecking ball that is the new administration - “you tell them and you tell them and you tell them and when you are sick to death of telling them they have just started to listen”. It takes a lot to cut through all that toxic positivity.
On one side, I am fascinated how fast this happens (and with even less power to prevent it apparently). on the other side, I am in fear for losing so much knowledge and wisdom just because some people want to save (for a short time) some money... or have "their" power / playground. I am not amused, absolutely not...
Thank you for doing this.
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i also find the defunding of OCCRP gets through to them a little:
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The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, one of the world's most important resources when it comes to digging up information about #kleptocrats all over the world, lost 29% of its budget due to #ElonMusk's attacks on #USAID .There are few better causes you could donate to where your money would go anywhere near as far as it would with OCCRP (journalists in Moldova are kinda cheap in the scheme of things).
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#OCCRP #ICIJ #broligarchy #broligarchs #corruption #moneylaundering #kleptocracy #uspol #eupol #putin #russia #uspolitics
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also the deletion of the federal investigation of kleptocrats, along with enforcement of things like seizing russian oligarchs yachts (not sure how this story got past #KariLake's VOA...)
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US Justice Department disbands teams investigating corruption, election interference
New Attorney General Pam Bondi sharply reorients DOJ's priorities to focus on drug cartels, transnational crimeRob Garver (Voice of America (VOA News))
This is great! Gonna follow you on LinkedIn just so I can repost your stuff there.
And I may need to start posting the same sort of thing there as well.
not surprising. Over two thirds of US voters were OK with Trump getting elected.
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I don’t understand your point. I mean this guy is CLEARLY operating in good faith 🙄
Remind them at the end of the day, this will impact their business, their customers, and society as a whole.
Perfectly acceptable to post on LinkedIn!
These people need to get their head out of the grind.
In times of adversity, people generally reveal their true character.
They believe him to be a genius and anyone saying anything negative are just jealous of his wealth. So they believe what he is doing now will be for the good of the country just like what it did to his businesses to grow his wealth.
It’s a fantasy they think will benefit them.
They are likely to be exploitative of their subordinates just as Musk is to his. The thing they don’t realize is they are now subordinate to Musk and will be exploited.
do people actually engage in discourse on LinkedIn? I must not follow the right spaces.
I see your LinkedIn posts. When I see my connections boost or make dumb comments it helps me know whom to keep or remove as connections.
Which just proves, that even people holding "important" positions are not immune to mis- & disinformation, or just don't care to distinguish between facts & lies, because they're as vulnerable to Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) as Trump, Musk & their pathocratic court of staunch psychopaths.
Brian, I've respected your work over the years. But in this you're out of your depth. The whole core of this problem *isn't the sitting president*. It's in the enabling supporters. The cult if you will. Without them backing him up he'd just be some vicious bitter old man yelling at kids to GTFO his lawn. Yes, it's made up of regular people too caught up in this grab for total hegemonic power.
...And you'll have to fight them if you ever want to have a functional democracy again.
...And you'll have to fight them if you ever want to have a functional democracy again.
Dont know you, but keep it up! This is such a great work so keep going.
Be nice if you could share that list here on Mastodaon.
Reposting you now on Linkedin.
- "In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve" - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
There is a movie that depicts one of the types of people you may be encountering. It's an Italian movie called The Conformist from 1970 and it was made after the war. It's set during the fascist government in Italy. The point of the movie is not clear until the final scene as the regime is falling.
To anyone interested, check it out: justwatch.com/us/movie/the-con… It's available on multiple platforms.
At this point, their IT security fuckery is almost irrelevant compared to the rest of the fascist rollout and destruction.
But yes.
There's a huge fan base for Elon and his ilk still, and it's disheartening to learn that about people.
But yes.
There's a huge fan base for Elon and his ilk still, and it's disheartening to learn that about people.
when a lot of MSP community moved online to Facebook in 2020 there was one well recognized MSP owner who had a 3-percenter logo as his profile picture for a while, so I'm not at all surprised. It is interesting how broad the community is, and I suspect you'll find that at this point it's divided between people on Mastodon & Bluesky vs people on Xitter and Pravda Social. Not sure where LinkedIn falls though.
those who support that DOGE group definitely have no sense or knowledge of hacker philosophy. As if Facebook naming their own street Hacker Way wasn’t ignorant enough….
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I like your perspective! I was thinking that by posting politics on LinkedIn, it might limit my prospects. However, I don't want to work for people who disagree with my political preferences anyway!
I post my political articles to LinkedIn for the same reason. It’s not like there’s anything useful in their feed without it, anyway.
Maybe when the Superbowl is over the rest of America will realize what's been going on?
The thing about staying in your lane: if some gumball on your five lane freeway suddenly comes swerving across all the lanes and you do _not_ get out of your lane, you are dead.
Don't these people know how to drive?
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Meant to mention that Rich is the director of cyber risk for Capital One.
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I mean, Wired often puts their "hyperbole" in quotes attributed to named sources, who happen to be Federal contractors with armies of cleared staff. Don't you?
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I think this should be advertised, as I have Capital One accounts.
I shall now consider removing those accounts.
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Mr Beamer is director of cyber risk at Capital One
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Here's one of but many examples.
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@ShrikeTron interestingly I stopped using them *years* ago (late 90s or early 2000s), as like many USA financial services companies they had less customer service and pushed back at financial protection regulations the EU and UK implemented...
@vfrmedia Interesting as I had savings in Orange that was then merged into Capital One.
Nothing dramatic, but not safe enough now.
I can still hear those "what's in your wallet" commercials…
What's in HIS wallet?
also extremely useful in knowing which credit card to avoid
Is my Capital One card at risk due to security threats? This guy doesn't give me much confidence.
I'm sure my friends would love to hear about it. I mean we all enjoy the Capital One lounges but I don't know...
big „Rich Beamer“ energy
wired hyperbole suggests wireless hyperbole
“IMO” - it’s all about their “opinions”, particularly when something isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of FACT.
They simply don’t understand the difference between opinions and facts.
“Typical Wired hyperbole IMO.” – Rich Beamer
@briankrebs so reporting on the simple fact that the InfoSec experts at the US Treasury have deemed DOGE an insider threat is “hyperbole” coming out of Wired, not hyperbole coming from the US Treasury InfoSec, or so says a Trump fanboy who manages InfoSec at the Capital One corporation.
We truly live in a “post-fact” nation: all facts are “opinions,” the opinions with the most money behind them are “The Truth.” Evidence has nothing to do with it.
It started by disregarding basic science on evolutionary theory, then disregarding science on the environment and pollution, then disregarding science about modern medicine of vaccines, then diregarding the phenomenon of transgender people, then regarding even basic germ theory during COVID-19.
Now they have leveled-up to disregarding technical expertise on basic information security.
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They ain't gonna stop until they bump into someone they can't identify out of a lineup lets 'em know in no uncertain way that there will be consequences if they keep doing what they're doing. Mens restrooms make a good point of intercept. FInd out their favorite bars, wait for them to take a whaz. Then put 'em facefirst into the wall while you whisper in their ear. Bonus points if you can catch 'em in front of a tallboy urinal. Smaller men can get their arms pinned if you do it right
A guy named Wealthy BMW shouldn't be casting aspersions of hyperbole.
you would think that a group that deliberately named themselves after a parody cryptocurrency would not even being acknowledged, let alone given access to anything.
Some of the comments there are quite something.
I'm not sure what we have today is politics; it's just outright corruption. maybe im a bit nieve but politics used to be art of compromise where everyone gets something but nobody gets everything.
It so needs to be done. From my feed, other than a few women researchers talking about diversity/equity/inclusion/accessibility being thrown out the window, you'd think nothing even remotely out of the ordinary was happening in the US.
Fucking surreal.
- how big do you think your audience is on LinkedIn? I have an existence there, but never thought of posting anything because I don't think of it as a place to talk.
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Oops, I did it again. Dustin's resume says he is VP information security manager for Wells Fargo. Are we detecting a theme here?
Shall I go on?
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YES, call it out all day long. Party affiliation should have ZERO bearing on your nation's security stance.
“Politics don’t belong on a business networking site”
Well call me crazy Bob, but I don’t want to do business with Nazis.
A guy who works for the scummiest US national Bank doesn't understand that everything is political.
Got it.
It would be interesting to see the Venn diagram of these and the people who have been recommending E2EE and cryptocurrencies to “stay safe from government overreach”.
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oh, was he maybe one of the folks helping wells launder money for the cartels? because that was a thing.
@Viss 2025 is an excellent year to reread "the lost bank" about Washington Mutual planting all the bombs that exploded into the 2008 financial crisis, and the CTO who was clearly a primary source for the book laying the blame on unqualified "growth at all costs" gremlins running IT at the banks they acquired ignoring documented risk and security guidelines with the hand waving of the CEO.
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@xarph whoa, i had no idea washington mutual did all that. they were my bank for a while and they were really good to me
@Viss starting in 2005 they got a CEO who went an an acquisition spree and bought up every thrift that had a mortgage division in order to sell more mortgage backed securities. Then every other bank saw that, didn't want to be left out, and did the same.
We then saw what happened when they ran out of qualified borrowers.
Good book, I recommend it.
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eyeroll, the world where politics is anything I personally don't do/think
Wells Fargo? Weren't they nipped for laundering cartel money to the tune of several billion U$?
LinkedIn has to be the only social network I've ever been on that hides its most controversial comments.
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you know how algorithms go. I really don’t find LinkedIn enlightening. Just a dull social media that begs for money!
tangant sorry, was looking at your linked in, i was also connected with Drew Daniels worked with him at Microsoft.
I get zero engagement there on anything that criticizes the alt-right tech complex
The essence of LinkedIn is being an advertisement platform for the tech complex and it moves more and more from connecting ideas to advertisement. Quite tell tale for the current state of the tech industry
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it's kind of the social network for the office. So like you're not supposed to be controversial at work, you're supposed to stick to safe subjects on LinkedIn - that seems like the tacit agreement that people on LinkedIn buy into. Kind of like Severance where your office life and your outside life are supposed to be completely separate.
Lately though, I've started posting things that are critical of the Musk regime because we can't just act like things are normal.
It depends what you mean by "controversial"
The most promoted are just disgustingly controversial... just in their own way
Here's how you find any possibly controversial comments on LinkedIn: You incessantly hit the "load more comments" link. Over. And Over. And Over. It's almost like LinkedIn is aware of its more embarrassing takes. Or maybe I'm giving their AI too much credit.
they keep trying to recommend mental health groups whenever I don't post something endorsing the stupidity on the platform... I don't think their AI is built to favor reality
Why wouldn't LI create AI "users" that post what you are seeing, even in response to your posts about the Constitution?
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@MHowell LI is just one potential battlefield. And they really don't want be anyone's battlefield.
I quit LinkedIn a very long time ago because the spam was intolerable and I had a position I was happy with and no, person I don't know, you can't be in my "professional network". But I guess they do take a different approach to controversy. The other social networks usually amplify it because it drives engagement and clicks, but they seem to amplify the boring stuff.
should we consider a Fediverse version of LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is just a platform for shameless self promotion, there is no value or information to be gained from it.
I'm only there so recruiters can find me.
"threat hunters" that are unable to see the biggest and most obvious existential threats to their operations and their society, shame on them "experts"
I mean, bank infosec is trash, so at least it’s on theme
smaller institutions absolutely rely on resources such as CISA and threat intelligence from sources like KrebsOnSecurity to keep their members/depositors information safe. Cybersecurity is apolitical. If the current administration is compromising our nations’ cyber security resources (and their own cyber stances to make way for DOGE) for political reasons, reporting on it isn’t political in my opinion.
oof, it’s tough when you see folks you know in the comments spouting bad takes
people who don't think the leopards will eat their faces. Wealth and privilege are great drugs.
effin banks! Showing us which side they’re on
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So, it‘s not infosec when it’s ‚political‘.
But it‘s not ‚political‘ when it‘s about government contracts. That‘s business!
Except when it‘s about a contract between the people and their government, that is definitely ‚political‘.
As they say: „When everyone cares only about themselves, everyone is cared for!“
When Wells Fargo gets hacked, would they first ask whether the perpetrator claimed to have political reasons for hacking and if yes, would they leave it be, or would they just defend against the attack?
Sounds like "Leave us alone, we rich folk are doing a thing here"
good stuff!!!
you need to be pretty far down a rabbit hole to think ANY remediation project is best performed by expert novices without any planning oversight or coordination.
Frankly this is disqualifying from any form of leadership, but we’ve been recruiting those badly for decades now so I suppose this isn’t surprising.
I'll be reposting you over there.
That is what still stuns me. The con is still working.
@Beachbum I'm not sure that's the case with the banks. They are casting their lot in with Trump, so they are all in.
It couldn’t be more disturbing. I’m tempted to put my money under my mattress.
shout Nazi scum and see who to block
Parenthetically, I came *this* close to deleting my LinkedIn account this year. I'm really glad I didn't, because it's helping to explain what is really fueling this coup.
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Following over there now. Will “repost” and “like” to see how long before the algorithm deletes me…
Make some waves!
There is certainly in underlying sense of right wingness in the platform. “Don’t talk politics or personal opinion, this is a platform for business! And showing off!”
I have been struggling with the decision to delete or not. I would love to know your opinions on this today!
@ahasty At this point, IMHO it's far more important to stay and be a voice of reason.
I have actually noticed an increase pin political posts. As things becomes more divided, people are speaking out.. I have decided to stay because this is where I can use data and evidence to inform some people..
I would love to quit LinkedIn. It's the one corporate social media I feel chained to. I would have an immensely difficult time finding business without it. Every time I scroll through I feel like I'm losing brain cells (present company excepted of course).
After the election, I did a post on Linkedin pointing out that if your job involves data about people, a time may come where you'll be asked to do Something Bad, and you need a plan. Also, take a hard look at what data you're collecting, and see if you can drop some of it.
No Likes. Two comments, both by people that I didn't know, saying something MAGA.
After the DOGE incursion, I posted again, in a similar vein. This time I limited replies to only Followers*. No nasty comments yet. 7 Likes.
I do understand that most of my connections are currently working (I'm recently retired) and don't need to publicly declare that they're going to go all "Simple Sabotage Field Manual".
*Really? 800? Weird.
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Just saw this and was reminded of a recent exchange... I recently found out the very first tech ceo guy I interviewed on camera for work some 13 odd years ago doesn't trust media and journalists to be truthful in the Trump era.
It was a really strange thing to see him replying to a journalist on XTwitter in support of Trump/Musk shenanigans.
Not being in a field useful for that sort of information my LinkedIn has been in hibernation for approaching a year now I think it’s every two months they send me an email to remind me and I’m still good with that 😀
Iast meeting someone said „we talk too much about politics“. I believe we should do it much more
can you expand on that for overseas readers?
it is precisely because you are so well versed in your lane that you see what a disaster musk and his acolytes are for long term info security of the United States.
the secret to attaining a senior security position at a fortune 500 is to minimize the attack surface as much as possible. In most cases this is done by reducing what they manage down to the gluteal region: CYA, and nothing more.
Thank you!!
Are we friends on LinkedIn? I use it too, some customers like it for comms.
Any infosec person who supports what Musk is doing demonstrates that ideology overrides technical judgment for them. What is happening is the biggest security nightmare since the days of Kim Philby.
I gave up on LinkedIn quite a while ago. It has lost its relevance as a place to share views and have serious conversations. The LI algorithms are appalling when it comes to moderation.
Good for you for speaking truth to power or at least excessively smug.
I'm still utterly aghast that you can work in this field, and look at anything going on an not be having a panic attack.
And being mad that someone else (a journalist no less) pointed at the 4 alarm fire in the room is just *chef's kiss*
@mikey I don't know how to do anything else, so I hope I'm not asked to qualify for another job.
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Genuinely appreciate you doing this!
Scary stuff
1) it seemed obvious years ago that our industry was full of chuds just from personal interactions with peers. Especially the CISOs at the big regulated industries IMO, 2) LinkedIn’s feed is so absolutely full of wannabe “thought leaders” and trash takes that I also thought to leave last year but it’s still the main way I keep in touch with much of my network, 3) I agree about politics on LinkedIn but it’s been all MAGA and crypto bro shit. Glad to see you taking them to task.
it always befuddled me when I met someone with incredible tech/IT skill set that would ALSO perform large amounts of mental backflips for political and/or religious ideas. I had a colleague that was incredibly proficient with all facets of network engineering. I could go to him to get an answer to anything. Then one day he started talking about how the Earth is only 4000yo and carbon dating is the work of the devil......I stopped asking for his help. Born and raised hypocrites
a lot of tech folks are very bad at risk modeling because they are the risk.
I wonder how many of those people have professsional memberships with orgs like ISC2 whose 1st canon of ethics states they will “Protect society, the common good, necessary public trust and confidence, and the infrastructure.”
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You mean LinkedIn isn´t just a cross between Business Wire and Successories posters, with a constant rumble of unsolicited sales contacts mixed in? I'm shocked!
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When Mark Zuckerberg does it, that’s just business.
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That's capitalism for you. Laws are only for poor people that can't pay hundreds of lawyers (or donate a few million to a fellow felon who happens to be president of your country).
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We should be considering a NATO without the USA.
And that also means dramatically increasing defence budgets in consideration of Trump pulling off a Putin.
Let’s start with putting non-American military bases in Greenland.
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@Chris Trottier Totally agree, but it's gonna need massive investment in the military and in the defense industry, on behalf of the member nations. It's not so easy as flipping a switch and boom! You're done, NATO without the US.
The thing is that USA has been the centerpiece of NATO ever since its inception - even going so far as being the depositary of the treaty.
There are lots of security contracts within the member states that involve US companies, including in my country, which is already operating US-made Humvee vehicles. In addition to that we've completely switched from the old Soviet MiG 21 LanceR planes which were falling out of the sky like crazy to the F16, right after the invasion of Russia in Ukraine, which we're using as a transition aircraft to F35, which we're planning to get 1st hand from Lockheed Martin by 2030-2035. In addition, we're also buying Abrams tanks, and we're looking for replacement IFVs - which are also likely to be acquired from US companies. We're also using C30 Hercules planes for transport as well as other stuff
These things aren't simple set it and forget it things. They require maintenance, spare parts and all sorts of things that come from the manufacturer. Having the US on the other side would make it a tremendous challenge, just like in any similar case. When we decided to join NATO back in the early 2000s, we had quite an important fleet of MiG 29 aircraft. But we depended on Russia for all those things. Well, Russia decided to just cut out the support for it. We tried a modernization project into MiG 29 Sniper, just like we did with the MiG 21s, but it failed miserably.
What can we replace the F35s with? Pretty much nothing. The only other countries manufacturing 5th gen fighter jets are Russia (which is not even reliable, not only because of sanctions, but because of the particularly low production volume of the said planes) and China - both of which are countries to avoid by any sane democracy.
edit: And not to mention the huge, abysmaly huge, enormous nuclear stockpile that the US has. It's the 2nd in the world, with the US also being one of the few countries having a nuclear triad - with nuclear weapons both on submarines, airplanes and on ICBMs. Should the US ever be attacked with nukes, there's a huge possibility of response. And for every country that is allied to the US, having that on your side in case of a conflict is a huge thing.
Both France and the UK also have a nuclear stockpile of their own, but it's much much lower than that of the US, and if, through absurd circumstances, we would have the US allied with Russia or China, the remaining block would stand no chance in a conflict.
So, whoever pulled the Trump in power did a huge blow to the entire free world!
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Can't you send a few lightning bolts to a certain booth?
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Indeed. They'll do anything to avoid an independent thought or acknowledging independent skill. That's how hard they indoctrinate themselves. If there is a deity of some sort, then they gave us the power to determine our own destiny. :3
I'm not sure anyone outside the US has the slightest interest tbh. Don't even know who's playing
I'll be watching the Puppy Bowl instead.
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Distraught EPA Employees Fear for Their Futures Under Trump
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The United States used to be a world leader, a beacon of light, in Democracy, Science, Technology. That has all been dismantled in favor of uneducated zealots who are obsessed with transgender people, abortions and "DEI".
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Oh, the irony.
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Not necessarily a health nut, might be working in the bottled water business.
Proof that it isn't health or safety they are concerned with. It's having something to be outraged about.
Well I'm sure they have a serious concern about the dangers of "fluorosis" -- the slight discoloration of your teeth that can be caused by fluoride.
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Looks like she's texting while driving, too. Real safety conscious, that one.
Or just a nut?
wasn’t there some nut job movement out there claiming that smoking is actually supposed to be healthy and all the science claiming it’s really not is somehow just big pharma ensuring that people stay unhealthy or some junk like that? If she’s part of that crowd, this kinda fits.
Classic. And it looks like they're on their phone, too.
in England the city of Birmingham's water supply was flouridated since maybe 1950. The city's dental school had to take it's students outside the water supply area in order to let them gain experience of treating dental decay as the incidence in the city was almost non existent.
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"Ya see here, Joe Biden doesn't want yous to know that an'arctica is just an ice wall, because that's where him and Oh-bama have been hidin' the giant nephilim army they've been amassin'."
*Takes drag of smoke*
"The fluoride keeps people from being able to afford to go theres 'cause they can't go to college."
@DavBot lol, and the whole time his wife was nailing somebody else.
To coin a phrase, "Oh my!"
He knows, of course, that there are - what - 600 ingredients, 4000 chemicals, in a cigarette?
It's not whether it's poisonous or not, it's that 'they' are putting it in the water, so her liberty is being infringed upon.
She likes to be selective about how he slowly kills herself
She likes to be selective about how he slowly kills herself
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I’ve often thought that if fluoridation of drinking water had not been proposed in the last century, it would have been defeated; my kids cudda grown up with teeth like mine that needed fillings in every molar.
I have an acquaintance in my social circles who *smokes* and who also goes to a health food store every week to fill up some huge bottles with "reverse osmosis water".
She does fully acknowledge that on a rational level it makes no sense. She also has a tougher time finding dates because she smokes.
I think for maybe quitting smoking is very hard and she isn't up for it.
Also driving a SUV ...
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Bird flu found in wet markets in New York City.
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Facebook noticed I was posting about networks so now it’s showing me ads for data privacy services. Why can’t I hear the laugh track on this show???
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The laugh track is only available to white men with assets in excess of US$1B.
@alan cool. cool. that’s just great.
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Sonnet 020 - XX
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.
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An exquisite depiction of nature’s rhythm and energy, the Jar (Hu) at #ClevelandMuseumofArt embodies ancient craftsmanship with its swirling patterns and symbolic dragon. How do you interpret the movement and symbolism within this earthenware masterpiece?
#ClevelandArt #ArtHistory #CulturalHeritage
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Jar (Hu) | Cleveland Museum of Art
Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a symbol common to all changes in nature: cloud vapors, waves, and mountains alike.clevelandart.org
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