I wish leadership teams would evaluate the announcements from AI firms with the same scrutiny as they view budget requests from their various departments.

Judge: “He can lead. He can lead all he wants. Let’s remind everyone you are not a lawyer and you’ve never taken a class in evidence.” Musk: “I did take law 101 technically, but yes I am not a lawyer.” 🤣🤣🤣 The @theverge.com coverage of Musk’s testimony www.theverge.com/tech/917225/...

Knew plenty of people who smoked in the 90’s. I also remember them complaining how hard it was to stop….

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I used to work with a dev who was also a volunteer firefighter for the village. When I took a different job at a local manufacturing company his advice was: “yeah of that building catches fire, we are doing one sweep for people and then letting it burn. Don’t be inside if it starts on fire.”

That 18.7K being paid for by higher health insurance costs and out of pocket payments from patients….

Tucker Carlson is getting money from Moscow. Most likely he has “sponsors” that he hasn’t looked at too closely, but Moscow is funding him.

One of the things I've argued about for the past decade is a public-facing dashboard of what VA homeless programs are doing. People helped, outcomes, money spent. All of it. My program has housed over 250,000 formerly homeless Veterans, but most people have no idea and think we're not doing anything

It was silly back in the day when a dev would post “hey I coded StackOverflow in a weekend” or “I coded the Google Search last week” and time has not improved that argument/brag.

So FYI, First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detector has a red backlight as standard, not just when it detects elevated carbon monoxide. Tonight’s adventure brought to you by an end of life carbon monoxide detector that started chirping, a replacement that glowed red, and a visit from the fire department.🤣

It’s 5 pm somewhere 🧀👍

The distance between “this code is clever and elegant” and “this code is crap” is shorter than it appears.

Best #StarTrek crew, wrong answers only.

As someone who got started in enterprise line of business applications, this post from @jsnover.com brings up some painful memories. www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

Male supremacists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd want women to “shut up.” I wrote about this and the abuser politics on the right. www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...

Why yes if an AI enabled attacker breaches the firewall and we go have a loaded shotgun next to our servers for rapid decommissioning. This is part of our new SOC5 protocol. Didn’t you the documentation I sent out?

The worst conversations are with people who understand maybe 50% of a given topic but assume they know way more and start making really strange assumptions. 😬

Delve claims "Your CISO's cardiologist will thank you." Spoiler: they will not. www.inc.com/ben-sherry/t...

But as Prof. Haraway taught us, there is no "god trick", no view from nowhere. The only way to do good scholarship is to embrace, acknowledge and speak from one's actual positionality. >>

Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

The second most brutal Irish curse I’ve ever heard, in case you were wondering, is go scríobha do scéala báis le fual na bláthnaide gallda. It means “may your obituary be written in weasel’s piss.”

Didn’t Socrates say something about “the unexamined life is not liveable for a man” a couple of years before Freud 🤣 Some days it feels like we are truly living in an age of madness when “now” is the only thing that matters.

You know dam well why your boss ONLY wanted those updates via Signal and why Signal wasn’t on the list of approved apps. You can’t claim ignorance of how technology works when that is why you got hired at DOGE.

My first introduction to differential privacy (awesome topic btw) at Defcon was proceeded by a commercial from Google talking about their creepy ability to detect if a restaurant or other public venue would be busy at a specific time. Creepy as all get out and the antithesis of privacy.

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Not too good to be true, but definitely too early to victory-lap. The recent “universal” respiratory vaccine paper that’s getting attention is a mouse study, published in Science. It used an intranasal formulation that did not target one specific pathogen. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How much coke/meth is he on right now?

If they had DEI they’d know it was Targét not Tarzhay

Maybe if Whiskey Pete spent a little less time on loyalty tests for promotion and complaining about “fat soldiers” and more time doing his actual job….

Read this whole thread: But also I want to branch off of this. My division has started requiring LLM code reviews instead of a second human, and it LOOKS great to management "finding all these mistakes," but in practice it's a huge waste of time and money.

Sir, I will not stand for this Wile E. Coyote slander. He was a mis-understood technology innovator who simply lacked appropriate application of his technological gifting. He clearly has more innovation and drive than our current president.

For a party that has historically freaked put about the federal government knowing too much about you (ie gun ownership) they seem really happy to hand over people’s data to the feds.

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Only fools disagree with our glorious leader. To the camps with you.

So in theory, a user based outside of the US could be used to attack the websites of US based companies or other companies based in Europe or Asia and make it look like it would be coming from the US. Great job State Department on thinking this one through 🤣

The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies. I was feeling positive that Peter Jackson was going to do something cool and that movie ended up being trash. My spouse still makes fun of me for the ranting she had to endure after seeing it in the theater together.

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

I have been recommending pca/cryptography library to my Python users when they need to do x509 stuff and this podcast has strengthened that recommendation. Also dang OpenSSL, where did it all go wrong?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “We need to keep our private keys private”

The idea that art has to be the thing you make your living from instead of just being a thing you do to nourish your soul and bring you joy in your non-working hours - this, too, is the death of culture.

Anyone remember the “fortune favors the brave” Super Bowl commercial, right before crypto winter hit….

An absolute scorcher 🔥🔥🔥

“There’s no evidence to support this approach to achievement,” agrees Caulfield. “As opposed to improving outputs, it’s more of a statement of your commitment to the cause.” 🙄🙄🙄