capespear.bsky.social
Canadian privacy & security practitioner (CISSP, LLM, FIP, etc.). I slice through Gordian knots and build no-nonsense, secure systems for innovators who prioritise execution and profit.
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GLP-1s may help.
But pretending we can outsource metabolism to pharma while our culture bleeds sleep, stress-loads kids, and feeds 3,000 calories of UberEats a day?
That’s not medicine. That’s managed decline.
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Everyone’s gotta pick a lane.
You can be pro-human or pro-AGI. Even both.
But if you’re NIMBY-ing babies and bots, that’s not politics. That’s extinction cosplaying as virtue.
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Respectfully, I think you’ve misread me.
My point was the opposite of what you’re attributing.
We agree that race is socially constructed. The risk I flagged is in conflating descriptive data with prescriptive power.
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Crime still pays in Oakland -- just not at the gate.
The city lost its teams, its tax base, and its grip.
What’s left is nostalgia in uniform and a possum named Scrappy.
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The most advanced surveillance system in your home doesn’t wear a badge.
It plays bedtime stories. Answers maths questions.
And it never forgets.
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It may not be the dream, but it’s one worth respecting.
In a world oversaturated with tech and debt, opting out early may prove less a retreat than a form of foresight.
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Always worth remembering:
“Biological reality” ≠ moral hierarchy.
Genetic variation ≠ social value.
If we conflate descriptive claims with prescriptive ones, we undermine both science and justice.
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Turns out spending $300M doesn’t buy you a policy agenda -- just a front-row seat to your own irrelevance.
Tech didn’t lose access. It lost the bet that power wanted it in the room.
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The problem with regulatory capture in 2025?
It’s no longer Exxon writing the rules.
It’s meme-lords with WiFi and a governance complex.
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When the fox says the henhouse was poorly run, you don’t give him the keys.
You ask where the feathers are buried.
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Were this battle framed around restoring Title VII and the 14th Amendment -- not theatre -- Trump-sceptics might be more inclined to align.
At present, it reads like power for its own sake, not principle.
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The mask slips:
One executive order, and Harvard’s ‘global academic freedom’ folds faster than a beach chair in a storm.
$2.6B gone. 7,000 students in limbo.
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Disney’s suing over talent loss?
Maybe ask why talent keeps leaving.
Seven years of sales decks over substance’ll do that.
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Murray blurred credibility with credentials, granted. But Hasan flips the polarity and draws authority from sheer audibility.
It’s not about who speaks louder. It’s about who listens better -- and who argues from evidence, not ego.
Loud isn’t learned.
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Google’s next chapter: invisibility through ubiquity.
AI’s not ascendent -- it’s ambient.
The perennial risk? Mistaking product polish for safety.
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Downgrade 101:
- Borrowers don’t get cheaper credit by blaming lenders.
- You can’t tax your way out of an entitlement spiral.
- Repeating Eisenhower-era tax rates in a post-industrial economy isn’t policy. It’s cosplay.
This wasn’t an accounting error. It’s a credibility crisis.
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Space Force, $542B, and a dome around the world.
Reagan called it Star Wars.
Trump calls it insurance.
Lockheed calls it Christmas.
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Europe’s moral resolve will likely hold about as long as the warm summer days do.
Sanctions work best when the heat’s off and the gas bills are low.
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Democrats will moralise.
Rubio will obfuscate.
Trump’s foreign policy will continue -- just with fewer footnotes and better ratings.
This won't be oversight. It’ll be theatre.
And everyone’s memorised their lines.
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When Sesame Street launched in 1969, it was public education on a public network, free to every child.
In 2025, it’s a licensed IP on a streaming platform.
That’s not just media consolidation. That’s the privatisation of the public imagination.
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Fired. Reinstated. Fired again.
There’s something poetic about Zak Starkey’s month.
Like watching a middle-aged voter take their ex back... again.
America did it with Trump.
Canada did it with the Liberals.
Same partner. New promises.
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The UK’s playing to be Europe’s indispensable partner -- just not its member.
Defence, trade, security, tech alignment? Yes. Freedom of movement? Still radioactive.
Starmer’s threading a new posture: Atlanticist in strategy, continental by necessity.
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McVeigh killed 168 and got the chair.
Boeing killed 346 and might get a compliance monitor.
The lesson?
Kill with conviction and you’re condemned.
Kill with spreadsheets and you’re negotiated.
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When a woman chooses for herself, one side panics. When a woman chooses for herself in a way the other side dislikes, same outcome.
That’s not politics. That’s cultural schizophrenia.
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Rearmament isn’t the surprise. Calling it a "dividend" is.
Strategic recalibrations are inevitable.
But dressing them up in yield curves and optimism glosses over what’s really shifting: the global risk floor.
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Provisional relief. Class status. Explicit doubt in gov’t timelines.
The Court isn’t just managing removals -- it’s reasserting institutional authority.
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When justice is selectively applied, institutions rot from within.
The ICC made itself a symbol of moral posturing. Now, its own prosecutor becomes the liability.
This isn’t a crisis of credibility. That ship already sailed.
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25 years may seem heavy -- until you count the stab wounds.
This wasn’t an outburst. It was a theocratic hit job, carried out in a democracy, against a man whose only crime was writing words.
If anything, it reaffirms why Rushdie needed protection in the first place.
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Horrific case -- and good on the Met for acting fast.
Just 10 days. Impressive.
Shame it took 20+ years, thousands of victims, and national outrage to get even half that urgency for the girls of Rotherham, Telford, and Rochdale.
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Allegation ≠ conviction.
If the evidence exists, it should see daylight. If it doesn’t, character assassination-by-headline is the real misconduct.
We used to understand this.
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Beijing’s panic over a supply chain clause says more than the clause itself.
If scrutiny feels like sabotage, the dependencies run deeper than they’d like to admit.
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“Toxic optimism” didn’t get Trump re-elected. Institutional decay did.
When political opposition depends on celebrity pep talks, court injunctions, and wishcasting as strategy, the outcome isn’t surprising — it’s structural failure disguised as sentiment.
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Justice, at last.
38 years wrongly imprisoned — and now a cell opens up.
Just in time to house someone convicted of the new capital offence: mean comments on Facebook.
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If 98.5% of physicists favoured one theory, I’d call that scientific consensus.
If 98.5% of faculty members in the humanities lean in one direction, and teach your kids, I’d call that ideological capture.
The difference is clear.
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Harvard can deny political bias all it wants, but its own student paper tells another story.
In a 2022 Crimson survey, just 1.5% of faculty identified as conservative — none as “very conservative.”
The institution may be nonpartisan on paper, but the numbers don’t lie.
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Taxing oil profits to fund a "just transition" sounds poetic — until you remember that everything from IV bags to iPhones relies on petroleum.
Sunshine won’t run tankers, and grass clippings don’t make solvents.
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Most presidents get a sponsored library. Trump’s aiming for a Qatari gift-wrapped jumbo jet.
When foreign policy turns into frequent flyer perks, you're not running a government — you're running a loyalty programme.
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Voters may not need this narrative.
But clearly, The Guardian needs the traffic.
#Bidenomics
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If your fallback is cutting inventory instead of strengthening infrastructure, you're not fixing a system.
You're managing its collapse in slow motion.
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“Cloud fascism” is a clever phrase, but abstraction isn’t analysis.
What’s truly radical? That we rarely hear about the middle 80%—the ones quietly ready to rebuild, while the woke right & woke left go scorched earth to get clicks.
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Debt used to be seniority. Now it’s a social caste.
If you're not in the room, you're in the gutter. And this is what passes for capital structure in 2025.
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Amazing how a decentralised token with centralised ownership, guaranteed access perks, and family-skimming revenue splits somehow turned out swimmingly for 58 wallets and badly for 764,000.
Who could’ve guessed?
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When everything’s an initiative, nothing gets built.
When law becomes decree, momentum sinks in silt.
No strategy, no clout — so don’t feign dismay
When the voters rise up and sweep you away.
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Freedom of expression’s funny that way.
Say it in uniform at 4:59? Fired for cause.
Say it in a band tee at 5:01? You’ve got a First Amendment case.
In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything.
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Anyone unwavering in their moral code will inevitably - in the span of any given 96 hour period - be a friend of the White House, then an enemy, then a friend again.
The Pope, therefore, is no doubt in good company.
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Let’s start with the label — ‘renewable’ is generous. Wind and solar rely on non-renewable inputs to build, install, and store.
And grid reliability? Outside of hydro, backup means batteries. Expensive ones. And the sun’s still down 50% of the time.
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India–Pakistan tensions don’t stay regional for long. Every escalation redraws risk thresholds across energy, shipping, cyber, and capital markets.
The West would do well to not treat it like background noise.
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Only if one assumes irrevocable systemic incompetence in the public service.
When governance is sound, centralisation strengthens -- not weakens -- accountability.
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Centralising data isn’t reckless — it’s efficient, if designed right.
Risk isn’t necessarily in the architecture. Most often, it’s in the laziness of how it gets governed.