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I live in Belgium where I help turn data into information. Previously, Austin, ex academic musicologist, Los Angeles and the eastern seaboard.
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New phishing training just released!

Longer article here, which has a nice picture of my book, so: winteriscoming.net/the-murderbo...

Apparently after a night of food poisoning I am no longer young enough to sleep all morning and the. bounce back and work the next afternoon.

It’s very disconcerting to go about my workday here in Belgium and then suddenly remember I am a citizen of a country with a Russian asset as the elected president.

Frantically pulling over in an LA neighborhood you’ve never seen before paging through the Thomas guide. Actually I do kinda miss it. Ha.

The listing of Pope flaws in Conclave only goes back like 100 years and would be better with a deeper historical list I think.

let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a *terrible* bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Shot/chaser.

In a week rightly dominated by news out of Munich, this story which broke late Friday after a few days of rumours is worth noting as the geopolitical implications could be big

Today was the day our eight year old iPad decided to pass peacefully if inconveniently into the next life.

I’ve been thinking about Deloitte and their federal IT contracts.

In a phone call with The Tribune Thursday night, Rep. Trevor Lee denied ever saying Nazi flags could be displayed in schools. Here is video of Lee saying Nazi flags could be displayed in schools.

We’re living in the golden age of press conferences where a weird guy on pills babbles incoherently

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

Just googled and Not Like Us was in the Belgium top 50 for one week peaking at 49. So not a shared experience with my colleagues and neighbors.

Let’s not tell anyone about this move. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_re...

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

It is really hard to state how much the combination of 1. Hating the hard water in my rental house And 2. Living 500 feet from my gym Are the final two items that motivate me to get to the gym.

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

Vague thoughts about the students currently in university who had their lives disrupted by COVID and now apparently their schools are all getting defunded.

Move intentionally and build things.

Obvious by now that even if governments can't say it the rest of us can, this is a US administration whose destructive lunacy will extend slightly randomly across more or less everything, and which leaves survival as the only real objective for those outside.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

I have never watched a “get ready with me” on purpose. I have repeatedly watched something tagged with GRWM because I was skimming too fast and thought “oooh, Winds of Winter publication date?”

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A friend and former student, my first friend on The Facebook. The highs schools students who wrote this did a really nice job. machronicle.com/remembering-...

some folks have taken it upon themselves to share what they are describing as sensitive screenshots from sources on here: 1) don't 2) read this theintercept.com/2022/12/15/e... best practices to share tips with media: 1) encrypted comms 2) postal mail 3) secure drop eg www.bloomberg.com/tips/

🚨there is another NYT article about that “pronatalist” couple 🚨