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Words to live by.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

👋 Uh, Hi new people. Welcome. I’m guessing I ended up on someone’s starter pack list. Maybe I should use social media again?

Some initial thoughts on securing your network traffic in light of reports of telco compromises. medium.com/@boblord/sec... If you have detailed technical information to help me improve it, please feel free to share.

Some thoughts on Modelling and Sizing security orgs.

open.substack.com/pub/geoffbel...

I’m thinking about it

Ah, the tried and true “When advertisers abandon you due to your toxic brand, just start over with an entirely unknown and potentially far more toxic brand” strategy

A great thread. I’d add, as a practical observation: Very few organizations understand how to think about Security as part of their business; Even less understand Trust and Safety. A lack of proactive T&S strategy is unacceptable, but honestly unsurprising.

like parker, i do not understand the thinking that not wanting to see utter shit opinions is somehow being in a bubble how fuckin patronizing to believe we can not find and listen to varied opinions on subjects both important and trivial to us without having some right wing dipshits weighing in

Me, every time someone brings up the All-In podcast:

Hey, asking for a friend, but is the devil running a bootcamp on eBPF and audit / compliance automation for high-scale k8s environments?

I would like BlueSky invite transparency and graph based blocking. When more of the bad place ends up here, I want to know who invited them, so I can block that entire tree of poison.

Me: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Cashier: Sir, again, American Girl dolls are not in anyway sentient.

Building my vinyl collection. What’s one record you recommend everyone have a copy of?

Twitter HR: You will not discuss anything you did at Twitter at all, in perpetuity, throughout the universe. Big Head: I didn't really do anything at Twitter, so... Twitter HR: Good. You're getting the hang of it already.

Why would anyone go from twitter to threads is beyond me. I’d rather just give up on the format entirely.

What if we just make student loans illegal?

Stop talking down to me

“Military Dynamism: Next on the main stage at Vox Code. Join Erik Prince and Yevgeny Prigozhin in conversation about disrupting the establishment.”

“Still punk as fuck” I whisper as I order my mercenary troops to return to their bases after securing immunity for them from their actions during my violent coup attempt.

A detailed analysis of what’s happening based on my subject matter expertise on this critically important and highly nuanced topic - a Thread 🧵1/n

“Still punk as fuck” I whisper as I file for re-election to the HoA board.

CISOs are offered loads of free stuff (Dinners, Sporting Event Box Seats, Whiskey Tastings, etc) and most of us say no because they might create the appearance of a conflict. NO ONE is getting offered free PJ Trips as a normal thing that wouldn’t give the appearance of impropriety.

A reminder to tech CEOs regarding Elon Musk: You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to him”.

This new Hunter S. Thompson piece is amazing.