Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

1. At age 10, all boys have their vas deferens severed.
2. After age 25, the vasectomy can be reversed at any time if a woman agrees to have a child with him.
3. After the birth, he has another vasectomy.

Oh, too extreme? Great, then fuck off with your laws about women’s bodies.

I’m in a reflective mood this week and it’s kind of wild to me that I’m known as a “provocateur” in #cybersecurity for takes like:

💡 don’t shame victims

💡 UX matters, a lot

💡we should understand what we’re supposed to protect

💡 if someone clicking a thing on the thing-clicking machine leads to security failure, they are not the foolish one

💡 the best things a security program can invest in aren’t in the RSAC vendor hall

💡 maybe we should start actually proving outcomes??????????

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I were starting out today, I'd avoid employers who have dominant market positions. Through litigation, lobbying and other anti-competitive practices, they've usually tipped the playing field strongly in their favour. That's not the best field to learn to play on. When you eventually find yourself playing on a level field, you may come to realise you're not as good as you thought you were.

One of the biggest problems in modern discourse is we keep saying "But" instead of saying "And"

Example: "Hamas committed murder *but* IDF strikes have killed innocent people" immediately sets up justification and whataboutism.

Whereas "Hamas committed murder *and* IDF strikes have killed innocent people" gives us objectivity and a realistic world view that doesn't justify anything.

I’d be the same.

#Florida HB 757 is pretty horrible all the way around. If you care about #freespeech, #journalist rights and #freedom in general you should be lining up against it.

Florida (mostly #GOP) legislative panel OKs bill making it easier to sue media, others for defamation

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/18/florida-lawmakers-take-up-bill-making-it-easier-to-sue-for-defamation/72261955007/

CEO: We need to cut costs.

Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.

CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?

Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.

CEO: Fire Greg.

This will be a huge help, especially to low-income Americans. Well done, Joe!

Sometimes technology destroying jobs creates more of the same jobs. ATMs reduced the number of bank tellers needed at a branch.

This made it cheaper to open bank branches leading to more of them and thus more bank teller jobs.

For some fields where AI will have similar effects.

In software we don't build a 10 ton deck when a 2 ton deck would do, we build a Deck Builder Factory that prints out decks that are fully extensible up and down but we build it into a concrete foundation where the only extension options are sideways. Then we bolt on safety join points to the house that prevent you from actually extending the deck at all. Then we only use the printing system once and throw it away. Then we complain that we over engineered the deck. But the deck? Rated for one ton

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It does feel that way sometimes.

Y'all execs are so particular about abolishing remote work because human connections and face to face interactions are so important to you, until it's time to tell someone they're about to pay for a mistake you made.

And that's not even touching the elephant in the room, that these companies are making massive profits in what may be the greatest wealth transfer in all of human history?