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I used to be a ballerina but now I'm in cyber

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Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Eight hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself. I am going now home. I feel something really good is coming my way tomorrow morning at work 🥰🧑🏻‍💻

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NEWS! Alternate universe where the United States has proper gun control sees Donald Trump covered in a milkshake

Alternate universe where the United States has proper gun control sees Donald Trump covered in a milkshakenewsthump.com In an alternate universe identical to our own except for the United States enforcing proper gun control, news is emerging that former President Donald Trump has been hit by a milkshake.

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

Great article on the IEEE's Spectrum mag site about black box type algorithmic gig work platforms. spectrum.ieee.org/shipt I feel like by publishing this the IEEE are reminding engineers to play nice and not to do horrible things just because some horrible boss is asking you to.

Mobesity is the perfect word (portmanteau?) to describe the bloat we're seeing with EVs, and more generally in cars.

In Nature, Oxford prof Chris Brand criticizes electric car bloat: "The proliferation of large electric vehicles risks undermining the environmental and ecological benefits of the green transport transition." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Vampires hating garlic is a rumor spread by vampires to make people taste better

Reminder: It's un-conservative to ban smoking but it's perfectly conservative stop doctors from signing people off sick.

Braverman is moaning about the “thought police" in Brussels while Truss is moaning about the "health police" in Parliament. Are the Tories anti-police now?

We're at *that* point in the election cycle are we? I can't wait to see which rich arsehole is the first to pop their head up saying they'll leave and then not leave. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Petrified’ non-doms poised to flee UK over Labour’s tax plans, say expertswww.theguardian.com Prospect of party closing Tory ‘loopholes’ if elected prompts some wealthy individuals to explore a move overseas

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Imagine if folks took the whole “don’t believe anything you see on the internet today because it’s April Fools Day” for the other 364 days of the year.

I've never listened to a voicenote.

No one wants your voice note. Type your message in a text. Then we can read it quickly or skim read to get the gist and read later. We don't need a soliloquy performance with your chosen intonation. You're explaining when you'll get here not addressing a wartime nation.

Hard no from me for ML/AI managed dynamic or peak time pricing.

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If the US is serious about protecting people’s data from ending up in the hands of foreign adversaries, Congress should toss out the TikTok ban and instead pass comprehensive data privacy legislation to prevent the collection of data in the first place.

Congress Should Give Up on Unconstitutional TikTok Banswww.eff.org Congress’ unfounded plan to ban TikTok under the guise of protecting our data is back, this time in the form of a new bill—the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications

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For two weeks, the Nigerian government has detained Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of investigations, and Nadeem Anjarwalla, its regional manager for Africa. Both have had their passports taken and have not been told what they're charged with, if anything. www.wired.com/story/binanc...

Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeriawww.wired.com Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.

Asimov joke alert @fuzzball1981.bsky.social

If you see this, post a robot. Credit to @evandorkin.bsky.social

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"prime minister there's a group of kids outside wanting to know why they should bother with school if AI is going to do all the jobs"

A valued member of the Battles organisation is retiring this week due to ill health. Started making a grinding noise after two years of loyal service, he's been a key member of the team. Please raise a glass this to this guy, and all the hard working mouse jigglers out there. #mousejiggler

Shout out to @kawamataryo.bsky.social for the clever Sky Follower Bridge tool, finds your people from The Other Place who are on here. Not perfect but it's a great start. It's browser extension that requires your PW so remember and *change your password* afterwards if you use it.

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