Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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when open doors let in all the wrong people
Bots use up more CPU cycles on the average Web site than humans, and bots are increasingly not there to help. Where in days gone by, a bot might be indexing for a search engine to help people you don’t know find your site, today the mostly exist to feed giant statistical machines that calculate…
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unintended consequences
Unintended consequences are the only consequences that really matter besides the consequences you feel because of the actions of someone else doing stuff outside of your control. When Putin invaded Ukraine it caused the EU to un-hook from Russian energy, which was, in retrospect, not nearly as difficult as they had been telling themselves because…
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dragon rules
May you live dragon-free
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motd: 20250308
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psy-op
Asymmetric Warfare is a doctrine. It is an effective doctrine. It is effective because the cost of offensive action is low and the cost defensive or responsive action is high. Skirmishing using Asymmetric Warfare is small – it can be indistinguishable from a Lone Wolf or an angry mob. What these small-scale actions have that…
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an actual quote from an imaginary conversation
My issue with you is not whether or not you are going to hell, rather, it is about how long you are taking to get there. I don’t care to save souls from damnation. If I’m honest I never have, and that was probably the sliver that opened the door for my departure from organized…
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private data, public data, public information
If you have a pile of data, you have three choices:
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the gravity of Truth
“I’m sick” is the lie we tell so we don’t have to deal with the gravity of, “I’m dying faster than normal”.
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motd: 20250301
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happy birthday
My birthday starts in ten minutes. I grew up in the cold war ten miles from a SAC base, so we didn’t bother with duck and cover or fallout shelters — we were dead if the nukes flew. So not knowing if we’d make it another year isn’t a new feeling. But it has been…