I really wish @zeteo.com would publish on another platform. They are one of the few publications that I have to open Substack for.

Something you know. Password. Something you have. RSA token. Something you are. Fingerprint. Something you pretend to be. Happy.

I would talk to Brendan Gregg honestly. He’s done more work with profiling than anyone.

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, "My momma’s ashes were displayed on my table in my tent. I came back one day — and EVERYTHING was gone, including her ashes. They were clearly labled ‘In loving memory — my mom, my best friend…’ and her name. Her ashes were all that I had left of her. No one stored my stuff. I called tons of places and NO ONE knew anything. It is very difficult for me still, everyday. No warning, no remorse, nothing."

A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “It’s hard to narrow my list down. One particularly devastating (for me) sweep took EVERYTHING I owned at the time I was gone from my spot for a couple nights. Save for my wallet, ID, and the clothes on my back, I had not brought anything with me. Unaware of the sweep, I returned to find my tent, my cot, all my clothing, several files with important document, literally everything; all of it, gone.”

A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “Lost my clothes tents more than once all my personal items i.e. pictures family photos and kids birth certificates and it really sucked how they did it and bulldozed everything I owned litterally bulldozed it.”

A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “Winter bedding & personal memorabilia pictures, things that can’t be replaced. One winter in the middle of the night they came and took bedding only now they mess with us every day now I try to keep it to a backpack and cart try to.”

People who experienced homeless encampment sweeps in Washington state and Tennessee wrote about the impact it had on their lives.

Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

The correct framework for talking about this, KOSA, Visa and Mastercard, FOSTA/SESTA, and all other crackdowns on consensually created adult content

Prohibition.

We've tried it, it didn't work, it could never have worked, and it will never work.

Add a Motorola shoulder mic and you can do anything you want

I think about this post all the time. It’s very good advice for engineers on any level of the ladder.

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

You should look at Peak Design’s new bag.

Drawing of an angry cat typing “I hope this email finds you before I DO” on a laptop

Status: 😹

How California’s faltering high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history.

The thing is we know very specifically the damaging role of consultants on this project. The lack of in-house capacity (10 state employees!) led to outsourcing absolutely everything to people whose goal is less building trains than maximizing profit.
www.latimes.com/local/califo...

don’t go YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

i don’t think dems should attend the trump speech on tuesday. skip it! youtube.com/shorts/w2mTb...

Zero calorie sweetener linked to blood clots and risk of heart disease, study finds | CNN In a head-to-head comparison, drinks containing erythritol, a sweetener in stevia and keto products, raised the risk of blood clots while sugar water did not.

I’m really concerned about stevia. Obviously everyone has different risks, but I worry it contributed to my dad’s heart attack. www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/h...

Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.

My dad died a few months ago and I still have his iPhone.

I wish there was a service where I could send his iPhoto library and get back a book of the good/meaningful pictures, minus all the other stuff.

This is annoying, but also, don’t post pictures of your boarding pass on the internet. It has enough information to allow someone to call the airline and mess with your (current or future) flight itinerary.

The people behind and part of this community have been a huge influence on my own learning and progression around systems thinking and resilience engineering. I’m glad to see the community organizing itself—and to be a member of it all.

My absolutely lukewarm take of the day is that more organizations should hire librarians

Deputy Chief Digital Services Officer - Digital and Data Services (0932) The San Francisco Digital and Data Services team is transforming how residents interact with the City by building services designed around the people that use them. San Franciscans need services from ...

hi, I'm hiring a new right-hand person at work! are you great at administration, a web & data advocate with practical experience, a strong mentor & manager & all around wonderful teammate with a desire to make SF's digital ~things~ better for people? come work with me! careers.sf.gov/role?id=3743...

So many unfinished side quests

Blame the 21st amendment. Now, all it would take is CA or NY to start requiring ingredients on alcoholic drinks to fix this.

This canned cocktail is actually good.

Expiration dates are a fantasy. Enjoy your oatmeal at your own pace. www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/...

I’m firmly on the side of the copyright holders here. It’s reasonable that any tool should have a proper license to the training data it uses.

The creation of genAI (the tool, not the output) is definitely protected free expression, as all software is. Having limits on what it uses for its training data seems entirely fair though.

At this point the tool exists. There’s no universe in which it ceases to exist.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwuCjwL/

The EA cult at the heart of silicon valley is just the culmination of the whole ethos, which is based on such a failed understanding of systems, humanity, value, purpose, ethics and people.

They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.

Buying real estate in the United States is an exercise in navigating weaponized information asymmetry

This is basically a cheat sheet for any systems design interview you ever come up with. www.codereliant.io/scaling-soft...