"Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way." — George Polya

JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat excellent insight into seal behavioral psychology😂🥹

In the mean time, lean on each other. Use your current support networks and build those networks up.

Mutual Aid means you give AND you take. It isn't charity. It's support structures that don't rely on those that would exploit you.

Plant food. Share food. Learn about your local food banks. Contribute now if you can. TAKE NOW IF YOU NEED! That means your money for rent can go a long way.

Those with means and equity can look into buying multi-family buildings (think apartment buildings and condos... yes those are for sale). And setting up tenant co-ops.

Others can form renters unions. Think of it as a reverse HOA where you organize to protect against landlord exploitation.

Use your libraries and boost them. They have free internet and free hotspots. Free streaming. Free education. On top of free books. They are third spaces with free meeting rooms. - Use the library to organize your local unions.

Those that are out of work need to hold weekly meetings with each other. Compare notes. Share leads. One person gets in and can help hire the others up. Form unions when you get hired.

#mutualAid #collectiveBargaining #UnionStrong #infosec

Make no mistake, the massive layoffs are intentional SHORT TERM sabotage by business decision makers with the goal of LONG TERM benefits for them.

They're trying to drive down the costs of labor. Specifically, they're firing everyone so that we'll accept lower wages upon rehire.

In #infosec, this will backfire on them.

By firing everyone, the level of security technical debt will increase that they'll have to hire everyone AND THEN SOME back at even higher rates.

So. Neat. Fucking great.

In the mean time, research how to create unions. Start doing so. Tech folks and infosec are not used to needing collective bargaining. You need it now.

Learn about the concepts of Economic Leverage and how it works as an individual contributor and when that fails how Collective Leverage works. The whole "if you fire that one person, we all quit" sort of thing works.

You all hack systems every day. You all study Social Engineering and combat it every day.

Hack the labor market. Socially engineer our mutual protection.

#mutualAid #collectiveBargaining #UnionStrong

The semantic search engine of over 25,000 CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive is back:

http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM is once again helping people discover long-lost computer history, forgotten images and music, and endless other buried treasures.

It was gone for half a year. Now it's here to stay. Enjoy.

I don't see the point of creating tech content for an empty room.

The health of the tech community is sick, and it's time to start community healing.

I'll come back to the tech community.
But it's time to start fighting for psychological safety in the workplace, support for disability in the workplace, support for war displacement, and more.

Tech is political. Sometimes we think we can solve everything with tech. Maybe it's time to put that thought to the test.
#tech #kotlin #android

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

Anyone feel like they have undiagnosed autism? Or maybe diagnosed later in life? I’ve always had my suspicions and have been told I’m probably on the spectrum. I’m curious to listen to anyone willing to share their experience :)

one of the shittiest things computer science ever did to the world was calling any kind of automatic learning and reinforcement process "artificial intelligence," so now every algorithm, now matter how banal, is now "AI."

AI is now meaningless, like so many terms before it, marketed into oblivion

The new slang for tiny offspring/children: threat actors 😂

#DFIR Thoughts 💭
It's OK to feel unsure of oneself.
It's OK realize you don't know everything.
It's OK to constantly search and grow every day.

Proficiency is not point in time.
Proficiency is a continuous climb that has no end.
You belong, you are needed, and never believe anyone who say otherwise.

Those that stop growing want others to stop growing too.
Don't let them take away your spark or drown you in cynicism.
The work is important and so are you.
We need you.

#DigitalForensics

We have to be careful not to set off panic in each other but thoughtfully sharing concern, stress, and fear over the state of U.S. politics can be a step toward building the sort of camaraderie we need to fight together for democracy, rule of law, and each other’s protection. I am continuously learning how to listen to others when they are scared and how to express my own frights. Connection with other people, on and off line - that is a big key to staying strong.

Newton's own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica.

The Cambridge papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including early drafts and Newton’s annotated copies of Principia Mathematica have been added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register. The chief attractions in the Cambridge collection are Newton’s own copies of the first edition of the Principia (1687), covered with his corrections, revisions and additions for the second edition.

via Cambridge University Library

#books #mathematics

Ignite Minds, Not Books

#Toronto #TorontoPublicLibrary #MetroRef #BannedBooks #MomsForLiberty

Joined a hellotalk voice chat, talked about reverse colonialism, and came out with a new book recommendation (Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid). great thanksgiving.

i see so many people today fired from jobs and immediately looking to go wage slaving for some other corporation.

please consider alternatives. band together, build cooperatives. let's claw back some amount of control over our lives. i, for one, am sick of corporate feudal lords and am looking for accomplices for an escape.

https://tech-coops.xyz/
#FediHire #GetFediHired #FediJobs #LookingForJob #cooperatives