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Random InfoSec guy (mostly architecture) screaming at the world. Maybe a bit of running, politics and puns dotted in there too.

Toots set to auto-delete after 30 days (for server space and so stuff doesn't come back to haunt me years later)

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 3w
Okay. Letโ€™s try this again a year and a half later. Just because itโ€™s one of the most frustrating social media moments in my life. Can I say, โ€œthat looked kinda stagedโ€ this time without bein...
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@nprofile1q... You mean that the dinner that Trump has historically avoided (after having a national sense of humour failure at one many years ago) just happened to be interrupted / he could get rushed away from...

By an "assassination attempt" - which is a well-known tactic by certain foreign actors to increase support for failing politicians prior to a notable election - which happens in a location / way that can be used as supposed-justification for one of his gaudy vanity projects?

What was on the menu for the dinner? Because something definitely smells fishy.
Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 6w
Iโ€™m not a conspiracy theorist or anything ,but this was certainly a choice of a day for DFAS to frantically email all retired reservists and ask us to update our addresses and contact info and tell ...
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@nprofile1q... Wow yours uses email?

In the UK our equivalent sends out letters... except they get stuck long enough in some outbound mailroom that they generate a second one/snarky chaser letter because you didn't respond quick enough to the first.
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"Ceasefires are always good news," says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez. But he says his government "will not applaud those who set the world ablaze just because they turn up with a bucket"

That... is a fecking great line.
Kevin Beaumont · 6w
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UK society to millennials: "You need to make sure you're adding lots of money to your private pension pots - otherwise you won't have any money when you want to retire... Save! Save! Save!"

A bunch of old men (aged 70+) - not even from in the UK, or even Western Europe - decide to start unnecessary wars and wipe out investments in pensions plummet.

It's fine. I've always assumed I was going to die at my work desk anyway.
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Took a while to find the phrase that @nprofile1q... used recently that I really liked that summed up this situation.

Reverse-centaur

This article screams that Burger King would really just prefer to get rid of the squishy human part of their system. The next best thing... make that squishy human subservient to some lines of code that effectively tells them to "smile more".

Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk2zygg0k3o
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Paul Schoe · 11w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq3xpsqgppq9x895fcft0uy0ue3g9f4txt0d0vrdhu6tyx3650wg4q0rch26 You must admire the PR-person who came up with this statement: 'The AI system, called BK Assistant, compiles "FRIENDLINESS SCORES" at the fast-food chain's locations based on employee...