It is an insult to this country that Jefferson Davis died in bed, at 81, of bronchitis.

I get the instinct, but Intel of all places? Company’s been a bit of a management & consumer product bumble-fuck for the last few years.

Like there are Freudians who seem like very nice people and who do clever scholarship but it will always be a red flag for me. Especially in psychology 🤫, but literary studies also gets 🙄.

At least part of it is competition amongst each other about grant money: top of the R1 heap, emerging centers of excellence, etc.

And said administrators always looking for the next rung up the ladder.

I was always confused as a #HistSci student about the reverence for Freud outside of the research discipline nominally most associated with clinical analysis. And psychology being indifferent at best.

The German addition with a few years of updates? Like the inverse of “Cancel Culture Panic,” which IIRC started out in German and then got rewritten in English.

I am not writing a thing about gender and math ability and programming because I think it will prevent horrible arguments from resurfacing. I'm not even writing it because I want confused men to hear it.

I am writing it because I want the young women in technical spaces to have what I wish I'd had:

Intense Garfield vs Nermal energy in this story.

I hate how this whole industry keeps gaslighting us into thinking this is fine and normal, and none of this is their responsibility. No, really, this isn't normal. We do not accept such lacking safety standards in any other product. We're not losing our minds or acting irrationally. It's not us!

When I lived in the UK, I definitely struggled to get over American my skepticism/fear of the prepackaged sandwich.

American usually garbage food safety standards and concerns about liability insurance come to mind as factors. Who trusts a gas-station egg salad sandwich?
youtu.be/co3A61kAGr8?...

there’s an entire resilience engineering thesis waiting to be written in the way that financial market participants refuse to stay within the safety envelope because they inevitably accrue the resources to let them push the system into dangerous states

A Phyllis Schlafly for our postmodern era, hooray! Maybe a bit of Midge Decter too.

Edited by Jonah Goldberg.

Connection to the users and their desire paths is the most important path of working in security and nobody goddamn does it. You are gonna make compromises. And they're all gonna be worth it. Because you understand what they want and you're gonna deliver it and they're gonna stop doing stupid shit.

Wow, that zerolag value of the GOP/Fox cross-correlation function value has got to be enormous.