Here’s something I saw on a 2017 business trip to San Francisco: The retro-futuristic lobby of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.
The hotel was a primary location for two movies I loved: Mel Brooks’s “High Anxiety” and “Time After Time,” where Malcolm McDowell plays a time-traveling H.G. Wells.
I have no doubt that Adam Mosseri and his team are talented, hard-working and sincere about making Threads a great citizen of the fediverse. And I have little doubt that they will change those intentions or be replaced when Threads hits the final stages of the “embrace, extend, extinguish” cycle.
Filipino police freed hundreds of slaves toiling in a romance scam operation [theregister.com] — One worker, who tipped off police, was “promised a job as a chef. Police said he bore signs of torture in the form of electrocution marks.”
Thomas Friedman: What Schumer and Biden Got Right About Netanyahu [nytimes.com] — Israel needs a plan for peaceful coexistence with Palestinians after the war, and Netanyahu has nothing to offer.
A conversation with Stephanie ‘Snow’ Carruthers, Chief People Hacker at IBM X-Force Red [securityweek.com]
Her partner planned to attend DEFCON. She went with him, more for Vegas than DEFCON. But after falling asleep in a reverse engineering malware presentation (“It went completely over my head,” she explained) she was encouraged to go and find something of more interest. She did, and found a lock-picking village. Within a couple of hours, she had picked her first lock.
17 percent of Americans report experiencing long Covid. That is an extraordinarily high number of sick people. [usnews.com]
“How Are You? Just Give Me Your Stock Answer. No, really. I want to know your stock answer." [ironicsans.beehiiv.com] — Me: “I’m good. You?” Or, if the other person asks first, I just say, “I’m good.” Except often I forget and say, “I’m good, you?” leading to an infinite “How are you” loop.
My editor won’t sent me to to KubeCon in Paris, France. She says if KubeCon comes to Paris, Texas, she’ll talk about it.
