EDIT:✨️ It's today! ✨️

Kickstarter update: You're invited to the Digital Book Launch Party for Space Dragons: Cosmic Survivors!

It's Sunday at 6pm UTC+1 (or 4pm UTC-1, which is what I accidentally booked in). I'd love to see you there!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/veocorva/space-dragons/posts/4637929

Hello! I'm streaming Spyro Reignited in about an hour at about 2pm UTC+1.

This is my second attempt at Spyro 3! Hopefully I appreciate it more this time.

Come join me! I would love the company.

https://twitch.tv/vicorva

I just finished reading a delightful book. It was everything I hoped for and simultaneously unpredictable (to me) in the twists and turns of the plot and events.

Delightful ensemble of characters I recognize myself in and sympathise complete with including their flaws and less mainstream aspects.

Wonderfully deep and nuanced world building including space for going many different places, and simultaneously recognizable and unique.

It is of course Space Dragons: Cosmic Survivors by @vicorva !

Ballerina fountains, Malgorzata Chodakowska, bronze, 2024

#Art

"There's this expression, 'cursed by the gods'. What does that curse entail?"

"Literally, 'may people behave like humans at you'," the god said.

"Ouch! And 'blessed by the gods'?"

"Same thing."

"How can it be the same?"

"The difference," said the god, "is which people's attention you catch."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

A startup is putting military-style drones in high school ceilings. Ceiling-mounted. Charging. Waiting. And when something happens, a pilot in Austin, Texas, decides whether to deploy pepper gel on your kid's school. I'm not saying the problem isn't real. It absolutely is. But read that back.... in schools. We've taken a Ukrainian battlefield tactic against Russian soldiers and ported it to Deltona High School in Florida. The co-founder literally said the idea came from watching drone videos of the war in Ukraine. The chief pilot described it as "cheating in a video game after you die." These are children.

Here's what's not in the headline:

🔒 The drones use an encrypted connection — but the article notes they're potentially vulnerable to cyberattack. A compromised drone in a crowded hallway isn't a security tool; it's a weapon pointed in the wrong direction.

⚖️ Mithril reserves the right to act independently during an attack, without waiting for law enforcement. A private company operating remotely is making use-of-force decisions at a school.

💰 Florida and Georgia approved $500K+ each for this. A group of Texas parents raised $200K more. That's real money going to ceiling drones instead of mental health services, counselors, or de-escalation programs.

The ACLU said it plainly: when force becomes a zero-risk remote action, it gets overused. Axon tried a Taser drone for schools in 2022, and its own ethics board killed it. Mithril is picking up where that got dropped.

I teach cybersecurity. I've spent years in boardrooms helping organizations think through risk. And the risk calculus here isn't just about whether the drone works. It's about what we're normalizing when we turn schools into drone-monitored combat zones and call it progress.

"This is the future," said the sheriff's captain.

I hope not.

https://www.wsj.com/business/a-startup-is-supplying-drones-to-high-schools-to-stop-mass-shootings-a7800ade

#SchoolSafety #Cybersecurity #Leadership #security #privacy #cloud #infosec