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Tomorrow is #InternationalWomensDay. In the 364 days since the last #IWD, people who identify as #women & girls in the US have seen our rights to our own bodies stripped away, gaslighting intensified, online abuse we endure racheted up.
I frequently reflect on those few weeks a year ago when the twitterverse had a vague sense that I was a guy, and stopped gaslighting me, sealioning me, or outright attacking me: https://twitter.com/DrTCombs/status/1501302408881836033
Today, the White House releases its Cybersecurity strategy. This outlines the approaches to be taken by the US government to secure our digital world.
A fact sheet and link to the full strategy is available here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/02/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-national-cybersecurity-strategy/
Read the full strategy here Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security…
@codefolio the "reserved 50% of profits", is that the HST? Or the fact that friends & family who got in early got much more because less hotspots in pool being rewarded?
Either way kinda reminded me of kickstarter. I found this article, but not much else 🤔
https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/28/5557120/what-if-oculus-rift-kickstarter-backers-had-gotten-equity
I need a rhyme or mnemonic device for non-covarience is "a Cat[] cannot be treated as an Animal[]".
I can get myself to remember it, but I always have to go back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravariance_(computer_science)#Arrays
@codefolio thanks for all the explanation, that's cleared a lot up.
I think I just have difficulty getting from:
"bought $500 hotspot expecting $1000/mo ROI (but now is $1/mo"), to:
"robbing people using opaque securities as bad investments, allowing them to do things like rake off all the profits so everybody else loses"
... especially in the context of a hype cycle where expectations are set by influencers (not the companies involved, even if they are profiting from it)
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