A #CrowdSstrike offensive summary (update):

* we know Flacon updates are not verified prior to being enabled
* we know that they don't do staged updates
* we know a lot of large customer names
* we know the DR plans (or lack thereof) of said large customers
* we know the systemic reactivity

Learned opinion: it does not look good.

For those involved with the darker side of cybersecurity this is a monstrously useful set of data points.

“The rest of the thesis contains careful, reasoned findings and figures, but on this one page, the author-scientist can release all the pent-up emotion they couldn’t express elsewhere.”

A beautiful journey through PhD acknowledgements from Tabitha Carvan.

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/unexpected-poetry-phd-acknowledgements

The year is 2024 and Oklahoma has just passed a law stating that public schools must teach the Bible in the classroom. What the legislators who passed this law failed to realize is that many of the teachers who will be teaching that text are not Christians. Some are atheist, some others are Jewish, still others are Muslim, and even others are Baha'i, Sikh, and a million other faiths. The other thing the legislators failed to realize is that public schools don't have a "religion" class.

So by 2025, many of the people who favored that law began to see the inevitable outcome. Yes, the Bible was being taught - as literature, and by people who are openly critical of its theological implications because of their own faiths. What it's not being taught as is as religion. And as a piece of literature, the Bible can be endlessly and critically examined. By the end of the 2025 school year, hundreds of thousands of parents were surprised and shocked to discover that their children had many questions about this "Bible" text that they had been studying in school. Questions they were not prepared to answer. Questions their spiritual leaders labeled as blasphemy.

By 2026, a growing grass roots movement spearheaded by these parents passes a new federal law. The Bible must not only be taught in all schools - it must be taught correctly. The law outlines how exactly the Bible should be interpreted, how those interpretations should be learned in the classroom, and how those interpretations should be tested. Furthermore, it contains punishments for any teacher found teaching a different interpretation of the text of the Bible.

By 2029, these new laws have been amended several times, as Christians from many different denominations find themselves suddenly unhappy with the specific interpretations of various parts of the biblical text. Catholics, being by far the largest group, have pushed many of these alterations through, making it illegal to teach, for instance, the idea that the Pope is not the embodiment of God on Earth, or the idea that during communion, the bread and wine do not literally transform into the flesh and blood of Jesus. This has made many Protestant parents extremely upset, and they have begun pulling their children out of public school. This however has not helped, as the government now has final say on every aspect of when, where, and how the Bible must be taught - even during home schooling.

By the year 2032, the U.S. government now has total control over all interpretive religious decisions. All forms of protestantism are now illegal, including Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. The current legal battle is over whether it's right to teach that any woman who is on her period and shows her face in the city limits should be literally stoned to death, or merely given an equivalent punishment to public stoning.

Step by step, year by year, Christians voted away their ability to interpret their own region. They have gotten exactly what they always wanted, and they hate it.

When he says Project 2025 isn't his, he's telling the truth. He has no idea what's in it and doesn't care. All he wants is to stand up at rallies and vent, and have his own Rick's Cafe in Casablanca and be Rick.

http://scripting.com/2024/07/20/124109.html#a124154

I'm about halfway through Being Autistic (And What That Actually Means) by @niamhgarvey and I love so far.

I bought it primarily for my kids to read (and I think it will work well for that), but even as an adult I think it's a great accessible summery of what it means to be autistic.

Reading the paragraph from this snippet below about proprioception... do you know that feeling when an example feels.a bit too specific to be entirely made up ? 😀 (I don't think have done that, but I could absolutely see myself doing it 😀.)

Going to take a break now to not overload my autistic brain... 😀

These two photographs are separated by only 66 years.

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