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If you're going to call every new person of color or white woman a "diversity hire" then you also have to call every new white man a "privilege hire". Don't blame me, those are just the rules.

A good thing to consider in your threat models is horrible geesehttps://twitter.com/stevenjcrowley/status/1223977380794064897 …

Those disallowed characters are... something.https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1223042817095680000 …

Simultaneously so impressed with this and massively disappointed that they’re not calling them “Acrobots” imagineering, please hire me for my fabulous punshttps://twitter.com/DisneyParks/status/1012742496139427840 …

Our hoarded codebases work the same way. If you don’t change the habits and incentives that led you to that point, you’ll end up with a tangled mess of services mirroring your tangled mess of monolith code.

if lazy works, they stay lazy. Hence mostly plaintext in the first place. I suspect what we'd consider bad design decisions can be attributed to a desire for their capabilities to work in all expected situations. Good security practices on their part == less success in the wild.

+, Σ, and ∫ are just different evolutions of the same Pokémon

Women were *encouraged* to become computer programmers because men LOOKED DOWN ON THEM and equated writing software to secretarial work. However, in the 1980s men sought to increase their clout in the burgeoning tech industry and pushed women out.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an undead count in possession of a craving for blood, must be in want of a London estate.https://twitter.com/LauraHankin/status/1221839273638404097 …

@uscensusbureau has officially apologized for the WWII block-level data disclosures, but this is far from just ancient history: in 2004 records requests revealed the previous year, BOC supplied ZIP-code-level data on residents of Arab ancestry broken down by nationality to DHS...

A frustrating experience for me is when I spend hours trying to convince a dude of something, and then another colleague says the same thing and the dude goes "oh, ok, makes sense". Sometimes I think I am not convincing, and sometimes I remember this:https://twitter.com/schneidremarks/status/839910253680553988?lang=en …

Here's your periodic reminder that basic research is only "useless" until it suddenly becomes the most important thing in the world. 20 years ago, coronavirology was an obscure sub-field the public never heard about. Good thing we funded it anyway. #nCoV

Oh wow. Sekulow is straight up arguing that U.S. agencies are untrustworthy liars, and Trump should have no obligation to rely on the probably false claims made by the agencies he oversees.

If anyone ever makes the stupid "but maybe she will be too emotional" argument ever again in future we should strap them to a rocket and fire them into the sun