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John Voorhees and Brian McGill, security heroes at USAID - any info appreciated so I can praise to my students among others. Agency site is...

John Voorhees and Brian McGill, security heroes at USAID - any info appreciated so I can praise to my students among others. Agency site is down now but found cached photo/bio of john. Only other place to see Brian is his now inaccessible LinkedIn account. Help, please.

Jonathan Swift updates the Project 2025 playbook: With the success of mandating by Executive Order that there are exactly two unalterable...

Jonathan Swift updates the Project 2025 playbook: With the success of mandating by Executive Order that there are exactly two unalterable biological sexes, our next EO dictates that all individuals will henceforth be declared either tall or short and that there is no intermediate state or any allowed transition between the two.

Double-plus ungood.

Double-plus ungood.

https://substack.com/@joeljmiller/note/c-65290406?r=47bw3q&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

https://substack.com/@joeljmiller/note/c-65290406?r=47bw3q&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

https://substack.com/@joeljmiller/note/c-61282988?r=asywe&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

https://substack.com/@joeljmiller/note/c-61282988?r=asywe&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.Nothing which is true or beautiful or good...

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

― Reinhold Niebuhr

Teaching cybersecurity to 16-20 year-olds (high school and college) so looking for reliable YouTube channels to recommend, given that so...

Teaching cybersecurity to 16-20 year-olds (high school and college) so looking for reliable YouTube channels to recommend, given that so many are not very text oriented.

Wrong results generated by Google’s new AI Overview feature highlight the fact that Google’s AI is “not a magical fountain of new...

Wrong results generated by Google’s new AI Overview feature highlight the fact that Google’s AI is “not a magical fountain of new knowledge, it is reassembled content from things humans posted in the past indiscriminately scraped from the internet and (sometimes) remixed to look like something plausibly new and ‘intelligent,.” [Jason Koebler at 404 Media]

GPT-4 is a powerful tutor and teaching tool.... With universal free access, the educational value of AI skyrockets .... On the other hand,...

GPT-4 is a powerful tutor and teaching tool.... With universal free access, the educational value of AI skyrockets .... On the other hand, the Homework Apocalypse [https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-homework-apocalypse] will reach its final stages. GPT-4 can do almost all the homework on Earth. And it writes much better than GPT-3.5, with a lot more style and a lot less noticeably “AI” tone. Cheating will become ubiquitous, as will universal high-end tutoring, creating an interesting time for education. --Ethan Mollick <oneusefulthing@substack.com>

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

@Blueteamsherpa An indefinite modifier walks into a bar, complaining about this and that.A metonymy walks into a brass foot rail.A...

@Blueteamsherpa
An indefinite modifier walks into a bar, complaining about this and that.
A metonymy walks into a brass foot rail.
A transferred epithet walks a thirsty road into a bar.
A personification walks into a bar, the very image of thirst.
A spoonerism barks into a war.

The world is comedy to those who think and tragedy to those who feel. (Horace Walpole)

The world is comedy to those who think and tragedy to those who feel. (Horace Walpole)

Inspired by the bio tag “intellectual (non practicing)”

Inspired by the bio tag “intellectual (non practicing)”

"[T]he trajectory of any new technology bends toward money." -David Karpf

"[T]he trajectory of any new technology bends toward money." -David Karpf

A large study by the Brennan Center of the 2016 election found that just 0.0001% of votes across 42 jurisdictions, out of 23.5m votes, were...

A large study by the Brennan Center of the 2016 election found that just 0.0001% of votes across 42 jurisdictions, out of 23.5m votes, were suspected to be non-citizens voting: just 30 incidents in total. [https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/noncitizen-voting-missing-millions?utm_term=6619143ede7e915adc0c49227a3820c2]

KAL’s cartoonhttps://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2024/04/04/kals-cartoonfrom The Economist

KAL’s cartoon
https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2024/04/04/kals-cartoon
from The Economist

"Demand for power is soaring in the US, with new industries such as cryptocurrency and cannabis boosting industry forecasts and...

"Demand for power is soaring in the US, with new industries such as cryptocurrency and cannabis boosting industry forecasts and straining efforts to cut emissions. Cryptocurrency is estimated to use up to 2.3% of the nation’s electricity, while cannabis farming is estimated to use up to 1%."
-- The Guardian: 22 March 2024

January 21, 2025: "We have always been at war with Ukraine."

January 21, 2025: "We have always been at war with Ukraine."

Wife's sanity-saving strategy: In the middle of last night's "ABC Nightly News" switiching to rerun of "The Andy...

Wife's sanity-saving strategy: In the middle of last night's "ABC Nightly News" switiching to rerun of "The Andy Griffith Show."