Just got asked to be the featured speaker, nay cheerleader, at something called the "AI integration summit," which appears to be aimed at helping employees and management feel less threatened by AI. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
"As a quick recap, the summit’s goal is to help business owners integrate AI responsibly and strategically. It will focus on topics like ethical AI, overcoming fear around AI adoption, and creating an AI-positive environment for employees. I think your expertise would bring great depth to these discussions, helping attendees see what’s possible with AI in today’s business landscape."
If you're an infosecurity person having trouble finding work, or if you know someone fitting that description, I would like to talk with you. I'm writing an article about the difficulty finding jobs in the sector, despite reports of a skills shortage. Pls repost and contact me if you would be willing to chat. Thank you!
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@XenoDangerEvil same here, no professional, but then again most people don't want the super professional jargon. They want something they can do now
I do hope you realise, when the fascists have you cornered on the street, it’s not going to be Brad from Microsoft that comes to your rescue. It’s going to be the anti-fascists you labelled as “too radical”. Brad from Microsoft is going to walk straight past you and head up to his 12th floor office to kick off his morning meeting to deliver the software that handles the deportations… (11/13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz6RQA2kGqw
We need more Divines
Note to USA folks, ❗trans folks especially❗.
A passport is:
- Fundamentally useful
- A federal ID
- Recognized in most state/local level contexts
- *You can change your gender marker on it through pure self ID, with nothing medical required*. "X" is an option. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html
- Normally 4-6 weeks to process (faster if u pay extra); that means if you apply for one this week, you easily get it before Jan 20.
- Lasts 10 years
Perhaps apply for one (or renew it, to reset yr 10 years) soon.
@lochnix If you don't have it in you now, it's your turn to rest and rebuild. I'm sidelined from protesting because of terrible PTSD, and I do feel useless and empty at the moment. But we all have other skills. Can you support the panicky and suicidal with kind messages online? Plan a game night to help other protesters meet and recover and get a break? Cook a struggling person a big dish of pasta?
If you were out marching, and talking to politicians, you're prob already a decent person. The way you spend your energy now *will* be a force for good in the world, even if it doesn't feel like a direct hit on some Nazi's nose.
“They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”
~Rebecca Solnit
#quote
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/if-donald-trumps-win-scares-you-here-are-some-words-of-encouragement-to-help-today
I want to be sympathetic but the current round of "we lost because you suck" is just tedious, pathetic, and hard to make excuses for. And that's just here on Mastodon between people who seem generally pretty decent overall.
The tent is big enough to hold everyone's priors if we're still gonna fight. Letting it get smaller is a sign of giving ground. Not in my opinion wise at the moment.
I'm not saying the disputes are silly, they aren't. They are serious and deep. I'm saying they are foolish. Tactically and strategically unwise. A gift to the worst human beings alive who seek to do the worst they can as broadly, deeply, competently, and quickly as possible.
So, don't sweat the big stuff. Toes to the fucking line.
I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!