First day back post surgery.
My company let me and my team go. They completely abandoned Security Engineering
To make it even worse I just got multiple folks reaching out to let me know that my now former boss just threw my team and I under the bus. Said we didn't do anything of value and that letting us go was easy.
Given we're both DEFCON goons and he was someone I considered to be a friend, that really twists the knife. I just hope he'll be man enough to talk to me about what he did, but his actions so far indicate otherwise
So I'm looking for work and I've got several engineers looking with me. I'd love to get us hired as a package deal, but right now we'll take what we can get.
#ElonMusk has already said he wants GOP to take the White House. He has begun using the major-media-identified “Democrat Party” *slur* publicly (there is no such party; it is the Democratic Party). He has mass unsuspended/unbanned far-right feeds even as he has now begun mass-suspending/banning targeted *left-wing* feeds on the explicit, public demand of a list of 5,000 proposed accounts provided by neo-Nazis & other white supremacists.
@SethAbramson
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-neo-nazis-and-other
As far as Twitter is concerned, I'm not going back until it's cleaned up and the trash taken out. One thing I was taught by my old-school parents is "You are known by the company you keep." Yes, I know this is prejudicial, often unjustified and unfair but it's how life actually works. It's how people think.
If Musk wants to turn Twitter into Parler I won't be there for it.
#twitter #musk #migration
Florida sheriff calls for disfigurement of students who don't behave - https://boingboing.net/2022/12/01/florida-sheriff-announces-old-time-punishments-like-disfigurement-are-back-for-school-kids.html
How to Talk About Diversity & Inclusion With People Who Disagree
Ask them to define terms and help you to understand. Communication often fails when participants don’t agree to the definitions of certain terms and end up talking past one another. If you can agree on certain terms at the start of the conversation, you’ve already accomplished common ground and the communication may be more respectful and effective.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #blackdiaspora #dei
A thing I keep seeing on my feed: posts from white people being so proud of themselves for how inclusive, kind, and welcoming the Mastodon community is.
A thing I don't see: posts from Black people talking about how inclusive, kind, and welcoming Mastodon is.
Don't declare victory against hatred without checking in with the victims of hatred.
OK, now for the feature presentation. Zork3! And, it works, too!
I might make a backup copy of the two working programs before seeing how long it takes me to get eaten by a Grue, but I'm looking forward to playing this on a superior keyboard to my #Commodore64. #retrogaming
For your amusement. A strange conflict between a Great Dane and a banana peel.
https://youtu.be/P5f9bpaK04Q
After 14 years of litigation, criminal charges, denials, harrassment of victims, fracking company in Pennsylvania ordered to accept full responsibility for destroying town's water supply, ordered to pay for a whole new water system, ordered to take responsibility for any additional problems for the next 75 years.
#justice #environment #pollution #fracking
This day really sucks. Christine McVie dead at 79. #FleetwoodMac #ChristineMcVie
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/entertainment/christine-mcvie-obit/index.html
Canada Steals Cultural Works From The Public By Extending Copyright Terms.
#canada #copyright
Seasonal reminder to NOT donate to the Salvation Army, no matter how much you like the brass band. They have an organisational track record of being homophobic, transphobic and anti-sex worker, and this ideology pervades how they "help" people. Donate your money somewhere else, or better still, directly to homeless people.
To ALL the advertisers abandoning the #birdsite because musk is obviously turning twitter into a far-right fascist propaganda tool, WHY in the hell are you still advertising on FOX News which has the same business model?
#justsayin #politics #democracy #democrat #media
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