"the specific angst of a privacy professional having their own data harvested left and right by HR third-party software while ironically applying for jobs in the privacy field"
(seems quite likely to be expanded in scope 🤷🏻♂️)
"pluralistic ignorance" - refers to people holding one view but mistakenly assuming that the majority of others hold a different view, so they keep quiet
"A threat group named 'ResumeLooters' has stolen the personal data of over two million job seekers after compromising 65 legitimate job listing and retail sites using SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks."
"Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible"
"... Sea levels in the Atlantic would rise by a metre in some regions, inundating many coastal cities. The wet and dry seasons in the Amazon would flip, potentially pushing the already weakened rainforest past its own tipping point. Temperatures around the world would fluctuate far more erratically. The southern hemisphere would become warmer. Europe would cool dramatically and have less rainfall. While this might sound appealing compared with the current heating trend, the changes would hit 10 times faster than now, making adaptation almost impossible."
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Americans over $10 billion to scammers in 2023, marking a 14% increase in reported losses compared to the previous year.
there's a scene in Daredevil season one (2015) that called it out... a mobster is lamenting to an old friend reporter that there are no rules anymore, says something like "used to be when a guy got whacked they'd send his wife flowers, now they just send her with him"
"#Tech companies hate you. Not individually – you’re an insignificant data point in a global #matrix of #profit. But they have dehumanised you, stolen and then sold your #attention back to you, destroyed the #social fabric and perverted the human need for #connection into an infrastructure of pure #alienation. This is what I think whenever I pick up my phone, which I can’t stop doing."
"l went to a cabin in the woods without my phone. Could I break its spell?"
as near as anything else to an iron law of capitalism: anything plausibly legal that has a good probability of creating more and larger economic transactions to extract profit from will be done
It's fine to create an ongoing problem if you can make money on mitigation, just be sure to label the mitigation as job creation
It's amazing to me that these execs can deflect questions about their last money pit trend chasing scheme that lost billions by hyping up their next money pit trend chasing scheme that will lose billions
WebMD’s parent company, Internet Brands, released a cringey and abusive internal video threatening their employees to #returnToOffice. “We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point”, the CEO says. “Don’t mess with us”, the video reads at the end. The video features employees dancing and celebrating RTO (at gunpoint? or at least under threat of firing by HR?).
I know corporate videos are all kinda crappy, but this one is…spouse-beating levels of terrible.