A Society That Lost Focus.

White-collar work can now be summarised as trying to reply as fast as possible to every single email until calling it a day and starting again in the morning, a process which essentially prevents any deep thinking (…)

Dear Beautiful Beloved

Donald Vader’s USA is not rooting for the underdog, anymore. They embrace being The Empire they have been all along.

Relevant: The other Steve is not having it #bullying

Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing.

(…) real psychological safety isn’t about avoiding conflict. It’s about creating an environment where challenging ideas makes the team stronger, not weaker.

OffSec’s Exploit Database Archive.

Google Dorks.

A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop.

Relevant: PaperWM.

A through-and-through adorable toy project 😻

purrcrypt: A fur-ociously secure encryption tool that encodes your secrets as adorable cat and dog sounds, using real elliptic curve cryptography with a playful disguise.

Lilith Wittmann spricht über Motivation und Männer in IT-Berufen.

Hacking ist ein schrecklicher Beruf. Man arbeitet in der Regel mit irgendwelchen Technik-Dudes, kommt dann als Externe für eine Sicherheitsprüfung dazu, hackt deren System und dann muss man diesen Männern erklären, warum sie wirklich ein Problem haben. Manchmal kostet es mehr Zeit, Männer davon zu überzeugen, dass sie ein Problem haben, als die Problemlösung selbst.

Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

The platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications.

This. Is. Wild. 😳

“Let’s hire an ISIS suicide bomber to blow him up in the street!”: Europe’s most wanted man plotted my murder — and that of my colleague.

The verdicts handed down by the Old Bailey have put an end to this particular plot, but Marsalek himself remains at large — as we now know — under Moscow’s protection. If there’s one sobering lesson I’ve taken from this ordeal, it’s that every time a thwarted plan for retribution fizzles, another one may appear. We live and work in the shadow of a Kremlin that abhors pesky truth-tellers — and from my vantage point, it will take more than one guilty verdict to change that.

Gramsci revisited.

One of Gramsci’s most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the Prison Notebooks that ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’.

This has traditionally been taken to refer to the emergence of fascism against a background of capitalist crisis and failure of anti-capitalist forces. However, a closer examination of the textual and historical context of that sentence indicates that Gramsci was more likely to have been referring to the pci’s ultraleft turn in conjunction with the Comintern’s Third Period.

Relevant: The original author of the phrase “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” is Romain Rolland*, not Gramsci who “expanded and developed the initial phrase, according to his technique of adopting a previously existing category and giving it a new and richer meaning”.

* Or maybe his spouse or sister who was then left forgotten as the patriarchy tends to do.