Back when I was a unit commander, I despaired at how little the USAF taught senior NCOs about practical leadership. So I created my own seminar. Per @LisaForteUK 's request, here's my professional development reading list. /1

Jon Stewart’s carpet bombing the RW echo chamber tonight. Wow. 😮

My local pub is celebrating their 13th anniversary. All a’y’all are welcome to join us. Ron’s Corner Tavern in Bedford, Texas.

The favorite book of many vibe coders who don't understand the basics...

Summer is traditionally “intern season” in the USA. This year, I’m running a session of mine outside of an office. teiss.co.uk/culture--people/…

I just dropped a ton of TTRPG questions on a Twitter bud. Got curious. Do any of you DMs run “pitch sessions” before your games? Where each player pitches three PC ideas and their peers choose which they want that player to run?

It’s time to significantly upgrade your #security posture against deception-based attacks and vulnerabilities arising from human error. business-reporter.co.uk/huma…

Just finished DMing a 7.5 hour Sword & Sourcery TTRPG session and don’t have the energy to get off the couch. Ask me anything.

Nice try, Twitter. You're *not* going to make me triskidaeophobic. #MyXAnniversary

“What happened to the tall baddie, sarge?” “We chased him through the garment district. Poor bastard fell into vat of purple dye and drowned.” “Zounds! You mean …?” “Yeah … Thai died.”

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The funniest part of cybersecurity’s future is watching companies feed their private data, code, workflow, and customer context into Claude or ChatGPT, then act shocked when it outpaces them and they start layoffs Huge 'leopard ate my face and is still billing me monthly' vibes

What’s important about a number? Only what we can use it for in a life-long quest to teach, support, and encourage others. business-reporter.co.uk/futu…

I'm so incredibly available to write this movie and 17 sequels. It's like the movie Wall Street, but with dolls. COMIC ◆ smbc-comics.com/comic/crimin… PATREON ◆ patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/

If you don't use a long, random, and unique password for your AI tools like ChatGPT coupled with strong multi-factor authentication (at least app-based MFA, FIDO2 solution recommended if a match for your threat model/digital literacy), it's imperative you make those changes ASAP. ChatGPT (and other AI tool) credentials are quickly becoming some of the most interesting targets for attackers looking to steal logs of your private questions, extort you, and pivot to your financial accounts to steal money.

I’m singing along to New Model Army records and it’s midnight. Ask me anything.

Friendly reminder Cybersecurity is a scam because I show up ~20 days a month to fight this mythical dragon known as risk which cannot actually be entirely measured or defended against and for some reason they keep paying me exorbitant amounts of money to try

Your non-technical users aren’t ignoring your behaviour-based controls to be subversive; they lack the framing needed to understand the issues those controls address. business-reporter.co.uk/risk…

YES. YES. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS. I started a spreadsheet in 2019 tracking every category where America is number one globally and people keep asking me to stop bringing it to Thanksgiving. We lead the PLANET in medical debt. Not the developed world. The PLANET. There are countries where "medical bankruptcy" doesn't translate because the CONCEPT doesn't exist in their language. We invented it. We EXPORTED it as a field of academic study. German researchers fly here to observe it happening in real time. They take NOTES. We are a living laboratory and the experiment is "what if you made people choose between insulin and rent." We chose. Exposed. This is the thing we're best at. We lead in incarceration. More humans in cages than China. China has 1.4 billion people and an authoritarian government and we STILL have more prisoners. We beat AUTHORITARIANS at their own game using FREEDOM. We did it with both parties cooperating across NINE administrations. Name ONE other bipartisan project that lasted fifty years. You can't. This is our moon landing. We just don't film it. We lead in insulin pricing. $300 for a vial that costs $30 in Canada. Canada is VISIBLE FROM DETROIT. You can see Canada from a Walgreens parking lot where someone is deciding between half-doses. The same molecule. The same manufacturer. The border adds $270 of LEADERSHIP. That's what leading looks like. It looks like a 900% markup on not dying. We lead in mass shootings. Not per capita. Not adjusted. RAW TOTAL. We have so many that researchers had to invent subcategories. School. Workplace. Concert. Grocery store. We have a TAXONOMY. Other countries have incidents. We have a CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM with peer-reviewed SORTING CRITERIA. That's infrastructure. That's RIGOR. We lead in healthcare spending AND in maternal mortality among rich nations. Simultaneously. We spend $4.3 trillion a year and mothers die at rates that would concern a developing nation. We spent MORE money to get WORSE outcomes so consistently that it can't be incompetence. Incompetence wouldn't be this RELIABLE. This takes PLANNING. This is an ACHIEVEMENT of systems working exactly as designed across multiple industries cooperating to extract value from the specific biological event of someone trying not to die. We lead in per-capita spending on our military while our veterans sleep in tents. We allocated $886 billion to defense and our soldiers come home to a VA waitlist so long that some of them die on it. We spent the money. We just didn't spend it on THEM. The money went somewhere. It led the way. Just not toward the people who fought. I printed this tweet on a 24x36 poster. It's in my living room. My wife moved out last month but she didn't take the poster so I think she agrees.

Should it be illegal to freak out an AI tool? This might be the case that changes your mind. teiss.co.uk/culture--people/…