August 2020
The night smells of campfire, but it’s the hills in nearby Cherry Calley Burning. 😢 https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1289431001773441030
@leashless Oh come on Vinay. You know exactly the possibilities of emptiness and you have a responsibility to those who look up to you to not wallow in despair publicly! Find your private place to vent and feed the demons there.
Spent the morning explaining some of my thoughts on emptiness and the medium of time using 3D printers as an analogy. It seems to work well. Now to unload furniture I brought from LA yesterday.
imageRT @maddieevelasco: Why you shouldn’t eat at restaurants during covid-19: A thread by a host
@busynessgirl Congrats! ❤️
❤️❤️❤️🙃 https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1289604884136771585
@leashless Which truth you talking bout there? Cause absolute truth doesn’t contain optimism nor despair. And relative truth is well... relative. But maybe you are the despair expression to mine of non-dual possibilities. Good luck, bad luck, who knows? 💓
@busynessgirl I found what I wanted on craigslist for 30% of the price and a harrowing 4 hour drive!
@leashless I don't ascribe to that "stick" to make a better world thinking. Negativity is a virus you choose to infect others with. "Realism" considers "good luck" & "bad luck" equally. Since we are addicted to negative thinking, a realistic view is often considered optimistic. 🪳💥⛲️🌻💖
@m_sundaley @leashless Vinay is always right in vinay's mind. But we are all vinay's mind and vinay's mind is all ours too. 🙃
@leashless Love your judgements Vinay. Have a good one!
The sky is orange from the fires, the air smoky, it's 104; but the plants are green & the gambel quails have flocks of over 30 in number & run across the acreage. There are friends & goodness that is easy to see if you are not afraid to look. Paradises are build in spite of hell.
@leashless The way you interpret this says more about you than me. If love is a not good motivation, I own it! Sending you all the love in full sincerity past, present and future, my friend! 💖
Orange sky, ash falling like snow. The smell of charred desert heat.
Tonight’s sunset is straight out of Bladerunner Las Vegas, complete with the bees. The sky is orange, a ripple of blue between pink clouds & ash fall. The wind is a hot comforting smell of camp fire. It’s post apocalyptic for sure, but I’m as snug & safe as can be in the dome.
Dogs are here. I ate spaghetti with veggies. Spent the day moving furniture, but you never know how your future will be. I am safe as long as the fires stay South-west of San Gorgonio. But bother is every for sure in 2020.❤️
@lynnlangit So far. The fire is behind a couple mountain ranges. I hope it stays there.
@SSquire
imageThe sky is orange and filled with ash and smells of fire. #applevalleyfire #twentyninepalms https://www.instagram.com/p/CDXyLH8hOCa/?igshid=3921rly3xvhq
@roxannedarling Thank you. We could use an early monsoon.
@PJManney Thank you! <3
@CorylusW Yup! And the flocks keeps expanding and that makes me so happy!!
@michelelelel 😢❤️
@SuchiPahi Yes!
Apparently there's an evac warning 25 miles from me. The fire would have to go through 3 towns before it hits me, but we're all rural desert, & it's the hot 100+ degrees, & we can have high winds. All I can do is breathe & pack a go bag. #cherryvalley #applefire
Full moon rising, fire on the mountain looks like lava flows, crash on the 10 and I stop. A moment to reflect on the glorious fragility of life. 2020 has proven that att bets are off. All we can do is surrender to the will of our emptiness.
@TJL2080 Destination unknown, but soon I go to dreamland. :-)
@michaelsherrill Yes on smoke plumes, air quality is bad.
@PapaLalaBear1 Thanks!
@katgreenart Totally!
@pacoid Thanks!
@mike_kernell Love that picture in my mind.
@petervan Thank you!
@ingenesist Thanks!
@FuselJeremiad Love that
So I drove by the fire on the way home and it’s still very far away, just chilling burning up some hillsides. Just got home so gonna get some sleep with the snuggle pups. Stay safe everyone!
@TJL2080 Thank you!!
New 🙃 2020 goal: make everyone regret requiring me to do everything using github.
All my desert creatures make me so happy. Saw the roadrunner in the east side of the property, the 30+ gambel quail reminded me to put out their seed, a huge tarantula hawk is chilling on a piece of rope enjoying the sun. All is peaceful in the predatory world. #lifeinthemojave
What's a great audible book to use my last credit on? I like disinformation, solar punkish & classic sci-fi (no dystopian pls), & mojave desert stuff. Thanks!
@patrick99e99 Only if you record it yourself so I get to hear you read it to me as a bed time story.
ROTFL saying the US Gov should get a finders fee for the deal. OMG this president is the WORST! https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1290373462901403648
Thanks to @blondtron I was reminded of this in my bookcase. Fun times from OG LA tech by @aabelove
imageJaw dropping. Nature is amazing. https://twitter.com/RyskeldiSatke/status/1290293614807924737
Spending the evening with one of my favorite fictional boyfriends, Eric Carter. Finally cracking open Ghost Money by @sblackmoore. Thanks friend!
@aabelove @usabilitycounts @blondtron Right!
What are the best books on Tibetian buddhism written by women? I tire of the sexualized male view of female deities.
RT @Philip_Germain: Which @jonathanvswan are you today?
imageI feel like a lot of Chapt 6 in the Tibetan Book of the dead is like porn written for men. So annoying and boring and typical IMO.
@amoration @LoselingMonks @jhalifax @MichaelaHaas Thanks Evo. These are great suggestions.
@LizaK Thank you!!! ❤️🙏
Does anyone remember the shockwave from crude awakening? Good times!
For those who weren’t there. https://youtu.be/6_7cRO_IjKI #ttitd https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1290735746744233984
@summer_burkes And if I remember correctly, they only used 1/3 of the fuel that they originally planned for because... the BMORG/Fire Safety said the full amount was gonna be too crazy. At even 1/3 it was the most epic explosion I've seen on playa.
@LizaK I already read and love Pema Chodron! The others looked really good.
RT @steak_umm: when all else fails just reply to conspiracy theorists with stock photos of cyber women and corn. the less sense it makes th…
Sometimes you make a celebratory cocktail because you made it through the day.
It's super frustrating to watch every question not be answered. Maybe you wanna join me in this feeling as well. https://youtu.be/zaaTZkqsaxY
@anthomsec In pandemic terms, it's not bad, but still an accomplishment! Thanks for asking. Hope you're well too! 🙂
I'm really disappointed no one has noticed that my disinformation/maskirovka talk only uses images from the original Ghost in the Shell. You all be missing some serious geek cred. Or maybe I am old.
image2020 Launch ProTip: Don't plan to release anything you want marketing attention near the 2020 election, because the story for weeks before will be chicken little election fraud, and after chicken little election fraud. Just punt to 2021 and beef up your MVP.
@timoni Live and learn! No reason to break your heart after all the work everyone's done.
In case you are curious, https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/deep-fakes-digital-identity-and-democracy-237593482 https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1290872788551479302
How am I late to this game? Ladies, get your t-shirts in your size before they sell out. When will you have another chance to get your "@defcon is canceled" swag? https://www.ebay.com/str/defconcommunications #defconsafemode
@lidiazuin @fernandogaldino @roadsec That sounds amazing. I need to figure out how to get back to Brazil. (Studied/lived there 20+ years ago & can still speak some bad portuguese, but hey I have a good carioca sotaque!) Looking forward to following you & learning more!
All the dog meds. 2-3 times daily. I’m worn out. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDhwS1yhW-y/?igshid=x9wzjgyamc5k
Kicking off my #defconsafemode thread by first getting swag (failed to do this last year but @cillic helped me out (& I met a cool human!) https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1291155693970620416
Onto the talks! First one that caught my eye is on hacking the supply chain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHsjf2mAHIM #defconsafemode
Loving this talk by @ylevalle on Bypassing Biometric Systems with 3D Printing: https://youtu.be/hJ35ApLKpN4 #defconsafemode
When was the last time you were aware you are their target?
Starlink is space garbage that ruins the dark Mojave skies making them look like Xmas lights. I hate hate hate them for ruining our dark skies and views of the stars.
@mat Highly recommended. #patchoulichallenge
@mat But tbh ylang ylang is where it’s at.
@michaelsherrill Like ❤️
RT @Shayan86: BREAKING: Starting today, Twitter is labelling accounts "belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief…
@EmLindley @fatemehx2 Tomato is actually a fruit... /runs away
RT @ratemyskyperoom: Room Rater Classic Movie Skype Rooms. Dr. Strangelove. Gentlemen. There’s no fighting in the War Room. 10/10. https://…
Local fire got a little more localer. Tonight we're all happy it was under 90 on the evening walk. What a difference 6 degrees make. The sunset was vibrant orange, like my Aperol cocktail. I'm safe for now & burning the midnight cybersecurity writing oil. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-06/apple-fire-chars-over-28000-acres-prompting-new-evacuations-for-morongo-valley
This is my favorite @defcon talk, from last year by @NianaSavage on Confessions of a Nespresso Money Mule, which I am putting in my Cyber Attack revision, that I'm writing this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU
I am happy to say I am over my ennui of existence (for the moment) and have an insane deadline. Drinking and writing about security is one of my favorite things.
RT @DianaInitiative: Are ya'll enjoying #BHUSA and #DEFCONSafeMode ? When you take a break, grab your tickets for #dianainitiative2020 Aug…
MUST READ Pandemic Survival --> "The point is this — we are in a marathon & we will find our equilibrium in our new normal. And our new normal looks a lot like an obstacle course specifically designed to push us past our breaking points." by @leahblooms <3 https://medium.com/an-injustice/instructions-for-surviving-2020-from-a-survivor-1a0405dd709b
@Chris_NWA Satellites are tiny pin pricks of light that slowly glide in their orbit across the night sky. They are difficult to discern unless you’re under a dark sky with little to no moon. They blend into the background. 1/2
@Chris_NWA Starling is the opposite, it’s flashy, washes out all but the brightest celestial objects, is bouncy jagged flashy distracting and takes much longer to leave the area of the sky. It can wash out nuances of the Milky Way and distant star clusters. So yes, it’s bad for dark skies.
@Chris_NWA There is nothing like sitting under a dark sky. Try it if you’re not familiar with it. Sublime beauty.
@roxannedarling @leahblooms I do know her from back in the OG LA tech days. 😊 she’s a pretty amazing and inspiring lady.
@NianaSavage @defcon It was really good and I very much appreciated your ethics (which are missing from some hackers I know.) Thank you!
87 days till the election. Check your voter registration, register to vote, or request to vote by mail. It takes 2 minutes. Pass it on. https://www.vote.org/
@opeksoy @SpaceX 🤢 Thank you @spaceX ruining the view of my milky way last night and for previous and future nights. Wish you would consider the use cases of dark sky aficionados and not add more artificial light to our skies.
I've reached the pandemic level where I'm eating defrosted coconut cake from my freezer. It is delicious and I fear I have found a new love. Thank you pandemic silver lining.
@FrankoCurrency @PepperidgeFarm I am so busted! Yeah.... I love it! (I would never have thought I am the person who would buy cake from a freezer?! Who am I even anymore?)
@awkwardai @defcon 1299
@futureidentity Uh... maybe I w/don't admit everything on twitter. 🍰🤭😳
@nancerosen How am I learning about this cake this late in life!? It's great. I've been such a cake snob.
You know what cracks me up every time I come on this site? My picture, yeah, the one over there. It's so not how I see myself. That's the absurdity of your meat costume.
Smoke from the #applefire blowing into the basin, but no smell of campfire yet. Local news for those following from afar: http://z1077fm.com/over-200-at-pioneertown-apple-fire-briefing-last-night/
I think the creatures are enjoying the cooler temps. Saw three dozen gambel quail in 4 packs, the resident road runner, heard the coyotes call while I was working in the yard, bees buzzing, lizards scurrying, and the scampering of the three daring ground squirrels in display.
@rosiepongracz I love it. Cheers my friend!
@mike_kernell Time for some David Lynch!
@CorylusW Well, he has his dreams, and doesn't always want to hear about other's dreams.
If you feel stressed, may I offer you a breath of fresh Air? Find a comfortable spot and hit play. https://youtu.be/6RZD8Z2clDo
Purple tornado is writing today. Sometimes you have to put some makeup on to write about some of your favorite topics - which means adding some of my favorite cybersecurity stories from the last few years to the… https://www.instagram.com/p/CDo5nbohvzc/?igshid=db3ixyv1hax7
Read between the lines and you may learn some ways in which to conquer Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/world/europe/once-friendly-with-putin-german-goes-to-court-over-seized-assets.html
@AZenner Do it!
@sblackmoore Keep writing the crap. You can edit it later but guarantee you’ll find it better than you remember.
How comforting other writers feel this too. https://twitter.com/sblackmoore/status/1292274206416072704
What a tease, quoting one of my favorite films. I could not pass up a chance for meme worthy pandemic in a lifetime swag. #defconsafemode #thenetisvastandinfinite @ The Mirage Hotel and Casino https://www.instagram.com/p/CDp1zuWhzpt/?igshid=8erwxyb6d0kl
The gambel quail flock for morning breakfast. Count em including the little baby fluff. #lifeinthemojave https://www.instagram.com/p/CDrEazZhQoG/?igshid=1v7ihfy4wci32
@summer_burkes One reason I like where I am in the Mojave is that it has some of that SF Caco vibe. Anything is possible — but of course it’s being gentrified already thank you Airbnb.
I’ve enjoyed Defcon this year. Talks from my living room with my dogs - check. Cool music streaming - check! No anxiety inducing crowds, over priced everything, but also no pool nor SkyTalks, nor random meeting new people and seeing friends. 😢 Overall: A++ pandemic conference. https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1292537818313621505
Almost broke my brain this am helping a friend w/ her hacked site, coordinating revisions w/ my co-author on the other side of the world, & making/eating coconut-pecan pancakes. But now that that is over, I may need a nap to recover from my morning. The pancakes were delicious.
Only cassette player in the house is in this sauna I bought from the OC last year. Seems legit. #defconsafemode https://www.instagram.com/p/CDsHOdmBdv3/?igshid=8zyu6151ov92
Awe. The feeling is mutual. Fist bump to making our book even more useful in this mini-update! Thanks for joining the pace of our insane deadlines! https://twitter.com/fuzztech/status/1292773866478215168
@Zxzllo yes it is!
Pivot https://twitter.com/AmericanShipper/status/1292855220612018178
Wow, I'm re-watching this thing I recorded a couple years ago about the emerging information war we are now fully engaged in. Might be time for me to do an update. https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/951162420323483649
A++ thread on information source importance, including truth, importance & bias. Thanks @anthomsec https://twitter.com/ImposeCost/status/1292523432316473362
Anyone else having trouble getting into work mode today?
Woah #desmoines trending. That looks like it was a storm! Sad to see all those big trees down, but those lush fields of green are a sight for this now desert dweller's eyes.
@pinkyracr DAMN PINKY, I am so jealous. I want to go to a gym, swim in a pool and get a massage sooooooo bad.
@AlFl Thank you for the suggestion. I use Flora sometimes, but also, sometimes you just gotta work through that nervous energy!
OK, I need a sanity check, am I in a news bubble or are things really as batshit bonkers insane as they seem to be?
@0x5021 🙃💥🪳
@0x5021 cockroach! 🙂
@Zxzllo 😭
@Pathfinder That look on his face...
@0x5021 I have this theory about an enlightened cockroach, so it's kinda of a twisted joke to me... it also references kafka... and a cockroach can survive almost anything, so is cockroach = bad? IDK? I guess I have a lot of nuances to my cockroach symbolism.
@Pathfinder That's better for sure! A++ meme
@scientwest Well I'm certainly not normal!
@0x5021 Yeah, for sure from inside the US as well. I feel like we're struggling to keep our democracy from being utter destroyed by a bunch of criminals and they just keep ignoring all laws & no one can pin anything down on them. :-(
RT @Pathfinder: @heathervescent I know, right? ;) I should have tweaked that image a bit. Here's version 2.0.
image@FrankMcG That's an interesting perspective... My experience is (and I've been on here for ages, so lots of OG twitter blue checkmarks were my peers in the early days) feels like men get more followers because followers care about the professional things they tweet.
@FrankMcG I do think there's a big difference in the early days of twitter & now. @anildash did some research about biased follower suggestions at sign in... years ago. That compounds over years. But also, lots of ppl who have lots of followers are total BS/not interesting. So *shrug*?
@FrankMcG Yeah, for sure. I just found it interesting. I've heard a similar thing about women getting jobs/etc. which kinda goes against my own experience. So I was genuinely curious about your take. What caused that to be your thinking? and what caused it to change?
Because most informants do it for the money. So here's some money. #secretsofspies https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1292883516951322625
@trbouma @acroll @chrismessina @rorhug @thatguyBG @joinClubhouse @jonibrennan Do the identity community right Tim!
@Reverend_Dak Get better!
RT @RaquelWillis_: It's more acceptable to brag about grabbing another pussy than to brag about greatness of your own pussy.
@dsearls I can handle effervescent! ps. I am watching your podcast right now! It's great!
One of my favorite "doing it for the money" stories is Bradley Birkenfeld American banker in Switzerland who turned in most of his clients for US tax avoidance. The IRS promised up to 30% of the recouped taxes. Birkenfeld took home $104 million! This story is in #secretsofspies https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1292974333862670336
There's more to the story, you can read about it in the book, or google it. But the bottom line is, yeah, money is a motivator if there are the right incentives!
@evanwolf Yeah, I do that.
@jstpwalsh You either provide treats, belly rubs, or prepare to be licked on the nose. Or all three.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 11 at 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CET, the Credentials Community Group at the W3C have @blondtron present on LOCI & Germ Scene Investigations moderated by @heathervescent. Anyone can join: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Aug/0029.html #CCG #W3C
@pinkyracr Well probably not, in a plot twist, he also went to jail! Talk about a complex story and complex person.
@thegrugq is that a keyboard on the dashboard?
RT @shanenickerson: Haha yes please tell me how she doesn’t fit your impossible standards, while the ghouls in charge steal everything. You…
@Tazerface16 Kraftwerk?
@Tazerface16 Sounds good. Maybe see ya on the TEE!
Does anyone still tumble bitcoins?
Still curious... https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1293406173677285376
Wow, two years ago was the soft launch of https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Guide-Self-Sovereign-Identity-ebook/dp/B07Q3TXLDP/, this first report then ebook on Self Sovereign Identity (the only one for 18+ months). It didn't start out on Amazon, but that's where it's ended up. Even two years later, it's a great resource. #ssi
Just hanging out on the FBI's website this morning....
@Pathfinder I love the FBI (website). They have great stats on Business Email Compromise. (I have spent a LOT of time on FBI & CIA websites for research this year, especially since I did a bunch of espionage research. I have kinda started to love these agencies, especially after McMillions.)
@Pathfinder I mean, you do need to learn to read between the lines, but once you got that down and triangulate information & data sources it's a lot of fun to conjecture!
IDK about you, but 3 hour nap afternoons when it's over 100 are back on the agenda. When you live in the Mojave, the Mojave dictates your schedule. (Oh do I dream of rain, a thunderstorm, the August Monsoon, dare I dream.)
Hot August Afternoon, getting my second wind to write, and let's just say it's perfect for a La Croix and some Pet Shop Boys. Feeling a little bit nostalgic for decades past and the world it was.
Can I brag for a moment, bc my writing chops are on fire and I'm totally hitting this insane revision deadline ahead of time. If anything, 2020 is the year I learned I can write pretty much anything under insane conditions.
Clearly I do not hang out with enough criminals.... or this is passe. Which is it? https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1293583308882735105
Thinking who is Putin's pick when T runs his course.... which of course he will in time, you know there's a new vector in the grooming...
I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties / "Dress in white" one said #lyricsgame
@sabik 💯!
This is my dream. https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1293575901620375553
@rosiepongracz @biosopher @RamAviation1 Congrats my dear friends! <3
The grabbing hands / Grab all they can / All for themselves after all The grabbing hands / Grab all they can / All for themselves after all It's a competitive world / Everything counts in large amounts #lyricsgame
RT @AOC: Team AOC is hiring! Field organizers, video producers, creative directors, and more to help us win a future for the many with Med…
@_MikeKiser Celery is genius in baked chicken. Take full baking chicken, salt/pepper/garlic rub the outside, stuff cavity with celery and apple.
@_MikeKiser It's also my opinion you can add celery to anything that is sauteeing onion, and even better if you use the inner softer stalks with the leaves still on them, for stews, soups, etc.
@_MikeKiser Inside. The celery stalks are about 5 inches long, depending on the chicken, I cut them to just stick out. If I'm fancy, I'll split the celery sticks down the middle. I cut the apple into wedges and jam them all in. Moist and delicious!
@_MikeKiser Oooo leeks. I don't cook with those enough. Leek soup, yum.
@NianaSavage Happens in mine too! I suspect it has something to do with humidity and temperature levels.
A++ Tip: Drop of your mail in ballot at *any* polling location. Lots of people came into my polling location in the primary to drop off their mail in ballot. There is a special box for that (in my jurisdiction). https://twitter.com/bubblewrappe/status/1294049913995591680
Update on the pandemic freezer deserts: Imported tiramisu is creamy, but a touch too sweet and lots of liquid making the bottom layer not ideal.
Just updated the whistleblower chapter in the Cyber Attack book last night and wake up to this Snowden bullshit. What he blew was peanuts compared to what the private sector does and is still hidden. Color me not impressed by this kindergarten ego shit. #unpopularopinion
I’m talking about the surveillance advertising state and the ad based revenue model of the Internet.
@fuzztech I had a real reckoning with my whistleblower opinions when I did/researched/wrote that chapter in the spy book and realized I thought Assange was a d. Live and learn.
For your consideration @PJManney ht @fuzztech https://twitter.com/PaulMarks12/status/1294316303440916480
Well, that's a wrap on the paperback revision of the Cyber Attack Survival Manual. Despite the dumpster fire of the world, I'm grateful that 2020 gave me two really fun books to write/revise. Shout out to co-author @fuzztech! #thesecretsofspies #cyberattacksurvivalmanual
@anthomsec @fuzztech The Secret of Spies hits in October I think, and still waiting on the Cyber Attack revision, maybe Jan 1? Would you by chance be interested in reading an early version for a quote? (PDF style)
@fuzztech So many fresh new cyber criminal stories -- we couldn't include them all!!
In between writing/researching/beating the 100+ afternoon heat, I've been listening to the audio book of The Power. F intense and I can't put it down. That's some good writing. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power ht @Ruth666
@BlackFish775 @fuzztech Yeah, I dug into the research behind him a few months ago & he seemed like an ego trip looking for the spotlight, then he made a deal with the devil & now he's coming back, of course he's compromised & a primed faucet for spewing false narratives. Clearly I have strong opinions.
So just finished listening to this (6 hours in the car) and holy hell what a story. Kinda thinking of chasing it with The Afghan Campaign by Pressfield. Or maybe watching Apocalypse Now. Where is the crying blood emoji? https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1294375646664126464
@eg0sum @fuzztech Thank you.
Feeling like I speak dog, quail, rabbit, dove, tree, sage, wind, and planet better than I speak English. PS, most of those "languages" are not spoken more like felt-expressed non verbally. I fear with covid, I may have gone full hermit & any trip to the city feels... strange.
Good morning it’s 100 degrees rn. Kinda regretting not having my pool today.
You know what’s a trip? Thunder & lightning in the desert at 105 degrees, and you smell the rain hitting hot creosote & you see the rain falling from the grey clouds in stringy lines, but it never hits the ground, & you are lucky to feel a drop on your face. And it’s still 100.
@hacks4pancakes Happy happy! That looks amazing! Enjoy!
@pinkyracr I consider myself lucky for catching a lightning strike on the hills behind me.
@dsearls yikes, stay safe!
Americans, please pay attention. https://twitter.com/franakviacorka/status/1294974663697870849
This really sucks. Cima Dome has the thickest Joshua Tree forest in the Mojave, plus it's a gorgeous, although remote place. Hope this is just south and not off road. https://twitter.com/SBCOUNTYFIRE/status/1295140687462055941
I guess I really am going to listen to the Smiths in the desert as the world goes to all hell. Feeling pretty good with my life choices tonight. Gotta find your pleasure in little things ya know.
@TJL2080 Legit life choice!
@n3rd1ty Tonopah is excellent. There’s always the clown motel or the haunted Mizrach hotel!
@n3rd1ty You could also drive to Spokane, across Idaho and Montana and then come down to Utah. That’s a gorgeous drive. First night in Spokane and then Billings day 2.
@n3rd1ty Just pretend you’re driving to BRC (that’s Black Rock City) and stop in Gerlach. I love the drive from Reno to Las Vegas. Also highway 50 across Nevada is pretty amazing too! Pops you into NW Utah.
@n3rd1ty Also St George/Utah is a hood stop. Which parks are you going too?
@jstpwalsh Welcome to gatekeeping!
40,000 acres in one of the most pristine desert areas are burning. :-( https://twitter.com/MojaveNPS/status/1295397439159988224
Pretty sure Joshua Trees will get endangered species protection after this devastation. Heart breaking. This is my favorite part of the Mojave. And it's on fire. #DomeFire https://twitter.com/dmags1981/status/1295425891225309184
RT @canislatrans: Letter From the Desert: Cima Dome burns #DomeFire https://lettersfromthedesert.substack.com/p/letter-from-the-desert-cima-dome?r=1dkth&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter
You know the PITA that is living with Covid? It's gonna be quaint from now on, cause Climate Change is gonna f up your local reality. Oh to only have to wear masks.
@meow_meow80 No idea, exact location, but yeah, that's right in the area where all the roads are closed.
@canislatrans @meow_meow80 There are not enough tears. I love that area.
@ICONchad I know. That was the best kept secret for non-tourists. The MNP is (was?) more pristine and rugged and beautiful than JTNP (I live backed up to it). So many tears.
I'm writing this as I moved my office into the bedroom, the only room in the dome with AC (that I just got this year, and have run for 2 days ever out here).
PS if you are laughing at California's weather, take a look at Iowa's derecho last week. Your state won't be left unchanged by climate change.
RT @MarkOlalde: Today’s newsroom: Mojave National Preserve where a wildfire ignited by lightning on Saturday has torched 40,000 acres. As m…
RT @DPPhotoTeam: #domefire in #mojavepreserve still burning @VVDailyPress
image@KitchenInvstgtr Sorry, but yeah. Mine too.
The dogs seem to be adjusting to moving into the bedroom for everything. It's been a little chaotic moving my office informally in here, but the heat & humidity are brutal and will be for a few more days/weeks/until climate changes back.
Since today is about death in the desert (of Joshua Trees), here's another kind of death, and yes, do not go hiking in 100 degree weather, my desert (and others like it) will kill you. https://expeditionportal.com/death-in-the-desert/
@darrello No the swamp is for the whole dome, but it's not so great when outside humidity is high (like even 20%). So when we have monsoon August, with high heat & humidity there has to be another option if I am to get any work done.
Today, Tuesday, August 18 at 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CET, the Credentials Community Group at the W3C will have Ecosystem Updates by @WomeninID, @DecentralizedID, Trust Over IP & Hyperledger Aries moderated by @wycdd. Anyone can join: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Aug/0047.html #CCG #W3C
@jonibrennan @mydiacc Yes, sorry I forgot you (hadn't confirmed on my doc I was going off). So glad you are here!
Thought I heard thunder over the AC at my desk, went outside to actual drops of rain. They didn't last more than a moment, but it was nice to feel it.
In case you are following desert wildfires with me, we had one on Joshua Tree dry lakebed #cascadefire. Looks like it's under control now, but that rain, brought thunder and lightning .... and fire. http://z1077fm.com/lightning-sparks-fires-in-joshua-tree/
OMG if this isn't genius pairing, IDK what is. Look at this cute flora skull face mask + girly girl hat combo?! https://www.etsy.com/listing/852838477/ooak-pink-skull-and-roses-hat-matching #covidglam
OMGx2, For your covid-19 Halloween needs, a Halloween bow and matching face mask: https://www.etsy.com/listing/843064438/halloween-witch-mask-orange-and-black #covidglam
Is this too much for date night in the time of Covid? Crown of black roses and monarchs with matching face mask. Where is social distance goth club night when I need it?! https://www.etsy.com/listing/843158928/orange-and-black-monarch-butterfly #covidglam
Fascinating rabbit hole I am trying hard not to go down: https://nixintel.info/osint/signs-youre-following-a-fake-twitter-account/
@fuzztech I would take 53. It’s 86 and this is as cool as it will be all day. 😢
FYI these are all hand made by my friend - she’s a craftswoman!
RT @DanielM00508429: Going direct #DomeFire
image@DanielM00508429 Thank you for your service. Is there any way I can help support your team? Send you snacks, water, beer, ???? (I'm about 2 hours south.)
This is unbelievable back breaking work... in 100+ degree heat. Thank you so much. https://twitter.com/dmags1981/status/1295920983056900101
@DanielM00508429 Thank you! LMK if there's anything I can do to show my appreciation. I love that area of the preserve.
@kimdhamilton You may already be a member.
@PaleoLaura @RefriedBrean Yeah I’d like to know too.
😭 #obama
Note to self: don’t feed the dogs your California rolls when you are roll playing living in a 300 sq ft NY apartment cause it’s the only room in the house with AC.
Pretty sure I could survive on a spaceship or a barely habitable planet (aka currently planet earth). But I am starting to miss human contact.
@kimdhamilton @realNickFinney kAnon.
@kimdhamilton @realNickFinney I’ll get working on that snopes piece.
RT @rklau: Your periodic reminder as California burns that we: - use incarcerated men to fight these fires, at great personal risk - pay t…
We're past the point of turning back climate change, the question is, how will we adapt or not adapt and die.
@SuchiPahi And lacks realistic nuance, reflective of limited dualistic thinking.
A moment of bliss, cooking in the kitchen, music I like, my two dogs, a cocktail. Gotta enjoy these moments while we can. #blissandemptiness
Love her! It's worth it to watch the full video! https://twitter.com/voguemagazine/status/1296860379184869377
@fatemehx2 That was great! Thank you for sharing!
It almost snuck up on me, tomorrow is my company's anniversary. I founded The Purple Tornado in 2006--14 years ago! I don't always feel like a successful entrepreneur, because I'm not a gazillionaire, but it is one thing to survive working/living on my own terms. #forceofnature
@Charlie_Athanas Thanks, yeah, I guess I expected to have made more $$$ but at least I've succeeded in weathering all the storms so far.
@LALeVasseur Thanks Lisa!
Is anyone surprised? https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/officials-some-who-went-to-huge-sturgis-rally-have-covid-19
@pacoid Thanks Paco!
Lies, lies, lies, lies Books, books, books, books Burn, burn, burn, burn Fire, fire, fire, <shout> #2020feels #lyricsgame
@z3roTrust @YouTube Love that one!
Dawn in smoke filled skies between two Palo Verdes. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMhURBhrox/?igshid=1tq8curnham8v
@wildbell A++!
Don't be a Tool Protip: If you haven't fact checked it, don't share it. You can still open it in a browser, like it, save it to where you save articles, read it later, but don't share it! (Seeing too many people I *used* to trust sharing unchecked stuff.)
AND this ESPECIALLY goes with disclaimers that you haven't read/fact checked it WHILE *still* sharing it. SRSLY, you are a tool and being psychologically manipulated and I've lost respect for you & whatever you'll share/d in the future/past.
@evanwolf You can enjoy them without sharing.
It's a lot of effort to care for my greenhouse (bug infestation), bees, clear dry desert plant fire hazards, my 2 high maint rescue pups, w/ my work/writing, taking care of myself, eating healthy, sleep in a pandemic w/ climate change & an election w/ disinfo at 100+ degrees.
RT @PaleoLaura: I did quick visit yesterday to #DomeFire on way to other business. Stark sad burned old-growth Joshua tree forest I have be…
RT @MalwareTechBlog: People gonna be real upset when they discover wildfires and 2 hurricanes at once isn't 2020, it's climate change.
Was looking for a CV template to create one & found an old actual CV (& another film specific CV of mine) with a bunch of accomplishments I forgot I even did. I have a serious case of forgetting who I am & what I've done & thinking I'm nothing & have accomplished little.
@pinkyracr Yeah, when it's not 100+ daily that will help.
On Tuesday, August 25 at 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CET, the Credentials Community Group at the W3C will have a presentation on Ceramic Protocol by @somemikesena & Secure Data Stores by @codenamedmitri moderated by @kimhd. Anyone can join: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Aug/0094.html #CCG #W3C
@rosiepongracz Yeah, I know, but I now have fighting the fire ants that may be living under my house as an added 2020 bonus. :-(.
Trying to eat healthy (& counteract my covid-5 pounds) but that freezer coconut cake is kinda calling my name... 😭
@nobantu Yesssss
Sounds like maybe some people may want to read The Ethical Slut or Opening Up and call it what it really is. #subtweet
@helenyung Keep going! You know it! That's how you'll find your way out!
What sold me on Obama was the energy he inspired in a whole generation, the energy of hope & a positive vision of the future. I do not like the energy I saw in the RNC video at all. That's not the world, nor the future that I want for anyone. Shut that river of shit off.
TIL I am in good company with others who have "The Spider Rules." https://twitter.com/gaileyfrey/status/1298122561725714432
Normally reserved only for junk food roadtrips, I am sorry to report that I am almost finished with this can of @Pringles. They are salty and delicious.
RT @find_evil: I think we can all agree by now that “moving fast and breaking things” hasn’t been beneficial to society
"The government is supposed to work for the people, not just one person." #hatchact https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1298611883256287238
Wholesome --> “Time means nothing now,” said Toad. “It is just the thing that happens between snacks.” ht @Blazenhoff https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/frog-and-toad-tentatively-go-outside-after-months-in-self-quarantine
How are you getting anything done?
@pacoid Yeah, I feel ya. Hey, at least you have cider press!!!
@Pathfinder Yeah, well I'm ok with making mistakes and yeah, we have all the time in the world, but also, we can die any moment.
@lynnlangit Yeah, I feel ya, on a good day I'm 3/4, on a not so good day, I'm like ?????
@nicoleradziwill I didn't allow myself to take a nap today. Maybe that was my mistake because I got absolutely nothing done when I was forcing myself to work. Hugs.
@dsearls Bit by bit. All we can do.
@helenyung Been meaning to try that... care to share any thoughts?
@BSLabs6 Hey, sounds like it was a pretty good day! Celebrations for progress! :-)
@Joemarket__ But not the most sustainable work ethic hmmm?
@mike_kernell Sorry to hear, but I know what you mean. 😢
It's local drink wine and eat chips in bed with your dogs night. Oh wait, is that every night in 2020. This is a nice Pinot Noir and who knew I enjoyed potato chips so much, I haven't eaten them in like decades.
@nickris Nooooo pickle is kryptonite!!!!! Sour cream and chives all the way!!!!!!!
@nickris Nooooo! But I raise you peanut butter!
@nickris Try a grilled peanut butter sandwich!!! With chips in it! Lol.
@nickris The truth is I hate dill with a passion.
Sometimes you have to break out S3: E4 Game of Thrones.
@nickris Oooooo.
The silver lining to the dumpster fire of the US, is I have never before seen such unity. I don't think this is just my filter bubble. Things wouldn't be getting more insane if the fight wasn't desperate, but we can't release the pressure one pinky bit, we need to add more.
@ekingsbury Mask of the Red Death?
RT @robinthede: we all need to expect about 40% less productivity from each other than normal and yet somehow everyone seems to expect 140%…
@ekingsbury Not watching just listening to crickets under tall trees
I am proud to say we have booked presenters for every Credential Community Group meeting through September! & it's not even September yet! Got something you are interested in presenting on identity, credentials, security or diversity identity/credential adjacent? Get in touch.
How are you having fun?
A++ last Friday of August 2020 we DGAF thread. https://twitter.com/ryanchris/status/1299484472073568256
@Scott_Matter Just looking for options.
@NewOrchardMedia Yeah I hear that works for some people. I moved to the desert.
@kalin_ux @ericschmidt @CaitlinLong_ Thanks for the suggestion Kalin!
I will never understand why some people want to live forever or 100+ years wearing the same skin, bones, societal programming. Death is my motivation to live the best life only I can. At its conclusion, I will embrace the end of this human episode, locked in time, a bug in amber.
So many implications! Beyond the normal S&T IP stealing/sharing is potential influence of a foreign nation on an AI. Talk about potential bias!! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-28/ucla-researcher-accused-of-destroying-evidence-latest-arrest-in-crackdown-on-visiting-chinese-scientists
Researching diversity in open source today and feeling really triggered by a particular experience with a W3C group I am not the co-head of. B/c of my initial experience with them when they formed, I have no interest in ever volunteering with/for them.
I feel like I need an apology for that experience, but I know they will never give one. They don't even realize they did anything offensive. And so, because it's all volunteer, & no one is paying me to have angry feelings working with them, I choose to spend my time differently.
Besides, the people who obstructed my participation to be "taken seriously" are still in that community & doing the same shit & ppl complain about them. Why would I put myself through that? Better to make change where I have actual influence.
PS. I am currently cleaning up the shit mess, years old unfinished business, confusion organization they left when I took over as Co-Chair. ALL AS A VOLUNTEER WITHOUT A DAY JOB. Hey, I said I was triggered.
I hit the motherload, a spreadsheet with more than 400 black, black marjority owned DEI firms. Your company has no more excuses. #diversity #inclusion https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1giDIGTd5XvuCrP9n-Y70_NQPegvmcejdg8x3ypM5Iu4/edit#gid=0
And shoutout to this github list of AWESOME DIVERSITY resources. You'd better believe I'm putting this knowledge to good use. #diversity #inclusion #standards #opensource https://github.com/folkswhocode/awesome-diversity
Interesting comments in this thread about identity, & faking out the world with a fake ID using financial ID methods. https://twitter.com/maiab/status/1299751269372895232
Great piece explaining why sponsoring is IMO more important than mentoring to get real change. #diversity #inclusion #changetheratio https://larahogan.me/blog/what-sponsorship-looks-like/
Identity peeps, read between the lines of this article & you have a treasure-trove of inclusive identity features. I would love to work w/ some trans folx to write decentralized identity use cases along these lines, making W3C CCG work more inclusive. https://alistapart.com/article/trans-inclusive-design/
Last night I dreamt I was packing to go to Burning Man and I had a mini moment when I realized that Ly I’d have to find someone to watch the dogs but then I realized it was canceled so if I went to the playa I could take em anyway! Dream memory hypnosis works but maybe do I care?
Spending my morning coffee reading this piece on "Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases" shared to the W3C D&I CG by @hober (Thank you & great to get re-connected after our meandering paths in tech. Happy to see you thrive!) https://depts.washington.edu/sibl/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Cheryan-Markus-2020-Psychological-Review.pdf
@missrogue That's amazing!
@darrello @missrogue ❤️
Only took me 4 hours (with breaks) to read this paper (also dense!) and IT IS FANTASTIC. Put to evidence a lot of anecdotal experiences I've had, & experimented with. https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1300091788137357312
Every time I think about going to FB I think what it would feel like to take a bullet in my chest. I miss the connections I have on there but not worth it. https://twitter.com/ImposeCost/status/1300201893025787914
@evanpro @briecode Lol second lockdown. When does the first one end?
@mikl_em All the love to a true cacophonist! They don’t make them like Mikl anymore. ❤️❤️❤️
Damn it. https://twitter.com/mikl_em/status/1300136482812751872
@summer_burkes @jacobinmag Will you please write something better?!?! Or maybe we podcast interview?
@evanpro @briecode I was gonna say you are lucky but maybe it’s more like you live in a country of adults.
