September 2020
Unless you already live in the desert. Bwahahahah https://twitter.com/adamjorlen/status/1300565715875815424
I’ll never tire of watching the full moon rise in the desert dusk. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEk846ABAnE/?igshid=dulg8bt6k6vd
Unpopular opinion: Ruskhoff's hot takes make me wanna puke. Also, he's no futurist, just another privileged white guy. But men, only be listening to other men, and he's a man with an opinion that will be published. 🤢
It never fails, I need something for some work I'm doing, I search my past self/hard drive & I've got exactly what I need, usually in template form. Sometimes I find real gems that have aged better than wine or cheese. Past self, you are way more badass than I thought I was.
@fuzztech Using media coverage as an attack vector.
RT @DocPop: Found that leaked Dune trailer people kept talking about.
image2020: the year of everything as an attack vector. Including soup.
imageJust imagine how dreamy it's gonna be when we're done with this insanity. Some day it will come. I hope we all live to see it.
Yesss! I am signed up to be a poll worker too! Join me! https://twitter.com/SuchiPahi/status/1301001448134709251
This story is so NorCal it hurts: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-01/fire-point-reyes-tule-elk-water-activists
Cause for celebrations 🎉 I have 2 books coming out this fall. 1⃣The Secrets of Spies 🕵️♀️ includes the Future of Espionage 👁️👁️ https://amzn.to/2GfJpXH (10/28) & 2⃣Revision of the Cyber Attack Survival Manual 💀⌨️🧨 https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Attack-Survival-Manual-Apocalypse/dp/1681886545/ w/ @fuzztech out 12/29. Enjoy!
Russia uses Novichok on their enemies of the state. It's included in #thesecretofspies & got top billing in the UK Salisbury poisoning & is under investigation in other unusual death situations in Eastern Europe. #assassination https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1301156746526941184
ICYM my late night tweet. Both books are available for pre-order. #secretsofspies #cyberattacksurvival https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1301029507822837760
@n3rd1ty I highly recommend the dead tree version because each page has lots of graphics. It's a book like a visual experience with lots of pictures, illustrations and graphic treatments, not just black and white prose. Enjoy!
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@VickerySec Do you have a preferred technology in mind?
@VickerySec While I partially agree with that zinger, good luck convincing everyone who is building/working with technology - including government and oversight agencies!
When I really want to mix things up, it's NiCola La Croix. Ahhhh.
Bun bun drinking from the watering hole (that I fill), gambel quail flock scratching the ground, road runner chilling under the mesquite tree, pups lounging in the sun, me, I breathe the air and dream of better days in the future. It's not all bad.
@usabilitycounts @aabelove Ohhh that's a good one!
I may be eating home made amaretto soaked cherries with my cereal for breakfast.
Remember when Khaleesi got the biggest baddest army (2x), but that wasn't the point. Khaleesi, Armies; Putin, Amerikkka. Sometimes I hate my future possibilities brain. This is not a conspiracy theory, just a futurist who uses unconventional analysis methods.
@eg0sum Delicious! But I don't tend to start the day drinking lol.
Unpopular opinion: the only role for white men who want to support diversity is to be the Champion: get the money & hire someone w/ legit experience to research/write/execute your diversity & inclusion program. Then you protect/backup/show off their (which is also your) success.
@fuzztech @eg0sum 😂🤣😭
@lucas_gonze @thisgirlangie Do you have a paid diversity & inclusion expert at your company/on your team already? If not, advocate for that paid role. There may be more/better/effect ways to increase D&I & there may be systemic reasons your team/company lacks diversity, despite your best efforts.
@eg0sum @fuzztech We are all unwitting Russian ass-ets.
"Our companies are overflowing w sexism, racism, & anti-LGBTQ sentiment. If you care about people not [going] through some of the most traumatic experiences of their lives, you need to fix your inclusion problem first." Great piece by @attackgecko http://www.attack-gecko.net/2017/10/22/bootstrapping-inclusion/
@lucas_gonze @thisgirlangie My harsh take is: your company doesn't value D&I enough to put real $$ behind it, which means you will ultimately fail at successful D&I. However, this is an interesting potentially relevant piece. You could also hire the author. https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/07/02/inclusion-interviewing/
@lucas_gonze @thisgirlangie Personally, I feel pretty confident that your heart is in the right place, and I applaud you. However money talks, and a company says a lot about their values by where/how they spend their $$$. If you really care, maybe find a more supportive company - or get $$ for the role.
@lucas_gonze @thisgirlangie Just do the typical tech dude thing and bs that you need it and to allocate $$$ like an eng would do for their pet feature.
@BakuDreamer @cascio hah! My best x sent me one of those.
@cascio @BakuDreamer Black Swan + housing boom Black Swan + stock market Black Swan + craigslist deals for people leaving the big cities Black Swan + pets (kittehs + pups) Black Swan + online pilates classes Black Swan + sourdough starter #justsaying it's not all bad ❤️
@attackgecko Came across your blog posts in my D&I research and it's great stuff. Thank you so much for writing & sharing it! I hope you are thriving.
TFW you fed the dogs early to make the 8am meeting (that was late anyway) so now they are gonna bug you for dinner early. Le sigh. Dog parenting.
@FrankMcG ps, it's meant to make you angry. Don't take the bait. Get off this trashfire and go do something you love! <3
RT @realGollumTrump: Hurry precious! Tells them to commits the votle frauds to makes sure there ARENT votle frauds! Yesssss! But then doesn…
2020 Feels https://youtu.be/ERoS6y5zE0Y
Just inhaled the most amazing salad but I think it was the fake vegan Parmesan and non vegan Caesar dressing combined to make this unbelievably delish!
Two glasses of wine and the orb’s long play and am I even still on planet earth? Sound can if it so chooses transcend time. And we listeners can sometimes hitchhike a ride to another dimension.
@michaelsherrill @eaton Thank you Michael! I was anecdotal told about all this, good to have the thread of more to read/research.
Just barely on page 3 and missing the playa like a mofo. You can too. It was better next year! PS every day is burning man when you live in a geodesic dome in the Mojave. Trash fence optional but always with DP. http://brcweekly.com/BRCWeekly2020.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2s1AsE8h77A5PNBT8dnmrFFueDZvIUhVyrGZCNC-CzmxgfugD2DcZWvl0 ht Adriana from @bootiemashup
In case you were curious what excitement we're having this weekend! I am not under threat, but I can see these smoke clouds billowing up over Big Bear. https://twitter.com/FirePhotoGirl/status/1302374860476219392
These pilots are amazing! https://twitter.com/chris_a_damien/status/1302380169210941440
@nicoleradziwill Confirmed I could totally live on an isolated planet/in space as long as I have dogs.
Last night at sunset everything was in pairs: pair of loping jackrabbits, pair of hunting coyotes drooling at my quail flock, pair of aerial acrobatic hummingbirds, and my pair of half blind companions under this smoky setting sky. I witness all.
@mattblaze Curious as to what caused this change of your perspective. (All my precious stalking of your research seemed to focus on the vulns.)
@mattblaze Thanks for clarifying that. When I deep dove into your research it was a couple years ago (2016), & I def did not see you saying any of the toleration stuff - even at Defcon VV. One of my recommendations was specifically in reaction to your view of "all the vulns".
@mattblaze I'm glad you are talking about how we can have safe elections now, because it is possible, and you are a figure a lot of people follow and look up to. VS, here are all the technical hacks of your election system w/out empowering the underfunded/under resourced election officials.
Reading the explosion of stories about people just learning about disinformation. And most recently disinformation in "How to" YT videos to feed the algorithm. Feel like I need to repost The Moscow Rules 2020. https://medium.com/@heathervescent/the-internet-2020-rules-cda65d3b1098
@mattblaze cc @by_caballero you may enjoy this based on the research/interviews you did for me into RLAs. It's recent, so we didn't have access to it when we did our research/report.
@mattblaze We interviewed Philip Stark (well my researcher Juan did) for our report, & yes, we are fans of RLAs and included that in our 2018 report/ election security recommendations.
@garrygolden 100 acres is a lot. 5 or 10 may be plenty. In the Mojave, farming is practiced as if on Mars.❤️❤️❤️
Smoky morning. It’s already 95 outside, but I ran the swamp all night and it’s it’s cool enough to drink hot coffee. I check in on the fire status. I pet my dogs. I think about living with climate change. I am so grateful I never had children. I know that’s an unpopular opinion.
Nothing like a rattlesnake by your patio door to wake you up on a Monday morning! Good thing I didn’t let the dogs out!!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CE1wCHehohN/?igshid=135z6howxhmbe
They know somethings is up and they can’t go outside like they normally do. https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2A8ihBufa/?igshid=1b94ic0h5ntwc
In 2020, no need to go the the playa, Burning Man comes to you!
Checking out the storm that's gonna push temps into the mid 80s on Wednesday (it's 105 rn). Also: https://nps.gov/media/webcam/view.htm?id=81B469B5-1DD8-B71B-0BC7787BBD89B80E & https://twitter.com/maryhope8/status/1303076068593668103 for snow pics. https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/1303008552160821248
Everyone's throat is parched today: Mr Roadrunning drinking right now, previously bun bun, then the flock of 40 desert quail, and certainly Mr Rattlesnake this morning was looking for a drink. I may have forgotten how to talk to humans.
Tmrw, Sept 8 at 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CET, the Credentials Community Group at the W3C will have a presentation on @ID2020 by @dakotagruener & @TzviyaSiegman on the new @w3c Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct moderated by @heathervescent: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Sep/0002.html #W3C
So in the past three months, I found 4 fellowship/grant/etc thingies I thought I'd want to enter. In the end, I decided to enter NONE.
Why? Because I don't have a prestigious academic background & I'm insecure about that (maybe I'm not smart). Because they want a tech prototype & I mainly do research/design. I'm probably 10 years older than most applicants... maybe. Do I really want to move to another city?
Also I've worked for myself for 14 years. Will they believe I can work for someone (I do it all the time & I have to self motivate to get it done on time, on budget.) Will people believe the breadth of my background: researcher, film producer & launched 50 tech products?
Additionally, I hate competitions. Everyone has value, everyone brings things, & the people who "win" are not always the best, sometimes they/their family just paid or slept with someone. It's not like it's meritocracy. The best for it don't always get the job.
I know I could have done great things for all these grants/fellowships/etcs that I didn't submit for, and I can still do some of them on my own. It's not like I need their permission, but the funding could have been nice.
Just some thoughts on the BS of these competition/fellowship/grants/etc. I wish these things were more accessible and inspired me to want to share my talents instead of feel oppressed by their applications.
2020 life asks us to each be our own hero. I’m Heathervescent, queen of the wind and time traveling futurist. We all gotta die someday and I already accomplished most of what I wanted in my life. https://www.instagram.com/p/CE29E4IB2k9/?igshid=uvk2c5pewc23
Woke moments ago from smoke. Of course, it’s thick outside. The moon is an orange slice above me. All my neighbors have orange. There is no starry sky. I feel so alone and trapped on an unknown planet.
Winter is coming.... https://twitter.com/issueofinterest/status/1303311519443234816
Wake up, make coffee, attend to the dogs, check my hashtags #eldoradofire, order Hepa air purifier (threw mine out when I moved to the desert), feed quail, prep for @w3c_ccg call, check on the the weather front bringing snow to #montana #colorado & will drop our temps too. 2020.
Reading the California fire hashtag tweets and all I see is a lot of people sharing knowledge and helping each other however they can, including government and military agencies.
@Reverend_Dak IKEA is on left, CB2 on right. Maybe Ikea? Be sure to measure the length of holes and how long the hinge has to be, see taht the CB2 one is shorter than the Ikea one. (Don't ask me how I know or how much time I spent to know.)
image@Reverend_Dak Also, note yours has a plastic thing w/ spring and the arm looks bent in a way that mine is not, so maybe not ikea or maybe a different kind of ikea one.
The cool temps are hitting the Mojave. Currently 86 degrees and dropping. Gonna enjoy this cold plunge for the next 36 hours.
Oh just sitting here staring at these things I'm writing... life of a writer.
The foods/drinks of a writer as the day progresses: coffee, La Croix, cake, wine. I'm about to transition to wine writing in about 25 minutes. How's your day going?
@scientwest @CormStrikeFan thank hyo very muc!
Omg omg omg the rattlesnake is sleeping in this bush and I just saw it and freaked out and I’m gonna live tweet I’ve called the snake charmer in Jtree.
Can you see the rattler in there?!?! I FREAKED OUT!!!!
imageApparently this kind doesn’t like water so I was told to get this ready
imageI am told to sit and keep my eyes on the snake but stay back 12 ft! Also get a flashlight cause the sun is setting. Here’s my view.
imageWTH hummingbird and bees are just peacefully coexisting with snek!!!! Hummingbird is like almost on top of mr rattle!
OK, Late update, Snake man came and got the snake in like 1 second, then he proceeded to educate me on all kinds of snake and scorpion details! Pic of the snake tomorrow am. PS, snake is now in new rodent burrow! #lifeinthemojave
@rosiepongracz Hugs to you my friend. Miss you. <3
@fer_ananda Oh no, I am so sorry to hear that. 💔💓
Found the rattlesnake about an hour before dusk last night. Called the snake man and in 1 second it was in this bucket. https://www.instagram.com/p/CE66geUBtPL/?igshid=1hsvlfmfuy8em
OMG this is like the best. I love Kelly! That's mah old hood! https://youtu.be/6gbT_QG75Z4 #shoez #maskz
ht @pinkyracr !
The Arctic has stretched its fingers down into the Mojave desert and it's so nice, for it to only be 74 degrees. Thank you arctic cold snap & climate change for this momentarily respite.
RT @jachristian: Scenes from around San Francisco where dark orange skies are still blanketing the city and region. This apocalyptic hue…
RT @chrisceg: I've never seen anything like this in San Francisco. Ever.
image image image imageOK, I may be a little excited for this. Also wow on the Pink Floyd. https://twitter.com/TwitterMovies/status/1303729244221169664
YESS!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/doriantaylor/status/1303917294041456641
Co-habitants in the Mojave. This is not even the whole flock. Gamble quails are so cute. #gambelquail #lifeinthemojave https://www.instagram.com/p/CE8eBQPgoeA/?igshid=s8xw7b2onal8
Just finished poll worker training for the November Election. They did a great job of social distance training, sanitizing, along with great training materials that address ensuring we have confidence in our elections. I'm excited to serve as a poll worker (or supervisor) again!
Since I'm randomly doing life in the Mojave work today, I also did a bee check since it's only 80 degrees. Everything looks fine in the hive, gave em more sugar water, and despite knocking the queen onto the ground (she was protected) she's back safely in the hive + I saw her!
Now it's onto my normal computer/thinking/writing work.
@Cruftbox I went over a month between my last check, so wanted to do it sooner, plus I'm worried about Varroa mites - I need to get the stuff to do a check next time. Not much honey (maybe 1 frame total) but they seem to be surviving. Thank you for helping me navigate bees!
Watching this closely. https://twitter.com/SanBernardinoNF/status/1304132731819884545
@SBCOUNTYFIRE Thank you! <3
@exador23 That looks amazing! Where can I get a buddha head like that?!
@exador23 well I was looking at the one in the first picture, but now that you mention it, they both look great! I need some buddha for my desert landscaping! (ps. It's been too long my friend!)
@exador23 Yeah, come visit or LMK if you are in the vicinity of JTree National Park!
Don’t need to be a millennial to have your favorite recession! A++ thread. https://t.co/uzm1cduFlW
Well, I accomplished "breaking in my first pair of Birkenstocks in 20 years" this year. So there's that. #2020goals
Since it's a day of chores instead of billable hours, I pulled out 5 cholla that are going to their final resting place not on my property on the way to the trash fence, while listening to Daft Punk drinking a wine spritzer. Also the air is clear and cool.
Rarely do we get an opportunity to start from a blank slate. These devastating west coast fires are clearing the slate for new infrastructure based on modern technology. Bad luck, good luck, who knows? (& maybe respect & funding (taxes!!!) for the infrastructure).
A++ thread https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1304486829253689344
Today I am mining my personal archives because everything I do, I have already done before & you gotta believe I have a template or process document or wrote a howto article 15 years ago about it.
Compared to capitalism as we know it, which, if you haven't been paying attention, is also dying in 2020. US exploitative market based capitalism has lead us to this moment in the present, & we can ride its oil fueled consumerism no longer. https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1304520242325082113
@windley @drummondreed I think about the Digital Asset Grid a lot these days! Hard to believe that is 8-9 years ago! Like you, I mostly write for myself. My early blog days were all writing for myself, to remember what was going on at the time, how I was feeling, who I was. :-)
@windley @drummondreed Today I was reading an article I wrote about user personas. I have a detailed template/process that I still think highly off, even though I've been using it off and on for like 20 years!!!
@windley @drummondreed Oh that's hard to watch. I was swindled out of being there because of stupid politics. Innotribe really screwed me over in so many ways. I left that job with "collaboration" trauma. I had never worked my own team who stabbed me in the back so much.
@bigbearfiredept You think people are rethinking your budget cut now? Maybe now is the time to have everyone reconsider it? Be safe and thanks for keeping the community safe.
Is anyone really shocked? I mean, were you not paying attention to the Australian fires in late 2019? The climate change train has left the station and it's headed to obliterate your way of life as you know it. You can meet it or not. https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1304585481787564032
The number and variety of crises is absurd! Environmental, political, health, economic... it's as if we finally reach the breaking point of the system we have lived in our whole lives... stop clinging to these broken systems. Give them to the flames.
@mhbx What are your reflections? 🤔
RT @jhalifax:
imageMorning is cool. The sun blazes behind a smoke filled sky. The quail come running on their T-Rex legs from the next acreage. Dogs remind me of their dinner time. I drink coffee with soy milk - I have run out of my favorite creamer.
imagePart 2: working in the yard/greenhouse before the heat, my hummingbird reminds me he’s there watching over me, a bee comes by to say hi, they identify me by my pheromones, desert quail watch from a distance my scratching of the desert dirt. I have friends, just not many human.
These breaks of physical labor give my mind to work through my intellectual problems on another level. The blood flow is also a bonus.
@SteveMartinToGo How do you keep from not fogging up your sunglasses?
This update is a fascinating update that shows the strategy and tactics of fire fighting the the San Bernardino Forest. I am so impressed! Thank you! https://twitter.com/SanBernardinoNF/status/1304846169743323136
Just took that Harvard implicit bias test for Gender & Work/Family & realized I have a deep distrust of men in business positions of power & I associate women in work positions of power more favorably. This explains my own career frustration & why I have my own company.
This probably comes from growing up in the 80s & directly experiencing the corporate exploitation from my mom's work, which had a negative financial impact on me/my family. There's other interesting insights too...
@roxannedarling Here you go: Enjoy. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
@ai6yrham That's a bummer. Heard the best way to deal with this is by putting the feet in little containers of oil as an ant barrier. Hope your bees (and honey) survive.
@Cruftbox Are those all fake people in the stands?
Finally getting into some juicy instructions in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Anyone wanna practice? https://www.instagram.com/p/CFEOzBTBhMF/?igshid=w4ugnmaci0x9
Bees, my Mexican Bird if Paradise, lush Palo Verde and the sun through smoke. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFEPKNoB3VM/?igshid=ew01rnk9s0bt
This is cool. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-09-14/scientists-may-have-found-extraterrestrial-life-in-venus-clouds-phosphine
Attention designers: submit a credential wallet design because you know what UI looks like when a developer slaps something together. You do not have to be in the identity or credential space. If you have questions, ask me! I am here to help orient you & shake up preconceptions! https://twitter.com/aniltj/status/1303379450042736640
It all comes down to the supply chain. #covid19 #vaccine #subtweet
@nvk How about something with no jargon? Those are all jargon.
@nvk There is a process we could go down if you wanted to hire me vs crowd-sourcing jargon. You get what you pay for!
@nvk Alternately have a hard sit down with yourself and describe it with no jargon what so ever. Be ruthless with yourself and get outside your biases.
Last picture should be the delete key, deleting whole pages of words, and re-writing in 2 sentences. https://twitter.com/Keidi_Keating/status/1305583386040336384
@NishantK @hankadusikova @pamelarosiedee @adfskitteh @xmlgrrl @Sarah_Cecc @jonibrennan @EmLindley @chenxiwang @mdennedy @hackylawyER @hlwachs @Sbryen @sphcow @biasmlopes @wonderland_sf Wow, thanks, such good company here! <3
RT @SBCOUNTYFIRE: #ElDoradoFire Day 10: #SBCoFD BC Scott Tuttle shows how Strike Team 6320A cleared vegetation & constructed a scratch line…
Started reading this basic bitch of an article about climate migration full of doom and gloom - the solution to the problem is moving. How much more self centered and short term thinking can you get? 🤢 There are positive opportunities but you have to shift your thinking. https://twitter.com/brittwray/status/1305858961309159430
I wish these writers would research how Mormons made the west a lush garden through ... canals and irrigation farming. It's like these writers forget humans do what humans do... innovate & problem solve. Running away aka climate migration is laziness.
The actual solution... addressing climate change, rebuilding with new infrastructure, building materials, architecture, using technology appropriately, KNOWING the climate extremes will continue... is the path through.
I've been running a small scale local environment change on my property for 3-4 years. It's not impossible to live in tune with the land, earth, fires, floods, etc. It's a different way of thinking where man is not subverting nature.
@brittwray Curious as to why that was the key point your pulled when you shared the article...
@bornonjuly4 Thank you. Dome is great and not under threat, I am grateful for that. This is the new reality and I am adjusting to it. :-) Thanks for your kind thoughts!
RT @steak_umm: if you’re a scientist, doctor, researcher, or journalist with timely information you wish was shared on a larger platform, D…
Alright, I have hit the "eat my anger/frustration" part of the pandemic/politics/climate change/white people doing diversity poorly. I've had 2 breakfasts and 1 lunch so far.
Came across my sizzle reel from a few years back & did the gender/race breakdown. Of the 20 actors: 12 were women, 6 men, 1 baby; 12 were white, 3 asian, 2 black, 1 indian, 1 mixed race baby. Not bad, but it can be improved (if I ever make films again). https://vimeo.com/251591656
And the women are all badass: space captain, Army team lead, motorcyclist, hacker & also loving, moms, grandmothers, doctor. Damn, I love all my actors in these shorts. Waaa, I miss making films.
I never know what gems I'll find when I search my archives, inevitably looking for some strategy I made a decade ago that I could never execute on... today, it was my film producer/director/writer identity.
OMG I had some seriously crazy partnership thoughts with Russian organizations back in 2012.... (reviewing old strategy documents). And... insanely... it's partially real... Sometimes I hate being a futurist.
RT @lucas_gonze: Internet standards friends, is there momentum in any body towards making Open Badges 2.0 a recommendation?https://t.co/ll4…
Best life. https://twitter.com/BrantlyWx/status/1305828470719680513
@brittwray That is the solution that is iterated over & over in the examples in the piece. It's like, stay until it's time to move... the piece assumed the way to deal with climate change is through migration. & that's also what you picked up on. I didn't read other possibilities in it.
@brittwray In my line of work (futurist) we've been talking about climate initiated migration for at least 10 years. It's not new or shocking. So I get bored seeing the same tropes covered. The hot take of the moment vs a hard look at what is possible. Hence, a basic article/take IMO.
Wholesome hashtag. I definitely recommend clicking & exploring. #NPScolorforecasting
@busynessgirl @ArchesNPS Theirs is beautiful!
Do not interrupt a writer when they are chewing through all the gnarly committee edits. Been in a foul mood all day.
@fuzztech Not our books. This isn't a book at all!
@fuzztech Our books are a dream to write!
Sometimes writing is surgery, sometimes a butcher shop. Once you realize you are actually in the butcher shop, you can be honest with yourself, get out the knives and start carving. So long my precious words.
my loot drop when i am defeated
image image image image@citizenrobot too good, I had to steal. ty!
Two hours in the butcher shop more effective than 20 hours in surgery. Words have been destroyed. Clarity rises from the ashes.
So basically plan for another 12 months of this...
@mike_kernell Click the link and you can watch the video! But yes, I was very happy to cast this woman as the doctor. I had her mind for the part actually. Also, she is not a professional actress.
@SSquire Yup. You know the story of GED (Godel, Escher, Bach)?
People upset about "Cuties" on Netflix (I'm watching it right now) & all I can think about is Sparkle Motion, The Virgin Suicides & my pre-teen baton twirling/beauty pagent BS & the rampant hard core porn available to any child with a mobile phone. This movie is not the problem.
Jeeze maybe it's time for a re-watching of Donnie Darko, double feature with Heathers.
OK, so I finished watching the film, & I thought it was really effing good. I mean, do you know what it's like to be a teen-age girl? If not, watch this film along with the Virgin Suicides & Heathers, & so many others. This film is not the problem, men are.
RT @hacks4pancakes: Our enemies *explicitly* want us to be sick, mentally and emotionally exhausted, disheartened, dumb, distracted, and ki…
@CDRFunkmeyer Or just live like you are camping. I rarely leave my property but i live within view of a national park. I am looking forward to cooler weather for desert camping.
@by_caballero @CDRFunkmeyer If I were you, I’d plan snow camping in the nordics!
@by_caballero @CDRFunkmeyer Oh, I would just rent one of those cute hygge cabins and sit by the fire with my pups drinking glog. You don't need to prove camping chops to anyone.
Have friends that inspire you to be better. My first green smoothie after years of having @djmegalizriot and @pep_0 ‘s. Thank you for inspiring me to be healthier! Even if I did destroy my favorite wooden spoon. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPm8I7hSOX/?igshid=nfkfhfoskgcq
@summer_burkes SRSLY YES! All this BS about boys/men not keeping it in their pants because they can't control themselves when they see a girl/woman is ... destructive to the human society. How much projected control has been forced on women for it? I have strong feelings.
@markjeffrey Are there better sources than sensational click baitey NY Post? Cause I'd be skeptical due to that at a minimum. That's a trash paper. Plus bonus disinformation & manipulation everywhere. plus it feeds into a conspiracy theory so, IMO it's highly likely it's part of a disinfo op.
@markjeffrey Maybe there's a reason only the click baitey trash newspaper is covering it... and it's not cause it's quality material being suppressed... #justsayin
@markjeffrey Also, if you're getting emotional, maybe reflect on that... disinformation attempts to trigger our emotions to hijack our logic, thus making it easier to manipulate us. Everything has biases & lies in it.
@markjeffrey IDK whether it is that or not & never stated it was. I'm sorry I jumped into you mentions. I'll back away...
Tonight I am watching the Social Dilemma (double feature w/ Cuties) & this jaded GenX 90s Adbuster subscriber is not surprised. Also, v short term hubric thinking that in both interview subjects & documentarian.
Did everyone forget "We Live in Public?" I guess so.
@aftermillennial Yeah, also no solutions, also totally missing the elephant in the room: lack of diversity. I was in tech in the 90s, 00s and we talked about all this then. But I left, b/c sexism. So those left in positions of power filled new positions with mini-thems.
@aftermillennial They should have interviewed some futurists!
You know who has the power to stop climate change? Corporations, especially multi-national corporations. But they won't, until they stop be profit driven. https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1306957430857887745
I love this idea of a flight to now-here! https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1306983821280120832
@BlackCloakCyber hah!
Meh I’m done with this week.
Go to the Korean spa. That’s the obvious choice! https://twitter.com/mareevs/status/1306626908235460610
@kimdhamilton Not counting on it.
Think I'm digging my firearms out tonight. Not like they are buried anywhere, but you know, to have them within arm's reach.
@TheEmilyDare Luckily, I just have to open this one closet.
@TheEmilyDare I hear ya. I used to live in a house with at least 4 loaded guns at various places in it. That used to freak me out. Lots more in the closet. Break-ins were not unheard of.
A++ thread. I wonder what the women and POC that got a throw away moment in the doc actually said in the rest of their interview. What a fucking waste by the director/producer/writer. https://twitter.com/lmesseri/status/1306962471685705730
@rightfuture It did.
How are you eating your emotions?
That is a shocking realization. I would not be here without her efforts. Thus I have no life to lose fighting. https://twitter.com/busynessgirl/status/1307142402931453953
@ericlin Chips and la croix after sake and white claw.
@PJManney That sounds amazing!!! I’ll be right over. ❤️❤️❤️
@voidmstr What does that mean?!
Bought a new tool today - it cuts through drywall. Bought it because I needed knowledge. That knowledge cost $8 and a hole in the wall and now I can proceed in an educated manner.
@NewOrchardMedia Low tech
image@shanenickerson Separate bedrooms.
Not getting lots of great sleep lately, dogs waking me in the middle of the night (Arch was sick again & so midnight laundry!) so I'm up early. Drinking coffee, feeling sorry for myself, so much to do, still hitting 100 in the Mojave, I went & did a few chores & I feel better.
"“Cuties” is not about a girl coming to terms with her sexuality... It’s about a girl coming to terms with the nature of power and her immediate, and potentially lifelong, lack of it." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-09-18/cuties-netflix-not-what-i-expected-female-rage
PS. This film makes me hate organized religion so much more than I already did. IMO, all the organized religion I have been exposed/forced into wanted to do, was control me. Control everyone. Religion exists for more the powerful to control the weaker.
Sad morning, looks like I've got a varroa mite problem... but our temps are still hitting 100... Varroa's are the #1 reason for bee colony collapse. 😭
I also lost 3 date palm babies to insect infestations, planted last year. My greenhouse had an early whitefly issue, which dampened it's production & there's an insane rodent population explosion this year. Gotta stay on top of the pest situation of all the things.
Oh also, there is a virus that is killing lots of rabbits - not in my hood, but in Landers/Joshua Tree mesa. These pests/disease show classic population explosion/collapse cycles... to combat them, you have to learn the leverage points.
I feel like US democracy is overridden with pests knawing away everywhere, disinformation, emotional triggers, attempts at control, while leveraging the chaos for lulz or $$$. We need a multiple attack approach to remove these pests from our democracy...
Don’t talk to me about your autumn weather, we are still cracking 100. 😭
Emptiness, form; objective truth, relative truth. #sundaymeditations
@AllbrightJef The sounds like relative truth to me!! 😂😂😂
@AllbrightJef 😂😂😂
Acquainted myself with a new power tool this weekend. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFYR7mUBdO1/?igshid=a3h1tvgikaow
This is a wild story. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/8WCc-rvHcXo
More recommended watching, or re-watching. https://youtu.be/_XSTwfdFwIY
@TheEmilyDare Any you want to share?
@nkjemisin I found it angering - bunch of hero’s journey tech bro’s going oops and using their stock options to “solve” the problem through their white male leadership foundation. 🤮
RT @jhalifax: After meditation, election work, program planning, curriculum development, fundraising, marketing, meeting with students, sta…
Look, you're not in control of anything. Better to practice not needing to be in control and trusting (yourself, your people, the universe). Just reminding myself here.
@chrisrockhacker I *wish* I was that buff.... 😭 Need the gym to re-open so I can train with the Marines!
I love the no bullshit mom energy here. https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1308107736895369217
A welcome respite: partying like it’s 2019. A bestie, cooking dinner, dogs, cocktails, dance music. Ahhhhh.
@susankitchens Great stuff Susan! Thank you for sharing.
RT @susankitchens: “Phoenix forest” is a vocabulary phrase I’d like to be able to use on an everyday basis. And “fire mosaic.” This is a re…
My BFF came to visit. She had to listen to my W3C call this am and now I'm listening to her call on the nuances of high end coffee!!! <3 Much needed levity and friendship.
@RScottDaigle @GreeterDan Hugs
RT @KimCrayton1: This is what white supremacy looks like 1. Rig the game so that mediocre, unremarkable, white dudes win 2. Create barrie…
Is it so radical to want to be nice/kind and appreciate people for the positives they bring? I am so done with the shit-talking. It's toxic.
@fatemehx2 Devastating. Thank you for sharing.
Yesterday I blew out my blender making the kale/spinach green smoothie. Luckily I had a dusty bullet blender in the cabinet, so I can get my fix. Can't believe I am that person addicted to green smoothies, but I was also the person who drank Odwalla superfood in the 90s.
This is a gorgeous picture. Thank you @StuartHumphryes. If I could have a style, it would be this, but with floofy pants so I could ride my horse/camel. https://twitter.com/StuartHumphryes/status/1308364130110373888
@rtgarden Hah! I actually forgot I had that appliance!
@pacoid I've got my eye on a used Blendtec TBH. I need more than a bullet cup of green smoothie a day! PS, there is a blender drill attachment?!?!?!?!
I’m officially overwhelmed. Fighting date Palm pests, rabbits eating everything, varroa mites in my bee hive, dogs acting out, upkeep on 2 acres, my work situation is not ok, & it’s still cracking 100 degrees. Also fires, pandemic, election. Alone. It’s too much. I breathe.
@rightfuture Thanks yeah feels like a lot and I can’t even get a damn massage!!!
I seriously just found my plans to promote the Cyber book when it was first released. Did I forget to execute on it? What was I doing back then to not do that? Too much work or crippling depression??? Anyway, I guess I have my playbook. My hard drive truly has all the answers.
@rosiepongracz ❤️❤️❤️
I just got back from driving 30 minutes up a dirt road to get miticide for my bees from a beekeeper who just happened to be in town for the night. He was so kind to dig out his stash for me. Tomorrow is a new day and begins with my beesuit and coffee.
Up with the dawn. Bee check, bee medication applied. Bee protein applied. Odds aren't good, but they never are with me around. I always have to beat the odds to survive/thrive. This is a predatory world, and we all are eaten by something.
@selfissued Well, that's not really my vibe. I'm more drinking at The Palms with the crusty desert dwellers...
@pacoid Pics please!!
Woke up to my San Pedros blooming so not everything is horrible. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFhmN51BCSi/?igshid=64457ip1k7tt
@missrogue Totally agree. I can't take any work stuff seriously as I watch my democracy under attack.
RT @missrogue: @heathervescent How could you NOT ask yourself if anything else you’re doing matters right now? It’s like baking a cake whil…
Sake. Soy sauce. Veggies. Noodles. My kitchen is sometimes an airport.
@darrello Hey I am a classy lady - not hotdogs in this house!!!
@darrello Damn you autocorrect.... or maybe this sake. 😝
@annabroges When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron. Reframing the way you see/expect the world - focused on past or future, and accepting the real reality of the situation, aka fully being present - and then respond from there. I can say more if you want....
@annabroges typo clarification: *not* focused on past (blame) or future (expectations)
RT @anildash: There are few things more joyfully simple and powerful in the world of technology as a plain text file.
This is a great scientific overview of getting accurate varroa mite counts. Why yes, I am nerding out on beekeeping. http://scientificbeekeeping.com/re-evaluating-varroa-monitoring-part-4/
@SSquire @mndhntr Hello there Melissa!
Well I finished the Tibetian Book of the Dead, more than half of the book is glossary and appendix which liked to put me to sleep. Still lots of choice gems on emptiness. Recommended.
@aztammyp I organize my books via the way I categorize them mentally. Some stuff is easy: paperback scifi, classic sci-fi, cacophony/counterculture, fairy tales/classics, philosophy, other is like: adventures, futures, provocative, get me out of a funk, favorites.
@aztammyp Nothing is alphabetical, lightly grouped by size but only after categorized in the shelf. I also like to juxtapose opposite or friction creating genres to have clear lines and sometime bookshelf lols.
Beautiful morning. We are happy to have all the doors open to let in the breeze. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFm6i3qBhYz/?igshid=7ktgwyk2gc91
It's not too early: https://youtu.be/v4IC7qaNr7I
As if there isn’t enough drama in the world, it appears that there is a new kind of bee at my hive.... I really hope this isn’t a take over.
@windley Thanks Phil. The local bee expert who is helping me deal with the mites gave me a screen. I’ll do some research too.
@windley I think def someone was trying to rob, but the entrance is pretty small, & I made the executive decision to kill the one annoying/aggressive bee that was trying to get into the hive another way (& it seemed like my hive was defending against). So I think they are ok for now. whew
Wow! ❤️ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-reckoning-on-race
@doomcircusclown Oooo I will add it to my list!!
!!!!! Bene Gesserit have more fun!!! https://twitter.com/Colak/status/1306354085621313536
I have been offline since 10am, what did I miss?
@Zxzllo And we still have a month till the election! 😱
@Zxzllo Waaaaa, and to think I spent the afternoon in a sensory deprivation chamber then getting a massage! I feel great tho - ready to take on the world, which, apparently I'll have to join y'all doing that tomorrow am!!
@Zxzllo I highly recommend it. I mean, you have to cool being alone with yourself/your brain. If so, it's pretty awesome.
Just posted a photo https://www.instagram.com/p/CFqhB2HBkbE/?igshid=latezkekunny
@fatemehx2 So sorry to hear you are dealing with this.
Picked up a used Blendtec blender this weekend and OMG these kale/green smoothie are amazing! Now if I could only get into an exercise regime... gotta prioritize self-care/health/eating/sleeping/moving well in 2020 to attempt to keep the despair away.
@Pathfinder Of course I can never forget that episode! Yes, it blends.
It's also such a gorgeous day here: just 88, breeze. The perfect season may be starting -- this is why we live in the Mojave.
On Tuesday, September 29 at 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CET, the CCG @w3c_ccg will have a presentation on The 4Ws: The Hard Cases That Test Digital Identity Concepts by @dgwbirch moderated by @heathervescent. Anyone can join: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Sep/0081.html #CCG #W3C
Has 2020 killed anyone else's entrepreneur spirit? I'm wrestling with the idea of going to work for someone else, because I want to do bigger things & I can't do it on my own. Any advice for an entrepreneur thinking about moving back into corporate?
@NikolasFuturist You are speaking as a white male. I am so done having to fight against all the underqualified white dudes in decision making who end up hiring their bud.
@michaelsherrill I'm too edgy/unusual for RAND.
@pinkyracr @michaelsherrill I could sure use that $15 grand I paid them in July.
@pinkyracr @michaelsherrill It’s always who you know.
RT @SenSanders: Yes. Trump's not alone. Federal income taxes paid by corporations a year after his tax plan was signed into law: $0: Amaz…
@rtgarden I AM in standards but no one is paying me to do it- it seems the only way to get paid to do standards is to work for so@e corporation who is interested in the standard. I am flabbergasted no Org has asked to me work for them honestly.... but yeah.
@michaelsherrill @pinkyracr Uh that 15k was to the IRS....
Up before the dawn.
@NikolasFuturist I hope you didn't read my reply as thinking you did call in those kinds of favors. I know I've lost work to the hiring manager's friend. Entrepreneurship/working for yourself is hard in itself, some days, it's too hard and I can't take it anymore. Thanks for your thoughts tho.
@markrhill @timoreilly I do that, & I have been relatively successful doing that, but there are hard days & some people/skill sets have more challenges than others due to biases & also it's 2020, budgets evaporate. It's also v hard to make an honest living.
If I've been up since 4:30am, can I have tater tots for breakfast?
@Pathfinder I'm a ketchup/siracha kinda girl myself!
@Pathfinder @DethVeggie LOL! Agreed.
@DethVeggie @Pathfinder Disagree. I will die on this hill. 🌋
Will my tots be done before the CCG call I am moderating at the top of the hour? The anticipation! The stress! Tune in to find out! Plus we'll have @dgwbirch speaking at the half hour mark. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Sep/0081.html #tots #meetings #CCG
@DethVeggie @Pathfinder Yes, but a mustardless life is divine! ✨
@DethVeggie @Pathfinder I may well resemble a hermit or ascetic, but I certainly don't deny myself what I think is good/delicious... clearly we disagree on mustard and that is just fine. More mustard for you! I'll make an extra portion of tots for you! 😊
@DethVeggie @virtadpt @Pathfinder What is your opinion of mayo?
Update, the tots were done before the meeting, but I only dare to take a first bite when the presentation started, only to be asked a question. LOL.
Phat beat, phat lines. --> Please less less less about you and please more more more about ME! #Trump2020 https://youtu.be/h9YAgFFTe4w
@virtadpt @Pathfinder @DethVeggie I'm so glad we're having this condiment conversation! I prefer vegan mayo TBH.
@anonyguy @ai6yrham @pomwonderful Is All Power Labs on this thing? Paging Jim Mason...
@anonyguy @ai6yrham @pomwonderful @ALLPowerLabs Get in touch with my favorite mad scientist Jim Mason - Im sure he has ideas!
@anonyguy @ai6yrham @pomwonderful @ALLPowerLabs I followed their Escape from Berkeley race a few (10?) years back and one truck was running a gassifier. Jim has continued to innovate on that and move into carbon parking. Very cool stuff!!
A++ thread. Hard choice btwn cinnamon and cumin. I was considering trying cumin in my coffee yesterday. https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/1310817036356874240
Most A++ wholesome thread https://twitter.com/Pandamoanimum/status/1310876452678705153
These are great. Watch the rest at https://www.tiktok.com/@tofology https://twitter.com/CaseyBriggs/status/1309826779146629122
@chrismessina good luck with that one. I was on the inside of messenger interop discussions in the early 00s & while technically possible, no one wanted to do it because the product is the network (of your friends) & why make it easy 4u 2leave? (We did end up allowing interop with Apple.)
Hi! What are you doing tonight?! https://www.instagram.com/p/CFva1Svh6b3/?igshid=d7kfcjw9tasn
@voretaq7 I'm counting on Twitter so I don't have to watch it myself!
Some videos in no particular order. First off: Pet Shop Boys, Alright. Yeah, I hope the music plays forever: https://youtu.be/9r0pISqCDRw
Jamiroquai, (Don't) Give Hate a Chance. We've got all this love to give, ya know! https://youtu.be/LHj_WC_IzFc
Oh, the reflex, what a game, he's hiding all the cards... The Reflex by Duran Duran: https://youtu.be/J5ebkj9x5Ko
A White House in a Red Square, The Sisters of Mercy and Dominion Mother Russia: https://youtu.be/2LntQlbvu_o
So glad I spent 120 minutes catching up with one of my besties via Facetime drinking an entire pitcher of fresh blended Pina Colada. Now gonna snuggle with my doggos. I think... there was some other thing going on tonight....
RT @WendiAarons: Can Chris Wallace be replaced with a mom who’s been home with her kids since March? #Debates2020
I can not stop watching Lady Gaga's new video 911. https://youtu.be/58hoktsqk_Q. Of course it is directed by Tarsem Sing... he did The Cell and The Fall, two utterly gorgeous films. You gotta watch the video to the end! Trigger Warning: The videos triggered my own crash experience.
The film has essences of surrealist filmmakers Fellini & Jodorowsky. The crane shots in particular are sublime and otherwordly. But I can't stop watching it because it reminds me of my own car crash, where I amazingly walked away from a crushed and totaled car.
I had forgotten about it - it happened three decades ago, until I saw a particular part of this video, and the memories came rushing back. The disorientation, hearing my screaming, the sticky soda from my friend's big gulp splattered all over me, blood confusion, the music.
Unbelievably, I was the only unhurt person & my car door opened & closed. The rest of my car was crushed, a friend was crushed next to me (she survived). Onlookers came on the scene. One of the first was a canine officer, going home after dropping the dog for the night. Flashers.
The night was a balmy and humid midwest mid summer night. A new four way intersection, the kinks still being worked out of the traffic lights. The lush green fields all around the new concert. I was 10 minutes from home.
The medics looked at me last. I had no injuries, but a bruise when my knees knocked together, when my car spun a 360 before crashing into a pole after impact. My friend was in the ambulance, did I need to join her? That's when I fainted. I went into another reality.
I have never forgot this world, this vanta black ultralight utterly real place with psychedelic neon creatures/beings unlike anything I had ever seen. I spoke with an entity. I LOVED this place. I never wanted to leave it. It was so peaceful. But something tugged at me.
I felt some kind of guilt to stay in this beautiful black, encompassing, peaceful place. I was given a choice to stay if I wanted. But the pull, the attachment to the other reality was too strong. The moment I decided I should go back. I came too, with medics around me.
Sometimes I think about that world I didn't stay in. I'm not gonna say I'm glad I came back here. I'm not always glad. It is a hard thing to be human. So yeah, Gaga's 911 video reminded me of that time my car was totalled by someone who ran a red light. https://youtu.be/58hoktsqk_Q
Always fun to see a lil shout out in your zine @Blazenhoff ! I need to get me some Irish Spring now! <3 & LOL
@chrismessina @evanwolf Thanks for the update, but not real interop IMO, since it's same company w/ sub brands/apps. I thought you were talking about messaging interop beyond a brand/company... which is kinda the definition of interop.
@chrismessina @evanwolf It's still a walled garden. The intention of interop is to break out of a walled garden paradigm. Email = interop. This != interop, despite them overcoming technical hurdles. So how interop is interop with same owner walled gardens?
@chrismessina @evanwolf Yeah, I'd agree with calling that integration & it's no small feat. But it's not interop, which is what originally caught my eye. Interop is a BIG DEAL & see my original comment (below) with your reply mentioning antitrust so ???/circular conversation? https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1311069695760453632
RT @CASOSvote: This year, every registered voter in CA will be sent a vote-by-mail ballot. Counties will begin mailing ballots no later tha…
