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Thank you season
Something I’ve noticed over the years is more “thank you”s in late November through mid-December. It might have something to do with Thanksgiving. Starting about Monday before and running at least a couple weeks after, I notice supervisors, mentors, and clients express more pointed expressions of thanks. That’s not to say I don’t see them…
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HBD for the dead
NOTE: I put this into the schedule, so don’t read too much into the post’s date in determining who inspired me to write it. Facebook has that “happy birthday” feature which I think is pretty neat because it encourages connection. Where it gets weird for me is people who are dead. I don’t feel comfortable…
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QAnon made MAGA
The bullshit of QAnon was bad. People were threatened or killed over the conspiracies it circulated, but what’s worse is that Stephen Miller, Fox News, Newsmax, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, and others all realized they could craft Q-like conspiracies to get loyal viewers and sell so much stuff. (Ads and merch).…
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Reality TV presidency
This risk of a reality TV star being President is you get what they know: drama every day about obviously bad decisions that could have been avoided with a modicum of thought before executing them. Personally, I feel like the government works well when it is doing what it needs to do without causing drama.…
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People forget the new in news
I see quite a bit of worry about how the mainstream media doesn’t cover Trump and Biden the same way. Biden makes mistakes in the way he speaks and its breathlessly covered for weeks. For months Trump made the same mistakes and barely a story. Why? The news covered Trump’s mistakes and stumbles in 2016…
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Third parties
Several United States political parties routinely appear on the presidential ballots every four years. But, I think they go about it all wrong. Let’s say the Libertarian party wins. Chase Oliver becomes president. He’s president with a Congress that’s Democratic or Republican in one or both chambers. He’s going to have a hard time with…
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Fake missing children posts
I don’t get it. A few people shared posts claiming the same photo of a child from different cities was missing. It got me looking into the phenomenon. Law enforcement agencies are calling it a bait-and-switch scam. After the post gets widely shared, the creator will change it to the real purpose: malicious website, deceptive…
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Facebook cloning
Someone copying the name of another person on social media is annoying, but I don’t think of it as hacking. Anyone can make an account. Social media companies made verification methods precisely because clones are easy to make and when do so about someone famous, it could lead to a devaluation of a brand. For…
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Data ocean security
As data moves to the cloud, the security moves from my computers to someone else’s. That’s fine. Even with “MY” computers, I don’t have full control over everything, so rather than trusting my coworkers to do the right thing, I’m trusting others. My clients operate in an ecosystem. At my start here, we were highly…