SC Media’s 2024 Women in IT Security nominations begin today, and we need your help to nominate women leaders, entrepreneurs, rising stars and advocates.
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/2024-women-in-it-security-call-for-nominations-now-open

The Art Resource Center in Tempe Arizona is a non-profit providing arts & crafts materials free to educators and other non-profit organizations. https://blog.fabrics-store.com/2024/08/01/second-hand-fabric-shopping-in-phoenix-arizona/

"They counted more than 100 bottles of champagne in the wreck, off the coast of Sweden. And now Tomasz Stachura, of Polish diving group Baltitech, believes the shipment could have been destined for a Russian tsar."

Admit it: You're now singing, "100 bottles of beer on the wall...."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y85ern11o

Feel like making a difference? TechCongress is recruiting for the next class of Congressional Innovation Fellows through 8/7. https://www.techcongress.io/apply

“The function of Science Fiction is not to predict the future, but to prevent it.“– Ray Bradbury

> Among his plans to downsize the State, President Milei has been saying that he intends to replace government workers and organizations with AI systems. The first role that he will give to this technology, however, will be an expansion of state agencies: on Monday his government created the Unit of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security. https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-07-30/javier-mileis-government-will-monitor-social-media-with-ai-to-predict-future-crimes.html

"Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the 'biographies' of hundreds of the city’s ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail, using a wealth of scientific data to fill out the life stories of poor or disadvantaged people whose names were never recorded." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/01/archaeologists-life-stories-medieval-cambridge

Your employee asked for a raise, which is a big challenge for any manager. How you respond can affect morale, retention, and your budget.
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/employees-ask-for-a-raise/

Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris #MastodonForHarris https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/25/2257916/-Mastodon-users-donate-a-quarter-million-dollars-in-2-days-for-VP-Harris-MastodonForHarris

Banana for scale

Overheard: I've been wondering if we need to amend Hanlon's razor: ”Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance or an inappropriately triggered automation.”

Of course, he did.

Does anyone have a list of these accounts on Mastodon, Threads, and BlueSky? That's where I'm participating on social media now anyhow.

https://wapo.st/3LMqsKM

The philosophy of personalism inspired Martin Luther King’s dream of a better world. We still need its hopeful ideas today https://aeon.co/essays/on-hope-philosophical-personalism-and-martin-luther-king-jr

The Judicial FOIA Expansion Act would establish “a right of public access to records that relate to the federal judicial branch.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4788430-schiff-legislation-judicial-foia/

SF Writer Robert J. Sawyer’s WordStar 7 Archive https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

I'm not much of an instagram person but this is worth it. https://www.instagram.com/p/C991VBAx2t_/

The secrets behind designing a great fictional brand
“The only difference between real brands and fake brands is it benefits fake brands to be hilarious, for something to be inherently wrong about the brand from the word go. That doesn't usually work for real brands.”
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/fictional-brands-thematic-graphic-design-film-060923

*Weinberg said one thing that hasn't changed is developers snowing management. “They don't know what you're doing,” he said, “so they reward the _appearance_ of work.”*

From a conference writeup I did in 2005.
https://www.eweek.com/development/programming-wizards-offer-advice-at-developers-confab/

Good things to celebrate in the world! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seventh-person-cured-of-hiv-after-stem-cell-transplant/

A project supported by OpenAI’s founder tested the impact of monthly $1,000 payments to low-income individuals. It found increased flexibility and autonomy for recipients. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-22/ubi-study-backed-by-openai-s-sam-altman-bolsters-support-for-basic-income