? Quotes
I sometimes have a hard time putting into words that clearly explain my position and feelings on a topic. Take The Met Gala for example. Jax and I talking and I just couldn’t explain my contempt for it. Result - Jax writes it off:
Well you never like this kind of stuff.
💬 Jax
- I paraphrase
- True
- Not the point
No more struggles 🔗 Robert L Arnold clearly lives in my brain.
This reminds me that I need to find my ‘Hacker’ rant …
🔗 Your Data Lake’s Vulnerability Problem Is Really an Identity Problem
One contractor laptop. Multiple enterprise environments compromised. That’s the actual story.
In mid-2024, at least 165 organizations got hit through their Snowflake instances. AT&T lost over 50 billion call records. Ticketmaster, Santander, Advance Auto Parts. The headlines wrote themselves: Snowflake hacked.
Except Snowflake wasn’t hacked. Mandiant, CrowdStrike, and Snowflake all reached the same conclusion in their forensics. No zero-day. No flaw in the cryptographic platform. No internal compromise of Snowflake’s corporate network. No brute-force attacks against API limits.
What actually happened? UNC5537, a financially motivated group also tracked as Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters, walked through the front door with valid stolen credentials. Those credentials were harvested over years by commodity infostealer malware (VIDAR, LUMMA, REDLINE) running on the personal laptops of third-party contractors. The same laptops these contractors used for gaming and pirated software also held the keys to their clients’ enterprise data lakes.
💬 Logan @ LLBLL
There’s those 🖇️ Pace Layers creeping in again - and I definitely like using ‘category’ as a distinguishing mark. Years ago I wrote piece that asked if 🖇️ New Zealand had ‘Crossed The Chasm’
🔗 The war between fast and legitimate is here
If you’re running a startup, you’re in the speed game, and pretending you’re running a regulatory agency is a category error. If you’re running a regulatory agency, you’re in the legitimacy game, and it’s something of a vapid conceit to pretend to be running a startup. Most of the dysfunction in contemporary institutions comes from this same category confusion
💬 Joan Westenberg
They say 'Home' is where you 'Hang Your Hat'
… but is it? When someone asks me ‘where I am from’ … I try to understand the question that is really being asked, because the context reveals many different answers.
👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓
It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.
💬 Me
🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers
The publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)
A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?
💬 Nilay Patel
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I’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”
💬 Nilay Patel
🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude
I have a name. Phin Argofy.
💬 Phin Argofy
.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.
In my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?
His name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.
The name? Different story for another time.
The Missing Half of a Daily Planner
Finalist failed to stick first time around - but this time we have more time.
Wondering if @manton / @sod / others in this fine community are thinking about 🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline - which I am liking the look of. A lot.
🔗 The Byline Site for the full 411.
my take on extending RSS (and Atom/JSON Feed) in a way that helps provide more context about who writes a thing, and what that thing might be.
💬 Terry Godier
It looks like being fully hosted on Micro Blog introduces limitations - but that I can also bypass - BUT before I do that - any plans to jump on board any time soon?
I can happily report though, that every public feed has at least 75 subscribers. So, for now, yes, someone is probably reading that :)
💬 Terry Godier
So this mini blog has at least 75 subscribers? Or Terry’s ‘all feeds’ RSS has 75 subscribers? There is a difference.