👁️ Aggregate - Curate - Syndicate
SourceFeed and Crucial Tracks recently added to feed this blog, but Crucial Tracks doesn’t seem to populate until I get into the MB dashboard and refresh the blog. All other feeds including SourceFeed repost automatically.
Intended? Or me missing a trick somewhere?
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
🔗 Daring Fireball: Luca Maestri Runs the Cafeteria
Got to say - I would love it if Apple included Filemaker in Creator Studio.
🖋️ 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.
👁️ Looks like the weather forecast on Monday was right.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 8, 2026
"Infected" by The The
The first track of Matt’s second album left the speakers in my living room and arrived in my ears nearly forty years ago. I never looked back .. the power of this opening track hit me like a sledgehammer and does a stunning job of introducing the ‘tour de force’ that is the album.
It 'says'
title (optional)
.. and whilst true - the relative outcomes of titled v untitled are different - and totally dependant on your reader of choice. I can't get away with thinking that 'Titled Posts' assume a certain level of entitlement whilst 'Untitled' fights for the scraps. And all of this aided and abetted by the 'Readers' we use.
Time for a rebellion?
👁️ TIL a lot about something I did not know that I didn’t know and didn’t know that I needed to know.
👁️ The process continues.
👁️ I wonder if CrucialTracks RSS publishing mechanism is down❓
👁️ Clearly a while since I was here - bus stop not just gone - disappeared❗️
🔗 Don’t Fall for the Tucker Carlson Apology Tour
Exactly - and the rest of them - when they start theirs. (Coming soon to a local podcast soon.)
Crucial Track 🎵 May 7, 2026
"Fever (Adam Freeland Extended Remix) [Adam Freeland Master]" by Adam Freeland & Sarah Vaughan
Cover? Mix? Do not know. First heard it 21 years ago .. been on the non existent mix tape of my life ever since. Give it a whirl.
🔗 Daring Fireball: X, the Platform of Free Speech
Definitely looking forward to Gil’s ‘🔗 The Nerd Reich’.
👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓
It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.
💬 Me
🔗 2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe) – chiefmartec
🖇️ This has been getting silly for years - it would be so much more interesting if rather than an increasingly difficult image to read it was a dynamic data base that is actually useful.
🔗 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.