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Several people I respect recently made similar observations to the effect that there is the security community, and then there's the security industry, which are frequently two VERY different things with somewhat misaligned goals and incentives. Seems like there's a lot of truth to explore there.
From my various provocations on LinkedIn the past six months, it's become clear the latter is largely content to sit quietly or even cheer as this administration makes a public mockery of everything their industry claims to stand for. I suspect this may have something to do with tons of security firms suddenly recasting themselves as AI-focused companies.
Am I way off base or too idealistic or simplistic here, or just jaded? I've been trying to identify the real source of my malaise over attending security industry events over the past few months, and I think this dynamic is a big part of it.
I don't know about you (and others), but in my experience nowadays, when someone says they're in Security/in the Security Industry, they really mean they're in Compliance, which...I think explains the state of the industry, in more ways than one.
The guts of infosec and "security" have effectively diverged, I think.
Personally, I lay this at the feet of the "business" parasites who co-opted otherwise honest business ventures and relationships in search of capital.
"Jamie Raskin's Preamble to the Big Ugly Bill and Trump didn't like it”, DailyKos
“Mr. Speaker, I found a Preamble to this Big Ugly Bill. We the billionaires, and our King, in order to deform and sicken our Union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our peoples defenses, undermine our general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do herby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their healthcare, increase copays, premiums and deductibles for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by 4 trillion dollars, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America. Please include this Preamble in the legislative record. I yield back.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland took the Big Ugly Bill to task Wednesday night. He was angry about the bill, so he "found" a preamble to it that he read aloud on the House floor. It went like this: Clip on Bryan Tyler Cohen's Instagram of Raskin's...
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.
The House Democratic campaign arm (DCCC) has promised to let every voter in battleground states know what Republicans did to them with the reconciliation bill.
I swear the world would be a better place if there was a limit on how big a state could could be. And by state I mean what is commonly referred to as a country.
Texas is huge in the context of the United States. It's monstrous compared to some countries in Europe, but on the same scale as France and Germany. But it's only a fraction of countries like China, India and Russia.
The influence of the US and these other countries is proportional to the resources they control.
be it human bodies, ability to grow food or valuable shit under the ground, it's all about resources and the power gained by granting or denying access to them on the global market.
If countries were all small, there would be fewer centers of power and more collaboration. We'd still need something LIKE the UN to stop East Bumblefuck from invading West Bumblefuck, but there would be more coalitions because each political unit would have less power.
READ: Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.
The son of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, the director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital - one of the strip’s largest hospitals - mourns his father’s death.
Sultan was killed, along with his wife, sister, daughter and son-in-law, when a missile struck his home on Wednesday.
The doctor was the 70th healthcare worker killed in the past 50 days, according to Palestinian medical organization Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW). - MEE
Paramount's spineless decision to settle Trump's baseless and patently unconstitutional lawsuit "will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history," we said.
Journalists and others said the payment will embolden attacks by Trump and his allies on news outlets. Some called the settlement a stain on the proud legacy of CBS News.
The Big Death Bill has officially been passed. Despite claiming to want to “Make America Healthy Again,” hundreds of Republican Congressmembers willingly chose to kick millions of people off health insurance, close hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics, leave millions of families without enough food, and kill tens of thousands of people. This is the biggest assault on health in recent history.
Marietta police said that in a “bizarre turn of events,” a liquor store manager who called 911 over an alleged shop lifter was arrested for armed robbery—at his own store!
> Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab c. 588–627 was a contemporary and first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who apostatized from Islam by converting to Christianity following his migration to Abyssinia in around 615 CE.
i bought a new rear view mirror for the RSX on ebay, the guy never sent it. finally he realized what he did, and just sent me about 20 separate messages
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[Hebrew] אילנה המרמן (נולדה ב-15 בספטמבר 1944) היא עורכת ספרותית, מתרגמת, מחברת ספרי עיון ופעילת שמאל רדיקלית ישראלית.
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Ilana Hammerman (born September 15, 1944) is an Israeli literary editor, translator, author of non-fiction books, and ***radical left activist***.
[French] Ilana Hammerman (en hébreu: אילנה המרמן) est traductrice et écrivain israélienne née à Haïfa le 15 septembre 1944. Elle a traduit en hébreu, entre autres, Céline, Camus, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Kafkaet García Márquez. Elle a publié plusieurs ouvrages sur la théorie littéraire, notamment sur le national-socialisme et la littérature allemande, et sur l'activité littéraire dans les territoires occupés.
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Ilana Hammerman (in Hebrew: אילנה המרמן) is an Israeli translator and writer born in Haifa on September 15, 1944. She has translated into Hebrew, among others, Céline, Camus, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Kafka, and García Márquez. She has published several works on literary theory, notably on National Socialism and German literature, and on literary activity in the occupied territories.
[Dutch] Ilana Hammerman (Haifa, 1944) is een Israëlischschrijfster en mensenrechtenactiviste.[1] Ze is vooral bekend van haar burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid tegenover de onderdrukking van de Palestijnen.
[2]Translation
Ilana Hammerman (Haifa, 1944) is an Israeli writer and human rights activist.[1] She is particularly known for her civil disobedience against the oppression of Palestinians.[2]
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis: "Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly" — Bluesky
Deportations haven't gone up and they won't go up. This bill has trillions of spending that's directly intended to crash the economy, and provisions that prevent states from defending themselves from the new Federal Government AI slop and Federally mandated identity management.
It's not going to do anything about illegal aliens and you're falling for the President of the United States of Israel's agenda.
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In Kyiv, a farewell ceremony was held for F-16 pilot Maksym Ustymenko, a Hero of Ukraine, who was killed while defending the country during a large-scale Russian air attack on the night of June 29. — Ukrinform.
A friend of mine, @ajn142, came up with a really interesting term: "parasocial media."
Social media is about socializing, but on many if not most "social" media platforms, we're seeing less and less actual socializing, with most engagement being reposting things others posted, without additional comment.
That ain't social, it's parasocial.
Avoid parasocial media. Go where people actually talk to you.
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Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a "frank and substantive" call today, where they discussed the conflict in the Middle East and the war in
awesome play!!! I coached baseball for over 6 years from 3rd grade through 8th grade as my son’s head baseball coach. I remember vividly when my center fielder did this from the fence to my son (the catcher). 👏👏👏
Over 5,000 job cuts across UK universities have been announced this year, with thousands more in the pipeline. But staff unions led by the UCU are blocking a united fightback.
Cutting support for disabled people will increase their risk of hardship, making it even more difficult to find a decent job, particularly in parts of the country with fewer suitable vacancies.
For all that is holy, please watch this before moving on down: Paul Nuttalls of the UKIPs appointed Reform UK deputy chairman. He's the man that lied about: • Being a footballer• Having a PhD• Losing close friends at Hillsboroughhttps://t.
I also have a theory that dogs were bred with down ears to keep water from getting in them.
I can’t think of a single water dog that has up ears. And of all the dogs that have down ears, almost all interact with water in some way like crossing streams to hunt. Or they have been bred down to miniature sizes from their original breed that was used with water. So the down ears have simply carried over like with the various sizes of poodles.
One of my hound friends once said about the German Shepherd: "They've bred their asses off! How do they shit?"
Within the AKC, there are clubs for the different breeds, and these clubs maintain breeding standards. Some breeds, like poodles, have been inbred until their genetic line is so thin they are like the royalty of old Europe. They look weird and get epilepsy, bleeding disorders, and live short miserable lives. The AKC clubs for other breeds make an errort, while maintaining the breed, to avoid inbreeding and preserve as much of the gene pool as possible.
Border Collies and German Shepherds are two breeds that have been split into two groups: the old farm dogs, with shaggy outdoor coats and healthy herding instincts, and the show dogs with fluffy soft coats and no idea what to do outside the show ring.
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![statement: Everything is possible! If you fail you just didn't try hard enough!
counter point by Byung-Chul Han:
People who fail in the neoliberal achievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system. [...] under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7877622 "statement: Everything is possible! If you fail you just didn't try hard enough!
counter point by Byung-Chul Han:
People who fail in the neoliberal achievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system. [...] under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression.")
katana crimson
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •I don't know about you (and others), but in my experience nowadays, when someone says they're in Security/in the Security Industry, they really mean they're in Compliance, which...I think explains the state of the industry, in more ways than one.
The guts of infosec and "security" have effectively diverged, I think.
Personally, I lay this at the feet of the "business" parasites who co-opted otherwise honest business ventures and relationships in search of capital.
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in reply to katana crimson • • •We worked closely with Compliance but at my last job (electric utility) security was a distinctive and separate organization from Compliance.
Hell, Compliance would audit us on a quarterly basis.
maco
Unknown parent • • •@dyrathror relevant post from @pluralistic on the economics of hanging your company on “AI”
pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/acc…
Pluralistic: How much (little) are the AI companies making? (30 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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