#profitable — Public Fediverse posts

# 4. Loyalty as a Lease Agreement
Workplaces demand loyalty the way landlords demand rent. You pay with your time, your identity, your emotional #bandwidth. And just like a lease, the terms can change overnight. You’re loyal until they decide you’re not #profitable.

https://protyusagendherpoet.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/4-loyalty-as-a-lease-agreement/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

#MissKittyPolitics The #business of #government should be the #most #profitable business in the land. Every private interest should be seeking to do business with the government. And does. We need #every #contract to be #viewable #online going forward. Every single line of every contract. 💵💵💵👀👀👀

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#Amazon: "rent this movie for $ or buy it for $$"

They know that they are not selling you a movie you keep, just a movie that you rent for a longer time.

This is #deceptive but it's also #profitable.

This is a key to acquiring #profitable #skills in 2026.

A learning mindset can not only help you #overcome your #LearningChallenges, but it can even #inspire you to enjoy the process.

These are 3 indicators that you have a strong #learning #mindset:

📌 You don't avoid #challenges, you face them.
📌 You believe you can #improve.
📌 You don't give up easily.

Strengthen your #LearningMindset with my free 7-day #challenge.

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#Saudi #Aramco is partnering with #SandboxAQ, a #Google spinoff, to use #AI to transform #capturedcarbon into #profitable products. This partnership aims to solve the challenge of turning #carbondioxide into #valuablematerials, such as plastics or aerospace components, using #quantumAI to predict new chemical reactions. https://restofworld.org/2025/saudi-aramco-carbon-emissions-profit-google-spinoff-ai/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

To follow up on this...

#Neoclassical #economics, jumping off from #Marx, conflated #economic #rent and #profit in order to justify this kind of behavior.

TP=NSV+ER+Ext+M
Where:

TP = Total Profit, or Neoclassical profit, or #Marxist Returns to #Capital.

NSV = Natural Surplus Value (difference between the natural price and the cost of production). This is Classical Profit.

ER = Economic Rent (surplus due to privileged control over a scarce factor of production)

Ext = #Externalities (surplus generated by offloading production costs onto others) AKA #Pollution

M = #Monopoly (surplus generated by manipulating #supply and #demand, typically through control of the #market)

Only NSV is what you would call "legitimate", as the #producer #surplus is paired with a #consumer surplus - their ratio relative to the supply curves.

Now, all the others _reduce_ the consumer surplus and are therefore #theft.

Every single #technology #company (#TechCompany) - no... every single #company #profitable enough to be widely known, and many that aren't widely known, is _only_ profitable because of theft.

What's more, every action of #tech companies this millennia (including offering services for #free) has been designed to engage in this theft.

Force Capitalism to Stop Climate Change

Central banks should stop pretending to be neutral about saving the planet

It is clear to everyone that decarbonization is happening far too slowly.

💥Even the best-performing high-income countries are not reducing their emissions fast enough to achieve the Paris Agreement objectives
—not even close.

And one big reason is that even though 🔸renewables are now routinely #cheaper than fossil fuels,
they are still not nearly as #profitable.

🔥Returns on fossil fuel investments are around three times higher than returns on renewables,
largely because
👉 fossil fuels are more conducive to #monopoly power while
👉the renewable sector is highly #competitive.❗️

Commercial banks allocate capital on the basis of #profitability, not social and #ecological #objectives.
🔥The result is that we get massive investment in sectors such as SUVs, fast fashion, industrial animal farming, private jets, and advertising
—even though we know they are ecologically destructive and must be reduced
—but we suffer critical underinvestment in areas that are clearly necessary for the ecological transition,
such as public transit, agroecology, or building retrofits, because they tend to be less profitable.

Remarkably, there is currently 💥no plan for phasing down fossil fuel investments.
This is a structural problem, and we need to face up to it.
❌Waiting for capital to speed up decarbonization in line with the Paris Agreement is a strategy that’s doomed to fail.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/16/climate-change-central-banks-credit-guidance/

@chu The only way that #bigcorp is going buy in on mitigating #climatechange is if we can show them that doing so is #profitable . Or at least how not doing so will lead to #lostrevenue

#bigcorporations do not care about #people only #money. #unfortunately

#environment #environmentalscience #earthscience #economy

"If you ask a #conservative when #America was great, many would say "when it was #founded".

And if you remind them that #slavery #existed then, they'll usually try to cover their asses by saying "except for that".

But slavery is not some minor fluke. If it's #legal to #kidnap, #traffic, #torture, #rape, and #murder black #people, and if the #police actively assist in that, and if #anyone who tries to rescue the #victims goes to #jail, and if it keeps happening because the #violence of the #protesters bothers more people than the violence that they're #protesting against, then no decent #person is going to care how "great" it is otherwise. That's not something that can be overlooked.

Also, that level of violence never happens by accident. Slavery was not a fluke. Slavery happened because it was #profitable. The #system was working exactly as intended, and it still is."

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https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/721381047477190656/if-you-ask-a-conservative-when-america-was-great?source=share

100th post, as fine a time as any to do the traditional #introduction before nobody on #mastodon does them anymore.
I’m a #hacker , a parent, a founder & CEO, government advisory board member, cat food servant, defender and participant in democracy, & an arm wrestling and karaoke enthusiast — not necessarily at the same time, but not opposed to trying it all at once either.
Carpe brachium karaoke as they say. 💪🏼🎤
Here we go. Get a snack & some water, this is long. 🍪 🥛
My professional passions include #SystemDynamics & #security with my #focus on helping organizations & governments develop healthy sustainable #VulnerabilityDisclosure programs that may end up growing into a #BugBounty program, or helping existing programs mature & evolve.
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🌺I founded & run https://www.Lutasecurity.com & we employ dozens of people, mostly in the US, to help some of our customers manage their #VDPs and #BugBounties as internally-placed personnel.
📜Services: https://www.lutasecurity.com/services
💻Hiring: https://www.lutasecurity.com/careers
💵Referral bounties: https://www.lutasecurity.com/referralbounty
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I helped launch #HackThePentagon in 2016, which was the first bug bounty of the US government & the first time it was legal to hack the USG.
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This was after I created Microsoft’s first bug bounty programs in 2013, paying out the most at the time for brand new exploitation techniques, which would later lead to me directly helping the US renegotiate the #Wassenaar Arrangement to clarify “intrusion software” and “intrusion software technology” export control exemptions to more easily allow for hassle-free exchange of 0day & malware samples across borders for vulnerability disclosure & incident response.
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I also started two vulnerability research programs, Symantec Vulnerability Research & Microsoft Vulnerability Research. The latter was also the first formal major vendor multiparty #SupplyChain vulnerability coordination & disclosure program.
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I now serve on 3 Federal advisory boards in cyber.
⚖️NIST ISPAB: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/ispab/members
💱Commerce ISTAC: https://tac.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/members-listing/422-istac-website-listing/file
🚨DHS CSRB: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/02/03/dhs-launches-first-ever-cyber-safety-review-board
🎙️Fun fact: Despite mainstream media lip service about getting diverse voices on TV, and my extensive direct experience in US domestic & foreign cyber policy & norm-setting, I have *never* been invited to be on broadcast news to talk about it. Not one time. But there are the same dudes with none of my experience showing up on TV all the time.
📺 Email [email protected] if you can change that.
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👩🏻‍⚖️ Speaking of gender equity, I was the lead plaintiff in the attempted class action gender pay and promotion discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft.
💵💪🏼 https://www.theverge.com/22331972/pay-equity-now-pledge-katie-moussouris-microsoft-lawsuit
When it failed to get class certified due to some legal gotchas, NOT because of lack of data and evidence, I decided to drop my case and founded https://www.payequitynowfoundation.org/blog & created
https://www.manglonalab.org/ to fight for #PayEquity in our lifetime.
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🌸Another fun fact: I’m asked about the gender stuff way more often than any of my professional work or national security work. I view this as The Lady Tax & I’m all paid up thanks.
🙅🏻‍♀️Don’t ask me about how to attract more diverse candidates, don’t ask me to mentor your mentee, and don’t ask me for any more free labor. Don’t ask any historically marginalized people to do free labor, especially to solve your diversity puzzle.
👏🏼I highly recommend https://blacktechpipeline.com/ if you are serious about not just hiring but welcoming more black workers into your company. There are specialty recruiters out there for you to pay, so don’t ask every woman or person of color you know to help you with that unless they are being paid to do it.
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🧩 Miscellaneous bits if you’ve made it this far is that I studied molecular biology, biochemistry & mathematics but dropped out to become a systems administrator, a professional Linux developer, then a hacker for hire.
🔐 I still hack by accident (because hacksidents happen), and nobody should have to be the coauthor/coeditor of the International Standards on how to do Vulnerability Disclosure to get an organization’s attention.
👩🏻‍🏫 ISO standards overview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-L3DNZtK8lc

📲 Clubhouse hack: https://www.wired.com/story/clubhouse-bug-lurkers-ghost/
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🙄 Despite my entire career being technical, when my company tried for venture capital funding to build something cool, we were met with sexism & lack of imagination & I was hilariously asked more than once if I had a technical cofounder.
It’s cool, joke’s on them. We’re #profitable and growing.
🤨https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyvza/this-hacker-is-trying-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-cybersecurity
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I participate in Democracy with more than voting. Anyone with the bandwidth should look into doing it too.
1. Google “find my Legislative district”
2. Go to your State website & search by your address
3. Look up your Legislative District’s (LD) website to find out how to join
4. Attend monthly LD meetings
5. Run for Delegate per LD or be appointed like me when not enough people do 1-4
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🛑Ending abruptly is on brand for me as a neuroatypical person, so I’ll leave you with this thought:
🐈 I named my 17 year old cat Scapy (rhymes with happy) after the Python tool of the same name. Because he is dumb & fuzzy.
😸If you get that joke, you pretty much get me.
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✌🏼Be kind, drink water, touch grass, save the planet, save Democracy, pet cute animals. ✌🏼