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  1. I often hear people in tech complaining that the industry is oversaturated and they can't find a job but let's be real about this:

    The entry-level resume pile is oversaturated with people who have a theoretical degree or a paper cert but have never actually touched a terminal, built a home lab, or popped a box. HR departments are flooded with thousands of identical, low-effort applications.

    There is a catastrophic shortage of people who have a deeply ingrained offensive mindset, who understand networking down to the packet level, and who can look at a custom enterprise system and figure out how it fails.

    Regardless of whether you love or hate AI, we are in a high-stakes tech race where our adversaries are operating with zero ethical speed brakes, and Silicon Valley’s response is to gatekeep the very tools that could turn raw tech savvy students into elite defenders at scale.

    You can't even ask AI how to tweak a simple reverse shell without it panicking and saying "I can't help you hack the mAiNfRaMe and destroy the entire grid." As if the feds wouldn't be at some script kiddies door within minutes if they dared touch critical infrastructure or as if enterprise environments don't have robust EDR and network segmentation in place. They really act like APTs are asking AI how to learn ethical hacking, treating a simple Python script that is less than 10 lines of code like a piece of precision-engineered, state-sponsored cyber-weaponry designed to spin centrifuges out of control (Stuxnet 2.0).

    We're really shooting ourselves in the foot. Our adversaries aren't using Anthropic, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. to learn how to make reverse shells or priv esc exploits for sandboxed CTFs to prepare for the field. They have AI pipelines that don't have guardrails and APTs that are already hacking into our telecom companies, healthcare networks, etc. Who is big tech really helping here? Certainly not us.

    Look, I am not really even the biggest fan of AI (and obviously not a fan of big tech) but if I can crunch 8 hours of learning down into 1 hour, why wouldn't I? I'll still spend the 8 hours learning some new concept without the force multiplier because this is what I am passionate about and what I am studying for but the amount of security theater I see from big tech absolutely gets on my nerves. In fact, I think because I have learned so much about cybersecurity is exactly why it annoys me that much more. Watching a multi-billion dollar AI panic over a 10-line Python socket connection feels like being treated like a child by someone who doesn't even understand basic syntax.

    #givemeabreak

    #securitytheater

    #CorporatePR

    #CorporateNannyFilters

    #bigtech is #shortsighted

    I guess I'll have to just #RTFM so some skript kiddie doesn't cause a catastrophic blackout ... #sarcasm 🙄

  2. Sunday, December 14, 2025

    [Video] One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia’s mass attack -- Russia’s December oil and gas revenue set to drop to lowest level since 2020, Reuters reports -- Under fire, Ukraine becomes Europe's energy defense instructor -- India’s short-sighted embrace of Russia will endanger its own national security ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  3. Sunday, December 14, 2025

    [Video] One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia’s mass attack -- Russia’s December oil and gas revenue set to drop to lowest level since 2020, Reuters reports -- Under fire, Ukraine becomes Europe's energy defense instructor -- India’s short-sighted embrace of Russia will endanger its own national security ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  4. "Biomedical CEO had to lay off five dozen employees at his company earlier this year, thanks to the Trump administration’s attacks on universities, science, and medical-research funding ... The Bay Area’s life sciences sector — biotech companies involved in pharmaceuticals, medicine and research — last year received $2 billion in NIH funds, created $94 billion in direct economic output, and employed more than 150,000 people":
    eastbaytimes.com/2025/11/30/tr
    #Trump #destructive #shortsighted #politics

  5. "Biomedical CEO had to lay off five dozen employees at his company earlier this year, thanks to the Trump administration’s attacks on universities, science, and medical-research funding ... The Bay Area’s life sciences sector — biotech companies involved in pharmaceuticals, medicine and research — last year received $2 billion in NIH funds, created $94 billion in direct economic output, and employed more than 150,000 people":
    eastbaytimes.com/2025/11/30/tr
    #Trump #destructive #shortsighted #politics

  6. Don't we have a shortage of qualified nurses, doctors and other medical staff? And don't we want to keep nursing a professional course to keep standards of care high? Who will explain to MAGA that government and businesses have different goals and MUST BE RUN DIFFERENTLY!

    nurse.org/news/nursing-exclude

    #nursing #shortsighted #felon #MAGA #POTUS #antiamerican #idiotic #impeach #government #uspol #USPolitics #DoE #education

  7. Don't we have a shortage of qualified nurses, doctors and other medical staff? And don't we want to keep nursing a professional course to keep standards of care high? Who will explain to MAGA that government and businesses have different goals and MUST BE RUN DIFFERENTLY!

    nurse.org/news/nursing-exclude

    #nursing #shortsighted #felon #MAGA #POTUS #antiamerican #idiotic #impeach #government #uspol #USPolitics #DoE #education

  8. @verge Nice!
    And it's already 5 years behind BYD and their 3000hp EV.
    Ferrari has entered a race where the other team had a 10 year head start.
    #ShortSighted

  9. @verge Nice!
    And it's already 5 years behind BYD and their 3000hp EV.
    Ferrari has entered a race where the other team had a 10 year head start.
    #ShortSighted

  10. Reform's press conference was a massive dog whistle to the racists amongst us...

    What happens to the British economy when Farage kicks out all people who have indefinite leave to remain especially the NHS? Who will fill the job vacancies as the UK has aging population.

    #Reform #Farage #shortsighted

  11. Reform's press conference was a massive dog whistle to the racists amongst us...

    What happens to the British economy when Farage kicks out all people who have indefinite leave to remain especially the NHS? Who will fill the job vacancies as the UK has aging population.

    #Reform #Farage #shortsighted

  12. Dear IT industry,

    of all the info you add to the stickers on your memory bars or SSDs I am only interested in the capacity. It would be extremely nice if you could use a font larger than 4 pt for that information.

    Thank you!

    A use who has just taken a picture of her NVME SSD with her phone and zoomed into the picture to see wether that particular SSD is 1 TB or 2 TB.

    #shortsighted #usability

  13. "The Trump administration has canceled a contract awarded to Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab for the late-stage development of its bird flu vaccine for humans, as well as the right to purchase shots, the drugmaker announced on Wednesday."

    #Shortsighted

    reuters.com/business/healthcar

  14. "The Trump administration has canceled a contract awarded to Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab for the late-stage development of its bird flu vaccine for humans, as well as the right to purchase shots, the drugmaker announced on Wednesday."

    #Shortsighted

    reuters.com/business/healthcar

  15. ‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program wired.com/story/cve-program-ci #Security/CyberattacksandHacks #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #Shortsighted #Security

  16. ‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program wired.com/story/cve-program-ci #Security/CyberattacksandHacks #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #Shortsighted #Security

  17. How I wish #WhatsApp culture took over #Meta rather than the other way around - it's not fun having to grab a meeting room to do work because people are chatting loudly one row behind. #OpenPlanOffice is a terrible mistake and I'm so glad I normally #RemoteWork

    #Productivity
    #ShortSighted
    #WorkCulture

  18. How I wish #WhatsApp culture took over #Meta rather than the other way around - it's not fun having to grab a meeting room to do work because people are chatting loudly one row behind. #OpenPlanOffice is a terrible mistake and I'm so glad I normally #RemoteWork

    #Productivity
    #ShortSighted
    #WorkCulture

  19. Gee, if only Microsoft made their own smartphones. Oops.

    #Microsoft #ShortSighted #Stupidity
    - - -
    Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones | TechSpot

    techspot.com/news/103715-micro

  20. Remember children. While you were busy making as many posts as possible to "Get the Tories out", you let Farage in!

    Don't forget to thank all those who relentlessly slagged the Conservatives off across all the Social Media platforms, including biased journalists, on the 4th of July. You deserve all you get.
    #politics #ShortSighted #PoliticalIgnorance

  21. Dear @EU_Commission,

    Wild idea: how about you don’t poison us for profit?

    “The European Commission is planning to allow for wide-ranging exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals’, to protect key industries, German newspaper Welt reported on Wednesday.”

    reuters.com/world/europe/eu-co

    #EUCommission #PFAS #shortsighted #muppets

  22. The older I get the more time I seem to spend just not wearing my glasses. Just intentionally keeping everything a bit fuzzy.
    Welcome to the fuzzy years.
    #ShortSighted #glasses #maturity #StsteOfMind

  23. It’s not that we’re not doing anything about the climate crisis, we’re just waiting to see if we actually go extinct before acting. No need to rush into these things and accidentally end up improving human welfare for no good reason.

    #climateCrisis #shortsighted #humans #anthropocene

  24. @kroltanz @sco7sbhoy

    No, its carbon fuels. Its physics, adding oxygen to carbon adds weight and an ability to hold more heat.

    The people who are hurt are almost always the innocent, the uninvolved, the poor. Pakistan was destroyed by a century storm, last year, still has not recovered, Pakistanis didnt make climate chaos.

    Billions of people make little to no catbon dioxide.

    It is a mistake in the energy sector being stupid. Just as easily sell electricity. #Lazy #shortsighted #climate

  25. Me just now “Is that a dragon thing?” My husband’s reply “It’s a magma worm! So yes, like a fiery dragon.” Yup, he’s playing #EldenRing again. I look up occasionally, and boggle at what’s on screen. And then feel relieved that I haven’t got my glasses on, so it’s all rather out of focus and less scary! #VideoGames #SoulsLike #ShortSighted