Hellmouth

AI, as smartphones did, will make the world substantially worse. It’s already happening — there is vast amounts of AI slop despoiling the internet, and increasing all the time.

Smartphones, AI and social media are in combination a portal to hell for most people.

Certs Blurts

I wonder how many people actually have active CISSP and CCNP certs in the world? I’d guess a few thousand, if that, but I can find zero stats on it at all.

Maintaining them both is a real freakin’ hassle but worth it.

Hey Man

The shooter was 135 meters from Trump. And was a bad shot. With an AR-style rifle not even zeroed, I (and any semi-competent shooter) could have made that shot — twice. The reason for “twice” is that the AR has almost no recoil and it’s easy to get back on target within half a second or so, which is before the target has time to react (partially because bullets travel faster than the speed of sound).

I want to stress that I’m not being some kind of badass here. 135 meters at a human-size target just standing there from a prone position is so, so fucking easy. I was routinely hitting targets at 300 meters in the army, for example. It’s not some superhuman feat. The shooter was just a bad shot.

(Yes, technically, he grazed Trump. Still a bad shot.)