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.)

Variance

Something I think they don’t tell men about dating ever: the exact same action, practice, behavior or way of being one woman can describe as creepy and horrible while another woman can love, be strongly attracted to, or demand nothing less than.

And no one reveals this shit to you — you just learn it yourself. Though many guys give up first because I think most women don’t actually want you to know this (to reduce competition). There’s extremely, extremely high variance out there, though. Just FYI.

The Only Con I Like

Goddamn, gonna get up to 114 degrees today:

Glad our new (to us) air cons know how to get it done, or we’d be suffering. And with “air cons,” our new house has two of them so the plural is intentional and correct. Pretty sweet.