I love this so much! If you don’t get it, I want to cordially invite you to get off my lawn…
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If you like buying MP3s, the new Weeknd album is $5 on his webstore. shop.theweeknd.com/products/dawn-…
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I have a planner Instagram so I don’t flood my main with this stuff, but just HOW CUTE is my little Jibun Days planner?! Such a good little worker
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Miss all the "fun" with colors.js and faker.js? Here's a breakdown from the excellent @InfosecVandana youtube.com/watch?v=znxcOL…
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New post: Notes: Happy 30th birthday, HAL! beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/1…
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Have you brought in an investigation partner during eternal Caturday?
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Yikes! Beware fraudulent pop-up Covid testing sites. A lot more information in this thread.
Holy shit. WA people, listen up. There are a bunch of these centers in WA (I'll do locations in this thread) and they're listed on some government sites as legit testing ...
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Y'know what the year the rubber band was patented in the UK plus Texas entered the American Union have in common with my follower count?
1845!
#themoreyouknow
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One thing I will say in favor of the moment is that the web is unquestionably weird again!
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this is amazing 💜 astro.build
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I continue to be astonished that a true professional level webcam doesn't exist. So many of us are now working from home! Make it happen!
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Put Frog and Toad on Twitter and the rage machine takes over... 😔
'Shut up!' screamed Toad.
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Just used this handy XKCD chart to determine that it was finally time to build a web interface on top of this little PHP script that generates PDFs of checks, rather than continuing to hack up this code by hand every time I need to print one. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_w…
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Just used this handy XKCD chart to determine that it was finally time to build a web interface on top of this little PHP script that generates PDFs of checks, rather than continuing to hack up this code by hand every time I need to print one. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_worth_the_time_2x.png
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C’mon. With a title like “Ice Cream, War Movies, Monochromatism, and Reclaiming My Identity”, you simply can’t keep scrolling. Click it, you know you want to. 😄
Seriously though, I had to dig deep for this essay. Hopefully it’s just the beginning…
jaredwhite.com/articles/ice-c…
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There are a handful of interesting USB webcams out there, which naturally work great with a computer. But what if you want to combine video from a USB webcam with your HDMI cameras in a video switcher like the ATEM Mini?
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Most notably, <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/articles/minimalism-film\">I lapped up the teachings</a> of \u201cThe Minimalists\u201d themselves: Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus.</p>\n\n<p>Truth be told, I don\u2019t have any major bone to pick with The Minimalists. They\u2019re probably swell guys. But some time in the past year or two I ended up unsubscribing from all their content and not really giving minimalism any more appreciable thought. Why?</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ll give you the goofy answer first: because monochromatism is simply not my aesthetic! (If you go to <a href=\"https://www.theminimalists.com/\">The Minimalist\u2019s website</a>, you\u2019ll notice they generally wear only basic black clothes, and all their photography and color schemes are black & white.)</p>\n\n<p><strong>I love color</strong>, and I love bright and radiant settings. A lot of what passes for chic in certain designer-y millennial-y circles is very muted (think Fixer Upper/Magnolia style, or <a href=\"https://www.digsdigs.com/monochromatic-kitchen/pictures/105392/\">this kitchen I found</a> while searching <em>monochromatism</em>). That\u2019s simply not who I am! While I do like a certain minimalist vibe from time to time\u2014for example I appreciate Japanese Zen architecture and the works of Ansel Adams\u2014I also gravitate towards the flamboyant. I\u2019ve been <em>eating up</em> <strong>sense8</strong> during a recent rewatch because of all the dramatic colors and environments. Similarly, there\u2019s a lot more color and intense light in the recent Matrix film which threw some people off but I fully embrace.</p>\n\n<p>Beyond mere aesthetic concerns, I realized I couldn\u2019t keep identifying as a minimalist because I don\u2019t want my life to be defined by what I <em>don\u2019t</em> do. That\u2019s the same kind of thinking I was trapped in before. Does that mean I want to live in a cluttered house? Certainly not! Do I want to overload my schedule with a variety of non-essential tasks and appointments? Gosh no! But merely standing for an essentialist bent on time management and organizing my closet doesn\u2019t get me out of bed in the morning.</p>\n\n<h3>Reclaiming My Identity</h3>\n\n<p>More than any other year in recent memory, I have a sense as 2022 begins that I want to live life voraciously, on my terms. If I decide to walk down the street in a pink dress or wear Captain Jack-ish eyeliner, go for it! If I want to scale the peaks of Mt. Hood or go white-water rafting on the Columbia, let\u2019s do this! If I wish to blow an absurd amount of money on a garish sculpture and stick it in the middle of my damn living room, nobody\u2019s gonna stop me!</p>\n\n<p>To a certain degree I exaggerate, but my push this year to expand my field of artistic view and lean into a more outlandish creative vision on a variety of levels is intimately tied with my efforts to <strong>reclaim my identity</strong>. In actuality, I\u2019m not an austere person. Yet much of my life I\u2019ve lived that way. Mr. Steady, that\u2019s me. Mr. Reasonable. Mr. Practical. Mr.\u2026well, Boring!</p>\n\n<p><strong>No more.</strong> \u201cJared was a Very Nice Guy and didn\u2019t ruffle any feathers\u201d isn\u2019t the epitaph I wish to read on my tombstone. That doesn\u2019t mean I want to suddenly pick fights on Twitter and argue with trolls over inanities. Quite the opposite in fact: I would rather spend my time deep in concentrated effort to craft Art that is in and of itself pointed, provocative. I want to make a bold statement with what I do and how I live\u2014only this time not as a desperate attempt to appease a deity, but as a way of expressing the core values that make me Me.</p>\n\n<p>Some people are going to like it, love it even. Others may not. And that\u2019s fine. Even though I feel miserable at the slightest inclination anyone is appreciably upset with me over anything at all, I simply can\u2019t keep holding back and pretending.</p>\n\n<p>The older I get, the more I come to understand I\u2019m not here to get along with everyone. I\u2019m here to be the change I wish to see in the world. Hopefully it\u2019s a future you wish to see too. <strong>Here we go!</strong></p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/mindfulness\">#mindfulness</a>\n \n </p>",
"text": "This year I want to make a bold statement with what I do and how I live\u2014only this time not as a desperate attempt to appease a deity, but as a way of expressing the core values that make me Me.\n\nOK, I know the title of this essay is a tad bizarre, so please bear with me. I\u2019m going to ramble a bit at the beginning, but then it will all start to make sense. I promise!\n\nBack in the mid 2000s when I got sucked into a high-demand, fundamentalist form of Christian religion, my pastor at the time would, during his sermons, routinely throw in this bit about how much he enjoyed slouching in his couch with a big bucket of ice cream on hand and watching his favorite World War II movies. It was his \u201chappy place\u201d. But he would then feel compelled to fight back against such debauchery\u2014and instead pray, study the bible, and engage in more \u201cspiritual\u201d pursuits in order to obtain more \u201cpower in the spirit\u201d\u2014thus allowing him to heal people and do good works in the Name of Jesus.\n\nSure it was played for laughs, but this kind of teaching constantly reinforced the notion that my life wasn\u2019t meant to be lived in the pursuit of what I liked to do or what brought me pleasure, but rather that I should live in service of God and what He asks of me. It was entirely performative and transactional. My \u201cpower\u201d to usher positive change into the world\u2014supernaturally\u2014was directly inverse to how often I indulged my own desires. \u201cLess of me and more of you Lord!\u201d was a constant refrain of the worship songs we sang.\n\nEventually I came to realize how toxic that thinking was and how much it was destroying my mental health, and I walked away from such faulty, dualistic teachings. I now laugh when I think back on how earnestly I believed God would only bless me for my overtly religious activities.\n\nOut of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire\n\nUnfortunately, sort of overlapping with my exit from religious fundamentalism was a reentry into a different sort of fundamentalism: an unquestioning loyalty to the tenets of minimalism. Most notably, I lapped up the teachings of \u201cThe Minimalists\u201d themselves: Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus.\n\nTruth be told, I don\u2019t have any major bone to pick with The Minimalists. They\u2019re probably swell guys. But some time in the past year or two I ended up unsubscribing from all their content and not really giving minimalism any more appreciable thought. Why?\n\nI\u2019ll give you the goofy answer first: because monochromatism is simply not my aesthetic! (If you go to The Minimalist\u2019s website, you\u2019ll notice they generally wear only basic black clothes, and all their photography and color schemes are black & white.)\n\nI love color, and I love bright and radiant settings. A lot of what passes for chic in certain designer-y millennial-y circles is very muted (think Fixer Upper/Magnolia style, or this kitchen I found while searching monochromatism). That\u2019s simply not who I am! While I do like a certain minimalist vibe from time to time\u2014for example I appreciate Japanese Zen architecture and the works of Ansel Adams\u2014I also gravitate towards the flamboyant. I\u2019ve been eating up sense8 during a recent rewatch because of all the dramatic colors and environments. Similarly, there\u2019s a lot more color and intense light in the recent Matrix film which threw some people off but I fully embrace.\n\nBeyond mere aesthetic concerns, I realized I couldn\u2019t keep identifying as a minimalist because I don\u2019t want my life to be defined by what I don\u2019t do. That\u2019s the same kind of thinking I was trapped in before. Does that mean I want to live in a cluttered house? Certainly not! Do I want to overload my schedule with a variety of non-essential tasks and appointments? Gosh no! But merely standing for an essentialist bent on time management and organizing my closet doesn\u2019t get me out of bed in the morning.\n\nReclaiming My Identity\n\nMore than any other year in recent memory, I have a sense as 2022 begins that I want to live life voraciously, on my terms. If I decide to walk down the street in a pink dress or wear Captain Jack-ish eyeliner, go for it! If I want to scale the peaks of Mt. Hood or go white-water rafting on the Columbia, let\u2019s do this! If I wish to blow an absurd amount of money on a garish sculpture and stick it in the middle of my damn living room, nobody\u2019s gonna stop me!\n\nTo a certain degree I exaggerate, but my push this year to expand my field of artistic view and lean into a more outlandish creative vision on a variety of levels is intimately tied with my efforts to reclaim my identity. In actuality, I\u2019m not an austere person. Yet much of my life I\u2019ve lived that way. Mr. Steady, that\u2019s me. Mr. Reasonable. Mr. Practical. Mr.\u2026well, Boring!\n\nNo more. \u201cJared was a Very Nice Guy and didn\u2019t ruffle any feathers\u201d isn\u2019t the epitaph I wish to read on my tombstone. That doesn\u2019t mean I want to suddenly pick fights on Twitter and argue with trolls over inanities. Quite the opposite in fact: I would rather spend my time deep in concentrated effort to craft Art that is in and of itself pointed, provocative. I want to make a bold statement with what I do and how I live\u2014only this time not as a desperate attempt to appease a deity, but as a way of expressing the core values that make me Me.\n\nSome people are going to like it, love it even. Others may not. And that\u2019s fine. Even though I feel miserable at the slightest inclination anyone is appreciably upset with me over anything at all, I simply can\u2019t keep holding back and pretending.\n\nThe older I get, the more I come to understand I\u2019m not here to get along with everyone. I\u2019m here to be the change I wish to see in the world. Hopefully it\u2019s a future you wish to see too. Here we go!\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #mindfulness"
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@IbrahimBaggili and Ian McAndrew some jobs that would interest your alumni lnkd.in/eJVD9j5i
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Today's #cmmc infographic, #15 halfway to the goal!!!, focuses on the new scoping guide.
While rooted in NIST-SP-800-171 the scoping guide explicitly calls out security protection assets that fall in scope on applicable #cmmc practices
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New post: 🔏 Private entry [InsIebhaaj] beesbuzz.biz/4150 This entry has a restricted audience.
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