TheGhostOfYankeeJim

Nah

[Champions of the Ice @ChampionsOTIce]

The Jurassic Park film really dropped the ball regarding the core problem being raised by the book:

The biggest threat isn't the problem you're focusing on. It's the thing you never considered a possibility in the first place.

In the movie, you find out the dinosaurs are breeding on their own for a single scene and then it never becomes a plot point again. The only raptors they have to deal with are the three that escaped from the paddock when the electricity went out.

In the book, there are supposed to be 8 raptors. The system is designed to throw an alert if there are ever fewer than expected.

Nobody thought to add an alarm or interface for if there were more than expected, and by the time they figure it out there are over three dozen of the damn things running loose.

Think about how this can apply elsewhere. Not just industrial applications, but philosophically, economically, politically, or socially:

What looming catastrophe are you ignoring because you are so focused on its opposite?

What dangers and evils are you allowing to grow unchecked because you never considered them as a possibility?

[Chris Oldman © @AlsikkanTV]

I hate seeing him this upset

[truthache @truthache68]

🤖👀 When AI has you questioning reality… but then you realize AI isn’t even real! 😭💀(americanbaron)

[tech.explain @techexplain1]

We heard computers run more efficiently submerged in oil, so we tested it with a raspberry pi.

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

👌

[Will Revieu @Seeing_Redlines]

My grip on reality is slipping because our lead database engineer believes he can outsmart federal privacy laws with creative file naming conventions.

We're currently undergoing our annual SOC 2 audit (we have real SOC 2, not Delve) and the auditor found an unencrypted server containing 500,000 plain text user passwords.

I immediately pulled the engineer into a call and asked him why we're storing critical authentication credentials in a public facing AWS bucket.

He told me it wasn't a database, it was a temporary high latency text repository.

I asked him if he genuinely thought redefining a noun would magically grant us immunity from the GDPR.

He smugly replied that since the file was named do_not_read_temp.csv, any hacker who accessed it would be violating our implied terms of service.

I was starting to physically vibrate with anger.

I had to explain that a polite file name doesn't legally supersede a catastrophic cybersecurity failure.

I'm currently sitting on the floor of my office writing a 14 page incident report for the privacy commission.

I miss the billable hour because at least my misery had a distinct financial value.

[Alerta News 🚨 @Alerta_News_]

🇺🇸🇧🇷 | OLIVER TREE (1993-2026): Álbumes icónicos: Ugly Is Beautiful (2020), Cowboy Tears (2022), Alone in a Crowd (2023) y Love You Madly Hate You Badly (2026, grabado en 80+ países).

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Singer Oliver Tree has died in a helicopter crash

He was 32 years old

[Adam Chester 🏴‍☠️ @_xpn_]

Trying to use Fable 5 for anything benign...

[TheGhostOfYankeeJim @GhostYankeeJim]

@GuildWars Please please please let this be a return to form like GW1 in feel, GW2 just got too cluttered and visually busy

[TheGhostOfYankeeJim @GhostYankeeJim]

@GuildWars2 Guild wars 3 or my whole summer is going to be ruined lol

[PointlessHub @HubPointless]

He gave us the best depiction of the Emperor that’s been used for decades.

We just got that new trailer from GW, but nothing will ever top this. RIP.