Frank Hecker

Interests: education as talent development, the fate of artists in a log-normal world. Former work: @FrankHecker. Elsewhere: @frankhecker.com on the azure site.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Yesterday I celebrated my one-year anniversary on Math Academy. Five courses completed, another almost complete, 19519 XP thus far. 1/2

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Infoblox IQ also uses DNS data to detect and suggest remediation for security threats, since attackers typically depend on DNS infrastructure and attacks typically show up first in DNS (e.g., domains get registered and quickly get flagged as suspicious). 2/2

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

I'm retired from Infoblox, but I still follow it and thought this worth reposting. The Infoblox IQ announcement is especially interesting: an AI agent specialized to troubleshoot and suggest remediation for DNS problems in enterprises using Infoblox software/services for DNS. 1/

[Frank Hecker @FrankHecker]

Quick thoughts on @Infoblox IQ: This to me is the key statement: "We started this work believing the frontier [AI] models would figure DDI and DNS security out on their own. . . . They couldn’t. Not reliably, not at the depth an operator needs." 1/

[Metalabel Studios @metalabel_]

Yesterday, Gov. Polis signed the Colorado Artist Company Act into law.

It creates the Artist Corporation — the first legal structure in the US built specifically for how artists work.

Two years of work. 5,000+ artists and creators signed on.

Now real.

https://t.co/cXorpdyJju

[Baiheverse @baiheverse]

We just passed 4,000 followers. Thank you 💚

Some of you may have already noticed the site has been getting a little refresh.

Baiheverse exists to make official Chinese baihe stories easier to find, read, and support in English.

We’re still working to bring more stories over, while also improving the site UI, reading experience, and mobile:
• Android app improvements are in progress
• iOS app development has started

Still small, still building. Thank you for being here with us.
#baihe

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

@Scholars_Stage I trust your taste, so I’ll have to try Caroline Alexander’s Iliad again. I thought it a bit clunky on first trying it. And I’ll definitely have to try Chapman.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

@ystrickler I remember this, and can go one better: I still have a copy of 11 Dots: An eMusic eMployee Compilation.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Since all four factors above still operate, I'm skeptical regarding the current tech elite becoming a positive "techno-nationalist" force. I see more a marriage of convenience where they are defense suppliers and political donors operating on a mostly transactional basis. 5/5

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

A good article with no apparent responses, so I'll try: I think the root problem with today's tech elite is downstream of four factors: 1) Absence of an existential/near-existential conflict a la the Civil War/WWII requiring nationwide mobilization of people and organizations. 1/

[Niskanen Center @NiskanenCenter]

Today's tech elite lack the sense of national responsibility that previous American elites possessed.

@Scholars_Stage argues that they should take “responsibility to shape American life for decades to come,” looking to the Gilded Age as a model.

But there's a better model, and it emerged between 1940 and 1970.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

4) Downstream of secularism, decline of the prosocial influence formerly provided by religion, e.g., the Episcopal Church. Religion today often seems to play more of a countercultural role, e.g., promoting social conservatism and/or withdrawal from the broader society. 4/

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

@NiskanenCenter @Scholars_Stage This is a good complement/response to Greer's article. No one else seems to have commented on this article, so I'll do so. See my separate thread, but the bottom line is that I don't see either Greer's or your hopes for a positive "techno-nationalist elite" coming to pass.

[Yancey Strickler @ystrickler]

https://t.co/AxNTaneTlj

[austin thomas robey @austinrobey_]

Subvert is live today.

A music platform collectively owned by its community as a co-op.

Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op.
It’s only the beginning.

Sincerely Ours,

[austin thomas robey @austinrobey_]

500 new co-op members yesterday

Subvert is launching on tuesday

[austin thomas robey @austinrobey_]

Fat Mike from NOFX said punk is the best genre of music because no one throws a brick through a window and says, "that's jazz!"

@subvertworld began by posting an image of a brick. Breaking something down and building a new foundation.

Tuesday: we launch together

[Jeffrey Biles @JeffreyBiles]

https://t.co/4D4FjitH5v

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

@Scholars_Stage For Maryland, consider Columbia: safe, convenient to DC and Baltimore, lots of youth sports, regularly appears on “best place to raise a family” and related lists. Area also has large Chinese/Indian/Korean presence if that’s a factor.

[Math Academy @_MathAcademy_]

We are proud to announce that our WASC accreditation has been renewed for an additional six years- through 2032! Thank you to the team at WASC for your thoughtful evaluation of MA!
https://t.co/Tx8VZVuTy4

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

@sutherlandphys (Fellow BoC fan here) it was all a lie, they were Scottish all along