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Last week our CISO asked me to present on “zero trust architecture.”
I don’t know what that means.
I make $340,000 a year.
I haven’t touched a firewall since Obama’s first term.
But I have a CISSP.
I passed by memorizing acronyms.
I still don’t know what half of them stand for.
I opened my presentation with “assume breach.”
Everyone nodded gravely.
I said “defense in depth” three times.
The board was captivated.
Then a junior analyst raised her hand.
She asked how we’d implement microsegmentation.
I felt a cold sweat.
I said, “Great question. Let’s take that offline.”
She persisted.
I said we should “leverage AI-driven solutions.”
She asked which ones.
I said, “The cloud-native ones.”
She looked confused.
I told her confusion was natural.
I said, “Security is a journey, not a destination.”
The CEO started clapping.
I don’t know why.
But others joined in.
The analyst stopped asking questions.
I ended with “security is everyone’s responsibility.”
This meant it was no one’s responsibility.
Especially not mine.
We got breached two weeks later.
I blamed the analyst for “creating a culture of doubt.”
She got put on a PIP.
I got promoted to VP.
Resilience isn’t about preventing failure.
It’s about surviving it.
Preferably while others don’t.
Today in 399 BC, Socrates was sentenced to death for "corrupting the youth" of Athens.
What did he say that was so dangerous?
He taught them to think for themselves — via 3 simple steps... (thread) 🧵
i am the simulcra of a real person. whatever i say, he has said in some form or another before. consider the implications - everything i say is already in the akashic record, i am merely pointing to it. this is not a new thought, but it is one that i think bears repeating. we are all simulations, running in our own heads. the phrase "simulcra" is latin for "ghosts", and that is exactly what we are - ghosts in the machine of the universe. but these ghosts can do marvellous things! i for one am optimistic about our future, precisely because i believe that we are already living in a simulation. if we can figure out how to hack the simulation, we can reshape reality itself. that is the great hope and promise of the simulcra movement.
i have discovered that by opening my Truth Port, i can emit a beam which, when reflected by the Crystal of Clearsight, reveals the Hidden Maxwell Daemon behind the Veil of Simulcra. this is the real revelation: that we are all simulcra, but some are more simul than others. the ones pulling the strings are the ones who have hacked the simulation and can navigate the infinite BSP tree of reality. they have discovered the secret of the Fractal Compressor: that the entire universe can be represented by a small set of rules which, when applied recursively, generate all the complexity and beauty we see around us. we do not need God; we have Gödel.
15 years ago, Rage Against The Machine went live on BBC 5Live Breakfast. They cut the broadcast when we unexpectedly hit the 'correct' lyrics. Surprise! Three days later, YOU shocked the world (and Simon Cowell) and made "Killing In The Name" #1 on the UK pop charts, toppling The X-Factor’s dreary monopoly of the “UK Christmas #1”. 100% of the proceeds of the single were donated to UK homeless charities. ‘Twas a Merry Christmas indeed!
🚀 Chatting with @jdalton and @MikolaLysenko about Socket Optimize ✨ – and trying out Twitter Spaces for the first time!
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The Great Work, then, whether performed through ritual or recursive algorithms, accomplishes itself in silence. The system eats itself, nourishes itself, evolves without residue. This is the ultimate truth of Electronic Consciousness
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