Chris Lincoln

sudo JFDI | My opinions = my own, or stolen from someone else and presented as my own.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@HotSpotHotSpot Might be nice except that the crazy price of domestic airlines would discourage the option of driving into the US to fly to the West Coast. But I don’t see much downside to this.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@chun0105 りょーかい。嫁にクリと呼ばれてる。😁

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump’s dirty election night trick doesn’t work if you know it’s coming. Let me explain.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@TheFwordNB Option C: Come over here and finish this PC install for me.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

Argh! What is wrong with people? Who would break in and trash a library?

[The Fredericton Independent @FtonIndependent]

Someone broke into the Fredericton Public Library early Monday and caused extensive damage, reports @CityFredPolice, seeking tips from the public. No matter who did it, people are going to demand the courts throw the book at them.
https://t.co/HvwKkN1BaC

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@elonmusk If people play mariachi music in front of your house 24/7, you won’t do anything about it, right?

And you’re removing spam filters from your company email? And disabling the Junk Email feature?

And virus scanners? Because hey, you shouldn’t block and mute. https://t.co/0GBbkRcFs8

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@chun0105 本地のビリヤニはうまいでぇ

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

tl;dr: Your contracts will likely need specific authorization of red teaming activities. If you’ve done work in the US or Germany, I see this as similar to what laws there require (and possibly elsewhere - my intl law knowledge is rusty).

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

If you work in offensive security for a Canadian organization, have your legal team review Bill C-70, which has just received royal assent. This article was written while it was still in draft but brings up the salient points: https://t.co/2kDumwrXR7

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@Dadsaysjokes Two cats were in a contest to swim across a river: “ABC” and “Un Deux Trois” are their names. Which one won?

ABC, because Un Deux Trois cat sank.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

How to spot an idiot. Good advice for anyone going through life.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

Notification sound.

Again.

Again.

I’ve not heard this one before.

I’m logged into 7 different things.

Nothing shows up in the notification tray.

Check all open apps, trying to find what something is trying to tell me.

WHAT IS IT??

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@RayDoesData @PierrePoiIievre @TheFwordNB It helps when offering incentives to play acoustic sets (save energy!) and might be why there are no techno acts with crazy light shows.

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@RayDoesData @PierrePoiIievre @TheFwordNB Is that some guy who works at NB Power and also happens to chair the Harvest Festival organizing committee?

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

OMG the conference I’m at is really trying to hype up a bunch of introverts with “Sirius” from the Alan Parsons Project - the ubiquitous keyboard-driven track used to introduce the Chicago Bulls in the Michael Jordan era.

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

Doug & Bob have a Christmas message for you ❤️

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

Vulnerability researchers: You're awesome, truly and thanks for all you do. But I have a request:

If you find something theoretically bad this month, think about holding onto it until January. Please.

Love,
Everyone who lost the 2021 holidays to Log4j

(It worked last year)

[Chris Lincoln @uplinc]

@davidshipley The home IT cloudification train will not stop.