Nancy Beers' keynote at #SecurityDays 2026 had the whole room on its feet, playing games and laughing together.
We spoke with her recently to learn more about what "Play More Today. Secure Tomorrow" means for security culture, from how a simple box of LEGO bricks can make abstact discussions come alive, to why she believes cybersecurity can't exist in silos.
🔗 Re…
Alive To This
We're living through a moment in time that's difficult to comprehend and impossible to ignore. AI is reshaping our work, our decisions, the way we imagine what comes next...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/alive-
Blanched 2.5 pounds (a little over 1kg) of green beans from the garden to freeze. That was today's harvest.
I've not had much lunch with the zucchini this year - the plants are alive but not producing - so I guess I'll have to enjoy the green beans instead.
One of my biggest disappointments was always not seeing Rush live while Neil Peart was alive. I almost passed on this tour, but tickets for the second Cleveland show came down in price at the last moment and I realized that I'd never forgive myself if I didn't go. So after leaving work early and braving the downtown Cleveland traffic I actually managed to find on street parking and go see one of the best concerts that I've ever been to.
I thought the first set was amazing. …
Every cell in your body has the potential to get smarter.
I don’t mean this metaphorically, or in a “body keeps the score” kind of way.
I mean that if lab-coated biologists took a sample of your skin and very carefully manipulated the cells inside it, they could actually make a brain.
They do it all the time.
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world.
Soon, they could outthink neural networks.
"Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort," says #Starship 13 launch attempt after 24 hours.
A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@… use it in tbody to feel alive
Well, thanks for the dreams I guess
#shortstory
Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: If anyone disputes or downplays Russian cruelty, you know they are an asshole and an idiot.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and reveal the receipts of first-hand reporting: https://
It doesn’t seem 49 years ago today that Elvis died at the age of 42. He’d have been 91 now if still alive.
"People…suffering while…people w/…power to change it argue…Children…falling asleep to…bombs. Parents…wondering whether they can keep…people they love alive. People w/disabilities…watching…hard-won protections…dismantled piece by piece. Older adults…wondering whether dignity has become too expensive to protect. Families…carrying burdens that grow heavier while those w/…power…keep finding new excuses…Communities are paying…price while power protects itself."
Random thought: assuming infinite budget but only technology available today, would it be possible to keep a human head alive and conscious indefinitely without the rest of the body (for the rest of its natural lifespan) a la Futurama heads in jars?
Assume some sort of surgical procedure to remove the torso, hook the carotid and jugular to ECMO hemodialysis, and periodic infusions of total parenteral nutrition along with some means to cover the exposed tissue and promote healing of t…
@… marquee is still alive and well 😅 may it never die
It's a lot of fun being alive ... I wonder if my bed is made?!?
When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish citizens,
they weren’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air.
They closely studied the laws of another country.
According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States
In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation inspired by American laws:
the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection o…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Shins:
🎵 Dead Alive
#NowPlaying #TheShins
15 years ago #OTD the #SpaceShuttle flew for the last time. The most elegant ship that ever carried humans to the cosmos.. and I miss her everyday.
But it's a good opportunity to remember that Atlantis namesake, the ship RV Atlantis, is still alive and working in Argentina!
To all my fellow bicentennial babies out there, be proud to know that we have been alive for 20% of the United States’ existence. No need to thank me for that fact.
#July4th
AeS has better policy positions, HS has a solid legislative record. They BOTH have style issues. This is why I was for McMorrow (good policy & legislative chops) but that was not to be.
The fact that there’s such a breadth of Fash trying to stop AeS is telling. They don’t want him compared to Mike Rogers, the most boring establishment candidate alive.
HS’s style — careful, wooden, scripted, centrist — makes her a shit opponent for Rogers. @…
Pitch In
This series uncovers the stories behind the game - of the volunteers whose dedication keeps clubs alive, strengthens communities and creates places where people belong...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/pitch-in/
Real rock and roll is alive and well this week as our spotlight falls on #AyronJones - a name you might not know yet, but absolutely should.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track and the artist behind it, and follow us as we continue our weekly mission to pull one great track from the world of #rock
Referees love to blow it dead in the air. Cruelly keep hope alive for the trailing team, only to then kill it off at the ball's apogee.
#WorldCup #fedifc
Sonnet 112 - CXII
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, tha…
Just sitting here playing a few tunes. I dug out Frampton Comes Alive. I can’t get my head around that it’s 50 years old!
Did you know the Communist Party/USA is alive and well and organizing in Ithaca NY? More photos from Ithaca' Juneteenth celebration are on the way!
(Did you know I shook hands with Gus Hall 30 years ago?)
#photo #photography
The Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces
Matteo Grella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10689
arXiv:2608.10689v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Terminal interfaces to conversational agents report rich internal state (listening, thinking, executing tools, awaiting input, failing) almost entirely through text, while the motion channel beside it, the one peripheral vision monitors without reading, carries a single bit: alive. We present the Signal Rail, a one-row terminal status instrument that gives that channel a grammar. Four ideas govern it: spatial semantics (input, processing, and output zones, with direction as meaning), a motion grammar (one kinetic rule per state, never color alone), determinism (frames as a pure function of explicit inputs, golden-frame testable), and honesty (no invented progress or activity). We contribute a 45-section normative specification and a reference implementation inside a working full-duplex local voice agent driven by real signals.
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Good news for those of us who depend on NsCDE for a bit of quiet sanity in a mad world: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
Design G suggests the most modern, banknote-looking front sides for the future #Euro banknotes. Though, I really don't like the corporate-like vector stock images on the backs.
Design B, on the other hand, features very clean and informative illustrations of the European institutions' buildings on the backs. Architecture and banknotes are a dream team. Though, I'm not a fan of th…
In the silent, frozen expanse of interstellar space,
two small emissaries from Earth continue their lonely journey.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in the late 1970s, have traveled farther than any human-made objects in history.
But as they drift deeper into the void, their nuclear power sources dwindle,
forcing mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to make difficult choices.
To keep these aging pioneers alive, engineers are preparing a da…
I am still alive, though really bad on updating any kind of Social Platform
It's probably appropriate that my shuffled listen-through of my music library ended with Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" (featuring Sara Quin). Now to add all the new stuff!
#onthisday 4 August 1725, John Newton was born. Famous for many things, including the writer of the much loved hymn 'Amazing Grace'. Discover more about this man whose memory and life is kept alive by the John Newton Project.
The latest emo band from Down Under: Smallest snail alive.
In the narrow alleyways of the historic center, the stone walls were sweating under the day's 40°C heat.
There was no sign of human life on the main street.
Metal shutters were down and wooden window blinds remained closed.
About 20 kilometers from Perpignan,
Ille-sur-Têt, a large rural village in Pyrénées-Orientales,
resembled a ghost town on Monday, July 6.
That morning, the local prefect renewed his evacuation order for the town's 5,900 resi…
75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).
On Aug. 14, Edith Golub turned 106.
A little over a year ago, Edith and her daughter Sharon joined The Beacon,
a democracy advocacy project launched in 2025 by people concerned about the rise of authoritarianism.
The group proposes pushing back through community connections and “keeping joy alive.”
“The world is not in good condition,” Edith said.
“I never spoke out for anybody or anything, but now if I can, I would like to do everything I could to help them…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Batusis:
🎵 Bury You Alive
#Batusis
Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks
— and that half of the world’s 7,000 spoken languages could be lost by the end of the century.
Quechua is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas,
with approximately 7 to 10 million speakers living primarily in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.
But like so many Indigenous languages, Qechua is vulnerable due to cultural pressures and discrimination.
The new documentary Runa Simi
— “our la…
The Nepalese government has requested
“specific and specialised assistance” from neighbouring countries
to aid search and rescue efforts.
This includes assistance with opening tunnels where people are trapped,
technologies that can help locate people alive in affected areas,
rapid forensic and DNA analysis,
and mortuary facilities for the proper storage of bodies, Nepal’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.
It added: “An 11-member specia…
Why won’t OpenAI or Anthropic lower their prices?
Supposedly OpenAI has thought about it,
but for an AI lab, inference has to subsidize training costs.
A company like OpenAI has to fund the production of new models from the inference margins on existing models (at least partially).
That’s why the margins on inference are so high:
the AI labs are trying to squeeze out every dollar so they can stay alive in the training arms race.
However, inference only ha…