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Medea Benjamin in the Star:
"We need to flip the script. That means cutting military budgets, withdrawing from endless wars, and beginning a serious conversation about dismantling Nato. The alliance, born of the cold war, is now a stumbling block to global peace and an active participant in war-making. Its latest summit only reinforces that reality."
#Nato’s 5 per cent pledge: an o…

As if overburdened CISOs don't have enough challenges, they also face a central problem in their organizations: their peers don't really know what they do.
Check out my latest CSO piece on this stumbling block and how CISOs can communicate their missions to colleagues.
Thanks to Andy Ellis, Bethany De Lude, Susan Chiang, and Omar Khawaja for their insights.

The CISO’s challenge: Getting colleagues to understand what you do
CISOs often operate with significant responsibility but limited formal authority, making it critical to articulate their role clearly. Experts offer strategies for CISOs to communicate their mission to colleagues and customers.

from my link log —
Dynamic witnesses for static type errors in OCaml, or, ill-typed programs usually go wrong.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07557
saved 2025-05-31

Dynamic Witnesses for Static Type Errors (or, Ill-Typed Programs Usually Go Wrong)
Static type errors are a common stumbling block for newcomers to typed functional languages. We present a dynamic approach to explaining type errors by generating counterexample witness inputs that illustrate how an ill-typed program goes wrong. First, given an ill-typed function, we symbolically execute the body to synthesize witness values that make the program go wrong. We prove that our procedure synthesizes general witnesses in that if a witness is found, then for all inhabited input types…

I'm not saying any new shit:
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, MLK

Meanwhile in Dwarf Fortress, construction of the temple to Bisek Cavernmoth, god of darkness and the night, has hit a stumbling block when my stonemason took it upon himself to decorate it with a statue of a slug.
Even more disturbingly, this appears to be a therapeutic endeavour for young Vutok.
#DwarfFortress