This article about super-elite invitation only flight rewards status is predictably obscene. I gotta LOL at the “swag” for these rumoured $50,000 per year minimum expense perks.
My aunt was an Air Canada attendant in the 80s. As a child, I got a really cool metal Air Canada model airplane from her.
A water bottle and a charging brick?😂
I love it when the elite scam the elite. 🤦😆✈️
NSC 1 zetel is hoe je het ook wendt of keert een enorme afstraffing voor #PieterOmtzigt. Nou, dat lijkt me terecht. Deze partij heeft zich volstrekt ongeloofwaardig gemaakt en al helemaal met hun opt-out en derogatie sprookjes richting de EU.
Could 2024 be the final season for this future Hall of Famer? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/could_2024_be_the_final_season_for_this_future_hall_of_famer/s1_17100_40451697
Christian Wilkins Is A Difference Maker https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/christian_wilkins_is_a_difference_maker/s1_17391_40454161
Meta's AI plans are against EU law, says @…'s Max Schrems
'This is clearly the opposite of GDPR compliance'
https://www.computing.co.u…
NSC 1 zetel is hoe je het ook wendt of keert een enorme afstraffing voor #PieterOmtzigt. Nou, dat lijkt me terecht. Deze partij heeft zich volstrekt ongeloofwaardig gemaakt en al helemaal met hun opt-out en derogatie sprookjes richting de EU.
Ghost imaging-based Non-contact Heart Rate Detection
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02640
Why recommended visit intervals should be extracted when conducting longitudinal analyses using electronic health record data: examining visit mechanism and sensitivity to assessment not at random
Rose Garrett, Masum Patel, Brian Feldman, Eleanor Pullenayegum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04077…
So, today, a lot of folk are talking about how a very bad man named Sean Hastings has been violently threatening Adam Shostack for years and years.
I know Adam and think of him as a friend and we are connected professionally and personally, and of course I knew about Sean Hastings, but I was unaware that today was the day that Adam was going to finally talk about his nightmare, and he didn't ask me to say anything about my own experiences with Sean or coordinate with me on this.
I can't speak to Adam's experience but I do feel the need to tell people what Sean Hastings did to me.
The first thing Sean Hastings did to me was give me money in 2015. I didn't know him. You can actually see his name right in the front of the acknowledgements to my book on women in tech - because he contributed $500 to the 2015 Kickstarter I ran to fund it.
This is before I'd met Adam Shostack; Adam and I met in early 2016 when we sat on a Federal Trade Commission panel together in Seattle on startup cybersecurity. Adam's a major nerd and we bonded immediately over game design and his incorrect preference of Star Wars over Star Trek.
But soon, I would find out that there were strings attached to Sean's contribution. Apparently he thought that by contributing to a Kickstarter, he could turn guilt screws on me about who I could talk to, and demanded my time to help him publish books on girls in tech.
He began sending me harassing messages and emails after I'd probably RTed something from Adam, demanding that I pay attention to his claims about Adam Shostack. I did what any normal femme in tech does, which is go do the grey network check on Adam. In 2016, I spoke to several extremely prominent and trusted friends and members of the infosec community. The “Good Guy vs. Creeper” check on Adam came back from my folk with a resounding "Adam's the victim here". And I know some serious operators in the "keeping women in the infosec world safe" space.
Sean subsequently began publicly and privately bombarding my social accounts and email with demands and guilt and claiming that he was behind my success and funded me. This looked to me like a man who tries to control women and others with money, and I would wear out the red flag emoji if I tried to properly emphasize that. There's plenty more on Xitter if you want to go searching.
I didn't and don't want to think about this, any more than anyone else wants to think about awful things, but violent angry dangerous men like Sean do seem to operate on their own schedule, and I anticipate that Adam's public statement may trigger Sean Hastings making another outburst against me and the many other people I'm now seeing coming forward.
One last thing. I've experienced some of the same kinds of horrific stalker behavior that Adam and others in the community have, and while it's not relevant to this here, Adam was a profound support to me when my life was getting torn apart by two very dangerous, angry, violent people making false claims about me several years ago. He knows exactly what it feels like, because I think he's lived it for a couple of decades.
So, it occurs to me that I've actually continued to benefit from that $500 that Sean Hastings contributed to that Kickstarter. In my experience, it makes people apoplectic to learn that their money went to something that they hate. So, below, you'll find some screenshots, and the last image is my proof pic for a $500 donation just now to Operation: Safe Escape, which supports victims of cyber stalking and domestic tech abuse like those Sean Hastings has targeted. That makes me feel a lot better and I didn't even realize I was carrying any guilt over it until just now.
https://safeescape.org/ I strongly urge you to donate there as well if you were affected by this.