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The CDC has had a Senate-confirmed director for all of one month of Trump's second term. NIH director Jay Bhattacharya will now run both temporarily. One source I spoke to said that's like โasking someone to manage live flight traffic while also designing the planes.โ www.wired.com/story/the-cd...
For those who don't understand the "banality of evil" reference, it's from Hannah Arendt's book about Adolf Eichmann's trial in Israel. She used it to describe how ordinary Germans/Poles/Ukrainians became accomplices to the Nazis by mindlessly buying into the demonization of their Jewish neighbors
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One thing I've been thinking about a lot this week is that my daughter's school went on lockdown because of a false alarm. (A teacher accidentally set it off; it took a while to figure out what happened.) Kids barricading their doors, huddling in corners. And for her it was just normal and expected.
#defconmovienight this week brings you the dark comedy of 'Harold and Maude' from 1971. Join us Saturday at 8pm PST in the movie-night-text channel of the discord (discord.gg/defcon) where we'll discuss how to live a full life on your own terms. If you want to sing out, sing out. #defcon
OWASP Cornucopia just released v2.6.19 I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed this week. In non-particular order. Thank you so much Abhijit Sahoo, Tanmay Ranjan, Suresh Krishna, Mateusz Hubala, Prakhar Porwal, Aashish kharel, Mradul Tiwari, Aleksey Krasnov and Tanmay Ranjan