At Eisenhower for a National Cyber Director event. OPM just announced they're moving all of 2210 - the govt's IT workforce - to skills-based hiring, to scattered applause throughout the room. Story TK.

A year ago, Adam Brace, my closest friend and collaborator, passed away unexpectedly at 43.

Adam directed JUST FOR US - and was an older brother to me in countless ways. I feel his loss so keenly, so sharply, and I wish he could see how much resonance his work has had.

A few years ago California Policy Lab linked homeless service records in CA to state employment records and found that ~1 in 5 people using homeless services for the 1st time had formal employment in that same quarter.
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My last tweet is also part of why I’ve become somewhat unhappy w/my water work.

Water affordability as an issue has turned into an opportunity for paid consultants to write reports for utilities on the reasons why people can’t pay their bills.

But the reasons are obvious

(1/n)

“Change is not necessary. Survival is not mandatory.”

(Deming. A bit of an apocryphal rephrase but more on point than the literal original.)

Love this idea.

I also can’t figure out how to report site reputation abuse here? It doesn’t seem to be on page 2 of any of the options, and the linked policy page doesn’t include it. I might be missing something! But friction reduces reports anyway Google SearchLiaison support.google.com/webmasters/ans…

One of the nice things about the new Google spam reporting tool is I think it *tries* to make policy language user friendly, but to be honest it makes it hard to know what I choose?

Maybe better to just have explicit policy category names here? CC Google SearchLiaison Lily Ray 😏

I gave The Onion $1 to show my support for Jeff Lawson's apparent deep long con to (first) build out a global, distributed, scalable prank call infrastructure, (and then) man it with top comedic talent [1].

[1] Lampoon staff who didn't go into I-Banking and now subsist on Eggos.

Dave Guarino ([email protected]) Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ All of the different legal privileges. Attorney-client, Doctor-Patient, Clerical, etc.

'Fiduciary responsibility' was an institutional-technology breakthrough.

What might be corollary ones, for different aims?

Re-upping this! Do you have the tech skills to build or use an LLM to figure out how many housing projects the CCC has approved by reading all of their public agendas? Be in touch with me!

Well, Dept. of Agriculture has until the end of the week to release their AI guidance under the AI executive order.

Let's see if they comply!