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Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming. I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing. Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.

British Col. Richard Kemp (ret.) to Jewish News Syndicate Summit in Jerusalem: "I speak as a goy, a mere goy: the Jews were put on the face of the earth to be a light unto nations, and Israel is being that light."


Usha Vance said that she hasn’t been moved to “seek something different” and convert to Catholicism like JD because she grew up in a “stable” Hindu household. Follow: @AFpost


Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is for only useful pedophiles and spies. Translation to English: > There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything we do reduces attack surface. However, we don't have a "hardened security" approach, we aren't developing a phone for pedo(censored) so they can evade justice. So there aren't difficult things to check if the memory is corrupted, really hardened security stuff that could clearly be useful for executives, in the secret service, or whatever. That's not our goal, our goal is to start from an observation: today our personal data is constantly being plundered and that wouldn't be legal in real life with the mail or the telephone, we want to change that. So we are making you a product that changes that by default for anyone. Transcription in French: > Il y a la surface d'attaque, là pour le coup on est pas des spécialistes de la sécurité, donc je ne pourrais pas te répondre avec précision, mais des discussions que j'ai eu, il semblerait que tout ce qu'on fait, ça réduit la surface d'attaque. Donc oui, probablement ça aide. Par contre, on a pas une approche "sécurité durcie", on développe pas un téléphone pour les pédo(bip) pour qu'ils puissent échapper à la justice. Donc il y a pas des trucs pas possibles pour voir si la mémoire est pas corrompue, des trucs de sécu vraiment durcis qui pourraient être utiles clairement pour des dirigeants, dans les services secrets ou que sais-je. C'est pas notre but, notre but c'est de partir d'un constat, aujourd'hui nos données personnelles sont pillées en permanence et ça serait pas légal dans la vraie vie avec le courrier ou le téléphone, on veut changer ça. Donc on vous fait un produit qui change ça par défaut pour n'importe quelle personne.

Google is turning Android into a walled garden. Mandatory ID, registration fees, and a 9-step 'advanced flow' for sideloading? That's not security, it's a monopoly move. keepandroidopen.org @AlteredDeal #KeepAndroidOpen

News: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, celebrated Mass for 500 participants (some pictured here) at the @OutrchCatholic conference for LGBTQ Catholics at @Georgetown today. We will post his homily, which moved many to tears, later. So grateful for His Eminence.


Your average medical doctor now has the same IQ as your average college graduate in 1960. Make sure to save a few extra hundred thousand dollars, in the likely case this is accurate--





the vibes in society are bad because everybody is walking around in a deep state of psychosis





MASSIVE BLOODBATH IN THE IT SECTOR. Accenture reported earnings this morning and cut its full-year revenue forecast. Its quarterly bookings fell 2% and the stock crashed 18%. Accenture is the largest IT services company in the world, so when it reports weak demand, every other company in the sector falls with it. Cognizant fell nearly -8%. Wipro fell nearly -8%. Capgemini fell -8.4% to its lowest price in a year. IBM fell -4%. EPAM dropped to near a 52-week low. Two things are driving the selloff. Companies are spending less on IT consulting as the economy slows, and the market now believes AI is starting to do the work these companies used to charge billions for. Both pressures hit the same business model at the same time. This is a direct problem for India. Indian IT has been one of the only sectors holding up the Nifty. TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, and Wipro have been carrying the index. These companies run on the same model as Accenture and earn most of their revenue from US and European clients. Accenture's results are treated as a preview of what is coming for TCS and Infosys. Their US-listed shares already fell 3 to 5% tonight. Tomorrow's session could be brutal for Indian markets.




There were five Patriarchs. One went off, and did it's own thing; the other four were still in communion with each others. Which party split off from who?








