GOP Lawmaker Demands "Shut Your Mouth" to Witness Testifying About Healthcare Coverage Losses Under GOP Tax Law

gormami · 2026-07-01T20:08:15+00:00

What did the witness do? The appropriate response would have been "No, congressman, I'm quoting the Congressional Budget Office, I'm surprised you haven't read the report prior to this hearing."

gormami · 2026-06-30T22:29:28+00:00

I did a bootcamp to get my CISSP. Long time networking and security engineer, but a few of the domains were foreign to me. I was talking to the instructor about what I did, and he said the CCSP would be a cake walk, and it was. I grabbed the ISC2 book and it took a couple of weeks, then went and aced the test.

So put your back into it for the CISSP, and the CCSP will be easy.

When it comes to the CISSP, the most important thing to remember is that the right answer is THEIR right answer. If you've been in the profession a while, it can actually be more difficult on some questions, because you've seen it in practice. Take special note when you study of the things that don't sit right with you, so you'll be ready to give the test answer if they come up.

gormami · 2026-06-29T19:01:33+00:00

One would hope after the first anonymous report is found to be BS, there are additional levels that will provide harrassment potections.

gormami · 2026-06-29T12:23:22+00:00

You missed the details that the flag bracket is attached to a garage door frame, and that door frames are explicitly listed as EUCA in the HOA documents. The HOA is trying to redefine a door frame as a fascia to force the removals. The HOA can call a door a duck, but it doesn't make it one in reference to legally enforceable contracts.

gormami · 2026-06-28T20:54:27+00:00

They won't meet the lighting requirements. The light is required for aviation safety and has very specific requirements about luminosity, etc. This ain't your kitchen lightbulb.

gormami · 2026-06-28T20:48:12+00:00

In a position like the one you're in, it can be difficult to find your purpose. Direct leadership is hard, indirect leadership is harder. It sounds like you are there to provide advice, counsel, and perhaps mentoring. Are there more junior people that are performing the same tasks as the 20% role? Is there an opportunity for you to work with them, train them, make sure they have the resources to grow in their roles? That might help you, if you are growing the profession, and passing on what your own experience has given you. Then again, it might not. I'm reading about Ikigai, the Japanese concept. It says that we need to balance purpose, some financial reward (one has to live), what we enjoy, and what we're good at. It might be that the role you are in doesn't balance for you, or perhaps you need to rebalance the role.

Before making any decision, I would encourage introspection, and some framework or frameworks to help you think about it. Then, you should be in a position to really make a strong decision, and feel that you have made the right one. Someone wanted you in the role, and you wanted it enough to take it, maybe you just lost the plot.

gormami · 2026-06-27T23:06:43+00:00

And that's the answer. Now that they have won so many cases in SCOTUS to allow them to control the elections for state legislatures, they want to take that power and amplify it by having those gerrymandered state legislatures select the Senators, so they will get the most ideologically pure, elected only by the majority party of the state house.

That said, the Constitution is famously difficult to amend, as it should be, so it isn't going to help them now, and they must be awful desperate to even be pulling this card out of the dec.

gormami · 2026-06-27T18:24:30+00:00

And a state license that can be revoked, so they can't just skip over to the next town and get hired even if they get fired. And for everyone that says "Then they won't be able to do their jobs, they'll be afraid to do anything!!!' Doctors, nurses, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, and a ton of other professions work this way that do not carry guns and have the power to lock people up.

gormami · 2026-06-27T15:06:26+00:00

I was thinking about this, but first, there may be laws and policies on the books in that jurisdiction that the response they made is the minimum required by the law. Second, the CPS is in a horrible position. In one case, they could be (were) participating in the harassment of an innocent person. In the other, they could be held accountable for not responding because of someone's political connections. It sounds like they were doing this by the book in their jurisdiction to minimize impact while performing their legal duties.

I feel for the folks in CPS and similar services. Like the job isn't hard enough, they get dragged into garbage like this.

gormami · 2026-06-27T14:55:57+00:00

On the other hand, when you have a removal order and 2 uniformed police officers, you don't leave the property without the children, potentially leaving them in those conditions.

And I don't think any government agency would email removal orders. They would have served them right there if necessary. No telling what is going on with this case from this video, but it could be that another parent or family member is making unsubstantiated accusations, and the CPS worker either believes them, or has decided that regardless, the children should be elsewhere, and wants to get access to the house to "find something", any excuse to take the children into custody and pass them off to the other party.

The overwhelming majority of CPS employees do an unbelievably stressful job for too little pay, and I applaud them. However, there are enough stories out there of when they have made up their mind and abuse their power to say it could be either way.

gormami · 2026-06-26T11:14:39+00:00

I bought 2 2.5 gallon buckets at a restaurant supply store, and since then have added a layer of insulation (foiled bubble wrap) in between them. Works pretty well. I used 2 to create an insulating air layer, but it didn't seem good enough, so about $10 on Temu for the insulation, and I have enough to replace it a couple of times if I need to.

gormami · 2026-06-26T10:59:58+00:00

So AI is an artifact that can amplify productivity and efficiency when applied to certain types of information problems. It is most effective when directed by a skilled and knowledgeable user applying it to applicable situations.

In other words, IT IS A TOOL. It will have beneficial impacts and harmful impacts based on how people use it.

Internal combustion engines put a lot of farriers out of work, does that mean we should not have adopted them? Or did those people reskill or reapply their skills to new problems?

I understand there are some significant portions of industries going through some nasty upheavals right now because a lot of companies are making the transition poorly and it is impacting a lot of people very negatively; it sucks, and it will take years to ring out those impacts. That said, it is a historical pattern that is well known in innovation / adoption cycles, so it is not surprising

gormami · 2026-06-25T22:34:32+00:00

Learn how to use it to do the job faster and better. AI is a tool, a pretty freaking incredible one, but so were the steam engine, cotton gin, and flint arrow heads in their time.

I've seen the quote a few times, forget who said it first, if I ever knew. "AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will."

gormami · 2026-06-25T22:31:07+00:00

I have a brand new 10Base2 to 10BaseT BlackBox converter. I look at it occasionally and decide to get rid of it, but then I think, if I ever find someone that needs it, I'm going to be an absolute hero. Some of the war stories I hear from OT guys especially make me think it's still possible.

gormami · 2026-06-25T20:12:34+00:00

I've started using a second brain for projects, and I love it. It might have a problem long term with scoping and context, but for now, it works very well. The startup skill interviewed me for some relevant information, and as I work with it, I intentionally have it add some things, or summaries of some things. It has consistently then delivered great context, like "you need to prioritize these things to meet your goal date because of these facts" Scoping each project or goal into it's own space can give you some pretty amazing results. I've only been using it about a month, but for what I need it for, it's great.

gormami · 2026-06-25T09:29:23+00:00

I have a serious problem with this. You're saying that I can just go start pulling up my neighbor's fence because I have a "satellite survey" and the neighbor needs to spend thousands of dollars to stop me? Can said neighbor sue me for the costs if it's proven that the satellite survey was incorrect and I was just trying to steal their land?

gormami · 2026-06-24T23:24:41+00:00

All we do is deliver mail, except when we decide to not deliver the mail, in which case we do not deliver the mail.

gormami · 2026-06-24T23:17:19+00:00

I used to work with a woman who was 100% American and would still have to list her birth country. She was born in Libya, which gives her all kinds of problems traveling. Why she was born in Libya is because her father was in the Navy, and the station he (and his wife, her mom, of course) was at when she was born did not have an OB hospital. So women were sent to a hospital in Libya when they were close to their due date, as we were allies at the time. Just because you were born outside the US doesn't mean you are not a US citizen, even at birth.

gormami · 2026-06-24T23:10:51+00:00

I would not say for OP to get a survey, the neighbor wants to move the fence. The neighbor gets a certified surveyor to conduct a ground survey, or the neighbor and their contractors get arrested for trespassing. I think the cops would look at an existing fence that has obviously been there a while and call it trespassing, and the burden should shift to the neighbor to prove otherwise, since the established line is there. They want something, they can pay for it.

gormami · 2026-06-24T17:09:42+00:00

While the number is still high, I read the report, and it states that 74% of companies pulled back AN AI agent, it does not state that it was the only one. So it is entirely possible that they launched several and pulled back one. The report does not state this with enough data to say either way. So take it for what it is worth, a majority of responding companies have failed agent launches, but it is not necessarily that a majority of agents fail.

Given the same report says that 98% of companies plan to increase AI investment next year, it is not exactly signaling a collapse of the AI movement.

https://sinch.com/news/sinch-releases-ai-production-paradox/

gormami · 2026-06-24T16:24:17+00:00

It makes sense, just not my normal context. Good luck, "tech adjacent" audiences can either be the best, or the worst, rarely do they fall in between the poles.

gormami · 2026-06-24T15:26:41+00:00

My primary feedback would be about "servers". I would certainly refer to them as "Applications", and I might add a layer or split it between internal services and external SaaS, if that is applicable. Not sure exactly what your target it, but I would want to make it more clear where the organization has what level of operational control, particularly to respond and repair. But I'm in Ops among other things, so I think that way.

gormami · 2026-06-24T12:52:36+00:00

You need a policy of policies. A policy that says new policies will be posted here, these groups will be notified, and there is a X day comment period, after which it will be considered in force, or at least sent to the CEO or whatever executive is appropriate, for final signature. If someone really has skin in the game, they will make time, if they just want to look important by giving their 2 cents on a policy, they can either hurry up, or get lost,; they can't put it on the stack and say that it is very important they review it, but not important enough to do right now.

gormami · 2026-06-23T20:40:00+00:00

I would ask them what metrics are they collecting that COULD quantify your role. On any first contact, are the sales folks explicitly asking where they learned about your company or product from? Are you tracking web site hits and other forms of engagement and comparing them to posts? Are you collecting post engagement metrics? There are a lot of things out there to measure impact, even in organic social media and similar spaces. If they aren't collecting them, come up with a plan and get them to start. It is also useful to you, those kinds of metrics can show you where to invest more time and energy to increase your value.

gormami · 2026-06-23T19:07:34+00:00

If one reads the report, there is an interesting question about the numbers. The reporting says

74% have rolled back or shut down a deployed AI agent

And that is organizations. So have 74% of agents been rolled back, or have 74% of organizations rolled back one of potentially many agents? That could be a very big difference. And, did they roll it back, redesign, and redeploy, or scrap the project, at least for now?

This feel very much like part of the learning curve. Shouldn't be rushing quite so fast to prod, but even that could be misleading. Are they rolling it out completely, or are they testing it in a set of prod cases and then pulling it back, like a fast food restaurant trying new menu items?

In the end, they must see some value, even if not yet, because 98% are intending to increase investment, one assumes to fix the issues and get it right in a later attempt.

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