Friday, May 22, 2020

There is a vast and untapped pool of cyber talent hiding in non-IT degrees

 Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit — a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
— Walter Lord, who died on this date in 2002


As a Mr. A. Goldfinger would say, “Mr. Bond, they have a saying in (Bohemian BONDI): ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”





Tom Wolfe once wrote that “the greatest hoax of modern history” occurred when “Russia’s ruling ‘socialist workers party,’ the Communists established themselves as the polar opposites of their two socialist clones, the National Socialist German Workers Party (quicknamed ‘The Nazis’) and Italy’s Marxist-inspired Fascisiti, by branding both as “the fascists,” which quickly led to those two socialist clones as being described, per Stalin’s orders, as “right wing” for the rest of the 20th century with very little pushback from limited-government conservatives and libertarians until recent years. The Democrats’ ongoing efforts to offload their shameful racist past onto the GOP has to run a close second. Don’t let them get away with it.




YOUR LITERATURE DEGREE: Cybersecurity requires the application of multidisciplinary skillsets. Cybersecurity teams should be as diverse as the cybersecurity challenges we face today.


NSW agency launches resources on workforce sustainability and recovery following COVID-19

EASY DOES IT: Populace-facing public servants will need ‘specialised support and attention’ during the recovery phase of the pandemic when staff return to their workplaces.




These five charts show our shifting behaviour around coronavirus

MAKING IT WORK: A new YouGov survey shows how between March and May, there were significant changes in the way people led their lives across the world.



Walking, talking and showing off – a history of Roman gardens

FRIDAY BLISS: In ancient Rome, you could tell a lot about a person from the look of their garden.



Government 'sick of experts' in public service: Renee Leon

JUNE 4, A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: Tiananmen vigil organiser calls for candles to be lit across Hong Kong.


“FELL OUT:” “A 49-year-old man has fallen out of a sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital for coronavirus patients and died, Russian media reports.  Three Russian doctors treating coronavirus patients also fell out of windows in recent weeks.”


IT’S EASY TO TELL WHO’S ON THE PAYROLL, OR AT LEAST ON THE TEAM: Kamala Harris Pushes Bill Condemning the Term ‘Chinese Virus’ as Racist.

Vic government departments have ‘well-designed’ employment screening policies, but are still at risk of hiring corrupt workers, audit finds

WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: The state’s Auditor General’s Office investigated whether all government departments have adequate fraud and corruption controls re personnel security.


Government concerned over international cyber threats
MODERN WARFARE: DFAT has concerns about cyber actors seeking to hinder the operation of hospitals, medical services, and crisis response organisations outside of Australia.


The future of work is increasingly digital, decentralized and messy. We were never very good at communicating and understanding one another -- just imagine how bad things might get when we need our humans to access their most human qualities: empathy, divergent thinking, problem solving and storytelling --- times like now?
Is there an app for that?
The short answer is no.... But there is improvisation. Improvisation is a practice in tapping into our collaborative and creative selves, and it’s a great tool for digital collaboration.
In this keynote, Second City's Kelly Leonard will give you an improvisational primer on using an evidence-based approach to learning through improvisation, and why this is the key to the next great work revolution.



We Can Prevent a Great Depression. It’ll Take $10 Trillion. The Atlantic. So, two Iraq wars, but we get to build stuff instead of blowing it up? And we don’t blow a few hundred thousand faraway brown people to pink mist? Where do I sign up?

Pay Attention to the Central Bankers Behind the Curtain Bloomberg


Knock-Knock No More: Doors Are Being Redesigned Amid COVID-19NBC10 Philadelphia



Commentary: Why so many people in the media dislike my efforts to spread facts about the coronavirus and lockdowns.



Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning


“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… each person, through action and not mere words, creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.”