Phoenix's rapid growth and development in the Sonoran Desert has been fueled by an unsustainable reliance on water resources, leading to a looming water crisis.
The water crisis disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations like the homeless, who suffer greatly from the extreme heat and lack of access to water.
Solving the water crisis requires collective action and political cooperation, which is hindered by increasing political polarization and extremism in Arizona.
The rise of right-wing, anti-democratic movements like Turning Point USA are sowing division and undermining faith in democratic institutions and processes.
The water crisis is intertwined with broader issues of inequality, immigration, and the urban-rural divide in Arizona.
Arizona State University is experimenting with models of mass, accessible higher education that aim to transcend partisan divides.
The experiences of undocumented immigrant families like the Cortez family illustrate the human costs of failed immigration policies.
Despite political divisions, there are signs of common ground and pragmatic problem-solving around issues like water management.
The document highlights the tension between individual freedoms/property rights and collective responsibility for shared resources like water.
The water crisis in Phoenix serves as a microcosm for the broader challenges facing American democracy and society.
Interesting; it reminds me a little of an addon from maybe a dozen years ago that would do the same kind of thing but with fiction. So you'd be reading a post on Slashdot or whatever, and the addon would find a sequence of words that matched the start of one of the stories it had, and it would add a few words of that story. If you noticed, you could click on them to get more of the story, and if you kept clicking it would eventually replace the text of the whole page with the story. It was a really neat way of just stumbling across fiction. Wish I could remember the name of the addon. For some reason I think it was Australian, maybe put together by a university or an arts council or something?
Haven't read Egan or Rucker, so I can't speak to them. Vinge had amazing ideas that still pop into my head from time to time, but I couldn't get into his writing style; he never really pulled me in, despite how much I wanted to bet pulled in.
Is the market actually bad at the moment, though? We've been trying to fill one of the vacant positions on my team, and the offers we've extended have been declined for other options. That makes it seem to me like candidates have plenty of options at the moment.
I think I'm good as far as job security goes, so that's a plus. I should ramp up the job hunt I suppose. Already trying to study for the CISSP after work though and I am a big fan of having down time to unwind.
Hey all! I'm trying to figure out where I go next in this career. I'm working at a mid sized company that is owned by a company that is owned by another company. Started out as a software dev about right years ago and spent a lot of time as a security champion; finally moved to the InfoSec team about two years ago. It's a small InfoSec team: three people total. So I do a lot of stuff: contact reviews, vendor security assessments, firewall log monitoring, code reviews, run security trainings, coordinate external pen tests, gather SOC 2 evidence, incident response... Lots of stuff.
I like most of the work well enough (though the GRC stuff is not my favorite), but recently my boss and my teammate quit, so our team of three is down to me. There's some support available from the security team of the parent organization, and a very competent contractor, but it's largely just me.
What I'm wondering mostly is: if I go elsewhere, what kind of role am I looking for? I feel like this Jack-of-all-security-trades thing I've got going on can't be super normal, can it? And also, is my current situation something I should embrace, and take the opportunity to run the InfoSec team? Having someone with two years of security experience at the wheel seems suboptimal to me, but maybe it's worth doing for the experience?
My ideal would be working with a team of five or six, with people I can learn a lot from; my concern is that right now, most of the learning I can do is from my own mistakes.
Darknet Diaries is always fascinating: it's all about cybercrime. Sometimes the episodes are breakdowns of particular hacker groups or specific notable hacks; other times, they're interviews with people in the industry: both cybersecurity professionals and criminals.
FYI, what you're talking about is the *removed externally hosted image*; the Deep Web is different. "*removed externally hosted image*" refers to places on the regular Internet that are not indexed by Google and the other major search engines; you don't need Tor to get to them.
Here's how Kagi summarizes it: