What we’ve been reading in the past and was worth noting
Recent week of articles / news worth reading or subscribing to Patreons or sub stacks or ghosts and the like. Also weekly funny webclips at the end. Clear.
updated last - July 31st
sites
books:
- Excession
- Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories (reread)
- Designing Event Driven Systems (for personal skillset devlopment)
- Something that may shock wnd discredit you (only got half way through, but need to come back go it... i know it.)
- The Testament (M. Atwood), finally finished
- Freeware (reread) Rudy Rucker
read with care:
Five reasons why moral philosophy is distracting and harmful | Aeon Essays
Moral philosophy is bogus, a mere substitute for God that licenses ugly emotions. Here are five reasons to reject it

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13571
Worth a scan:
Norby raises $3.8M for an all-in-one creator marketing platform – TechCrunch
Norby rolls together everything that creators need: a link-in-bio service, referral tracking, SMS, ticketing and other marketing tools necessary to keep a small brand or creator community humming.

France: Ex-Cop Heads to Prison for Darkweb Dox Sales - Darknetlive
A former French law enforcement officer was sentenced to prison for selling confidential information on the darkweb.

The Life Cycle of a Breached Database
Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already…

always an "random" excerpt from Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow:

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