Vogue did a decent overview of this[1] and history is littered with all kinds of examples if you go looking.

1. https://www.vogue.com/article/dark-history-of-the-far-rights...

The problem is that we have markets where we: - Incentivize organizations to pursue profits at the expense of everything else, which includes social good and civic rights - Rarely hold bad actors accountable (and almost never in a timely manner)

Which means, given enough time, we're always going to trend to whatever makes the most money. Targeted advertising makes money, and will continue to do so unless or until we collectively decide to make it a greater risk to profits than it is today.

Say what you want about marketing-isms of your typical LLM, they have been trained and often succeed at making legible, easy to scan blobs of text. I suspect if more LLM spam was curated/touched up, most people would be unable to distinguish it from human discourse. There are already folks commenting on this article discussing other patterns they use to detect or flag bots using LLMs.

It's so sad to me that good typographical conventions have been co-opted by the zeitgeist of LLMs.

Don’t antagonize your recruiter. You want them to advocate _for you_ when a prospective employer is drafting an offer. Work with them to give them the ammo they need to make that happen.

There are plenty of great orgs out there that will soak with you before making assumptions, but as a rule most startups have fairly inexperienced management unless they are founded by a team that’s been through the rodeo a few times.

I think for any proposal to change policy that has serious impacts on the economics of the country, we should really be very clear on what problem we see, how we plan to solve it, and what specific trade-offs we're making with our solutions.

Category is derived from a fairly simple heuristic: whether the content informs action or cognition, and whether the content serves the reader’s application or acquisition of a skill[2]. I’m a fan and it’s simple enough that most anyone can learn it in an afternoon.

1. https://diataxis.fr/

2. https://diataxis.fr/compass/

I’m aka unsure if IPv4 really gets you the privacy advantages you think it does. Your IP address is a data point, but the contents of your TCP/HTTP traffic, your browser JS runtime, and your ISP are typically the more reliable ways to identify you individually.

To use your example: Any cybersecurity firm or practitioner worth their salt should be *very* explicit about the scope of their assessment.

- That scope should exhaustively detail what was and wasn't tested.

- There should be proof of the work product, and an intelligible summary of why, how, and when an assessment was done.

- They should give you what you need to have confidence in *your understanding of* you security posture as well as evidence that you *have* a security posture you can prove with facts and data.

Anybody who tells you not to worry and take their word for something should be viewed with extreme skepticism. It is a completely unacceptable frame of mind when you're legally and ethically responsible for things you're stewarding for other people.