Bruce Schneier’s been great this week, but I want to highlight his essay on the difference between feeling safe and actually being safe:
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they’re different. You can feel secure even though you’re not, and you can be secure even though you don’t feel it. There are two different concepts mapped onto the same word — the English language isn’t working very well for us here — and it can be hard to know which one we’re talking about when we use the word.
This is an important distinction, and the confusion between the two concepts of security has undermined a lot of (stated) public policy. We’d all do better to remember and recognize the distinction the next time something is justified in the name of “security.”
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RIP Sakhi Gulestan, one of DC’s good people.
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The Unholy Rouleur helps us with a field guide to the seasonal species that will soon be invading our bike trails. Just yesterday I found myself in the midst of a flock of Vibrant Plumed Wannabes. Really worth a look.
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Philosophy on the rise as a college major? Hmm.
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Hmm. It’s already 66°F/19°C at 9am. And sunny. All that catch-up work and owed-email I’m sitting on and was hoping to push out late this afternoon? Sorry, all. I’ve got some other work to catch up on.
Joy
Do we get a picture as proof?
(And the uptight person in me is screaming “Ack, slather on the high spf!!!”).
MB
Yes, picture proof is posted in the pay section of the site.