{"id":732,"date":"2008-04-11T09:13:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/11\/friday-notes-is-it-really-spring-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:13:01","slug":"friday-notes-is-it-really-spring-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/11\/friday-notes-is-it-really-spring-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Is It Really Spring? Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Schneier’s been great this week, but I want to highlight his essay<\/a> on the difference between feeling<\/em> safe and actually being<\/em> safe:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

RIP Sakhi Gulestan<\/a>, one of DC’s good people.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

The Unholy Rouleur helps us with a field guide to the seasonal species that will soon be invading our bike trails<\/a>. Just yesterday I found myself in the midst of a flock of Vibrant Plumed Wannabes. Really worth a look.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Philosophy on the rise<\/a> as a college major? Hmm.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Hmm. It’s already 66\u00c2\u00b0F\/19\u00c2\u00b0C 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<\/a> to catch up on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}