Software: Professional Software Engineer licensure
Does the CrowdStrike fiasco imply a need for Professional Engineer licensing for software engineers working on critical infrastructure?
EU agreement prohibits Microsoft from preventing CrowdStrike OS modifications
Microsoft is prohibited by the EU from preventing CrowdStrike from modifying privileged, low level OS code that led to the global IT collapse.
Education, Demographics: St Cloud State U slashes programs
St. Cloud State University slashes programs as enrollment collapses. This one is personal.
Immigration: Gen Z wants to move abroad
This survey says Gen Z wants to move abroad for a better life. 'cause America is awful or something.
Climate: They’ve switched from “Temperature” to “Heat Index”
Media running dangerously short on superlative adjectives as they proclaim "apocalyptic" 150 F heat dome. Except it's a heat index and not a record.
Climate, Education: We must revert to a degrowth, socialist utopia
We must grow academic programs in degrowth to achieve degrowth. Or something.
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Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts
Crowdstrike takes down the entire world.
Business: Double majors in college have better earnings security
Study suggests the path to job security is cross training - and having degrees or double majors in 2+ subjects.
Climate: Climate activists sentenced to prison over plans to end democracy
Founder of Extinction Rebellion sentenced to 5 years in prison, in part, over their intent to end democracy.
Climate: The only solution is global communism and rule by technocratic elite
To solve whatever we are trying to solve requires we turn over control to an unelected (Democracy sucks) technocratic elite. Says "experts".