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Apparently the USA government gave Anthropic only 90 minutes to fix their vulnerabilities. In the AI age, 90 minutes is more than enough for a swarm of agents to fix the problem no? That’s the promise these companies keep making – so ok, eat your own dog food. Fix your vulnerabilities with your own AI! (Btw, this is not a novel concept – Cisco had self-defending and self-healing networking features that protected against cyber attacks and ddos as far back as 2003-4)

The teen is having her official bday party today afternoon with her “girlfriends” and she has gone all out decorating the basement while last week with family friends she couldn’t care less. She put out the Wii and the boys and her had a great time. But for today the prep work is like wtf? For food I am supposed to get a tray of chicken fingers and fries from Raisin Cairns and Chick fil-a separately. Why not just from one place I ask coz they are just chicken fingers, and I am told some of her friends won’t touch one over another. I tell you boys are easier to deal with. None of the boys last week complained and simply jugged down out whatever we fed them and went back to Wii.

The single biggest difference to blood sugar levels after a meal is a walk. I have now tested this with continuous glucose monitor for several days. A 15-20 min walk right after eating literally does wonders vs just sitting down again at desk or sofa. The difference is staggering. And I am not talking fast brisk walk – just normal pace. Don’t sit, is all.

There is this white guy at work that I really like. Super smart, super helpful and is always ready to share as much as he can. Just one problem – he hates the eng team he manages and often gets into extreme arguments with them. I don’t manage his Eng team nor am I qualified to do so either but I depend on this guy to give me information that will help me build a solution and bridge the gap from product to leadership and sales. After weeks and weeks of insisting he was right and things had to go his way, we figured out that he was indeed wrong and the Eng team that he hates was right. He even forced other product managers to change their delivery plans because he was convinced he was right. Since he has been here for a while and is considered a top SME nobody questioned him. Well after the debacle yesterday, all he could message me yesterday was “I am so sorry! I will just stay out of it and let you lead”. All I could mutter under breath was “you motherfucker!” – now I am the one tasked with managing angry people all over the place. As they say, immigrants get the job done!

This is the second lowest I have weighed in a while. The only time I weighed a little lower than this was in 2006-7 after I started focusing on health. While I never have hit the peak of 2005, my weight has had considerable fluctuations over the years and early this year it had again climbed up. I don’t know if I am gonna plateau soon or will keep losing weight – though I don’t care about that part as much as my lower sugar levels!

Looks like dad’s paying us a visit later this year and staying with us a for longer time coz he wants to experience cold it seems. This coming from a guy who wears mufflers and sweaters for a walk in 80 degree summers. Well don’t say I didn’t warn you dad. Also, got a terrific deal on virgin Atlantic premium so it was criminal not to book it!

A nicely done up house is not selling in our community while every other house has already gone pending. The realtor is a resident too, and today she posted on our Facebook hoa page literally scolding others for not doing more to help this house get sold and how decreasing the price on this house actually impacts all of us. What a prick. I see this house daily on walks and as much as it may be updated inside, the 0.3 acre backyard is a monstrous disaster. It’s steep, with lots of trees and is a practically unusable backyard, not to mention a risk of sink holes etc given how much it rains here. Then they had the nerve to price the house at 500$ per sqft, when the going rate in our community is between 375-400$. Like the disconnect is real and somehow other residents need to do more. No, just reduce the price to where it should be and it will sell!

It’s sad to see how far off the ledge For All Mankind has fallen. Like 99% of the show is just people walking around in corridors, and the one time they actually do want to show the space exploration part of titan it looks so cheap and low budget it’s sad. At this point why even stretch this to 6 seasons? Just end it already with the last episode, or give it a hell of a budget to do something more interesting than walk around cardboard corridors!!

Thanks to the weather our local town fair which is always a big deal has been a complete washout. I feel bad for all the vendors out there but then my teen and her friends who braved the rain and still went came back eating nothing or doing anything at the fair because as she said “everything is way too expensive!” after the pandemic our town is the only one that hosts fairs anymore while all the surrounding cities who used to throw these fairs have all shut down, so I hope this is not the death knell for our town too.