The maze of Digital hygiene

Digital: An abstract mess of details. What is my data, company data, public data, who owns it, who can share it, can I unplug from it?

Most folk willingly sign up for privacy notices just to use a service without really understanding the risk or their obligations or even reading the 20+ pages of nonsense.

Regulations wrap us up in legal jargon that is often difficult to understand and is contantly changing.

I’m so sick of being an “expert”.

How do I get out of this one?

Explicit bias on your face

Candidate 1
Candidate 2

Explicit bias is often expressed openly and can manifest in various forms, including discriminatory behaviour, language, unfair decision-making, or competition in plain sight. 7+ million viewers witnessed a loaded test where Candidate 1 had bugs over her mouth and Candidate 2 bugs were at chin level.

Both candidates apparently had the same number of bugs in their helmets but the evidence suggests this was not the case.

Candidate 1 was never going to win.

How to influence the RNG (Random Number Generator)

Success is not accidental, I’m not cheating just increasing my chances of winning.

Yes, granted everyone needs their share of good luck and systemic bias in their favour but my success has never been down to pure luck and I take offence to suggestions from others who base their current state on bad luck.

Somewhere, somehow, you fucked up and this is where you find yourself so don’t blame bad luck.

Realise that where you are today is because of what you did or did not do yesterday.

Broken impact

Time to prepare for the Dark Winter. Right now, I seem to break easily well actually my right knee is the weak point. According to Ai, it’s likely that I’ve caused a Meniscus Tear: The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that provides a cushion between your femur (thighbone) and tibia (shinbone). Hurts like a son of a bitch and I’m limping everywhere. It could also be a common grade 1 sprain of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) one of the four major ligaments in the knee that connects the femur (thighbone) to the tibia (shinbone). *Ai certainly makes one sound like an expert in anything.

Past few days I’ve been applying Conservative Treatment: This is usually the first line of treatment for meniscus tears and includes rest, ice, compression, and elevation (RICE) to reduce pain and swelling. Physical therapy can also help strengthen the surrounding muscles and improve the range of motion.

I should be up and running in a few days hopefully as I have my first trip to Edinburgh next week.

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Still Your Father

Joyful misery

Sometimes one needs to create a buffer as the onslaught of my PS5 widow’s complaints about my perpetual gameplay is insufferable. So for the next 93 days, I physically handed the box to a fellow veteran to babysit while changing my lifestyle.

I’ll still be Twitching and following, especially with some big titles on the horizon. It also opens up the Console sharing option where games purchased and downloaded can be played on the PS5 even though I don’t own the title. In my case, I’ll be diving into Horizon Forbidden West™ and a complete version of Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT in August.

Meanwhile, IRL, I’ll be tackling neglected areas of life, such as my weight and general fitness issue, as I can no longer blame COVID-19.

I don’t work here any longer