"Project Panda" eyes on, anons

Strange Amazon job posting suggests the company is fishing for 'opportunistic' hires

October 13, 2023

Amazon accidentally published a job posting for a director of security engineering for something called "Project Panda" with a strange description indicating the listing would be used to find "opportunistic candidates."

"This posting was listed in error and we're working to remove it," Brad Glasser, an Amazon spokesperson said.

"Pooling requisition for security," the now-deleted job posting repeatedly stated. "Using to push through opportunistic candidates to have conversations with security leaders." The posting was originally listed on Amazon's careers website and shared from its official LinkedIn page.

"Opportunistic" is generally understood in recruiting to describe candidates who are so good that companies will make a place for them even if they aren't hiring.

"Opportunistic hiring is a recruitment strategy that involves always being open and mindful of bringing on new talent, regardless of whether there is a specific vacancy or job role to be filled," one recruiting strategist wrote on LinkedIn. "This approach is strategic and reserved for high-demand skills or exceptional A+ talent who are truly unique."

It's unclear what the codename "Project Panda" describes or if it's a real project, but that's also what Amazon called its warehouse in Detroit.

The job posting, and the description in particular, fueled speculation among insiders over if Amazon is advertising positions the company doesn't intend to fill, one told us.

"This is Amazon speak for 'we're not intending to hire but if we find an absolutely amazing person we will move some things around to give them an org,'" this person said. It may have worked too. We noted the posting had 28 LinkedIn applications before it was closed.

Amazon laid off 27,000 employees over the past year, and has put a hiring freeze in many teams across the company.

The job cuts were, in part, driven by over-hiring during the post-pandemic boom that failed to sustain. An internal document Insider reported on earlier this year stated Amazon lacked internal oversight and governance in job listing posts, leading to over hiring. One team posted 24,988 positions opened in 2022, when only 7,798 positions were approved for, according to the document. An Amazon spokesperson at the time said that multiple job openings were made to seek candidates in varied geographies and disputed that AWS had over hired beyond its approved headcount.

Amazon may start hiring more aggressively across the company later this year, as its business is recovering from a slowdown, one person familiar with the matter told Insider.

>circumvent paywall via Tor/Onion

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-job-posting-cybersecurity-hiring-2023-10

>>19733615

das how anon knows it's nightshift

>>19733618

11 second video?

Q11 Oct 29, 2017

Key:

Military Intelligence v FBI CIA NSA

No approval or congressional oversight

State Secrets upheld under SC

Who is the Commander and Chief of the military?

Under what article can President impose MI take over

investigations for the 3 letter agencies? What conditions must

present itself? Why is this so VERY important? Who surrounds

POTUS? They lost this very important power _ the one areas of the

govt not corrupt and diriectly serves POTUS.

AI makes breakthrough reading 2,000-year-old scroll burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption

October 13, 2023

After 21 years, cutting-edge technology pioneered at the University of Kentucky is being used to read a 2,000-year-old scroll.

The Herculaneum scrolls were burned and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., and now the scrolls are too fragile to unfurl.

But Brent Seales, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, and his researchers developed technology to read what’s on the scrolls without opening them.

It’s been a 20-year passion for Seales, but now his work is being used to unlock history.

The unopened scrolls belong to the Institut de France in Paris and are believed to be from a library owned by a senior Roman statesman.

“What I expect is writing that expresses what it means to be human, speaking of love and war and of all the things that still matter to us because we are human, just like they were human, and the gulf that separates us, the 2,000 years, is much more narrow than you might think,” Seales told Nexstar’s WDKY.

There’s a worldwide competition to learn what’s written in the scrolls. Using Seales’ technology, one word that’s already been deciphered, πορφύραc, is “purple dye” or “clothes of purple.”

Two computer science students, Luke Farritor in Nebraska and Youssef Nader in Berlin, found the word as part of the Vesuvius Challenge. Farritor won $40,000, and Nader won $10,000.

According to a news release for the University of Kentucky, earlier this year the team used “virtual unwrapping” to read text from the ancient En-Gedi scroll, revealing it to be the beginning of the Book of Leviticus.

The Vesuvius Challenge was launched in 2023 with a grand prize of $700,000 for anyone who could decode four passages from the scrolls.

“We have pursued the dream of reading this extremely challenging material from Herculaneum. We have now proven that it is possible. There is a huge emotional component, which is powerful and inspiring,” Seales said in a news release. “Overcoming damage incurred during a 2,000-year span is no small challenge. But that’s what researchers do — together, we conquer the seemingly impossible.”

https://wgntv.com/news/national/ai-makes-breakthrough-reading-2000-year-old-scroll-burned-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption/

>About the reward that was offiered

>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11872613/Can-decipher-scrolls-Scientists-offering-250-000-prize.html

>>19733845

Back when The Offspring was based.

>>19733880

no hate, anon

appreciate anon's efforts to help others

concern for anon's mental state, however?

yeah, little bit

Ports of LA, Long Beach expected to reap millions as hydrogen hub test sites

October 13, 2023

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach stand to reap millions of dollars from a federal Clean Energy Grant announced Friday, Oct. 13, which will bring $1.2 billion to California.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a number of city and LA port officials gathered at the waterfront in San Pedro to hail the announcement. A similar celebration took place earlier in the day in Long Beach.

“This is a very exciting morning in Los Angeles,” Bass said in her remarks.

Altogether, President Joe Biden named seven locations that will become so-called hydrogen hubs:

-Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey).

-Appalachia (West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania).

-California,

-Gulf Coast (Texas).

-Heartland (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota).

-Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan).

-Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Montana).

Out of the $1.2 billion statewide for California, Bass said, “a large sum will come to Los Angeles.”

Projects now will have to be submitted statewide for specific funding amounts.

“This was a broad coalition of labor, business and government demonstrating what is possible when we work together across lines to create a future that is inclusive for everyone,” Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said in a separate news conference Friday morning.

He emphasized his city’s commitment for carbon neutrality by 2045.

The California award, according to a White House release, “will leverage the Golden State’s leadership in clean energy technology to produce hydrogen exclusively from renewable energy and biomes. It will provide a blueprint for decarbonizing public transportation, heavy duty trucking and port operations — key emissions drivers in the state and sources of air pollution that are among the harder to decarbonize.”

A significant amount is also expected to be used for the conversion to blended hydrogen fuel at the Scattergood Power Plant near Playa del Rey, a project by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

A project labor agreement is part of California’s deal for the funding, which the federal government said “will expand opportunities for disadvantaged communities and create an expected 220,000 direct jobs” in construction, with some 90,000 permanent jobs anticipated.

Los Angeles Councilmember Tim McOsker, who represents the Watts-to-San Pedro district, also hailed the news.

“You don’t have to choose between a good economy and jobs and a clean environment,” he said, adding it’s all possible and the new technology will increase job opportunities. “We will get it right.”

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, issued a written statement calling the announcement “a home run for both our climate and economy.”

And Port of Long Beach CEO Mario Cordero said the funding “will play a vital role in the Port of Long Beach in efforts to develop a promising source of clean energy” for port operations and goods movement.

The funding was sought in a statewide application for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub program.

Both ports joined in the application and expect to get more than half a billion dollars to test out the benefits of using the fuel to power trucking and terminal equipment.

The $1.2 billion for California comes from a larger $7 billion federal grant announcement by Biden early Friday to build out the regional hydrogen hubs across the country.

The program was made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will create a network of hydrogen producers, consumers and local connective infrastructure to accelerate the use of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier.

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka noted that just five years earlier at the same waterfront spot port officials announced their 2030 and 2035 target dates for achieving zero-emissions cargo equipment and drayage trucks, respectively. This grant, Seroka said, will be a significant boost for the port’s ongoing efforts. POLB has the same target dates.

The grant, Seroka also said, sends a message to the private sector and those within the production chain that commercially testing and ramping up the ready availability of those cleaner vehicles is viable.

Commercial availability has been part of the challenge as the ports continue what will be an uphill climb toward clean operations.

Hydrogen is considered part of the solution that will be needed to clean the environment going forward.

While the Port of Long Beach will continue pursuing electric technology, for example, green hydrogen technology further benefits the port in its future move to zero-emissions, Cerdero said.

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/10/13/ports-of-la-long-beach-expected-to-reap-millions-as-hydrogen-hub-test-sites/

>>19733932

Concur and yes, good summation.

Anon also sees billions headed to key election cheat areas under the guise of usual climate change shenanigans.

>>19733926

say no to lithium

anon loves this place too

anon woke up here too

anon loves the TRUTH found here too

and anon loves (You) because (You) are part of anon's journey too

o7

>>19733946

ThanQ

yw

keep being (You)

>>19733966

Congrats!

The drugs are always going to impede emotional experience/expression - that is the purpose of the brain chemistry cocktail.

Seek the higher vibe within that anon can control connecting to, then learn to ride out the waves on that vibe by developing a sense of balance thru prayer, meditation, exercise, etc.

As much as possible, consume fresh foods, not the stuff in the middle of the store but the stuff along the perimeter.

>>19733917

Good stuff!

Reminds anon of the book, Journey Of Souls

audio book part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OAJQr-nYSI

audio book part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-7OCSxAvDU

The Hamas Apocalypse has crafted a New World Order

October 14, 2023

As in 1914, this week's attacks have the power to reshape the world – we must be wary that the worst lessons of history are not repeated

The start of the summer had been filled with hope. Burnley had just beaten Liverpool in the FA Cup final, thanks to a goal by England international Bert Freeman.

The weather was gorgeous, noted the poet Alice Meynell, with moon after moon “heavenly sweet” as the “silken harvest climbed the down”.

Abroad too, things looked peaceful, as one senior diplomat observed. “I have not seen such calm waters since I have been at the Foreign Office,” wrote Sir Arthur Nicolson, until recently ambassador to Russia, and now permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs. It was May 1914.

Within a few weeks, the idyllic days and calm waters had vanished following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The decisions made in the weeks that followed changed the world forever: soon, all of Europe was at war, spilling over into Asia and Africa not long after.

Within four years, millions were dead, with many more wounded; Russia was gripped by revolution and a spiral towards Communist authoritarianism; the curtain had been brought down on the age of European empires, even if for some – like the British – flickered on briefly. No one saw it coming.

No one saw the attacks on Israel coming last weekend either. Just over two weeks ago, Jake Sullivan, the US national security advisor, had talked with optimism about the changes in the Middle East and about his hopes – shared by many in the region – of stability and continuing integration.

“The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades,” he said at the Atlantic Festival on 29 September.

Eight days later, Hamas began an attack that resulted in the deaths of more Jews than on any day since the Holocaust. The horrors of those scenes are almost impossible to describe, from the festival-goers mown down in cold blood to the taking of hostages, many of whom are women, children and elderly.

Their lives are now likely to be traded or lost as Israel’s response to this crisis escalates.

The retaliatory measures being taken to hunt down those responsible are themselves haunting to watch, with multi-storey buildings crumbling after being flattened by missile strikes and detonations.

The siege and bombardment of Gaza by Israel’s military forces has now been followed by the order for more than a million people living north of Wadi Gaza to evacuate to the south.

How the young, the elderly or infirm are supposed to do so, or where they are to go or stay, what they are to eat and drink and how they are to remain safe is not clear.

All are to be forced into one half of what is already one of the most densely populated places on Earth. Borders with Egypt are closed, with the Egyptian government thus far refusing to open up corridors to allow civilians to leave.

Hamas has called for people to stay put and “to remain steadfast in your homes and stand firm”. Many fear what the coming hours, days and weeks will bring. We are watching a humanitarian catastrophe in the making.

<snip

MOAR: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/14/hamas-israel-new-world-order-middle-east-iran-saudi-russia/

>circumvent the paywall on tor/onion

17 Broward County Sheriff’s Office employees charged in Covid relief fraud

October 13, 2023

The employees collectively received $495,171 in assistance and used the money to “unjustly enrich themselves," U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe said.

Seventeen Broward County Sheriff's Office employees charged with defrauding Covid financial relief programs collectively received half a million dollars, federal prosecutors said.

The employees were each indicted separately on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They were suspended pending the outcome of the investigation, Sheriff Gregory Tony said, calling it a standard procedure.

Further disciplinary action is expected.

"I’m not going to sugarcoat or dance around this, at the end of the day they will be gone," Tony said Thursday at a joint news conference with U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida.

"If they’re being criminally charged, there’s no place for them in this organization," the sheriff continued. "How can we have anyone out here wearing a badge that is stealing from the American people?"

The employees are accused of providing fraudulent information in order to obtain loans from the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan, or EIDL, program, Lapointe's office said in a news release. The loans were given to business owners struggling during the pandemic.

Lapointe's office said together they collected $495,171 in assistance and used the money to "unjustly enrich themselves."

"The U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement partners will continue to uncover the fraud schemes and hold anyone involved accountable — regardless of an individual’s role in the community," Lapointe said in a statement. "No matter the amount, we will not allow limited federal tax dollars, which were intended to provide a lifeline to small businesses as they struggled to stay afloat during the economically devastating pandemic lockdown, to be swindled by those who were employed in a position of trust and cast aside their duty to uphold and abide by the law."

The scheme was uncovered after the sheriff's office's Public Corruption Unit received a tip from an employee that several workers may have committed PPP loan fraud, Tony said. He then instructed the unit to investigate the agency's roughly 5,500 employees, he said at the news conference.

The accused workers include eight from the Department of Law Enforcement, including one sergeant, eight detention deputies and one sergeant from the Department of Detention, Sheriff Tony said, according to the sheriff.

"For five years, I’ve maintained an organization committed to transparency and accountability," he said in a statement. "I will continue to expect integrity and commitment to excellence from every BSO employee."

The Union of Police Associations (I.U.P.A.) Local 6020 said it is aware of the investigation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/17-broward-county-sheriffs-office-employees-charged-covid-relief-fraud-rcna120291

>>19734017

17 noice digits

ThanQ baker

>>19734028

Looks good

Anons sleeping at the keyboards sounds about right

Off to bed myself in lieu of sleeping at the keyboard

>>19734036

Excellent suggestion, bakes

>>19734037

KeK