That’s part of the gig in many IT roles. You have to be at least partially available for IT help requests.

Whenever I’m in the middle of something and I get a message from someone high up on the org chart.

“Hey, got a moment for a quick question?”

Me, internally: ‘Ah, fuck.’
Externally: “Yeah, totally!”

Many years ago, I discovered that my then-employer’s “home built” e-commerce system had all user and admin passwords displayed in plaintext at home/admin/passwords.

When I brought this to the attention of leadership, they called the “developer” in and he said “oh, well, that’s IP locked, so no one on the web can access it!” When I pulled it up on my phone, he insisted my phone was on the work WiFi, despite it being clearly verifiable that was not the case. (The same work WiFi that had an open public connection, which is the one my phone would have been on, if it were on it…)

He did fix that, but many other issues remained. Eventually a new COO hired someone competent as his ‘backup’, replaced our website and finally suggested he pursue other employment opportunities before he could no longer voluntarily pursue them. (There was concern he might sabotage.)

It is a very broad category!

Unfortunately, RFK has already indicated a desire to put people on antidepressants and adderall into labor camps.

It’s like the worst version of the improv game “yes, and”

Sec. 3. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall
(ii)   enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering […]
(iv)   enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Sec. 3. (b) The attorney general shall
(iii)  assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals

WaPo missing the fucking point and painting this as anything but what it is. It’s not AND, it’s OR. It’s not mental health facilities, it’s prison.

Here’s who it could impact:

• Anyone with mental health issues that could be deemed dangerous to themselves or others.
  Anyone with depression (~36% of the U.S.) or who has said something off-color online.
• Anyone who uses drugs.
  Does your state have a legal weed program? Do they collect data on who purchases? Are they likely to give that data to the feds? Have you told your doctor/will they or their systems tell the feds?
• Anyone who attends a protest that does not have a permit, or has the permit suspended during the protest, because then they are loitering.

As someone pointed out in a now-deleted post - this comes after Trump has offered Palantir unfettered access to U.S. citizen data. Unless a judge completely kills this, it will be massively abused.

It also includes people who are loitering, a sufficiently broad definition that could be maliciously wielded against protestors.

It also stipulates that if hospitals are unavailable, jails will be used.

So it’s literally an order to allow them to throw anyone they want into prison.

Well, of course, but the timing is convenient. And including ‘loitering’ without elaboration is going to be used by any sufficiently unscrupulous law enforcement to target protests that do not have permits.

I guess criminalizing homelessness and protest in one fell swoop, while allowing the authorities to throw people into prison labor camps is one way to distract from the Epstein files as well as bring back slavery and keep the corporations going once the economy collapses.

But what are we going to do, peacefully protest loiter?

enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;

Editing to clarify:
If every unpermitted protest is deemed loitering, then it does not matter if people ‘start something’ because they will get scooped up, and thrown into jail for expressing their first amendment rights.
I don’t know how long it will take for the courts to clarify/nuke the clause, but it’ll be enough time that plenty of people will lose their jobs for just trying to express their rights.

She could have been okay if she stood for anything other than the status quo.

She had to stand for something - I think that she was so unmemorable as a VP that people would have either looked to her past as a prosecutor, or to Biden’s massively unpopular policies on Palestine when trying to define her as a candidate.
…. So she leaned into Biden’s Palestine policies. Like a fucking idiot.

I think that being the alternative to some dinosaurs wasn’t enough. I think she also had to have policies that departed from theirs. Alas, she didn’t and the U.S. decided it wanted something different. (Or the election was swayed by Musk’s illegal vote buying lottery scheme, which he’ll never be punished for, or perhaps those unaudited last minute code updates to voting machines swayed the election, but we’ll never know, because justice is a myth and democracy has always been just performative enough to prevent another rebellion in the U.S.)