Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.
Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge
YOUR BRAIN IS AN ORGAN AND DEPRESSION IS A REAL PHYSICAL THING THAT HAPPENS TO IT. THIS IS REALLY SUPER IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER.
Yeah your brain literally isn’t making the corrections and selections it’s meant to when you’re depressed – dean Burnett has a very accessible & plain English section on that in “the idiot brain” (is the last chapter)
I find this really helpful (which is a bit odd, because generally I’m not one for the totally chemical approach, given meds not helping me much) I wish my diagnosis person had told me about this when I was freaking out about my loss of ability to learn/pick up new things. It had not occurred to me that it could be part of the depression package.
Wells Fargo has asked a court to block a shareholder lawsuit that seeks
to punish the company for lying when it promised to promptly and
completely disclose any new scandals; Wells Fargo claims that the
promise was obvious “puffery,” a legal concept the FTC has allowed to
develop in which companies can be excused for making false claims if it
should be obvious that they are lying (as when a company promises that
they make “the best-tasting juice in America).
The lawsuit stems from Wells Fargo’s crooked car-loan program
that used deceptive tactics to defraud 800,000 customers, ultimately
stealing 25,000 of their cars through fraudulent repossessions.
The shareholders argue that when Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan misled
investors in 2016, when he said that he was “not aware” of lurking sales
scandals (this was four years after the company’s internal
investigations revealed the car ripoffs and a year before they were made
public after a leak to the New York Times).
The company argue that Sloan was making “generic statements…on which
no reasonable investor could rely” and thus the shareholders should not
be able to sue for the losses they suffered when the scandal became
public.
In other words, as the LA Times’s Michael Hiltzik puts it, “We can’t be sued because no one believed us anyway.”
Hacking Team (previously)
was an Italian company that developed cyberweapons that it sold to
oppressive government around the world, to be used against their own
citizens to monitor and suppress political oppositions; in 2015, a
hacker calling themselves “Phineas Fisher” hacked and dumped hundreds of gigabytes’ worth of internal Hacking Team data, effectively killing the company.
Three years later, the Italian prosecutors who have been chasing Phineas
Fisher have given up on unmasking them. On Motherboard, Lorenzo
Franceschi-Bicchierai combines the contents of sealed court documents
with interview with “Fisher” to reveal the tradecraft that kept Fisher
safe from legal retaliation; the stupid mistakes that left Hacking Team
vulnerable; and the sleazy tactics the company’s CEO used to torment his
former employees in the name of tracking down Fisher.
Fisher’s ability to evade unmasking is largely attributable to their
extreme caution and diligence: using tools like Tor to remain anonymous,
and using stolen, hacked Bitcoin to buy the services and tools that
Fisher used to penetrate Hacking Team’s defenses.
The attack was only possible because David Vincenzetti, Hacking Team’s
founder and CEO, refused to upgrade his VPN software, forcing the IT
workers at Hacking Team to keep older, legacy services running. One of
the systems administrators who might have caught Fisher during their
raids on Hacking Team’s data was reportedly distracted by a weeks-long
World of Warcraft binge, allowing Fisher to operate with impunity.
Meanwhile, the court documents reveal that Vincenzetti has pursued
vendettas against former employees whom he falsely believed to be
implicated in the hack, going so far as to frame them with false
evidence. However, Vincenzetti was ultimately unsuccessful in his
attempts to frame these workers.
