Pinboard bookmarks for July 2026

For most of human history, people judged norms based on local context. A home had its own rules, a cathedral its own rules, and a classroom or bar or funeral parlor had its own rules. But now it is almost like we are constantly living in universal rooms, and the universal room we occupy is assumed to have universal values and universal norms. That has specific implications. First, rather than talk about what is good, which is context-dependent, we tend to focus about universal truths, and it’s easier to talk about universal bads than goods, so people focus on negativity. Two, character is context-dependent, so we talk less about character and more about its universalist equivalent, which is identity.

AWS Continuum discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates security risks across the software lifecycle, at machine speed and within the guardrails you define. Before code ships, it finds risks in your designs and code. Once your systems are running, it decides which risks matter to your business, proves which are exploitable, and drives toward a fix.

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