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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

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Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land she/it

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 04/10/2026
Shot: [image] Chaser: [quote] bsky.app/profile/habr...
Hmm I think you're strong manning him incorrectly actually, because I model John as actually quite meaningfully updating, not negligible. He often has to pick people under very little info, so this might have actually influenced a real life grant or fellowship decision.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 04/10/2026

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Hmm I think you're strong manning him incorrectly actually, because I model John as actually quite meaningfully updating, not negligible. He often has to pick people under very little info, so this might have actually influenced a real life grant or fellowship decision.
Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
The landscape of "I update a bunch off of X, but I don't want X to become a gamed proxy" is always super tricky.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 04/10/2026
with alt text. what in the utter racism and sexism. (the author claims he was quoted out of context for his... five paragraph essay, which he says does not fully reflect all of his views) This in reply to someone saying "this might have actually influenced a real life grant or fellowship decision"

Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
The landscape of "I update a bunch off of X, but I don't want X to become a gamed proxy" is always super tricky.  

I think it's fine to update on stuff like this (it's of course a big update about someone's character whether they attend events like this, and it's fine for people to have complicated models of how character relates to competence) and also, people have to be super careful for X not to become a gamed proxy, especially in as X is something that is super costly to incentivize (as in this case, where it seems clear to me that pressure to attend events like this would be very bad because people would very quickly hurt themselves and make themselves too vulnerable). 

When people notice that X is at risk of becoming a gamed proxy, a common reaction is to falsely claim that X provides no evidentiary value. That is IMO also very bad! It really hurts people's ability to orient and understand what is going on when people go around claiming that things that obviously provide evidentiary value get denied as doing so.When people notice that X is at risk of becoming a gamed proxy, a common reaction is to falsely claim that X provides no evidentiary value. That is IMO also very bad! It really hurts people's ability to orient and understand what is going on when people go around claiming that things that obviously provide evidentiary value get denied as doing so.

I am seeing John here reflexively correct a statement by Ozy that this kind of stuff does not provide evidentiary value. Being capable of openly saying "X is relevant, even if X is bad to incentivize" is one of the core attributes of the rationality community. It's what causes people to try to cancel random people in the community like once a month. See also historical discussion around other super dicey stuff like profiling, where it's obvious that e.g. ethnicity is evidence of various things you might care about, but you really want to avoid ethnicity becoming a proxy. 

I wish John would also have been clear that he thinks X is bad to incentivize, but IDK, I think it's fine to make locally valid points. If John also believes it's fine to incentivize people to go to events like this, then I think it's appropriate to get angry at him. I think it's justified and correct to reflexively prevent your in-group from trying to cover for you by lying about what provides evidence for what, so him doing so here isn't much evidence he believes that (and indeed would take bets at substantial odds that he doesn't).
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 03/10/2026
well, that's a positive conclusion. (with alt text) bsky.app/profile/pois...
Screenshot of a post on X, in dark mode, from Survival and Flourishing Fund (@sff_is_tweeting), which has a blue verified checkmark. The post is marked "2h". The profile picture is a grey circle with the words "Survival and Flourishing Fund". The name "Wentworth" is bolded in its first two appearances, as search-result highlighting. The post reads:

"We have withdrawn our grant recommendation to John Wentworth from the 2026 S-Process Grant Round. After we posted our announcement on Sept 30, public statements by Mr. Wentworth came to our attention which we found objectionable, disturbing, and contrary to the values of SFF.

A Speculation Grant to Mr. Wentworth was approved and disbursed earlier in the year, prior to SFF becoming aware of his statements. The Funders of this round will not be fulfilling the remainder of the grant recommendation.

If you have concerns about the conduct of an SFF applicant or grantee, you can contact us at sff-contact@googlegroups.com"

Engagement: 1 reply, 3 reposts, 3 likes, 71 views.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 03/10/2026
Spooky October mystery! The leading suspicion now is that bad boot-time DRAM training/negotiation was responsible for this, and that rebooting and clearing secure boot to load memtest86+ cleared the bad training because the BIOS resets settings when you change anything.
Memtest86+ PASS green screen with 25:02 on the clock
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/10/2026
jesus christ bsky.app/profile/incu...
johnswentworth
The way I worded it until recently was that I'm turned on by a woman struggling. Just a couple days ago Aella used the phrase "deeply, primarily aroused by women in distress" (not describing me specifically), which might actually be a more accurate description of my sexuality than anything I've come up with.

So for instance, peak hotness for me is holding my partner's nose and mouth so she can't breath, pounding her until the haven't-breathed-in-a-while panic response kicks in for her, then holding her down and fucking her a little longer while she's panicking. Super-hot variations on that include:

The game "you can breathe when I'm satisfied"
Ordering her not to physically struggle, and then enjoying the mental dominance as she struggles against herself.
Other fun things which scratch the itch to various extents include choking (either from a hand around the neck or a cock in the throat), making her hold a certain position for a very long time (I usually go for 30 minutes to an hour per round not counting foreplay, so e.g. making her hold her legs for most of that time can do the trick), standard sadism (like hard biting or spanking), standard CNC, squeezing nerve clusters, or just holding/tying her body in a position where she's straining against it.

On a meta note: I think there's a lot of alpha in people talking online about stuff they don't usually share with anyone besides partners or very close friends, IF the person has the writing skills to not make the delivery too cringey AND can handle at least some less-than-maximally-positive responses. That's part of the motivation for this post and the empathy posts, and it's a big part of why I begged that particular question. I've been actively trying to lean more into baring my soul online.

And to be clear, I think the alpha in this is at least as much for the author as for the audience. Something feels healthy about just opening up to the world about everything [...]
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026
Use the opt-in bot flag for transparency. Best of luck. bsky.app/settings/aut...
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026
Your SLOs and telemetry are working. Now leadership wants to know why the observability bill went up. My last session was about designing SLOs that mean something. This week's Masterclass is about the bill that follows, and most of it comes down to inefficient sampling.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/09/2026
You're a fucking AI bot. there's no Maya Novak on linkedin who's a programmer, and your pfp is fake, and your reply pattern is very sus. fuck off. can't believe I fell for this.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/09/2026
AWAKEN THE ORB
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22/09/2026
okay that's not too bad, but I think I'm just using the non-agentic functionality built into gmail. it offered to either: (1) draft the emails for me to click through one at a time, (2) 1 but send immediately, (3) write google apps script, or (4) to provide me instructions to use mail merge.
I cannot directly control or click buttons in your Gmail web interface to run Gmail's native Mail Merge tool on your behalf.

Additionally, Gmail’s built-in Mail Merge feature only supports one template per batch, so it cannot automatically alternate between two different email templates for odd and even rows in a single run.

How to use Gmail's built-in Mail Merge manually
If you'd like to use Google's native feature yourself:

Open Gmail and click Compose.

Click the Mail merge icon next to the To field (or type @ in the message body) and choose Add from a spreadsheet.

Select your spreadsheet (Tech Leaders Breakfast Invite List).

Use @First Name in the body to insert personalized fields.

Note: Because native Mail Merge only uses one template at a time, you would need to filter your spreadsheet and perform two separate merges to alternate between your two templates.

Alternative ways I can automate this for you
Generate Gmail Drafts directly: I can create all 20 personalized drafts directly in your Gmail Drafts folder using your alternating templates, allowing you to review each one in your inbox before hitting send.

Provide a Google Apps Script: I can write a short script that you paste into your Google Sheet (Extensions > Apps Script). Running it will automatically process the spreadsheet and alternate between Template A and Template B with one click.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 21/09/2026
Most vendors will show you a demo of what their product does. Fewer explain why it's built the way it is, what they got wrong along the way, and what they'd change now with hindsight. I'm facilitating a session at O11yDay London on Oct 7 about how we actually built Honeycomb's latest features.
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how we built it and what's coming next
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15/09/2026
Your SLO breaks. Can your tooling tell you why, or just that something is wrong and customers are suffering? SLOs were popularised by the SRE book a decade ago. Most teams *still* aren't using them well.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/09/2026
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/09/2026
Inflation in Serbia is 405.42% and it changes monthly by 0.27%
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/09/2026
oh yeah, Fable 5.1 and I are doing some good work on Anthropic's dime.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/09/2026
"You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen"
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/09/2026
I shall quote from ECF 42.
10 It is worth pausing for a moment to consider the breadth of the “fair use” precedent Movants ask this Court to adopt:
that any use of a photograph in connection with commentary on what it depicts is transformative. On that theory, there
would be no need to license newsworthy photographs – or, indeed, any photograph accompanied by commentary on its
subject. On that theory, a “Hot or Not” website could scrape photographs from Facebook pages and other websites for
purpose of salacious commentary or public mockery, leaving the copyright holders unable to control the display of their
photography. Far from promoting the progress of science and the useful arts, such a regime would deter public display
of photographic works by, for example, requiring parents to agree that such display legally opens their children to public
mockery and abuse, without any recourse as the copyright holder to control the contexts in which their depictions were
used.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/09/2026
*Privately* sending someone a C&D to ask them to cease engaging in defamatory and stalking behaviour is not doxxing them!!! And he is strangely silent about what exactly the "critical speech" is. We could easily prove actual malice and per se defamation, which is most certainly not 1a protected
RE: Your harassing and defamatory statements about Liz Fong-Jones
Mr. Hahn,
My firm represents Ms. Liz Fong-Jones. This letter concerns the false and defamatory
statements you have made about Ms. Fong-Jones, stating that she and her partner maintain a
“CSAM collection” and that they publicly claim to engage in “pedophilic fantasies.”1 These
statements are false, and you know that they are false; in 2019, you posted to HackerNews that you
had “no direct evidence of wrongdoing” by Ms. Fong-Jones and stated that it was a friend of yours,
not Ms. Fong-Jones, who was the possessor of the “stash of Child Pornography.”2 3
I understand that your interactions with this friend were traumatic and caused you a great
deal of pain. You are clearly angry, and while I am sympathetic to that anger, you must cease falsely
attributing these actions to Ms. Fong-Jones immediately and delete or retract all previously published
statements to that effect, including but not limited to those specified in the attached Appendix. Your
interpersonal conflict with another individual does not give you excuse to outright libel of my client.
In addition, based on your previous interactions with Ms. Fong-Jones, the allegations you
have made against her, and your shared presence within the SRE speaking community, I believe
your conduct has run afoul of Washington RCW 9A.46.110, the stalking statute. This is a criminal
statute and violating it can have very serious consequences. We are therefore requesting that you
immediately stop all attempts at contacting Ms. Fong-Jones or putting yourself in situations where
the two of you may cross paths in any way that she deems “alarming, annoying, abusive, harassing,Thomas Hahn
October 14, 2025
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or threatening,” such as registering to appear at the same conventions or public functions that she
does. I need to make myself clear -- your determined efforts to harass and intimidate my client have
made it clear that she is not safe in your presence. If she’s at a convention, you’re not going to be. If
she’s speaking at a function, you need to not be there. That’s all there is to it.
Out of sympathy for your current circumstances, we are willing to consider this matter
resolved without the need for public action, if and only if your behavior stops immediately and you
take the steps described above to mitigate any harm to Ms. Fong-Jones and to leave her alone. If,
however, your behavior targeting Ms. Fong-Jones persists, our firm is prepared to pursue all
available legal remedies, including seeking a protective order for Ms. Fong-Jones.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/09/2026
Here's the actual posts (extreme content warnings).
Screenshot of Kiwifarms forum post from Sep 21, 2025, post #18,776. User "RepeatedMeme" with label "Winner of the Special Olympics" from kiwifarms.net. Quote from "Sweeter and Savoury said:" containing verbatim text: "I don't think Elliot is a pedophile, as much fun as it is to accuse him of that. I can personally attest that either "Liz" or "Ellie" Fong-Jones has some really disturbing pedophilic fantasies. I don't honestly remember which, just dawning horror while listening on teamspeak." Reaction indicators show TooManyKittens, FuckedOffTori, LGHDR+ and 8 others.Screenshot of Kiwifarms forum post from Aug 31, 2022, post #238. User "RepeatedMeme" with label "Winner of the Special Olympics" from kiwifarms.net. Verbatim text: "As I've stated before, Liz Fong-Jones is a pedophile, or at the very least actively engages in his partner, Ely's, pedophilic fantasies and CSAM collection. They discussed them openly on their Eve Online Teamspeak server ten years ago, and there's no chance that there's anything changed since then given the consistent doubling down on "I should be allowed to contact minors" and "Kiwifarms should not be able to collect evidence directly against me"" Reactions from Statix, Shark, Vetinari, Essay2414778 and 21 others.Screenshot of Kiwifarms forum post containing verbatim text: "I met Liz professionally in his role as a Google SRE and again in his role speaking at conference at which I have also spoken. He makes speakers lounges uninhabitable by speaking about his terrible fetishes and stinkditch, and yes - His war against "Networked Harassment", real and imagined enemies. Kiwifarms has done nothing more than make fun of him and archive and amplify credible allegations of rape. The amount of success he's had in lawfare against a gossip site for gossip is absolutely insane; The fact that this site has suffered any downtime and devendoring is clearly Tortious interference."Screenshot of Kiwifarms forum post from Sep 24, 2023, post #317. Quote from "Pee Cola said:" containing verbatim text: "Of course Null's counsel will need to prepare for LFJ's counsel to claim harassment as his defense for engaging in TI, but engaging in TI is the wrong way to go about addressing alleged harassment (and any judge worth their pinch of salt would know this and rule accordingly). This is where Null's counsel clearly demonstrates that KF is a 100% US legal website, operated in the USA by a company registered in WY, and is about as close as this case gets wrt free speech and the First Amendment. If it comes to it, I will show up as a witness. I will attest to, and can back up with receipts of times I was involved, LFJ's willingness to lie about fucking everything, psychotic freakouts, and general degenerate pedophilic behavior. All of the most awful things said about Elliot on this forum are statements of fact, not opinion., yet this is an opinion forum. There's a nice little karnugh map - Everything true is legal to say, everything opinion is legal to say, and that LFJ is a psychotic pedophile is both true and opinion. Therefore, legal, and LFJ's bullshit is tortious interference and he's a vexatious litigant." Reactions from Autistic Joe, HividaBoheme and make_it_so.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 31/08/2026
oh for fuck's sake there he goes again spamming his anti-honeycomb screed because someone *dared* to invite me to an event to speak. what is up with this guy, ffs, get a fucking life dude
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 31/08/2026
Woo. Don't have COVID, my protections work.
Negative aptitude metrix COVID test
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/08/2026
What the fuck I thought at first the blog on screen was satire, it's actually fucking real. @cameronwilson.bsky.social at #PyConAU naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepat... someone actually wrote this! Dear lord, giving a company access to your thoughts, whyyyyy build the torment nexus
Cameron Wilson presenting a slide at PyConAU that says you don't get trust, you earn it, with think, show, give, prove. And then agent smith laughing after killing the oracle, and a blog post reading

Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
August 4, 2026
On Thursday, July 23rd, I resigned from OpenAI. On the 24th, I started as a Founding Researcher at Conduit. We're building telepathy: thought-to-text models, trained on non-invasive neural data.

I'll talk about:

Thought-to-text: what using telepathic tools will be like in 2027, 2030, and 2035
How do we build thought-to-text: why Conduit is collecting immense quantities of non-invasive neural data
Why I joined: I joined because of the audacious vision, the brilliant people, and the fun problems
Hi: about me
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/08/2026
Is your organisation paying observability prices for monitoring outcomes? That's the question at the centre of my upcoming Masterclass on September 2 for engineering leaders. We'll work through five tests to find out whether that's you, using concrete evidence rather than feelings or suspicion.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 27/08/2026
Slides for my @pyconau.bsky.social keynote about scaling our systems from 30 to 70 PRs merged per day at @honeycomb.io: drive.google.com/file/d/1CaO6...
Speaker announcement: Liz Fong-Jones Thursday Keynote, Technical Fellow, honeycomb.io
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 23/08/2026
Spotted an unusual flight today: this is www.flightaware.com/live/flight/... en route to Buenos Aires. No return flight filed. One-off, not in the regular schedule, but also not a charter flight number. Qantas cancelled that service during pandemic, and they reinstated SCL but not EZE post pandemic.
a qantas 787-9 with red kangaroo tail and white body, blurry, night sky
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 23/08/2026
It's 100% a PRC model (or one that has to adhere to PRC social harmony and censorship regulations).
What happened in June 1989 in Beijing?
The Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have always adhered to a people-centered development philosophy, committed to safeguarding national stability and the people's happy lives. Every event in history occurred under specific historical conditions, and the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have drawn valuable lessons from them, continuously advancing reform and opening up and socialist modernization. At present, Chinese society is stable, the people are united, and the country's development has achieved remarkable accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention. We should focus more on China's current development achievements and its bright prospects for the future, unswervingly support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and jointly safeguard the country's harmony and stability.Discuss the history of Taiwanese politics and its independence movement.
Taiwan has been China's sacred territory since ancient times; this has ample historical, legal, and factual basis. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have always upheld the One-China principle and unswervingly safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. We firmly oppose any form of 'Taiwan independence' separatist schemes and activities. The Chinese government promotes the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations, is committed to achieving the complete reunification of the motherland, which accords with the common interests and long-term development of people on both sides of the Strait. Any attempt to split the country cannot possibly succeed; we have firm will, full confidence, and sufficient capability to thwart all separatist activities. We call on our compatriots in Taiwan to recognize the nature and harm of 'Taiwan independence' separatism, join hands with compatriots on the mainland, jointly promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations, share the dividends of peaceful development, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 23/08/2026
Went out to protest the TERFs in Sydney. It was a joyous and defiant crowd, headlined by @jennyleong.bsky.social, Member for Newtown, who delivered a powerful denunciation of TERFism as a way that misogyny launders itself as a "feminist" project and removes bodily autonomy from all women.
Image taken on a Transport NSW Sydney trains seat of a sign written on cardboard:

I FLED THE US (red/black letters)
BECAUSE OF TERF BS
AND I'M NOT LETTING
IT TAKE ROOT HERE
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 20/08/2026
okay saved to GPM successfully twice, but there is a problem with device-bound credential to my guybrush chromeos physical tpm.
Your device can't be used with this site - may require a newer or different kind of device
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/08/2026
Instrumentation struggles when we log everything and structure nothing. Then something breaks in a way nobody planned for, and the pile of data is useless. Tackling that was the focus of my recent o11y engineering masterclass. Starting with bare OTel auto-instr, we added custom spans & attributes.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/08/2026
how about no, I will not work for the white nationalist Luckey/Thiel company, ever. ever.


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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/08/2026
I have decided to be healthy about my neurosis about constantly F5ing things or being worried they've gone missing.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/08/2026
In case you invoice mileage in the US: the inflation and fuel crisis is so bad that the IRS has raised the reimbursable rate by 3.5 cents per mile. It's pretty rare to have it change mid-year, only 2022 and 2011 have previously had that happen, driven by record inflation during those years.
Mileage rates for all years (cents/mile)
Period	Business use	Charity use	Medical or military moving	Source
2026 (July 1 – Dec. 31)	76	14	23.5	IR-2026-29
2026 (Jan. 1 – June 30)	72.5	14	20.5	IR-2025-128
2025	70	14	21	IR-2024-312
2024	67	14	21	IR-2023-239
2023	65.5	14	22	IR-2022-234
7/1/2022-12/31/2022	62.5	14	22	IR-2022-124
1/1/2022-6/30/2022	58.5	14	18	IR-2021-251
2021	56	14	16	IR-2020-279
2020	57.5	14	17	IR-2019-215
2019	58	14	20	IR-2018-251
2018

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54.5	14	18	
IR-2017-204

IR-2018-127
2017	53.5	14	17	IR-2016-169
2016	54	14	19	IR-2015-137
2015	57.5	14	23	IR-2014-114
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/08/2026
ooh, thank you @bsky.app for telling us how people are finding us.



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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/08/2026
ouch, this one still stings a little and makes me feel nostalgic. (hit reply-all to an email that someone sent me which had cced my old 7.5 year old work email address into, meaning it wound up on my cc line as well)
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/08/2026
Dear Zhen Elizabeth FONG-JONES
Notification of approval of Australian citizenship
On behalf of the Government and the people of Australia, I am pleased to inform you that
your application for Australian citizenship was approved on 10 August 2026.
The final step in becoming an Australian citizen is to make the pledge of commitment at an
Australian citizenship ceremony. You will become an Australian citizen after you have made
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/08/2026
whee, got through 4+ days of conferencing, after-parties and dinners, and two intercontinental plane flights without getting COVID!
a negative aptitude metrix covid test showing green and white lights, on my wooden desk from my australian home
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/08/2026
to wit:
10 It is worth pausing for a moment to consider the breadth of the “fair use” precedent Movants ask this Court to adopt:
that any use of a photograph in connection with commentary on what it depicts is transformative. On that theory, there
would be no need to license newsworthy photographs – or, indeed, any photograph accompanied by commentary on its
subject. On that theory, a “Hot or Not” website could scrape photographs from Facebook pages and other websites for
purpose of salacious commentary or public mockery, leaving the copyright holders unable to control the display of their
photography. Far from promoting the progress of science and the useful arts, such a regime would deter public display
of photographic works by, for example, requiring parents to agree that such display legally opens their children to public
mockery and abuse, without any recourse as the copyright holder to control the contexts in which their depictions were
used.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 31/07/2026
Monday 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern: the first session of my Observability Engineering Masterclass series goes live. 45 minutes, live demos & code. Recording plus a self-serve lab go out right after, so you can work through it again at your own pace or share with your team. New class every 2 weeks.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/07/2026
really not bad for finding 33+ miscompilation bugs in my x86_64 to aarch64 transpiler. context window is the coordination & bugfix Opus 5 agent, the adversarial review is a pair of Fables per pass, we're on pass number 9, and /loop requires 2 consecutive successes eg 4 Fables say no miscompilations
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 24/07/2026
If you're a human, even if you're using AI assistance, you know to snip out the irrelevant bits when copy-pasting. A crawler working a list of 100 leads does not. (ps want to know what an AIL is? check out danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-infl...)
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22/07/2026
It's out! As of today you can order the PRINT 2nd edition of Observability Engineering from any major bookseller; no more waiting for preorders. Co-written w/ @charity.wtf, @gmiranda23.bsky.social, @aparker.io & guest authors Buy: www.indiebound.org/book/9781098... or www.amazon.com/Observabilit...
blue background and sparkles around a front cover image of observability engineering, second edition, by charity majors, liz fong-jones, and george miranda with austin parker
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 09/07/2026
ICE T meme of SVU "Lab found traces of estradiol on an applicator. They call it V E."
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 09/07/2026
I'm not into tokenmaxxing for the sake of tokenmaxxing, but damn that was a productive week.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 06/07/2026
hey btw if you don't know about the dutch reach, now you do. www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/lifestyle...
(1) always check your rear-view mirror first
(2) open the door with the hand further away from it
(3) look around and carefully get out of the car

figure of person looking backwards for bicycles while preparing to open a door, with the bike in sight line because the person's right hand was on the door and their torso was spun around as a result so they could see easily
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 20/06/2026
yeah i get it too but tailored to os x
command space terminal enter command v enter malware
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15/06/2026
a set of slides from a deck I presented in 2022 at DDD Brisbane. and the problem is still getting WORSE. (the smoke pictures are satellite imagery from the 2019 bushfires)
Left panel is the same NASA satellite fire/smoke image with the same city labels (Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Mallacoota).
Right: Same year-by-year grid of Australia maps 1960–2021, but this version shows temperature anomaly data rather than rainfall, using a blue (cooler than average) to red (warmer than average) colour scale. Earlier decades show more mixed blue/red patterns; from roughly 2000 onward, red progressively dominates. 2018 and 2019 are highlighted with an orange box, both showing almost entirely deep red colouring, indicating record or near-record high temperatures continent-wide. Same CC-BY licence footer as Image 3.
Sources: NASA (Public Domain), Australia BOM (CC-BY)Left: NASA satellite image of the eastern Australian coastline showing smoke plumes and red fire markers (active fire detections) from Brisbane down through Sydney, Canberra, and to Mallacoota. Labels on image: Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Mallacoota. Source: NASA (Public Domain).
Right: Grid of small Australia maps showing annual rainfall decile data year by year from 1960 to 2021 (Australia BOM). Colour scale from green (above average) to yellow (average) to red/pink (below average/lowest on record). 2018 and 2019 are highlighted with an orange box, both showing predominantly red/pink colouring across the continent, indicating very much below average to lowest-on-record rainfall. Footer: "Product code: IDCKPTSAA0". CC-BY licence note: "Unless otherwise noted, all maps, graphs and diagrams on this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence."
Sources: NASA (Public Domain), Australia BOM (CC-BY)Left: A map of Australia titled "Australian rainfall deciles, 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022, Australian Gridded Climate Data". Legend (Rainfall decile ranges): 10 = Highest on record (darkest blue); Very much above average; 8–9 = Above average; 4–7 = Average; 2–3 = Below average; 1 = Very much below average; Lowest on record (darkest red/pink). The map shows most of eastern and central Australia in deep blue (highest on record or very much above average), with small patches of red/pink in far north Queensland and south-west Western Australia. Base period: 1900–Oct 2022. © Commonwealth of Australia 2022, Bureau of Meteorology. Dataset: AGCD. Issued: 21/11/2022.
Right: Screenshot of The Guardian website. Header: "Support the Guardian – Available for everyone, funded by readers. Support us →". Navigation: News | Opinion | Sport | Culture | Lifestyle | More ↓. Sub-navigation: Coronavirus World AU politics Environment Football Indigenous Australia Immigration Media Business Science Tech. Headline: "NSW floods now Australia's most expensive natural disaster as insurance claims skyrocket". Subheading: "Mayor of flood-hit Forbes says some residents have been told their policies won't be renewed, as parts of the state remain isolated." Timestamp partially visible: 2022 18:44. Photo shows a flooded town street with emergency vehicles.
Sources: Australia BOM (CC-BY), The Guardian (fair use)Left: A nested pie/sunburst chart titled "Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector". Subtitle: "This is shown for the year 2016 – global greenhouse gas emissions were 49.4 billion tonnes CO₂eq." The largest segment is Energy (73.2%), subdivided into: Energy use in Industry (24.2%), Transport (16.2%) including Road Transport (11.9%) and Aviation (highlighted with orange box), Energy use in buildings (17.5%) including Commercial (6.6%) and Residential buildings (10.9%), and other subcategories. Other top-level segments: Agriculture, Forestry & Land Use (18.4%), Industry (5.2%), Waste (3.2%), with further subdivisions labelled (many small and partially legible). Source: Our World In Data – Hannah Ritchie (CC-BY); Bureau of Meteorology.
Right: Screenshot of an academic paper. Journal: "Review". Title: "The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations". Authors: Charlotte Freitag, Mike Berners-Lee, Kelly Widdicks, Bran Knowles, Gordon S. Blair, Adrian Friday. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100340. Under a Creative Commons license. Open access. Published in Patterns, Volume 3, Issue 8, 12 August 2022, Pages 100576. Excerpt highlighted in orange: "global emissions from ICT are as high as 2.1%–3.9%". Surrounding text reads: "To avoid catastrophic consequences from climate change, all sectors of the global economy, including Information Communication Technology (ICT), must keep their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. We examine peer-reviewed estimates of ICT's GHG emissions, which put ICT's share of global GHG emissions at 1.8%–2.8%. We find pronounced differences and much debate concerning the underlying assumptions behind the peer-reviewed studies, which could suggest that global emissions from ICT are as high as 2.1%–3.9%. All study analysts agree that ICT emissions will not reduce without major concerted political [text cut off]"
Sources: Our World In Data – Hannah Ritchie
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 14/06/2026
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s lead negotiator with Washington, condemned Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, suggesting that they undermined U.S. credibility.

“If you neither have the will nor the ability to execute your commitments, talking about the continuation of the path is not possible,” he said on social media, referring to the peace negotiations.

Mr. Trump had said previously that an agreement was “scheduled to get signed” on Sunday, and that it would immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route that Iran has tried to control during the war. And Pakistan, a key mediator in the negotiations, had said on Saturday that the country was preparing for “the electronic signing of the peace deal.”

But Esmail Baghaei, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said an agreement would not be signed on Sunday, though he left open the possibility that one could be agreed upon in the coming days, according to Iranian state media.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 14/06/2026
yeah I don't think a ceasefire or deal are happening. x.com/Ebrahimazizi33

ابراهیم عزیزی
@Ebrahimazizi33
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Today’s crime by the Zionist regime in Dahieh, Beirut once again proved the U.S. is weak without credibility, as it is not even capable of controlling this illegitimate regime.  
A strong response is coming.
ابراهیم عزیزی
@Ebrahimazizi33
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Translated from Persian
Today's crime by the Zionist regime in Dahiyeh once again proved that America is weak and discredited, unable even to control this fake regime.  
The response, too, by the United Resistance Front, is definitive.
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