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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is about hiking apps, but I think it applies to a lot of software-mediated information spaces:
And, the billing conversation sits on top of this. I understand why the state does it, and I won’t pretend the debate isn’t real. But look at the imbalance of the problem. New Hampshire can bill a hiker for being ‘unprepared’ but nobody can bill an app that provided the information or shaped the decision making. We’ve built a chain where the only person carrying any liability is the one who probably had the least amount of information going into that activity.
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Alexis "Horgix" Chotard @horgix.fr · 23/03/2026
The #PlatformEngineeringDay greatness at the #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon doesn't stop: now we got @hazelweakly.me talking about building extensible platforms! Things usually go this way: Strong components → system → complexity → components → ... Is the cycle unavoidable?
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/03/2026
Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.
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Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season
The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 23/10/2025
EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
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Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
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Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 01/07/2025
😅 Hey, I resemble that remark! (For various reasons, likely)
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 03/06/2025
Reading yet another post asserting all you need is a human doing careful continuous supervision of the automation and it’s gonna be perfectly fine, as I grind my own teeth into dust while 40+ years of research and industry reports flash through my mind like war footage in a ptsd movie scene
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
Title: How to focus on writing your book 

There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read:

Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark).
Put them in a drawer. 
Lock the drawer.
Throw away the key. 
Leave the house. 
Do not look back.
Keep to backroads and hedgerows. 
Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes)
Sleep by day. 
Forage in the evening. 
Write by the light of the moon 
When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I sent another email

Julia Wong 1:34 PM
to Charlie, tripp.mickle v
Hi Charlie,
The Times's story does not in fact make clear what the source of the information about the supposed size and dexterity of young Chinese women's fingers are, which is why I had so many follow up questions. What kind of generalization is "Young Chinese women have small fingers" if not racial or genetic? Can we at least agree that it is a generalization about a physical trait (often genetic) related to a group identified by their sex and nationality? Can we not also agree that making such a claim about any demographic group should require some actual evidence? The inclusion of unsubstantiated race science in an article is an unfortunate error, but it is also easily amended. I would suggest that rather than attempting to scare up sources for a ridiculous, unfounded and blatantly racist claim, you consider simply correcting it.
Best,
Julia Wong
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 17/05/2025
The identification of root causes in hindsight will continue until the foresight improves.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
oh hell yes. I am curious specifically if anyone has ever made the comparison between wizards of the coast and a central bank trying to manage a currency price
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 11/05/2025
The harder something is to change, the less likely it is to change, even if the status quo is hurting us. This is so banal as to almost be tautological, and yet we run into it over and over again.
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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 26/04/2025
A no sign with "we do not test on animals, we test in production" on it with with server on fire and heart by a bunny.
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 13/04/2025
Root cause: unsecured penguin www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa
Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 09/04/2025
Exciting bug in my dive computer just dropped. This could kill someone.
The issue is that if using Air mode and the Nitrox mode gas has been programmed to something other than air (21%), then that programmed gas is used while diving. This could result in a less conservative dive plan than is appropriate.
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 23/03/2025
Using MTTR tends to evaluate if your incident response is improving is like using stock price trends to evaluate if your software development productivity is improving. Sure, it’s an input, but hoo-boy are there a bunch of other factors that move those numbers!
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Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 30/03/2025
REA has launched the 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗜. 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱, dedicated to supporting young and emerging talents in our field, carrying forward the mentorship Richard so generously gave. www.resilience-engineering-association.org/the-richard-...
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The Richard Cook Fund - Resilience Engineering Association
The late Richard Cook was one of the forces that launched and grew Resilience Engineering for safety in complex risk-critical worlds since the original 2004 Symposium. (read […]
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Sean Klein @seanklein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Y'all, I think I just figured this out! The reason that we keep having Incidents is because we're just not taxonomizing them hard enough! We must redouble our taxonomization efforts immediately!
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This has been in my hotel the entire time I’ve been on this work trip and I kind of love it.
An elevator panel. There’s a lit up symbol that looks like a firefighter helmet. Below it there’s a piece of paper that says, “Please Disregard the blinking firemans hat. The elevator is working properly! Thank You. Management”
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 18/11/2024
The SRE-not-sorry one also got turned into sew-on team badges with the emote we used when killing hosts or containers :)
Stabby bear emote (copyright unknown) as an embroidered badge, with the text stating "SRE-not-sorry"
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 20/11/2024
The last episode of season 3 of the Prodcast is up! Please have a listen to Christina and Laura talk through how we deal with complex systems using our silly meat brains. Search your podcatcher for “SRE Prodcast”. Here’s one: overcast.fm/+AA4f5M3Qf3Q
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Embracing Complexity with Christina Schulman & Dr. Laura Maguire — Google SRE Prodcast
In this episode of the Prodcast, we are joined by guests Christina Schulman (Staff SRE, Google) and Dr. Laura Maguire PhD (Principal Engineer, Trace Cognitive Engineering). They emphasize the human el...
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 19/11/2024
i was subpoenaed to testify against my former employer in a labor rights case (NLRB v Google) and explained the "behold my field of fucks, look upon it and see that it is barren" meme to the court, profanity and all.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/03/2024
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Ran across another friend who didn't get Paxlovid bc it was hundreds of dollars so here's this link again. You have to have a prescription to enroll and will need to educate the pharmacist but it works. No one should pay hundreds of dollars for Paxlovid! Privatization sucks! wapo.st/47hF7aO
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Opinion | Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it
There’s a terrific new program for free Paxlovid, but many people don’t know about it.
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Ryan AKA Ben Graven @bengraven.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Since Twitter died, I wanted to post my most popular one. Something like 120k likes.
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 09/11/2024
me going back to bed as soon as the system is "stable"
A warehouse with what looks like fridge boxes stacked high. Two fridge boxes next to each other are held up high seemingly in the air, as a tower of three stacked fridge boxes, collapsing at a 45 degrees angle, press them into place as if it were an arch.
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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Nobody could have seen this coming except every single person who has ever read The Ironies of Automation
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
The U.N. says more than 180 humanitarian workers have been killed in the war: “This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year.”
apnews.com
With famine looming, aid group halts food delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike kills 7 workers
An Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen who were trying to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/03/2024
I want to go back to 1996, when Microsoft first introduced Clippy, and tell people that one day they're going to make a slightly better version of this and immediately start asking it to read brain scans and act as a therapist
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
America did a lot of terrible stuff to Dr. King, like jailing and abusing him and trying to get him to kill himself and killing him, but probably nothing so obscene as reinventing him in popular memory as some milquetoast whose primary concern was not hurting white people’s feelings.
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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Indigenous students with an interest in space! The Canadian Space Agency wants you for summer internships! Applications open until January 22nd. www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/jobs/sea...
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Canadian Space Agency internships and student jobs
Each semester, the Canadian Space Agency provides various co-op work terms / internships that will allow you to gain experience in the space industry.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
This line from the New York Times makes me think about the extreme tension built into the American system. We have a free press, which allows truthful stories about problems to be reported on, but we have no real way of changing anything that’s broken. That gives you lines like this.
Although allegations of brutality in New York State prisons are not unusual, the claim of waterboarding is.
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matty stratton @matty.wtf · 04/01/2024
It's been ten years of my tech podcast, Arrested DevOps! We recorded our ten year anniversary episode with some history, stories, and other silliness (and very little tech/devops content LOL) Plus at the end, a supercut of every episode cold open ever :) www.arresteddevops.com/ten-years-of...
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It's Been Ten Years of ADO, Charlie Brown
It's been ten years of Arrested DevOps! Joe, Matty, Bridget, Jess, and Trevor spend some time (quite a lot of time!) reminiscing over stories and history of the podcast.
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 15/11/2023
This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated
An incoherent flow chart for “should I use AI”
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 08/07/2023
Struggle with sleep? Here are some useful tips: • Turn your phone off early • Have a relaxing bath • Open the window • Help a raccoon climb through the window so you can watch NetFlix together • This is a sleepover now • Make popcorn for the raccoon • Avoid caffeine
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/11/2023
A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders)
A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message:

WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY

WE DID WHAT WE COULD

*REMEMBER US*

(Source: Doctors Without Borders)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/11/2023
In favor of a ceasefire: Democratic voters 80% House Democrats 8% Republican voters 56% House Republicans 0% All voters 66% All House members 4% Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
Most voters want a ceasefire, but hardly anyone in Congress supports one. This chart shows the percent in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza. Among Democratic voters, 80 percent; House Democrats, 8 percent. Republican voters, 56 percent; House Republicans, 0 percent. All voters, 66 percent; all House members, 4 percent. Data comes from House Resolution 786 and an October 20, 2023 poll from Data for Progress. More at stephensemler.substack.com
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@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com · 08/11/2023
Were you laid off in the last year? Have time for an anonymous, super-short 3 question survey? forms.gle/y4Wc7H9CLciG... (I'm curious about something, so I'm collecting some data!) (h/t for reposting for reach!)
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2022-2023 Layoff Titles Survey
The goal of this survey is to gain insight into the specific (and often subtly unique) job titles that were affected by layoffs and other workforce reductions throughout 2023. (Reposts/retweets for r...
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 30/10/2023
Nóva's sudden passing has left her fiancée with living expenses she cannot manage alone, and probate will take months. Please help us give her one less thing to worry about. gofund.me/69975d74
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
First post and why not. 😀 Handover Communications in Software Operations lup.lub.lu.se/luur/downloa...
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Laura Maguire @lauramaguire.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
“Events and relations must be understood in the context where they occur. It is always necessary to consider both the dependencies to other parts of the system and to events that went before. This is particularly the case for human activities, which cannot be understood only as reactions to events.”
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
For the record, "Continuous Resilience" is not a thing. Resilience is continuous. There's no "non" continuous resilience. Adaptation is always happening! One paper on the topic: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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