well, that situation isn't going away any time soon. ops.group/blog/middle-...

Some interesting stuff in here including the fact that Iran has set up a $2mm/ship toll to exit the Persian Gulf safely.

virgin HDPE [read: all of it, plastic recycling is a myth] is like, 50c a pound, this is a 60% increase in the price of plastic

fucking lol, Reddit uses (or at least for public presentation does) "snooguts[.]net" for their internal DNS domains. ahahaha. (one of ours is hny[.]wtf)

Yes, @honeycomb.io already has a sticker for this, in case you're curious. We're a SaaS company (stickers as a service) #SREcon

One thing I've found in the law and AI debates is that the people who are the most bullish about how AI will transform law are not the people who understand either the field of law or the function of the technology very well. Often, they're people who think law is mechanical. It's so not.

This touches on two themes from my recent posts 1. PMs vibe coding production features means you have to decide what’s your on call strategy when it goes down. 2. Is working on dashboards as a PM a side quest or part of the main quest of my role? Do the boundaries of my PM role still make sense?

I think people who haven't experienced it also don't realize how psychopathic and lasting the harassment can be if you're unlucky, or how often it can cross into offline stuff (especially, but not exclusively, for women.)

When the global financial paper of record says the market is fake and being manipulated by the President you just know we are entering the Cool Zone

the US is a greater risk to Canada than vice versa for the land border between the US and Canada. it's where all of the illegal guns are coming from.

The #Hatzolah ambulances are a Jewish contribution to lighten the burden of the National Health Service, just like f.i. St John's is a christian one.They serve ALL Londeners irregardless of background and faith. Shame on the many who claim otherwise, contributing nothing www.bbc.com/news/article...

She keeps returning to the motte that Israel lies a lot. But “should you trust Israel’s analysis of the attack” and “did Israel plan and execute the attack” are two very different questions!

it's amazing how much he keeps falling upwards

watching the normies install opnsense because it's winemommin' time

Very impressed with the ventilation in the #kubecon public areas; the CO2 is usually in the 450-500 range; 435 in the press room with 10 people in here, which is about the same as being outside. Hope the session and lunch rooms and especially the parties are like that

Wild that we allow nine random lawyers in a nation of 325,000,000 to set national policy by just making up whatever facts they want to fit their ideological priors. And we have not bothered to really think about how to stop them from doing that.

feeling good about my decision to drive rather than fly to the US today...

so they *are* capable of showing their faces!

ICE at the Atlanta airport:

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

The new goal of the war is to undo the fuckup we caused by starting the war, American century of humiliation in full effect

being trans in London is waking up every day to a headline about how the government is banning dangerous tranny hormone drugs and then getting on the tube to go to work and staring down an advert like "hey cis person! got a headache? why not try HRT?"

Federal agents used cell phone data to place her near the protest (she was picking something up nearby), compared her d.l. photo to footage from the demonstration and concluded she resembled a participant and, 6 weeks later, stopped her car, cuffed and detained her for hours in a federal building.

So excited for all of my client meetings next week in Seattle, and seeing folks from the wider SRE community at #SREcon! Make sure to say hi if you're there :) I'll be hosting the Monitoring and Observability open space with Daria Barteneva on Tuesday afternoon, so come with opinions and questions!

Okay, but it's going to be hilarious watching people who thought they signed up to brutalise brown immigrants having to be incredibly bored rent-a-cops dealing with white Karens who forget to take their belt or shoes with metal off.

The new thing is landlords using ai photos for their property listings. Totally legal. Total scam. The whole economy is oil and scams.

A quick reminder of Starmer's leadership pledge number 4.

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

#$UAL *would* drop this on a Friday night wouldn’t they.

OH I MISSED THIS HAPPENING claude.com/blog/1m-cont... didn't realise that they'd removed the premium for long context! I'd been artificially turning long context back off because I thought it was extra usage or extra expensive!

CBS News employees received the following message from Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski informing them that massive layoffs are taking place.

You don't elect a guy with a Nazi tattoo, you don't pal around with the guy that won the presidency on a platform of extermination, you don't advance the conspiracy theory that US Jews are all loyal to the state of Israel. You don't treat fascists as governing or legislative partners.

Look @palcu.net, we're in El Reg! www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/a...

Honestly don't even have the words to express how grim this is, but also absolutely the right call by the Danes

Someday, both people on this website and deposition witnesses will learn that the most important asset they have in any discussion is their credibility and that "not being caught lying or evasive" is why more important for persuasiveness than "not admitting bad facts"

Assassinating competent (even moderate!) Iranian leaders serves Israel in two ways. Firstly, it destabilizes the government. Secondly, it solidifies power around the more hardline hawks, giving an excuse for continued war. Both serve Israel's end goal of total state collapse in Iran.

#monkigras is so chaotic but in the best possible way. You know that everyone has the best intentions, that nobody expects perfection, that the talks won't obviously follow each other but will, somehow leave you feeling like it all fits together.

Resilience through observability. “Can you see the risk? Can you measure it? How long do you have to wait before you see it going wrong?” — Adrian Cockcroft @ #monkigras

I reluctantly have to say that unless we want the global economy to come screeching to a halt, that maybe that western Canadian LNG terminal might become necessary simply to ensure stability during the energy transition

to clarify for the non-tech people: - self-declared bot that automatically posts e.g. weather updates: GOOD - anonymous account pretending to be human but actually AI or some such: BAD the latter is ideally already banned when identified. the former can now self-label. yay! good!

Good to remember that OpenAI reserves the right to call the cops on you and your chat logs are not in any way privileged.

kat abu should be the joe rogan of the left

So @suesmith.lol is helping us remember that the shit they say on linkedin about AI is not what's happening when it comes to people with normal software development jobs in places outside the bubbles.

I think only Redmonk events can be nominally a "tech conference" but have talks that are actually poetry. @hazelweakly.me #monkigras

SREs are all about breaking and fixing systems, so there are a lot of us who are trans and gender non-conforming. Preparation means acting on incomplete information and preparing for worst-case scenarios. The pattern of revoking IDs and is a known state aggression.

Very pleased to see events like #monkigras still looking out for disability accommodation and safety, including captioning (language model captioning has gotten MUCH better, and is close to acceptable these days), ventilation, and mandatory COVID testing.

gonna slap a 'i used uv before they got bought by sama' sticker on my laptop

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

Listening to @lizthegrey.com, of whom I am in constant admiration. The quality of talks today is top rate @monkchips.com. #MonkiGras2026