These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

Join @swarmia.bsky.social's @rmurphey.bsky.social, @honeycomb.io's @eanakashima.bsky.social, & @nathenharvey.bsky.social for a webinar about: • The impact of AI in engineering orgs • How leaders are driving AI adoption www.swarmia.com/events/dora/ #Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA

"These are Sabrinas. They aren't just a regular shoe. These are my Sunday church basketball sneakers."

This article is such a gorgeous portrait of the Valkyries' first season, AND, it is the most nyt vibe ever. Like it was written by an anthropologist who never watched a WNBA game before this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

NEWS: Veronica Burton has been named the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player.

the "from devops to AI" panel was brilliant. @eanakashima.bsky.social: "people miss how much of devops was about culture... the culture stuff is maybe more important than ever now." David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I saw protestors on the I-80 overpass holding signs that said, "ICE TARGETS COLOR, NOT CRIME." And that's the whole game right there. This is about indiscriminately harassing people who look like immigrants, regardless of status.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Can someone from the Valkyries front office explain why the Valks shop has jerseys for two (2) players who rarely/never start and one (1) draftee who didn't actually join the team, but not Temi Fágbénlé who starts every game AND has the most important singing part in the pre-game hype cheer #wnba

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name. Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.

This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths. bsky.app/profile/moll...

I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow. bsky.app/profile/erin...

Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)? I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3)

I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays

The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions

Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.”

I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we: 1. worked as a team 2. received constructive criticism and 3. shared a larger mission before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.

If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone...

Me: oh god I’m so busy, I can’t remember ever being this busy in my life Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>

TURN THIS UP

Oh for fuck's sake bsky.app/profile/dell...

I just want justice for them. Viola Fletcher is 110. A human treasure. Imagine spending your whole life in litigation bc your countrymen bombed your entire community when you were 7 for simply succeeding against all odds at the American promise & being told you are less than nothing for 107 years.

Angry down to my bones about this decision. Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher have spent their whole lives fighting for long overdue repair. Justice for Greenwood. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Oof, Tressie left. If you run a social network in the year of our lord 2024 and it doesn't have Tressie McMillan Cottom on it, what's the point? <finally logs on to TikTok>

Every time I see a buzzy tech trend now, I'm looking under the trench coat for "exploiting underpaid workers," "money-laundering IP," or "unregulated negative externalities." (AI shopping, generative AI, crypto, gig economy...) Truly, there are other ways to innovate. bsky.app/profile/abeb...

in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

I'm on Dev Interrupted talking about the VPE role and one weird reasons I like personality tests as a management tool (hint: it's about bias) linearb.io/dev-interrup...

Never not thinking about the time early in my career when we got a new VP over our department and she immediately ran a RIF and then gifted all remaining employees a copy of Who Moved My Cheese?

A devastating but very good read on the cognitive effects of covid erictopol.substack.com/p/long-covid...

It's hard to square AWS's customer centrism with Amazon dot com's obvious customer disdain

NEW: Leaked data analyzed by WIRED’s @dmehro.bsky.social reveals the secret locations of ShotSpotter sensors around the globe, and the communities most directly impacted by the surveillance. www.wired.com/story/shotsp...

Love to see Densho, an organization dedicated to preserving Japanese American history, celebrate Black History Month with stories of how Black activists have been integral to Japanese American civil rights struggles. Wish more JA orgs would do the same densho.org/catalyst/mee...

a big thing for the very clever contrarian boys has long been what does *diversity* have to do with *science*?!?! anyway this is the 101-level answer

this @davidjroth.bsky.social take on the NYT's personal Benghazi, The Harvard Story™, is so good.

This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.

There are zero allegations you can rebut effectively by saying, "But I have friends of x race!" Just, no.

If you haven't yet read Claudine Gay's piece about her resignation as Harvard's president, it is so important. There is a pattern to these baseless attacks and recognizing them for what they are is the first step in combating them.

Claudine Gay pens an essay about her resignation. Everyone should read and absorb this paragraph. Because it encapsulates everything that the next year is going to be. From the election to culture, education, culture, you name it. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...

Made Japanese osechi food for New Year's, a new-ish tradition for us

Always getting told I’m smiling “wrong” in the big family photo so I’m practicing. Going great.

BREAKING: Abortion rights groups just secured their 7th state-level referendum victory post-Roe -- this time in Ohio, despite Republicans controlling basically all the levers of power. They plan to build on this unbroken streak next year in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska and beyond.

TRANSPHOBIA LOSES ELECTIONS

OMG SCHOLASTIC STRIKE