Wooot! #AWS Security Agent is one of three "frontier" agents AWS released today at #re:Invent: www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/ama... -- check it out for #security reviews of your designs and code and on-demand penetration testing.

Proud to be involved in building this. Looking forward to customer feedback!

Wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kO0...

37k feet in the air is a great time to get a text message informing me my connecting flight is cancelled. They rebooked me two days out, on the day I'm supposed to return home..

I know @joshgondelman.bsky.social mostly from NPR's Wait Wait and @thebugle.bsky.social, both of which are news-heavy, so it's cool to see him knock out a very positive yet relentless funny hour that doesn't get into the minutia of the day's headlines. Worth a watch!

This will pair well with my current read of John McWhorter's "Pronoun Trouble"

This re:Inforce launch includes a valuable new capability in AWS Organizations, multi-party approval. Integrated here with AWS Backup for recovery use cases, the feature requires authorized people to approve a specific action. Very cool! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

Do you have an S3 bucket or DDB table with your companies crown jewels? 👑💎 Now IAM Access Analyzer tells you all the users and roles in your organization that have access to them gems. 🧵 (1/8)

So excited for this launch! AWS IAM Access Analyzer now offers an internal access analyzer, so you can easily identify whom within your organization has access to resources that contain critical data. Check it out: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

AWS Verified Permissions finally got a sensible pricing scheme, at $5 per million requests (down from $150/million!). This makes it a much more viable solution for permissions management.. Will need to explore this! aws-news.com/article/2025...

In Minneapolis for the first time - good 10km run that crossed the Mississippi a few times

The Phaaaantom of the chocolate is there.....

The best part of this was that I could absolutely hear Alice's voice and cadence while reading it. Come to Canada, we're cool!

Elbows up, Canada.

Guess who was transferring through LHR today… 🔥

IT travel protocol for the US is now China-adjacent.

Emei in Seattle

Just finished listening to @thebugle.bsky.social . @zaltzcricket.bsky.social, on behalf of Vancouver, I apologize for our dogs. They’re not antisemetic, they just hate people good at @taskmaster.tv . Which means that @mrnishkumar.bsky.social is safe when he’s here later this month :)

In a Truth Social post about the call, Trump says Trudeau “is trying to use this issue to stay in power.” (The Liberal Party elects a new leader on Sunday and Trudeau has said he will step down soon after. It won’t be Trudeau who calls the next election)

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

The only good thing happening.

Just finished listening to the audiobook of "Not the End of the World" by @hannahritchie.bsky.social. Inspiring and positive, with real calls to action. For anyone currently feeling down from *gestures around at everything*, it's worth a read (or listen).

"Canada reduces fentanyl flow by 33% thanks to Trump's efforts" - a bunch of people probably

Babe, wake up, the menswear guy is dropping lore about the Cowichan sweater

This is like the old joke about the British police not carrying guns. "Stop, or I'll yell stop again!"

At long last, the OAuth working group has finished the Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security and it was just published as RFC9700! This has been a long time in the works, and I'm very thankful to everyone who has helped out with it over the years! www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9700....

Okay, look. My general feeling is that the NYT can eat shit, but holy fucking shit. This is unbelievable. Elon Musk, a private citizen with financial and personal interests above the federal government, is effectively running the US government without any kind of oversight. What. The. Fuck.

I know it's likely not original, but I just thought of the term "Canschluss", did a very brief giggle, then got sad.🇨🇦

The Canadian government has published the full list of American-made goods that will be subject to a 25% tariff starting Tuesday: www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Probably because he only does *some* of the terrible things he says he'll do. e.g. first term: www.politifact.com/truth-o-mete...

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

The DeepSeek market freakout as applied to Amazon: “OH SHIT—wait, model training is a rounding error to their revenue, never mind.”

Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

Are you serious right now? Christmas isn't for another 11 months! 🙌 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

The problem, ultimately, is that people seem to think categories are real things, things that exist in nature. And they aren't. NATURE exists in nature. Any finer distinction is something that we draw - and we have to decide where to draw it.

Of the 58 books I read last year, I'd say 55 of them were from the library...

Christy Clark is no more a Liberal than Stephen Harper.

Let me check with Betteridge...

Guess I should go out for a run..

I am frequently asked what is the "best" way for people to buy my work so that the most money gets to me, enough so that I've finally written a primer about it to point people toward, and it also covers my opinions re: libraries, used bookstores and pirating: whatever.scalzi.com/2024/12/30/a...

Tired: We must beat China at social media apps Wired: We must catch China at rail travel

Advanced OAuth Security complete!

Just over halfway through @zekefaux.bsky.social's "Number Go Up" - came into with a dislike of crypto because of the people, the obvious environmental impacts, and the clear house-of-cards aspect. Even with that, this is an awesome read that really plumbs the depths of how screwed up the system is.

Still a better plot than "The Red One"

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

This is a pretty cool (formerly) internal Amazon mental model that is now public www.linkedin.com/pulse/princi...