I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did. We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.

I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com “Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Oh, like this old documentary about the show business!

Adding this to the Slideshow Karaoke list

#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇

Post your fave @boontavista.com title, I’ll go first

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I am slowly realising that my software career has mostly been about moderating the level of “pissed” in my epistemology. So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”. Where does this blinkered optimism come from?

I finally got around to writing up my thoughts about the recent Cloudflare outage. surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...

we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober

Doubt comes in… the wind is changing. youtu.be/IPM3s_MJ88Y?...

Nice night for it. (Heavily adjusted photo, absolutely invisible to my eyes)

🎶 I also will decry AI and all its many tentacles The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶

🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶

Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US Just a thought

if you’re a programmer who has shared instructions online and you haven’t run the copy by a NORMAL PERSON first, i hope you stub your freakish little hobbit toe

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

New blog post on the recent AWS incident: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/25/q...

Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here: www.thevoid.community/submit-incid... Thanks!

EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...

The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.

@martindotnet.bsky.social put out a banger of a post on LinkedIn. now is the time for hugops, not saying "skill issue, I would have simply designed better" or trying to sell your architecture cleanup/design/consulting skills. Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.

Jewel heist from a museum, you say?

Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to

I don't want public servants who don't understand how emails work and politicians who use this to tell pathetic lies about the FOI system regulating the use of the internet. The standard of public representation in communications policy is through the floor, and it's been Labor's level for decades.

Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Maybe 10 years ago on the failed hellsite I posted about how much toasters all sucked and an acquaintance replied “well they should really use optical albedo sensors”. The madlads at Breville finally commercialised a toaster that measures the toast directly. Maybe there is some hope for the future.

if anyone's hiring remote senior/staff eng, let me know my cv's over here: tef.computer

“Five nines at least”

Never waste a sunset.

Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice" The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this

Psychometrics and evidence science folks, I feel like we need to help software engineering out more because they are trying to measure constructs like depersonalization via software activity data?!?!!? github.com/Rootly-AI-La...

@latenite.bsky.social ?

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Does anyone have first-hand experience with using an AI agent that has “participated” in the response to an actual incident in a genuinely diagnostic — or otherwise contextually-specific way?

pictured: gemini, claude, sora, grok, llama, magistral, terminus, and qwen

The systemic failure here, IMO, is the government delegating successful operation of the 000 system in part to a bunch of private entities. This shouldn’t be touching private hands at all.

IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN

For the first time: @honeycomb.io is hiring open roles in Australia!!! We have this senior role open as well as a mid-level role. job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo... Once we fill these, we will have a thriving APAC team of 5 people: Field CTO, account exec, customer architect, and 2 support.

here, have not the iPhone SE, but the iPhone SE/30

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

New incident prevention strategy just dropped - manifest destiny?

It’s breaking containment but mostly I’m just happy to have an outlet for the overwhelming amount of dad jokes my brain keeps dropping on me at 3am

It’s a shame air travel is so terrible for the planet because COME ON

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Let those of us who never “mister body massage” or “pork chop sandwich” cast the first lol, lmao at “skibidi”