OH: “It’s arbitrary and delicious:”

Homemade pizza night with the boyf! 🍕

I was not here for this conversation.

My SREcon Americas talk is up: www.usenix.org/conference/s... And of course it's about AI! Specifically, some of ironies of using AI in incident response... and what we can do to better integrate these new robots with the rest of the (cognitive...ish) agents running around our incidents.

OH: “Our relationship should NOT be an incident review.”

I guess that's one way for AI to create jobs...

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

fellas is it gay to have a girlfriend

Your boyfriend just spent $10k before your trip to Europe 1.) Engagement ring 2.) 64GB of RAM

Air to Ground Message: IF U AINT FIRST YOUR LAST -RICKY BOBBY Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #a412d0b52b3 F: #fb01691ea7a

We dont need all that qa stuff if we have good tests and reliable CI/CD pipeline. So you have good tests and reliable pipeline? Wellll, no, but...

My SLA is better than your SLA

Is there such a thing as AI-splaining (a la mansplaining)? Asking for a friend.

Air to Ground Message: WOAH THAT IS SOME SPIRIT SHENANIGANS Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #a9e0a3991ed F: #fc06f1b6a57

Eating at The Cheesecake Factory because… I haven’t in 15 or so years?

I guess AI hasn't discovered tmux?

Explaincars drama: dogs should be counted at a ratio of 5:1 souls, as most dogs have five times the ratio of soul to the average human. This is defined in some ICAO thing, probably.

that’s right

You don’t say…

It happens.

mark my words, we’re in for a tech incident summer babyyyy

Y'know... on its face, this is obviously hilarious—"make no mistakes"—but from a safety science perspective, it has the same (sociotechnical) issues as campaigns to "be safer." #iykyk

Tonight's AWS "kerfuffle" has more in common with Three Mile Island than most of the engineers who will respond to pages resulting from it will ever know... (Really!)

My new forever answer to "What is the root cause?"

Someone recently told me I have "one of the best grasps of applied incident theory [they've] ever seen," which... I don't think I've ever heard it put that way before. (But much appreciated!)

In the 90s, Harrison Ford was the right age to play the president in movies. In 2026, Harrison Ford is the right age to play the president in movies.

Taco Bell can ABSOLUTELY be an anniversary dinner thank you we will not be accepting any further questions at this time.

The saddest thing about Spirit ceasing operations is we’ll lose one of the best sources of videos of spoiled adults getting yanked off of planes.

Among other things the resegregation of the military and federal workforces along race and gender lines is a tremendous waste of expertise.

what if we made the whole country out of ballroom

I'm old enough to remember when GitHub was still a distributed version control system!

Fabulous article by my mentor, Leysia Palen, chronicling the rise & fall of Twitter as information source & organizing site during disaster events: journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... Citing a wealth of literature, Palen reflects on what Twitter was (for disaster response) & what it became

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

Me: Hey, you remember that commercial from the 80’s that had that funny lil’ jingle… “I feel like chicken tonight, LIKE CHICKEN TONIGHT!!!”? Boyfriend: yah? Me: Do you remember what product they were selling? Boyfriend: Chicken? Me:

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

It’s even worse when you consider in most release infrastructure architectures, this functionally meant organizations had complete random (potentially nonsensical) code IN PRODUCTION for the better part of a work day.

I love BART.

god this guy rules

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

Untitled Goose Game, IRL edition.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Riding the NYC subway with my extremely smiley firstborn was a great way to witness the inherent goodness of humanity. I remember a very tough looking gentleman shaking his head and muttering “I guess I’m having a good day today“ after my infant son beamed at him

New rule: if you don't want to rubberneck the incident review, then you don't get to rubberneck the incident either.

I actually DO want to learn from organizations that failed—it’s kinda my whole thing—but not from AI that has no understanding of human context, trained on static text-based artifacts that you can’t minimally inquire the authors about.

The US isn’t as as bad as Hungary of course but it’s very very obvious that the media environment shapes how people think about political issues! It would be weird to deny it in Hungary and it’s weird when people do it here about trans rights or vaccine hesitancy or anything else.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Tired: Coincidence. Wired: Co-incidents.

It should be 100%

Regarding current world affairs, I suppose it *is* TACO Tuesday…