https://medium.com/@mohindroo.sanjay66/there-are-a-thousand-hacking-at-the-branches-of-evil-to-one-who-is-striking-at-the-root-78982070590c
Cleo Reed // #CleoReed //
Slip Away
[album Root Cause, 2023]
//via // #Reeding //
#buzzingroom #music #bandcamp #CleoReed #RootCause #SlipAway
#EllaMoore #NickHakim
link bandcamp: https://cleoforshort.bandcamp.com/track/slip-away-2
from the album Root Cause
I always appreciate a good write-up of outages and Google had one for their outage on the 12th. They put in new policies around quota handling, but then that had some unexpected side effects. Since they didn't have a feature flag to turn it off quickly, recovery took a little bit longer.
One reason I like this is it makes you think of what features need to go into APIs/services and how everything fits together. Google runs planet-scale infrastructure, but I think there are takeaways for projects of any size in write-ups like these.
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW
There is a striking parallel between the 20-month war in the Gaza Strip and the week-old not-yet-war between India and Pakistan. Both confrontations were set off by horrendously cruel mass murders by terrorists whose goal was obviously to start a war that drew the attention of the world back to their own goals and grievances.
A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what’s inside the box, how the mechanisms work. What I call the generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blackswan #causeandeffect #events #history #interpretation #outcomes #retrospect #rootcause #understanding
#Newspeak IS our #UbiquitousLanguage for #DDD of Society in 2025. Almost!
Next time when #Orwell and #Huxley come up in #discourse remember:
We live in #dystopia NOW!
Unseen by our #DistractionEconomy blindfolds.
We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee #RootCause of #ClimateChange temperature rise:
Vice has free reign as #truth is destroyed.
We MUST be #Plainspeaking
We MUST use #CommonSense
We MUST restore #Reality
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