Dave Solimini

@Commsdirector
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Foreign policy, politics, #natsec. Work @StimsonCenter. Proud @SAISHopkins, @williamandmary, @TrumanProject Fellow. Opinions mine. @Commsdirector on Twitter
The boozy eggnog does not fit in any Mere Drink Container. We have resorted to 40 cup tupperware storage containers.
There’s the Streisand Effect for you: A mystery buyer bought a Charlottesville weekly’s archives only to wipe them from the internet - apparently to erase several stories about rape allegations he faced in college. Now the Washington Post is writing about it. @mmasnick https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/14/hook-charlottesville-vanished-archive/
A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?

The Hook, a Charlottesville weekly, closed in 2013 but web archives survived until 22,000 stories vanished in June. Speculation swirls around a mystery buyer.

The Washington Post
Whoa. Hello there new friends.
I really wish I could comment on boosts.
@danhon They should do it exactly at the point at which they get enough funding to have staff who get paid to do that job. i've always said that one of libraries' big missed opportunities was not becoming community email service providers back when it was easier to do that.
Vacancy due to bereavement leave: Nacelle Plasma Injection System (Auditory Interfaces) Betazoid-Antican Integration Engineer (Individual Contributor) in Subspace Relay Division, based at San Francisco Fleet Yards. #StarTrek #StarfleetRecruitment #StarfleetEngineeringGetsItDone
This bears repeating
Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.
This is a tracking reversals of Twitter suspensions: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/c966666ad583f760a568e805f36274d4
The line between "am I this tired because I'm a parent?" and "am I tired because there might be something wrong?" is getting very blurry.