Gold of the day:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/aws_would_prefer_to_forget/

"Try putting that into your company data recovery plan, and you'll get uninvited from business continuity planning faster than I was at investment firm BlackRock when I pointed out that if both San Francisco and us-east-1 were unavailable, absolutely nobody was going to care about our roboadvisor for the foreseeable future, if ever. (I can't imagine why I was let go from that job.) "

#aws #cloudcomputing #businesscontinuity #kaboom #war #stayreal #ArmedConflict

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Trans gun owners didn’t feel safe at the range. So they built their own.
https://19thnews.org/2026/03/trans-gun-owners-ohio-shooting-range/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/politics-i3rjs6d5z/-/a-s0uAPGekT5OZR-PmFqNYJw%3Aa%3A436232176-%2F0

❝ The closest historical parallel to what is happening to transgender people in the military is, surprise surprise, Adolf Hitler’s removal of Jewish troops from the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht. The difference is that Hegseth’s policies on transgender people are even more draconian… the only time a country excludes a group of people from the military… is when they do not even see those people as being valuable as slaves, cannon fodder, or bullet sponges… ❞

#fascism #Iran #USpol

I recently learned about another woman who had left her PhD program because all the men in her lab wouldn't stop hitting on her and harassing her.

This is not the first time I have heard a story like this.

I am not usually prone to fits of uncontrollable rage, but I have been fucking seething.

We need to do better.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.