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community organizing & environmental justice in bayview, sf
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gdi roisin. and ramalama (bang bang) was such a fucking banger, too. ugh.
Róisín Murphy Shares Statement After Inflammatory Comment on Trans Rights

After a screenshot appeared to show her raise anti-trans talking points on Facebook, the singer now says she is “so sorry [her] comments have been directly hurtful to many of you” and promises to “bow out of this conversation within the public domain”

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After the recent total destruction of two cloud/hosting operators and all the customers data (including the hosted backups), a prescient comment from the forum at https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/08/23/ransomware_wipes_cloudnordic/

"...the backup you don't directly control and can test, and do test, is no backup at all". This actually applies to *all* of on-prem, cloud, hosted, and hybrid scenarios.

My twopennyworth, often stated: "Backups are easy, useable restores are hard."

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data • The Register Forums

accidentally ordered the noodle soup instead of the pan-fried noodle soup at turtle tower and will never, ever make that mistake again

Worried about microplastics? Yeah, that's cars too.

https://www.sfei.org/documents/understanding-microplastics

if an enterprising student of mythology were to map all the greek mythological figures to AWS services, i would read that.

Fellow educators:

1) Don't do cop shit.
2) Don't pay for a service that does cop shit.
3) Don't trust claims of system performance without documentation.
4) DO educate your students about what ChatGPT is and why they wouldn't want to use it.

Screen caps from some spam I received just now:

holodeck program practice nazi punching
occasional reminder that rideshare companies could penalize drivers that cut the wrong way down one-way streets but they choose not to.