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community organizing & environmental justice in bayview, sf
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@cfiesler i re-watch Life of Brian once or twice a year if that counts.
@lmorchard years ago at a party i pitched this feature to a yelp PM and called it “cold spots” and it wasn’t well-received at all 🤷🏻‍♂️
@lzg are we tagging ourselves or…? i’m feeling “malevolently bad map”
@futurebird just discussing this today. language evolving in response to algorithmic content moderation. but i guess your question really hinges on how far out into the future your linguists are.
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.