Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.

They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.

This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:

Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”

Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data

This looks great!

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https://github.com/achisto/twitter-offboarding

OK, so the absolutely dreadful green bean casserole I made yesterday as a test case was much better tonight. But still...who DOES THAT to lovely green beans?

(Yes, I know. A large portion of America.)

Never again.

Had some more fun with #stablediffusion tonight, and sometimes the results just amaze me.

Here's some fantasy artwork of #alberteinstein as a warrior among orcs. 😁