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I fell behind in my writing quota the last week or so, in part due to outside complications (daycare was closed a couple times) but also because I've hit that squishy middle bit where my outline is less well-defined. Ended February about 6000 words behind where I wanted to be—not impossible to make up, but it’ll get a lot easier when I map out where the puck is going. #AmWriting
@dmoren congrats!
Re #worldcupfinal I have 2 questions.
Why were they able to make 6 and 7 subs respectively? (I can’t find any reference to anything above 5 on FIFA site).
Does argentina now keep the current trophy? (As Brazil did when they won their third).
Be good if u could get a video filter that made the football look and sound like Mexico 1970
Here’s a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree. It’s called ‘Needles’.

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

How Amazon is helping Ukraine in its war against Russia by putting its 'government in a box'

Amazon is helping Ukraine transfer critical government, business and property data into the company's data cloud.

Los Angeles Times
Anyone else in Melbourne north west having terrible newspaper delivery issues?
CW test
What planet are they on?
This is great from #sbsondemand - no ads playing in the stream