Richard Milner-Watts

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Infrastructure chap @ AWS. Rides bikes, plays games and builds stuff in the Cloud.
The Buzzword Boogie (a cautionary tale)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgJqGDa4G1M
Buzzword Boogie

YouTube
Turkey’s two-faced ‘sultan’ is no friend of the west. It’s time to play hardball https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/turkeys-two-faced-sultan-is-no-friend-of-the-west-its-time-to-play-hardball
Turkey’s two-faced ‘sultan’ is no friend of the west. It’s time to play hardball

President Erdoğan’s increasingly hostile stance towards Nato and democratic principles can no longer go unpunished

The Guardian
Google blew it with open source layoffs

The decision to cut people who built the foundation that supports Google’s open source and cloud successes seems incredibly shortsighted.

InfoWorld
Dear Nadhim Zahawi: here’s what patriotic British millionaires do – we pay our proper taxes | Julia Davies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/25/nadhim-zahawi-british-millionaires-pay-taxes-nhs
Dear Nadhim Zahawi: here’s what patriotic British millionaires do – we pay our proper taxes

Tax pays for our NHS, cares for our pensioners, educates our kids and defends our country. Anyone ‘careless’ about that is unfit to govern, says campaigner and philanthropist Julia Davies of the Patriotic Millionaires

The Guardian
Men, guard your friendships – heed the warning of the Banshees of Inisherin | Tim Dowling https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/men-friendship-banshees-of-inisherin-oscar-ireland
Men, guard your friendships – heed the warning of the Banshees of Inisherin

The Oscar contender may be set in the Ireland of a century ago. But it offers a very modern lesson on how fragile male bonds can be, says Guardian columnist Tim Dowling

The Guardian
I'm not sure I've ever seen this before: a prime minister step down so willingly without having to be pulled out kicking and screaming. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand
Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand

Labour leader to stand down no later than 7 February, saying she ‘no longer had enough in the tank’ to do the job

The Guardian
Everything about her statement is remarkable: the frank admission about her energy levels, the level-headed assessment of her own desires, without the usual mania over the retention of power.
The primary complaints about Gen Z ultimately boil down to "They refuse to work shitty jobs for shit pay" and "They're too nice to people who are different". Which says just as much about the quality of the older generations as the quality of the new one.

From Steven Loggins (not even sure about what platform):

"Something I learned from trail hiking is if you're ever lost in the woods, do not panic. Just say loudly and clearly 'Elon Musk is not a genius,' and several of the most unfuckable men alive will appear out of nowhere to call you poor, then you can follow them to the parking lot where their #Tesla exploded."

Made Bruschetta wwith dinner. Got the onion/tomato ratio wrong. Send Help.