My latest article for Forbes:
With Twitter’s Automated Copyright Strike System Down, Live Sports Events Could Join Movies
Krufty old computer janitor.
Tricked into designing and running distributed systems.
My latest article for Forbes:
With Twitter’s Automated Copyright Strike System Down, Live Sports Events Could Join Movies
Corporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.
Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.
Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.
Fans of the remarkable Susan Cooper classic, “The Dark is Rising” have a real treat in store: BBC radio drama is set to start in a month. Script was adapted by a True Fan of the novel and it promises to be excellent. Here’s link to 6-minute promo. When they sing the “The Dark is Rising” poem at the end I literally got scalp-prickles. It’s PERFECT. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dgrz83?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…
I've been putting off on setting up my own server until I see it the people I care about settle here in a meaningful way.
I hope they do. I'm feeling the itch to run a meaningful server for personal use again.
As Twitter is likely to suffer a failure that it probably can't recover from in the next few weeks it has me thinking. In the case of Twitter, the blast radius is just Twitter.
All the big boys in tech have a cold start problem. If Google or AWS were to suffer a full down scenario. Not only will their services be down, but everyone who uses them as a cloud provider will die. That is terrifying.
The end is nigh. I give it a week or 2 tops.
ngl, I'm absolutely intrigued. This is the type of disaster scenario that we try to tabletop. I didn't expect to see it play out in the real world like this.
Ok let’s do an introduction!
Hi, I’m Tim. If Google ever gets hacked, it’ll be my fault.
Fin.
First #introduction post - I'm a PhD candidate in the Geography department at Indiana University. I use tree-rings to study tree and forest responses to climate and disturbance.
I'm also interested in the temporal and spatial dynamics of urban forests and environmental justice.
Oh, and I'm on the #academic job market 👀