u do not need to spread the fascists' own words to talk about them, u do not need to use what is, essentially, fascist propaganda as a springboard for your take, they are using you to spread it further than they otherwise could.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

thank you for coming to my ted talk or whatever /fin

Working hard and violating boundaries to sickness are not equivalent. When I talk about what motivates me and my career, like what I said in the blog post, I'm saying that I'm putting all of that energy into building with others, connecting my past to the future. Institutional building. /10

This shit matters. Your humanity, voice, presence, your being alive and around, and not in fucking urgent care because you pulled an all-nighter to troubleshoot that app or feature that you just have to fix right now or else. Grindset mentality *fucking sucks* and it will eat you alive. /9

Like, it's probably very cringe and pithy for me to say this, but, it is a major reason for me being a stronger engineer today. It saved my career. Probably saved my mind and body from getting more fucked up. /8

Observability is not the only thing that leads to these outcomes. But by deeply understanding its premises and intended goals and outcomes, what it did do is it gave me a roadmap to change and evolve my own problem solving practices, and doing so in much more sustainable, healthy ways. /7

So when I did learn that, no, actually, you really don't need to do this kind of shit to yourself, and there are more humane and sustainable ways you and your colleagues can do this without burning yourselves out, it was a critical light on a path that I resolved to pay very close attention to. /6

My patience is very hard to wear thin. I was really good at paying attention to key details and thinking through possible solutions systematically. These were the ingredients that positioned me to be the super debugger of last resort. But I didn't grasp what I was doing to my mind and body. /5

I genuinely believed these kinds of boundary sacrifices were just simply the things I had to do to be successful. The darker truth is that, no matter what kind of incident situation I found myself in, I would *always* find a way to a solution. I'm very stubborn when it comes to problem solving. /4

What I mean by that are the kinds of justifications and decisions I made to do things like stay at the office until 2AM to finish repairing a database with bespoke, rigid tooling or working overnight preparing an office's workstations after upgrading their only business server. /3

It's hard for me to accurately describe the extent of what broke inside of me earlier in my life and career when I burned myself out. It wasn't something that suddenly happened to me, but rather a series of compromises, choices, and sustaining beliefs that moved me in that direction. /2

From Customer to Bee: An Observability Champion's Journey How Josh Parsons championed observability at Amperity, ran a winning tooling evaluation, and ultimately joined Honeycomb.

I wrote a blog post for Honeycomb and shared a little bit about my journey from observability champion to Honeycomb customer to Bee. Beyond the specifics of the journey, something I want to highlight is why this shit matters so much to me. 🧵 www.honeycomb.io/blog/from-cu...

Our colleagues continue to endure these occupational hazards, and all of them, past, present, and future, deserve eternally more and better than these outcomes. I implore you to continue to build toward a world where our colleagues will get better than this.

This is, of course, true for *all* of the direct targets of white supremacy. *Nobody* leaves unscathed from white supremacy's designed abuse, cruelty, and malice.

I wholly understand that what I'm going to say here is absolutely not new or novel, but rather something to reinforce and re-emphasize. This is one example of the continuous occupational hazards our trans/NB/gender nonconforming colleagues continue to face every single fucking day for existing.

The intersection of humans and technology is the point -- we create technology in service of human needs and we should not forget that.

As mentioned in the analysis, incidents like these are demanding and complex. But having the kind of internal culture willing to earnestly talk to one another about these intertwining sociotechnical impacts and learn from them will always be incredibly valuable.

I was one of the engineers involved throughout the entirety of this incident, and I really appreciate what this report conveys. Most particularly, how the analysis highlights key, intertwining sociotechnical effects that impact incidents like this. 1/

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE.

Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help?

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We keep us housed 💛

Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors!

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A screenshot from the first DLC of the game The Talos Principle called Road to Gehenna. In front of a wall of off-white stone with grey blotches is a black terminal screen with a grey and white keyboard below it. Two robotic hands are typing on the keyboard. The text on the terminal screen is in white. At the top of the terminal screen, the word GEHENNA is displayed, stylized with a combination of monochromatic box-shaped glyphs. The terminal is showing the home screen of a virtual forum community made by other androids in Gehenna. Below the word GEHENNA reads: Displaying active threads filtered for user URIEL_COPY [6]. * Mod Discussion#329 Re: Solutions [8+] * 454E[]44[][] * A Message to the Future * Mod Discussion#330 Re: War Room [8+] * Ascension: An Objective Review * The Outer World * Mod Discussion#335 Re: The Asset [9+] * Mod Discussion#327 Re: Urgent Topics [ATCH] [8+] * Mod Discussion #316 Re: PD Findings [7+] <a line of garbled text, composed of box-shaped glyphs> Farewell Atlantis [ATCH] Save Yourselves Goodbye A Short Bildungsroman by Uriel_Copy Scared Top 10 Things I Love About Gehenna Jefferson Goldboom (Announcement). Why do we deserve to be saved? Straton Fragment #13 A Small Apology An Historic Occasion [6+] The word Exit is in the lower right of the screen. Below the terminal screen and above the keyboard, the word IAN is imprinted on the frame of the terminal in off-white serif lettering

I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly why others' descriptions of moltbook felt both weird and also strangely familiar to me. And then it dawned on me, The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna explored some of these same ideas.

The bee's wings had the Kafka logo drawn on it, so, I could consider this Kafka-shaped!

My company surprised me today in the most joyful and special way by letting me and other incident responders break a Kafka-themed bee-shaped piñata with a makeshift cardboard stick. The care and whimsy and thoughtfulness of my co-workers brings me so much joy and incredibly moving.

A screenshot of the Feed preferences option in LinkedIn. It reads as follows: Feed preferences Do you want to see political content in your feed? Show political content To the right of Show political content is an On/Off toggle switch. The screenshot shows the toggle switch in the On position. Then at the bottom: Learn more about how we define political content. Discover sources to follow.

I know that LI has a feed setting for seeing political content. I think folks are opted out of this by default. On desktop, if you click on the "Me" menu in the upper right -> go to Settings and Privacy -> go to Feed preferences in the General preferences section you will see this:

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

The lyrics running through my head today:

Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists
- Depeche Mode, People Are People

With video of another street execution from ICE going around, a reminder that while video documentation of atrocities is important, you have no ethical obligation to watch videos of people dying. Traumatizing yourself isn’t advocacy. You do not have to watch the video to be outspoken against this

Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story: