Dan Vogel

"Welcome to Hell! There's the boiling pool, the flaying zone, the unraveler—" "What will you do to me?" "You'll watch." "What?" "Hell is...disorganized. Someone with your efficiency obsession is sure to spy ways to improve it." "You want me to fix Hell?" "That's not what I said."

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@QuinnyPig @patio11 Exactly. For any US-based employee of any cloud. And that letter can say "...and don't tell anyone." (This is driving sovereign cloud development/operations, obviously.)

@dmv @patio11 So in other words, "if it's in an AWS region, US law enforcement can get access to it with a strongly worded letter?"

This just sparked a half dozen questions in my mind vis a vis jurisdiction over an AWS account running workloads in Tokyo.

@patio11 @QuinnyPig This got "clarified" by the US CLOUD Act in 2018. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

@QuinnyPig A fascinating tangent, right! The U.S. has previously asserted jurisdiction over, minimally, workloads in Microsoft infrastructure physically located in Europe, basically entirely on the "Come on, you're Microsoft, give us what we want" theory. Will try to come up with cite.

@skamille I believe it is a form of carcinization.

Here's the first installment of my case against landing human beings on Mars. You may think you disagree, but I'm going to talk you around. idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not…

Culture eats data for breakfast

Too real.

The programmer version of The Talk is when you tell them about that time zone that's half an hour out of sync with all the other ones.

@NFIDvaccines @SaadOmer3 @DrPaulOffit My message to a room of scientists: "When will you start paying attention to sociology research as a REAL & valid scientific field & trying to understand cognitive bias & sociology & the rest of it? It's LONG PAST DUE." @PeterHotez knows it—he's been screaming it for years. 13/x

> The office is still seen by many as some sort of “natural” environment for humans as if we stepped from the Great Plains of Africa straight into a world designed by Hermann Miller. Nothing about the office is natural. Love this piece.

the full slides released by @WSJ are WILD. in this presentation, Facebook researchers explain exactly how & why Instagram drives teen girls into downward spirals of depression in ways that other platforms don't. s.wsj.net/public/resourc…

This whole thread is @polotek at his best. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about why we give up power when it is given to us and I think this conversation has a lot to do with it. I’ve been calling a lot of the reasons managerial work sucks the triangle of tension.

We all know about carcinization: shelled creatures with many legs tend to evolve into crabs. But have you heard of mustelification? It's a phenomenon where carnivorans develop slender bodies, short legs and small triangular heads. In other words, they evolve into weasels.

The grifter: My 8 year old niece The prize: Playing virtual hooky permanently (School Zoom calls) The marks: My sister, my brother in law, the teacher, the school’s computer teacher, the principle and Zoom's support team The con: How she pulled it off… thread

Bruce Boynton died today. A lot of people don't know his name but he is evidence of how recent slavery was. It's SUCH a crazy, mindblowing story that's centered on a Black woman who I've argued might be the MOST important person in Civil Rights history A thread.

may I submit this quarantine corollary to @conways_law

@nnja @codepo8 Talking about trust, fairness, and psychological safety, military special forces have exactly the same concerns about alleged high performers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDmNa…