Old-timey Web Ops guy, part-time gearhead, most-time dad. Also known as 'the guy who didn't hire @allspaw.'
Joined February 2009
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Wow
6 Mar 2025
1 million cores of cloud computing powered by @OpenStack at @Walmart
Open source is an unstoppable force
This is @openinfradev in action
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This is as enjoyable as the best episodes of How It’s Made
5 Mar 2025
One year of chasing later, I am somewhat better informed, and less skeptical, about the account presented.
For much more about the sociology of AML controls, FOIAing FinCEN and the NYPD, and walking all over Brooklyn looking for a needle in a bankstack:
bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/t…
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In my generation we did this with torque stats for our cars
4 Mar 2025
We have way too many men who tie their masculinity and self-worth to their testosterone levels.
It's both very strange and telling.
Not how you are as a father, husband, or in a meaningful pursuit. But your T levels...
Strange times.
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When I was writing my post on the “150 year olds getting SS” thing, I was struck by how little Elon seems to understand basic things that anyone who has been in the data/information space for a week would take for granted
1 Mar 2025
TL;DR
1. Legacy costs money
2. I'm delusional
3. Grok's delusional
4. Trust me
5. Legacy costs money
6. Conspiracy
7. Legacy costs money
8. Bots can't count
9. People I don't like are behind conspiracy
10. Far right propaganda
11. I'm not far right.
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e.g. ‘Anyone who knows anything would see these inconsistencies and think “that’s probably due to data entry errors,” unless you are the richest and smartest man in the world, then you’d conclude it’s part of some Marxist neoliberal conspiracy to give lazy people mansions.’
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I was also surprised by how many people that I know hold negative views of support for Europe. I wrote a thing trying to explain it simply, called “Why Even Do We Foreign Aid.” (linked in next tweet)
21 Feb 2025
some MAGAS use instead of a reasoned argument, I am most disheartened by the incredible ignorance these posts display when they insist on an isolationist policy that ignores the needs and interests of other countries. They simply do not understand all of the economic and
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Maybe this is a US vs UK thing, but “muppet of the highest order” sounds like a compliment to me
27 Jan 2025
X : You're only talking about DeepSeek because it agrees with your political views.
Me : You are a muppet of the highest order. The gameplay that China pursued was signalled long ago and built around the landscape and where to attack. It has nothing to do with our views.
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Contrast with the Bay Area’s FasTrak Express strategy, which effectively reduces supply instead
9 Jan 2025
Astonishing display of elasticity of demand.
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Similarly, an obvious way to close the upcoming funding gap for social security is to bring in lots of working-age immigrants.
People are willing to defund Social Security to restrict migration.
2 Jan 2025
The obvious way to catch drug traffickers, terrorists, etc. is to maintain an easy path to immigrate with basic background checks so that good migrants and bad migrants naturally self-segregate.
People are willing to create a trafficking problem in order to restrict migration.
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This is what this graph looks like now that most of the votes have been counted
6 Nov 2024
If you think 2020 was legit you are not a serious person
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