Timothy St. Clair

Healthcare costs in the US are out of control. The whole system is FUBAR.

QOTD - 'Production Grade Agentic Infrastructure'

I think I will put my 'jumbo shrimp' in a 'plastic glass' before I put on some 'icey hot' and engage in 'intense apathy'.

October Layoffs Were the Worst in 22 Years and Hit Tech Workers Hard For coders, October royally sucked.

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Safe travels #KubeCon people! I know flights have been a problem.

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Absolutely Trashes Trump's Tariffs After Outrage Over Canada's Reagan Ad

I don't agree with Rand Paul on many issues, but this speech is solid - youtu.be/X4xcHLsDX9Y?...

Reminder: The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Prodding everyone to look up Scott Bessent’s wealth. 🤡

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We've bet our whole economy on LLMs, and that was a bad move. I'm now 100% convinced that the current systems are a dead end, and I will need to exit safely soon. The run-up may continue, but doom today or doom tomorrow... It's still DOOM!

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Go on LinkedIn, watch everyone complain about AWS being down, then I find some great gems about how you failed to architect your systems. This is classic failure-domain analysis and understanding your MTTR. If your service is down, don't blame the cloud provider; blame your architect.

Ahhh amazon...

This isn’t an administration.

It’s a crime syndicate.

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
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As us-east1 adds to it's history of outages. Just a gentle reminder that we solved multi-region A/B clustering many moons ago.

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

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QOTD: China has decided to invest in solar, electric cars, and devices of all kinds. We've decided to bet the farm on LLMs, even though we don't have the infrastructure to support the demand.

The three most dangerous white men on earth today

Nothing about the escalation of this 'trade war' is strategic. In fact, there seems to be only downsides in most scenarios... So why are we doing this? Because of one single idiot who can't see past his own ego. This is a level of insanity that is difficult to quantify.

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The misanthrope in me wants to buy a small farm in Canada and live there for the next 3 and a half years.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

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#WarRavagedPortland

Why does the media even interview politicians anymore? It should just be the facts and logistics in a news piece; everything else is just bullshit.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Tesla and xAI Staff Are Fleeing as Musk Becomes Increasingly Erratic Employees ranging from senior leaders to engineers are quitting Elon Musk's companies — and often joining his rivals.

futurism.com/future-socie... Who on earth could have seen this coming? Wait, everyone... Turns out drug addicts make terrible bosses, who knew?

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Hug ops for Google Cloud folks who were affected. The reporting is not very detailed.

What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

Just pulled up this 2022 article from @theguardian.com on oligarchs planning their bunkers.

www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...