🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿

😁 I love seeing 3 of my dear friends giving the keynotes at @kcduk.bsky.social day 2! 💙

Great work @lianmakesthings.bsky.social @mccune.org.uk @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social 🎉

Day 2 of @kcduk.bsky.social and @lianmakesthings.bsky.social is explaining how platform engineering replaced the DevOps walk of confusion with a canyon of confusion.

Now I kinda wanna hear the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of this

Which song will you start with? 💅

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

It's Safer in the Front Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.

The administration is not powerful enough to crack down on all opposition to fascism. In all likelihood, this is chiefly a performative measure intended to intimidate people.

It will only be possible to impose fascist control on this society as a whole if people stop resisting. Keep fighting. 🏴

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

Their bad-faith game of denial is destroying our ability to respond to the collapse of civil society. They behave constantly in ways that actively destabilize our institutions and endanger our peace, and then, when the worst happens, affect mock outrage anyone would see their transparent motive.

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

See you there ❤️

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Table where one leg was secured to a rain pipe with a bike chain

Feel like this security concept wasn’t quite thought through

6 days left for your Rejekts proposal... just one day of programming this year, so competition for spots will be tighter than usual!

Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?

Happy Birthday friend ❤️

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.

Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

Kubernetes Community Days Utrecht Experience the power of community at the Kubernetes Community Days in Utrecht!

KCD Utrecht is happening in July kcdutrecht.nl

We can’t fool ourselves about the drawbacks of the Catholic Church. It continues to advocate conservative approaches on abortion and the treatment of transgender people, with mention of the “unborn” coming up in the note on AI. Yet, at a moment when Silicon Valley is deploying so much to try to force AI on the whole of society and steamroll regulatory attempts to put even the lightest guardrails on their ambitions, the Pope’s concern about the impacts of the technology could be useful in building a wider coalition to oppose them. In the same way that Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change brought an important spiritual and moral dimension to the argument to accelerate environmental action, an effort by Pope Leo to do something similar on AI with a focus on its tangible impacts could be a welcome contribution. Even Francis’ climate arguments remain relevant, given the environmental consequences of the hyperscale data center buildout powering the AI boom. Tech critics reading Antiqua et nova might be surprised to find the leaders of the Catholic Church relying less on faith than the AI boosters trying to build their sci-fi futures and bring computer gods into being.

There’s no question that the Catholic Church has deep flaws. But at a time when we need allies to fight AI, its moral framing of the issue, grounded in real-world problems instead of sci-fi fantasies, could be useful in building a larger coalition against AI.

www.disconnect.blog/p/will-pope-...

Tech Won't Save Us is turning 5 years old

Later this month, @techwontsave.us turns five years old. It’s hard to believe I’ve been making the show for this long!

Over that time I’ve interviewed hundreds of guests to spread critical perspectives on tech far and wide — and I know it’s had an impact.

We're getting close! Only 12 more days until Kuberoke! Check out this video to hear why our Chief Karaoke Officer @lianmakesthings.dev started Kuberoke and what song she is planning to sing!

Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Three very attractive knights in theatre costumes

It’s opening weekend! 🥳🎉

www.heaproductions.nl/onceuponamat...

Got commit message reads “just hardcore this shit I guess”

Current mood

Kuberoke Spring Party London 2025 That Cloud Native conference is coming to London and to celebrate the occasion, we are hosting a Karaoke party on Wednesday April 2, 9pm - 2am at Be At One, London. Doors open 9pm and close 0:30am. Pl...

Registrations for Kuberoke are now open! Join us on April 2nd for a night of musical splendour 🎤✨
📝 We heard your feedback and changed the registration flow. All you need is to sign up and bring the QR code + your KubeCon lanyard
🕘 Doors open at 9 pm, last admission at 0:30am.

ti.to/kuberoke/kub...

🎼🪕MEET THE MINSTREL (Cast Pea)
Get ready to hear the dulcet tones of Wesley Curtis in cast Pea as he unfolds the true events behind the fairytale....

📸: Cheryl Hart photography

#OnceUponAMattress #MusicalTheatre #Amsterdam #HappilyEverAfter #TossACoin

The venue is fantastic, and we can't wait to welcome you all to Kuberoke in April! ❤️ 🎤

A kubernetes themed valentines card that reads “roses are red, violets are blue, sharing is caring, but stop hogging my cpu”

POV: you’re running a k8s platform with multiple tenants.

A screenshot of the cover of a zine titled "It’s Safer in the Front."

We've prepared a zine version of our text "It’s Safer in the Front."

Please print and distribute!

crimethinc.com/zines/its-sa...

“Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best—if not safest—place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.” 🏴

Once Upon A Mattress — Happily Ever After Productions

The show is double cast, but I’m in both casts, so it doesn’t matter which one you want to see.
Would love it if you came to see us perform 🥰
www.heaproductions.nl/onceuponamat...

Once Upon A Mattress — Happily Ever After Productions

Hi friends,

as some of you know, I dabble in musical theatre from time to time. And I have a show coming up, end of March in Amsterdam. We’re going to have 10 performances in total over the span of 3 weeks, so no excuses 😅
The show is family-friendly, we even have some kids on the cast 👀