Colin Childs🍁

the opening crawl for 2026 is gonna suck

IT IS A PERIOD OF TENSION AND INCREASING
UNREST. ALL NATIONS ARE HEADED
BY MANIACS. BILLIONAIRES STILL EXIST
FOR SOME REASON

I wonder when he will turn the Whitehouse into a dealership again.

"We will be publishing details next week about the work we are doing to stop these types of incidents from occurring."

Start with properly testing change management and maintaining internal tools, would probably help.

(I'm aware the tool itself likely didn't impact things, but not properly testing your processes here is the problem. And instead of fixing your internal tool, you opted to shut it off and not test what the outcome of pushing that change would be.)

It's always wild to me to realize I worry more about pushing changes to the indie ISP I work for than cloudflare engineers do.

Also saying "had no effect on customer traffic" while not doing proper testing is.. a choice.

It clearly did have an effect, you just didn't test properly.

This first change was being rolled out using our gradual deployment system. During rollout, we noticed that our internal WAF testing tool did not support the increased buffer size. As this internal test tool was not needed at that time and had no effect on customer traffic, we made a second change to turn it off.

This seems staggeringly dumb.

Instead of fixing internal testing, just shut it off!

Oh no, we broke everything!

blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2...

Costco sashimi really seems like taking your life in your hands. They can't even handle a soda machine.

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050.

The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

the same goes for Canada Post, @mark-carney.bsky.social so please consider this

If David Zaslav can get paid $50 million a year while running Warner Bros Discovery into the ground until it’s sold off in pieces and renaming HBO Max/Max/HBO Go/HBO every other year, you have no reason to feel imposter syndrome.

The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.

An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

Every single pro-life senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr should find out what it’s like to be called a baby-killer. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

Among other things, fascism as a culture is a culture of playing make-believe. Social power and credibility in this culture derives from going along with the bit, and from developing more and more outrageous iterations of the bit, more and more extreme make-believes, as a perverse “yes, and” improv.

Netflix getting Warner Bros. is bad for art, but right-wing oligarchs not getting it is bad for fascism.

The Ellisons already got Paramount and Fox-ified CBS, plus a big stake in TikTok USA and more.

On balance, avoiding more Orban-style media consolidation is a good outcome.

Such are the times.

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.

And there's the motive.

And I know Trump isn't doing this, but this is part of a deeply toxic work culture that valorizes never resting, and this is making us mean, stupid, and reactive.

We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit?

Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.

It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion The streaming giant's proposal includes a $5.8 billion breakup fee and promises to maintain Warner Bros. current operations, "including theatrical releases." Theater owners are already speaking out.

when the press covers its own consolidation it's paragraph after paragraph of stenographed business analysts ignoring documented history and chittering about synergies and scale

the actual impact on real people, competition, markets, and labor is of absolutely ZERO interest to any of these people

the other thing I find "funny" about media merger coverage is in addition to NO mention of the well-documented massive harms from pointless media consolidation (creatives, labor, consumers), mainstream journalists don't mention the fact our regulators have been lobotomized by corruption

This thing being a security tire fire is pretty unsurprising, but im still not sure who wants AI inspecting the contents of their toilet...

Like yeah it's unencrypted, but.. why does it exist at all.

Apparently snorting all of our data through a billion dollar bill is a hell of a drug

Lol, thank you. I was so lost.

Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business

Petco confirms security lapse exposed customers’ personal data | TechCrunch The pet company has published almost no details about what happened, who was affected, and what personal data was exposed.

The pet company has published almost no details about what happened, who was affected, and what personal data was exposed.

Add to that, part time employment across the board because nobody will pay benefits, and rents skyrocketing, despite, you know, BEING IN WINNIPEG, and... well, there you go.

Friday at last…