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🔥 We're excited to announce a brand new product & a fresh new look to go with it. ✨

Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane is a suite for safely & scalably connecting #AI Agents across the growing digital workforce, ensuring full traceability, observability, & governance for enterprises.

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Reminder: MAGA is *not* a protected class re: laws against discrimination. White supremacists are trying to reverse uno that shit.

Why I canceled my Disney+ account, no matter how much I love Star Wars or Marvel.

Turn any API into a data stream #learnprogramming #programming #coding #computerscience #developer

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Jump Trading, a leader in global financial markets that processes billions of messages a day, drives faster insights at scale with Redpanda

"With Redpanda, we have a fast and reliable platform that *just works*. Our developers can now build things that they just couldn't before."

Great session! There is so much people can do with live data with the right tools and technology behind them! Glad to partner with @timeplus.bsky.social to solve such critical problems.

🚨 Observability isn’t what it used to be—and that’s a good thing.

In our latest blog, we unpack why traditional approaches are falling short, what’s changing, and why that change is worth embracing.

“It’s the End of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
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The Disney+ Star Wars series Andor.

Sujee and I kicked off our first SVGenAI Meetup at Beckhoff cc: John Varghese, sponsored by The AI Alliance. HT @petercorless.bsky.social for the pics! lnkd.in/gPjFqtnj lu.ma/lbgs81uy

Kleya deserves her own series now.

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Littel kitty heeded not the looming spectre of doom.

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) are executing a marathon live stream on east steps of Capitol

Rep Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, says GOP House budget will gut health and nutritional assistance programs

Cat & Rabbit

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

"G.M. monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. “With this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.”

SpaceX: Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn.

Everyone else: It blew up.

This is what it looks like when you lose a massive spacecraft on its way to orbit right over the Caribbean. Lots of commercial flights turning/holding/diverting to avoid falling debris from SpaceX's Starship.

The Blake Lively smear campaign exposes sordid level of public manipulation | Opinion Blake Lively's lawsuit against 'It Ends With Us' co-star Justin Baldoni exposes the levels of manipulation we encounter in entertainment and politics.

If the media can be so easily manipulated against women to smear them who make up half the population, think about how easily it's being done to trans people who are 1% of the population.

The New York Times has been doing it for years.

www.yahoo.com/news/blake-l...

I mean, I am kinda happy that Hakeem can make a good speech. But I would have preferred if he had a majority behind him. He's going to lose a lot of votes over the next two years.

Good speeches will not counteract bad outcomes ahead for us.

Exclusive: Google's Gemini is forcing contractors to rate AI responses outside their expertise Internal guidelines passed down from Google led to concerns that the AI model could be prone to inaccurate outputs on topics like healthcare.

This should be more than a tad concerning. Even the human guardrails for AI need guardrails.

techcrunch.com/2024/12/18/e...

That's awesome! My best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

@startreedata.bsky.social Thank you and Merry Christmas! My community box arrived last night and with my winnings from the MI competition I recently purchased a pair of skis. #startree

Once upon a time, not the entire internet was 4chan. Only 4chan was 4chan, because everywhere else would kick you out for Doing 4chan in their spaces.

It sounds utopian, but it is true.

Just to be clear: however bad you think the Trump second term will be, I assure you it’ll be worse.

Bookmark this if you don’t believe me.

Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Michigan, as vaccinations decline | Bridge Michigan A potentially deadly disease in infants, whooping cough — pertussis — has exploded in Michigan this year, in part because of decreased vaccination rates.

Cases of whooping cough in Michigan are at their highest level in at least 20 years, as vaccinations decline. The disease can be deadly to infants. Alarmed by the increase, doctors are pleading for families to vaccinate their children.

Before this month is over, Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social may need to rewrite this chapter to something more like, "Do Not Ignominiously Grovel in Advance"

Syria is free. But Syria is still haunted.

Do not comply in advance.