i ❤️ canada.
as an independent friend and partner.
as any american should.
i am grateful they remain a voice of sanity through our lunacy, even at great cost.
i hope we recover ourselves soon, and apologize and thank them properly.
occasionally they tell the truth just to throw you off.
historically it's been great when a perception emerges that elites in government accord jews special protection, even at cost of other people's rights.
heckuva job ADL.
Tweet from The White House saying "Shalom Mahmoud", over a photograph of the lawlessly detained Mahmoud Khalil. The text portion reads "'We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.' –President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸"
A year ago on March 7 my dear friend Kristine died. This year on March 7 Kevin Drum died. I wasn’t friends with Kevin, we corresponded a bit, argued a lot, I read him pretty religiously. They are both Orange County people. I claim not to be superstitious (or solipsistic) but it’s spooky to me.
democracy dies in oligarchy. https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114140043656141887
I've sent a note (via webform rather than postal mail, because time feels of the essence) to my Congressional delegation re the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. https://notes.interfluidity.com/PQ4yA2l3QmmUcNZNaJVpqA?view
Even when you're already heartbroken, the world breaks your heart. https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/
@realcaseyrollins @dpp we'll probably differ somewhat in our interpretations of things, but i endorse your conclusion.
are we all Keynesians in a foxhole this time, or are our leaders determined liquidationists?
@realcaseyrollins @dpp Yes! The last multihour outage was SIX YEAR PRIOR to Musk's purchase. Twitter had continuously improved its infrastructure and was a technical leader, sponsoring basic language and tooling improvements that served the rest of us very well. Musk killed all that. He is so efficient. 1/
@realcaseyrollins @dpp Of course there were small and partial outages. But they got much worse post-Musk. Here's a graph from CISCO. Unfortunately, its axes are unlabled. If Y is count and X is duration, you can see this story very directly. But it might not be so, since X is entirely unlabeled, grains of salt. But though X has muddled through, quality of service has consistently suffered post-Musk. Today is a cherry on top. https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-twitter-to-x-outages-performance
@realcaseyrollins @dpp here's https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
it's an order of magnitude worse an outage than anything over the five years pre-Musk. it's worse than the 2016 outage. it's comparable to the a 2012 outage that took Twitter down for more than 2 hours.
these were problems Twitter had solved. X has unsolved them.
let's see what's next. because when you burn down the house for fuel, the lean-to you build for shelter might prove to have disadvantages.
@Phil you use the pollster that most reinforces your priors, and rely on that pollster alone. you justify that because it called a coin-flip election right, so it's accurate.
@realcaseyrollins no, it didn't. it had multi-hour fail-whale glitches in its early days, then people like @dpp helped them rewrite it and build an extraordinarily scalable and resilient infrastructure.
for the six years prior to Musk's purchase of the site, major outages were extraordinarily infrequent. in July of 2022 (pre-Musk), a 45 min outage was the longest in years. it's last multihour outage had been in 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-experiences-longest-global-outage-in-years
post Musk, it's gotten substantially worse.
x.com down again.
you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing.
(a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)
@Phil you read only the media that tells you what you want to hear. https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-approval-ratings-speech-123829814.html
@Phil your informational bubble is the rest of our catastrophe.
https://X.com down again.
you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing.
(a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)
@Phil His approval rating last I looked was under 48%, so a bit worse than his, um, landslide. But I think it might see a landslide pretty soon. Because what he is doing, what you are supporting, is destruction. Removing muscle not cancer. We'll be lucky if he only nicks heart.
But you and he mean well.
People in blue states are people as much as people in red states, whose voice matters just as much in our democracy. Or do you disagree with that?
@Phil not if Trump keeps on governing as, um, effectively as he is right now.
the voters mostly voted against Donald Trump. he won a plurality, not a majority. he's the legitimate President, because that's the Constitution. he'll be legitimately impeached, because that's the Constitution.
imagining you can run a second revolution most people detest because your man got just under 50% of the vote, now that is hubris. i'm not predicting, but i am hoping, it meets nemesis.
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
can ghosts read our minds?
Musk's management style creates pain in the short term, but in the long term the pain recedes with the calm surrender of collapse.
X.com is down for me again, second outage today. Not a great sign for the American state.