Ben Ford :grinchsmile:
Developer Advocate at @puppet; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! *\o/* I run marathons in those funny finger shoes.
Developer Advocate at @puppet; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! *\o/* I run marathons in those funny finger shoes.
This just in: Georgia spent the equivalent of 120 years of coverage to fight offering said coverage, on the grounds that it was “too expensive”
"Peter Thiel started the bank run. All of his companies got their money out. Most of their competitors did not get their money out. Many of those competitors might not have survived the week of the FDIC hadn’t stepped in. ...
"I’m not saying he nefariously intended to bring the bank down in order to gain an advantage over his competitors. ... But the practical outcome would have been a massive, literal bank error in Peter Thiel’s favor."
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/three-thoughts-on-silicon-valley
They do not know what they have to apologize for. The culture they built told us they were here to "move fast and break things" #SVBCollapse
Unsurprisingly, engineers aren't super happy about not being able to mark their work as complete so we reverted some of the recent Jira changes in order to unblock their progress. Read the update for more information and see which projects are affected. https://dev.to/puppet/puppets-migration-to-jira-cloud-next-friday-36bh
“They knowingly took a risk and when the risk didn’t pay off, the investors lose their money. That’s how #capitalism works.”
What’s that saying? If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best…
> Improve your connections: bond with similar folk, but also build bridges across cultural/political divides
Gift link for Elizabeth Warren's op-ed about bank failures: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/opinion/elizabeth-warren-silicon-valley-bank.html?unlocked_article_code=kyxKTSRbgb_XIfIEpL6zOgMrUHUirEpFE9X1b5vaM6NphXagwmvrd2N_znm4cE5ikFGGyDiAWW7VvTKAlO5M-pxr3ZhmGEJDzuvfH-JLZX_GV0ruNJaZ_Qhmtqng3573st89nVGRofp_5QJuHaHcCwq9885bbSJAVgpJqq5AEDjlw9X1y0QbYcnnhM-ZXgg7sq8ZY6OD9pM9ZiWQ6_5_XTz5xlJe_BJroYdrq-PknazbEsXQfT_yJcRLAhL4_j9xOvf4kfe6hacRAqvNgqAPUJ5joNfcry6uTizkhcUPMESeGSOhGVS6HEUuXHc5LxNEpB_0zJg09PyalAMZkVnHK9VEFVdbNTpreBMmFIkc&smid=url-share
Hey #Apple, are you trying to make me crash my bike dismissing this dialog so I can see the maps directions?!?! #uxfail
Republicans don’t know how to calendar at all. #Republicans think that if you bleat #lies long enough they become truths. Alternative truths, at least.
Puppet is migrating public Jira projects to Jira Cloud next Friday. Check out the details to make sure you don't lose any changes made over that weekend.
https://dev.to/puppet/puppets-migration-to-jira-cloud-next-friday-36bh
“Small government”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/desantis-promises-florida-will-control-disney-content.html
Just a reminder that the #VoxPupuli elections are live! Help make decisions about the #Puppetize modules that you know and use every day.
One already-noticeable impact of twitter’s rapid decline is that the trending-topic-to-media-story pipeline is already starting to break down. This is good as it means mainstream media is less programmable by bad actors who want to make it seem like a topic is resonating when it is not.
Lol that didn’t take long 🤣
Tesla engineering HQ leaving Texas to return to California, Musk announces https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3869991-tesla-hq-leaving-texas-to-return-to-california-musk-announces/
