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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

The identification of root causes in hindsight will continue until the foresight improves.

The harder something is to change, the less likely it is to change, even if the status quo is hurting us. This is so banal as to almost be tautological, and yet we run into it over and over again.

Root cause: unsecured penguin www.bbc.com/news/article...

Exciting bug in my dive computer just dropped. This could kill someone.

Using MTTR tends to evaluate if your incident response is improving is like using stock price trends to evaluate if your software development productivity is improving. Sure, it’s an input, but hoo-boy are there a bunch of other factors that move those numbers!

REA has launched the 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗜. 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱, dedicated to supporting young and emerging talents in our field, carrying forward the mentorship Richard so generously gave. www.resilience-engineering-association.org/the-richard-...

Y'all, I think I just figured this out! The reason that we keep having Incidents is because we're just not taxonomizing them hard enough! We must redouble our taxonomization efforts immediately!

This has been in my hotel the entire time I’ve been on this work trip and I kind of love it.

The last episode of season 3 of the Prodcast is up! Please have a listen to Christina and Laura talk through how we deal with complex systems using our silly meat brains. Search your podcatcher for “SRE Prodcast”. Here’s one: overcast.fm/+AA4f5M3Qf3Q

i was subpoenaed to testify against my former employer in a labor rights case (NLRB v Google) and explained the "behold my field of fucks, look upon it and see that it is barren" meme to the court, profanity and all.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Ran across another friend who didn't get Paxlovid bc it was hundreds of dollars so here's this link again. You have to have a prescription to enroll and will need to educate the pharmacist but it works. No one should pay hundreds of dollars for Paxlovid! Privatization sucks! wapo.st/47hF7aO

Since Twitter died, I wanted to post my most popular one. Something like 120k likes.

me going back to bed as soon as the system is "stable"

Nobody could have seen this coming except every single person who has ever read The Ironies of Automation

The U.N. says more than 180 humanitarian workers have been killed in the war: “This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year.”

I want to go back to 1996, when Microsoft first introduced Clippy, and tell people that one day they're going to make a slightly better version of this and immediately start asking it to read brain scans and act as a therapist

America did a lot of terrible stuff to Dr. King, like jailing and abusing him and trying to get him to kill himself and killing him, but probably nothing so obscene as reinventing him in popular memory as some milquetoast whose primary concern was not hurting white people’s feelings.

Indigenous students with an interest in space! The Canadian Space Agency wants you for summer internships! Applications open until January 22nd. www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/jobs/sea...

This line from the New York Times makes me think about the extreme tension built into the American system. We have a free press, which allows truthful stories about problems to be reported on, but we have no real way of changing anything that’s broken. That gives you lines like this.

It's been ten years of my tech podcast, Arrested DevOps! We recorded our ten year anniversary episode with some history, stories, and other silliness (and very little tech/devops content LOL) Plus at the end, a supercut of every episode cold open ever :) www.arresteddevops.com/ten-years-of...

This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated

Struggle with sleep? Here are some useful tips: • Turn your phone off early • Have a relaxing bath • Open the window • Help a raccoon climb through the window so you can watch NetFlix together • This is a sleepover now • Make popcorn for the raccoon • Avoid caffeine

A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders)

In favor of a ceasefire: Democratic voters 80% House Democrats 8% Republican voters 56% House Republicans 0% All voters 66% All House members 4% Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social

Were you laid off in the last year? Have time for an anonymous, super-short 3 question survey? forms.gle/y4Wc7H9CLciG... (I'm curious about something, so I'm collecting some data!) (h/t for reposting for reach!)

Nóva's sudden passing has left her fiancée with living expenses she cannot manage alone, and probate will take months. Please help us give her one less thing to worry about. gofund.me/69975d74

First post and why not. 😀 Handover Communications in Software Operations lup.lub.lu.se/luur/downloa...

“Events and relations must be understood in the context where they occur. It is always necessary to consider both the dependencies to other parts of the system and to events that went before. This is particularly the case for human activities, which cannot be understood only as reactions to events.”

For the record, "Continuous Resilience" is not a thing. Resilience is continuous. There's no "non" continuous resilience. Adaptation is always happening! One paper on the topic: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...