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Dave O'Connor

@gerrowadat

I make big busy teams and systems go. https://coservant.systems/ I help leaders be good to themselves and others. https://www.strategichopes.co/ I write words on the internet. https://log.andvari.net/ SRE OG, Google 2004-2021, elastic, Twilio etc.

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Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

10.03.2026 11:07 👍 4501 🔁 1225 💬 45 📌 53

Not as in "admirable", but as in "Alexander the".

28.02.2026 00:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

27.02.2026 23:22 👍 3654 🔁 630 💬 0 📌 1

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

27.02.2026 23:12 👍 9890 🔁 2798 💬 202 📌 128

Well now…

23.02.2026 21:59 👍 76 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 1

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 👍 17930 🔁 5441 💬 246 📌 257

"Datacenters in space are a thing" is the thing you say to legitimize merging your two completely unrelated companies, and for no other reason. How fucking stupid are people?

06.02.2026 01:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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