Alyssa Nguyen

Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

I'm sorry, but what the ACTUAL fuck?

Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’

Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’ https://theonion.com/trump-to-americans-you-wont-have-to-pay-your-sons-cell-phone-bill-when-he-dies-at-war/

Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

Absolutely they'd gleefully mock and ridicule her like they do with trans women. Even if she was the most feminine woman they'd point out every feature they felt was masculine and state that "how did [she] ever think [she'd] convince anyone?"

“Gender-critical” transphobia now costs every woman athlete £185 if they want to compete in an international competition.

Well done transphobes, this is your doing and no-one else’s. Trans people have long been saying that transphobia would harm cis women. We were right, people just don’t listen.

Instead of spending $50 billion to bankroll Trump’s criminal war on Iran, we could:

-Extend ACA subsidies for one year
-Restore SNAP benefits for 2.4 million people
-And ensure Medicaid coverage for nearly 2 million people

It’s not about what we can afford. It’s about priorities.

This is why making stupid people famous is really fucking the planet.

The Words of the Week - Mar. 6 Dictionary lookups from Iran, Florida, and college basketball

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There's a disconnect between reality and their professed beliefs. It's part of "we can always tell". They downplay the false negatives (not trans) as being extraordinarily rare and deny that false positives happen at all, sometimes even when *they* are the ones being questioned.

This gives away the game. These laws aren't meant to *protect* anyone. They are meant to *punish* and *hurt* and even *cause the deaths* of people they have decided to bully.

The enforcement mechanisms for these laws are more of an assault than letting trans people use the bathroom they prefer.

Can we bet as to how long before it’s discovered it’s all a money laundering scheme?

Prosecutors Unable To Attend Live Nation Trial After Scalpers Buy Every Ticket

Prosecutors Unable To Attend Live Nation Trial After Scalpers Buy Every Ticket https://theonion.com/prosecutors-unable-to-attend-live-nation-trial-after-scalpers-buy-every-ticket/

From an international perspective, America is a rogue state now, right? America doesn't respect international law, doesn't honor treaties, is murdering civilians all over the world without care or consequence.

At what point does the rest of the world say ENOUGH?

A study isn't "misleading" just because you don't like what it says and/or don't understand the science behind it.

Nobody skips puberty. This is yet another persistent "gender critical" myth. The truth is not on their side. Going on HRT *triggers* puberty, but they refuse to acknowledge that and would rather perpetuate lies.

So why are you so afraid to answer?

Don't you just love how conservative ideology relies on ambiguity, assumptions, and exceptions?

That's not an individual's sex. You're conflating concepts.

Or he doesn't understand what "binary" means. 🤷‍♀️

So your views never included reasons to support trans rights, thus you never had views for the "new information" to contradict.

Due process still has to be followed. Evidence is still required to secure a conviction.

No. Taking your words for what they mean isn't nitpicking or twisting your words. You reject things that go against your views without any rational reason at all, but you convince yourself you *are* being rational.

So you're conflating sex as a reproductive process and an individual's sex.

"working properly" falls under the same category as "should be"

"automatically dismiss something that doesn't line up with your world view."

That's exactly what you're doing. 🤣

That's not delusion then.

That's not what you're doing when you ignore and refuse to acknowledge biological reality.

[citation needed]