Phillip Moore

Global Infrastructure Diversity Trends A decades-long infrastructure strategy has to assume geopolitical change. This piece maps the early signals of sovereignty-driven diversification and what they mean for long-lived vendor decisions.

This article was inspired by yesterday's github outage, and then a few recent news articles. The politics is light in this, and it's more about how the political landscape affects strategic technology infrastructure decisions, considering recent sovereignty trends, and shifting US alliances.

He’s not wrong.

I haven’t had to make up a lame password by hand in years. Except at work where we aren’t allowed to use them, but then why would a global financial institution be concerned with security?!

Screenshot of the statement from Costco

Screenshot of the statement from Costco

Screenshot of the statement from Costco

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

How an infinite DNA glitch saved millions YouTube video by Veritasium

How an infinite DNA glitch saved millions.

Our latest video is about Kary Mullis - quite possibly the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.

Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.

My pinned PROOF report—born of 2 years researching Musk—has been read by tens of thousands who have come to it via various social media platforms and backchannel recs. Maybe 1% of readers worry it's too hard on Musk; they fear I'm ringing the alarm too hard.

I'm not, and each new day is proving it:

True story.

Sorry George, but I’m convinced this a question of “when” not “if”.

We’re going to be tested as a nation sooner than later I fear, and I hope we can muster a response that would make the South Koreans proud.

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society ... we can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.' Well we got an oligarchy here too."

Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!

FFS Hogan was supposed to be one of the not-too-stupid Republicans, too

Karma. The more Democratic “leadership” keeps blocking the younger generation from leading the more elections they will keep losing.

How’s the new hip, Nancy?

America is going to learn very fast that the historic corruption of the incoming administration will kill people. American innocents will die because Trump and Musk and Thiel and Vance have designs on this country that have everything to do with their own enrichment and nothing to do with Americans.

What bothers me most about the hagiographies tech journalists wrote about Elon Musk for 20+ years is that they universally framed him as an intelligent man.

He's not.

He's an undereducated, intemperate, incurious, prejudiced, unwise, narrowly skilled dolt who is willfully ignorant on most topics.

The near complete lack of Christians was one of the things I loved about living in Japan (1988 to 1994, got married and had both of my kids there).

This is pretty cool...

I"m still wrapping my head around how I'm gong to use and depend on BlueSky, but let this be your reminder that EVERYTHING you post and reply to is public.

Not saying it's good or bad, just something you must factor into how you use it.

Have I mentioned how much I love AOC yet? (See my profile banner pic)

Seriously hope she wins this. She is the future of Democratic politics or we might not have one.

This NJ metal head is a new fan.

Well damn now I’ll be looking for those new videos…

This track is exactly the kind of metal I love. Especially love how she moves effortlessly between clean and harsh vocals.

It’s heavy, driving and then soft and sweet, the kind of dynamic diversity I love in this kind of music.

This is worth a read, start to finish

I was, to be honest, heartbroken at the time.

I’ve accepted my fate and continue to suffer at the Worst. Bank. Ever.

But it pays. I sold my soul but got a decent price….

Apparently I was a bit too excited in the “personality” interview. The recruiter all but told me I was hired based on the technical interviews, but she was still waiting for that last bit of feedback.

You know me well enough to imagine how that one went.

No I didn’t get an offer, even after making it the last stage with supposedly rave feedback.

I think in the long run they did me a favor

It’s addicting. I am happiest when working on a large code base making complex changes, and getting them done and deployed while my peers are still figuring out how to get started

Most fun I had recently was completing most of the Meta coding challenges while prepping for an interview.

Thanks for the reminder to renew my ACLU membership

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Exactly my feelings on the death of the UHC CEO

Awesome read. Have to say I agree with most of it. I hope we’re about to create another movement of change.