Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
@lizthegrey.com
Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land she/it
I wish people would stop equating SRE with oncall.
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 8h agoWhen I hear about “AI SRE” startups (products hoping to automate oncall so no dev gets woken up at 2am): Putting in more work so stuff works so you don’t get paged at 2am is what we have today. Should we get more AI and less feedback systems reliability could get a lot worse
For us, it is not the motion that poses a threat to Jews, but the media storm around the motion, which is presenting Zionism as if it is some sort of protected Jewish characteristic. This is extremely dangerous and incredibly offensive. Stop it.
The reality is that JGs are deeply divided over the ZIR motion, so what exactly was Zack supposed to do to support us, when some Jewish members have supported the motion just as ferociously as others have opposed it?
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
Mike (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴@mxmike.co.uk · 21h agoBethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Jfc nothing says wrong side of history quite like trying to sanction the International Criminal Court
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoThe NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
Usually I'm the one writing about AI. But recently, the tables were turned. Someone sent me a link to an 89-page book about "redefining living through Cam Wilson teachings", seemingly made by AI So, I bought it. Once it arrived, things got even weirder: www.abc.net.au/news/...
whoah, congrats @bcantrill.bsky.social imo Oxide is one of the coolest non-AI companies out there. Great to see
Oxide Computer Company@oxide.computer · 3d agoToday we're announcing our $445M Series D and announcing that we've reached profitability. Huge thanks to Eclipse for leading the round, which included participation from existing investors USIT, Jane Street, Riot Ventures, Intel Capital, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart Ventures.
You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
Zitron accidentally making his first good point about the downsides of AI.
K@kate10010.bsky.social · 2d agoEd Zitron used AI to create the very first chart in this piece. It made a critical error, which he did not notice because he just learned about bonds last month. THAT is the danger of non practitioners relying on AI output, you don’t know what you’re looking for. The chart is completely inaccurate.
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
It's possible I'm wrong, and they didn't actually closely follow the advice given by that board (AGMAI). Depends on how well we think they did on part 2B here.
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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …
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It's early Oct and I've already requalified for AA EXP, only 7 months into the membership year. A fair bit more work travel to Europe than I used to do, plus buying the pointy end for my jaunts between my homes in North America and Oceania.
Ready for the fireside chat that @lizthegrey.com and I are doing today? It’s titled “Observability Engineering: What’s Next?” And it’s going to be a wild ride. Bring your o11y questions for our Q&A session! I might be spooky but observability doesn’t have to be 🫡 luma.com/srenl?e=evt-...
The 1A means that what you read and say can't be the reason you are imprisoned (excepting the exceptions for imminence, speech as conduct, etc). It does NOT mean that what you read and say can't be evidence a jury can use to draw inferences about whether you engaged in OTHER criminal conduct
One more time: If you are moving something to hide it from the FBI, who is coming to execute a warrant, because you think it will harm you for them to find it ... that is a real crime *even if the thing you are moving is totally innocuous* Anarchist zines. Buzz lightyear poster. *Doesn't matter*
kat excellence ✨@katexcellence.io · last mo.this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
BC folks: You may be eligible to book your COVID/flu vaccines as of 1 October, even if you have not yet received a notification.
Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations underway in B.C. as respiratory illness season arrives early | CBC News
If you feel like everyone around you has been sick lately, you aren't imagining things. According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, seasonal illnesses are on the rise earlier than usual this yea...
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Some early first-hand accounts of the experience of encountering a narrow superhuman intelligence as mathematicians grapple with the hundreds of big AI proofs released by OpenAI. Problems solved in inhuman ways that make us wonder what it means to actually know things... scottaaronson.blog?p=10169
A Claude or Codex subscription doesn’t buy you taste or product “management” skill and goddamn it shows. Stuffing your software with any random feature under the sun is not a good thing, actually.
If I was a lawyer on a high profile case I would simply not try to do a bit of light fraud on the judge
OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case
A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times' ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I argued earlier, that struck me as something of a nothingburger of a story, because...
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Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 5d agoWow. Plaintiffs lawyers didn't even try to defend that "key" report they had questionably cooked up to fill in the gaps to attack fair use in the big OpenAI case. Looks like they knew they were dead to rights. Background here: www.techdirt.com/2026/09/25/o...
