Thomas Friedman: What Schumer and Biden Got Right About Netanyahu [nytimes.com] — Israel needs a plan for peaceful coexistence with Palestinians after the war, and Netanyahu has nothing to offer.
A conversation with Stephanie ‘Snow’ Carruthers, Chief People Hacker at IBM X-Force Red [securityweek.com]
Her partner planned to attend DEFCON. She went with him, more for Vegas than DEFCON. But after falling asleep in a reverse engineering malware presentation (“It went completely over my head,” she explained) she was encouraged to go and find something of more interest. She did, and found a lock-picking village. Within a couple of hours, she had picked her first lock.
17 percent of Americans report experiencing long Covid. That is an extraordinarily high number of sick people. [usnews.com]
“How Are You? Just Give Me Your Stock Answer. No, really. I want to know your stock answer." [ironicsans.beehiiv.com] — Me: “I’m good. You?” Or, if the other person asks first, I just say, “I’m good.” Except often I forget and say, “I’m good, you?” leading to an infinite “How are you” loop.
My editor won’t sent me to to KubeCon in Paris, France. She says if KubeCon comes to Paris, Texas, she’ll talk about it.
My latest on Silverlinings: Red Hat jockeys for pole position as enterprises cloudify critical apps — Enterprises are releasing critical applications from their safe, legacy architectures and updating them for the cloud, according to a report by Red Hat and analysts at Illuminas.
“Our cousin lives in Jupiter, Florida so you can imagine my 8yo’s disappointment once we arrived.”— @ihidefrommykids
It’s sunny and clear and I just got a weather alert to expect severe thunderstorms in 40 minutes. WTF?
The air does smell ozoney, though.
I’m trying to be more mindful about adding articles to my read-it-later list. It becomes just another to-do list to add stress to my brain. I want to stop adding “that might be interesting” articles to the list. But that’s hard to do because those articles, well, might be interesting.
My latest on Silverlinings: Oracle climbs to the hyperscaler A-list — Oracle’s growth and multi-cloud strategy elevates it to the big leagues. Its deeper partnership with Microsoft will burnish the Crimson Cloud Conglomerate’s shine.
Read to the end for a failed comparison to “Goodfellas.”
I tried steel-cut oats for my morning oatmeal and the texture was like tiny styrofoam pellets. Not recommended.
It's nice to be recognized
I am delighted to be included in the new blogroll for Dave Winer’s Scripting News —consistently one of my favorite blogs for more than 20 years.
Something I saw while walking the dog.
This would have been a fantastic photo if not for that frickin green blurry stick photobombing the right side.
LED light bulbs have gotten great—inexpensive, energy-efficient, bright and reliable.
Kevin Drum: We are living in a golden age of light bulbs. [jabberwocking.com]
Wirecutter: It doesn’t matter if you turn them off when you leave the room. The energy usage and financial cost is trivial. [nytimes.com]
Via Jason, who says: “LED light bulbs are like every conservative outrage— once the fight against them is won, we all move on and just live in a better world.” [json.blog]
