Mitch's Blog

AWS engineer Tim Bray resigns from Amazon following worker firings – Bray quit Amazon in protest over the company firing vocally critical employees. Bray was an Amazon Web Services VP and distinguished engineer, who previously did stints at Google and Sun.

“… remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised,” he said. “The victims weren’t abstract entities but real people…. "

He adds: “I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?”

Inspired by a conversation with Mike Elgan yesterday, I’m going to do Facebook a lot less for a while.

This Woman Was Isolated In Her Nursing Home, So Her Grandchildren Stood Outside With Signs To Ask Her For Money

Man In Quarantine Can’t Remember How Long It’s Been Since He Danced Through Town Square Followed By Big Chorus Of Friendly Locals

The Scientists Who Won’t Give Up on the Warp Drive — Dozens of engineers and physicists are trying to do the impossible, develop a means of moving faster than the speed of light. They see it as an interesting thought experiment that could shed light on the boundaries of physics — and maybe more.

Terry Pratchett: Doctor Who is not science fiction. Thanks, Cory!

School bus converted to mobile, full-time off-grid home. And it’s a really NICE home too.

It’s the 50th Anniversary of Humanity’s Favorite Activity: Staring at an LCD