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13 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I read this tweet aloud to my wife.

@bequinning: “Oh, Ambika?! We went to law school together!”
I always wondered how an attorney would frame "cool story, bro" and now I know.
I'm starting to think that maybe the Parler folks might not fully grasp how complicated web properties work.
"Wait, you mean you can cite my shitpost comments as statements of fact?!" I don't get why this always seems to surprise people, but here we are.
Really, the introduction captures the entire gist of this. I truly don't understand the disagreement with this; it's as if we're working from two different working sets of facts.

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14 Jan
And now a livetweet thread of a legal conference in the case of C21-31-BJR, Parler LLC v. @awscloud.
Parler suggests "AWS just has to flip a switch and Parler gets turned back on. Parler has been their customer for 2.5 years."
"They've met and conferred over some user content that violates not only Parler's user requirements, but also Amazon's." Yes, they'll do that, whether you want them to or not.
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14 Jan
This one grabbed my attention. I spent two years at @TaosTech. They’re the reason I moved to SF, started my own consulting firm, and met some wonderful people. It’s probably the best job I ever had.

Very savvy move by @IBMcloud.
I have a request to say more. Well okay!

The @TaosTech technical interview is a thing of genius. It's standardized, modeled after SAGE levels, and reshaped how I think about hiring engineers.
At the time my biggest gripe with Taos was that they didn't have a role into which I "fit." With the benefit of hindsight that's not their fault; I don't fit in anywhere, which is why I'm here.
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14 Jan
Let me point out some cloud magic tonight / say some nice things.

Normally I dunk on @awscloud in these threads, but today that puts me Nazi-adjacent. Plus AWS marketing's nerves are a little... frayed, so I fear for my safety. Image
The easy starting point is @AWSSupport. People are just rude as hell to them and they take it on the chin like the professionals they are. "Amazon is owned by a billionaire!" but he doesn't have to field the support tweets.

They also have to figure out when I'm trolling.
No matter how much you complain, they'll help you out. They're marvels, and good people too.
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13 Jan
In this thread (which you may want to mute), give me a company and I'll tell you why they fired me.

I'll start with @F5: because I used the word "refreshing" in their marketing copy.
I felt sorry for the princess our customers had to kidnap for ransom to pay for our product, so I bought her a taser.

I violated their ethics policy by having some.

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12 Jan
There's been a lot of noise lately about follower counts, so I'm pleased to leap into that and take a remarkably petty victory lap:

I now have more followers than the hardest working account in cloud, @AWSSupport.
Their milquetoast advice will work, but my terrible advice is way better!
@AWSSupport: "Use RDS as your database!"
Me: "Use Route 53 as your database!"
AWS: "Lock down your S3 buckets to avoid data leaks."
Me: "Save money by storing data in other people's insecure S3 buckets."
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12 Jan
I’d like to point out that *every* multi-cloud scenario I’ve ever encountered in the wild has been based upon “what if we choose to leave @awscloud.

Never once has it been “what if they throw us off their platform?”
That conversation would be surreal.
“Why on earth would they do that?”
“Y’know. Because of all the insurrection and Nazi shit we do.”
“…riiiight. Hey, where’s your restroom? I really gotta go suddenly.”
Yes, there are other reasons people ask about multi-cloud as well (regulatory requirements, misunderstanding availability, etc.). My point is that I've never heard "the provider may boot us out into the snow" before.
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