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Dec 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sun plan: 1032 train to Sydney; quick errands; 1300 lunch and drinks with a co-conspirator; further drinks with an evil gang; Weekly Wrap, somehow; collapse somewhere in Sydney. This will be an interesting day.
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Dec 9
“Write a military intelligence field report on the readiness of the Proud Boys in Cincinnati.” Image
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“Write a military intelligence field report on the readiness of futuristic sparkle unicorn furries in Cincinnati.”

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Nov 16
What @NewtonMark writes represents the views of a significant number of mathematically literate people watched the pandemic political and media response with a rational, critical eye. The personality cult that has built up around Normal Swan is an embarrassment. 1/
@NewtonMark The ABC’s response will be the same as it’s always been with flagship presenters. The criticisms just come from a minority of trolls, look at all the lovely emails we get, look at the audience figures, we all love Dr Norman — no lèse-majesté against the stars! 2/
@NewtonMark Of course there’s an anti-personality cult too. I’ve seen plenty of people for whom shouting about Norman Swan and others has become a hobby. That’s a whole separate thing. But making Normal Swan the ABC’s Face of the Pandemic may not have been the best... 3/
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Nov 15
Hey Kids, I’ve just remembered it’s an Essential polling Tuesday, so let’s see what’s in the data. essentialreport.com.au/reports/15-nov…

As usual the polling was done Wed–Sun and the margin of error on top-line figures is around ±3 percentage points. Here we go...
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Nov 15
I just woke up from a nap and I'm shaking because I crashed straight back into reality out of a dream where I was in an editorial meeting at The New York Times where we were workshopping the names of bad gay porn stars.
As I woke up we were trying to name this starfish bottom ex-twink from New Hampshire who was so white because the fluorescers from his laundry detergent had leached into his skin and he glowed faintly in the dark like those little plastic stars you stick on bedroom ceilings.
Except his teeth, which glowed brighter.
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Nov 14
It’s worth reading the whole thread, but this is the nub of it. Big systems like Twitter are incredibly complicated and some much knowledge is in the heads of the people who maintain them.

Imagine “You need to wiggle the key to the left a bit to get it to start” times a billion.
Around 25 years ago an unlabelled PC sat on a shelf in the Paddington (Sydney) Telstra exchange, an old i386 running some random Linux. Nobody knew what it did. So they turned it off — and the entire eastern suburbs cable network went down. So they turned it back on.
In every network there’s some random configuration setting or ugly workaround that was put in as a temporary fix during some drama and has sat there ever since. Only one person knows it’s there, and you just sacked them.
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Nov 13
NEW BLOG POST: “Weekly Wrap 650: A heady mix of submarines, the dark web, writing, and fatigue” stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/65… Covers 7–13 November 2022 and contains lots of links to interesting things. Also, a jerkbird. Image
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I also co-wrote this thought-provoking blog post with troublemaker @Steve_Lockstep.
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