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Eric Gerlach
@egerlach
Father. Software Dev. Sr. Director @Oracle. Leader with imposter syndrome. Community enthusiast. Political wonk. Geek of all trades. Opinions are only mine.
Jul 8, 2022 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Now this is interesting. From @CloudflareRadar via @jordancrombie, a flurry of BGP announcements right before Rogers went offline.

🧵 for my short story of what might be happening. I had fun writing it.

#ItsAlwaysBGP #rogersoutage #rogersdown Here's my real guess. Rogers BGP announced itself off the internet, and now isn't successfully peered with anyone. Since they're now not peered with anyone, they can't announce themselves back on.
Jul 8, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
🧵I am going to try to take that appropriately angry "nationalize Rogers" two-word policy statement and try to put some meat on it.

And this applies to Bell, too.

This is just me spitballing. I don't actually know what I'm talking about. 1. Split last-mile infrastructure from the rest of the company.

It's inherently oligopolistic.

It's not expensive for a new ketchup brand to send a case to a grocery store so they can try it out. It's very expensive to run new wires through an entire city.
Jul 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 I have multiple issues with the Chowder (intentional misspelling) tweet, and the NEA proposal.

First, Chowder gets it wrong. The phrase was "birthing parent", not "birthing person". If you're gonna kvetch, kvetch accurately.

1/7 I have a problem with "birthing parent" replacing "mother" in the educational context. It excludes female parents who adopt! They are mothers but not birthing parents.

I also assume some AMAB non-binary or trans people might choose mother as their label, but didn't birth.

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Sep 28, 2020 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
#covidontario is about to explode, and there's nothing we can do about it. @fordnation, @celliottability, and @Sflecce already signed the death warrants.

A thread.

1/17

cbc.ca/news/canada/to… Back on September 1st, Ontario reported 133 new COVID-19 cases.

@imgrund reported that the Rt value was 1.04, but less than a week later it was revised up to 1.2

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Sep 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I don't think the Trump-Russia connection has as many twirling moustaches as this thread implies.

However, we often underestimate the lengths people will go to to maintain the status quo or avoid cognitive dissonance.

1/ I doubt it's Trump saying: "Nyeh, heh, heh! I'm going to implement a pro-Russia foreign policy and harm America!"

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