LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

“Let me get this straight. Donald #Trump, of all people, is outraged by a candidate presenting a second-place finish as a success? He thinks it's "delusional" for someone to stick around in the wake of an electoral rebuke?

I've seen failures of self-awareness, but c'mon.” Via @stevebenen
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/irony-trumps-angry-reaction-nh-primary-victory-rcna135420

Every once in a while, a guy presses me about my experience as a woman in tech, expecting something rosy.

I say: "Imagine that all your same-gender peers for the first 15 years of your career…were not there. That was my experience."

You'd be astonished at the pushback I get because it is just so hard for them to conceptualize so many people in their career just vanishing.

That's how it is for women and many people of color in tech.

Amazingly, @dmoren and I were able to interview the co-creators and showrunners of "For All Mankind" about the recently-concluded season, alt history Apple products, and (of course) vending machines.

https://www.theincomparable.com/nvm/31/

I’m continually so proud of the work our team puts into initiatives like this. Announcing Apple’s new Black Unity collection for Apple Watch. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-unveils-2024-black-unity-collection-and-announces-six-reji-grantees/

Awful ruling upholding Indiana’s law against recording police within 25 feet. Similar laws have been ruled unconstitutional elsewhere because recording cops is an established First Amendment right.

The IN lawmaker behind the law reportedly said citizens like those who recorded George Floyd’s murder were “involved in a situation that’s none of their business.” That tells you all you need to know. https://thedissenter.org/us-judge-rules-in-favor-of-police-buffer-law-viewed-as-threat-to-rights-of-journalists/?ref=the-dissenter-newsletter

It's incredible to me that years later we are dealing with another set of life threatening quality issues in Boeing 737 MAX planes which can all be traced to the company deciding to optimize for shareholder value instead of listening to its engineers.

https://www.fromdayone.co/2022/05/01/lessons-of-boeings-cultural-decline-and-how-it-can-recover/

@lorihc @JasonAnthonyGuy last I heard DMV runs on impossibly antiquated systems. It’s a shock any of it works

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dj-vu-all-over-again-californias-dmv-it-project-cancelled

There's a lot of great stuff about Slow Horses, but damn is Sophie Okonedo's Ingrid perfect.

@Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara

The reward of working in infrastructure is that the better we do our job, the more useless everyone thinks we are.

I suppose this means that your people did your jobs *very* well on that project.

@dcreemer @lorihc Ok, I binge watched 4 episodes after seeing this exchange and just reached that scene in ep 5. Totally agree with the sentiment and philosophy even though I’m guilty of not always following it. (And great show btw)

In desert climates of the US a suburban lawn, with irrigation and soil aeration "maintenance" is basically a fire ant paradise. Fire ants love direct sun. They hate bushes that shade the ground, diverse clumps of plants, and fire ants can't live in the desert. They are tropical and the sprinklers for lawns complete the picture. Fire ant paradise!

But then people get so angry when they show up to live in something clearly made for them.