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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 8h

Yep. This.

RonnyTNL @ronnytnl.bsky.social · 12h

We are about to go from "It's always DNS" to "It's always AWS US-East-1" #NotTheFirstNorTheLast

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 8h

Okay. This one made me snort. #awsoutage #us-east-1

sodiboo :pride_heart: @sodiboo.gaysex.cloud · 16h

xkcd-style stick figures:

No, don't you get it? If you die in us-east-1 you die in REAL LIFE!

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 8h

THIS:

"US-EAST-1 is AWS’s oldest and largest cloud region, a popular nerve center for online services, which has made it an Achilles heel for the internet over the years. Major outages originating from this same region also caused widespread disruptions in 2017, 2021, and 2023." @geekwire.com

AWS outage hits major apps and services, resurfacing old questions about cloud redundancy

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud gi...

www.geekwire.com

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 9h

And I'm 3000% sure that multiple people have written as much in multiple COEs (correction of errors) at Amazon.

But sometimes those CORE bits are REALLY hard to break apart so they stay that way because they're really well "protected" - as best as folks can manage.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 9h

So when you talk about having all your sites and services as "multi-AZ" (multiple availability zones) - you're all fine and dandy until something REAL BAD happens in this one specific place.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 9h

I think the real issue might be that US-EAST-1 still contains traces (or a lot?) of GLOBAL control plane bits.

US-EAST-1 is old. It's like the granddaddy of AWS. If there was ever going to be old crufty not-quite-best-practices orchestrationy bits, it would be there.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 9h

Okay ... Okay... I saw someone pleading for actual updates.

Here's my hunch as someone who knows nothing...

I would have put money on DynamoDB and/or DNS as those have been culprits in the past and I never liked those shifty services.

However, I honestly think this is a bigger issue. 🧵

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 11h

Best explanation so far #awsoutage #aws #dynamodb #dns #itsalwaysdns

Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 16h

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · Jul 18

This cost-cutting is not just Colbert.

The same forces coming for smart comedy are coming for my mom’s rehab, the amazing health care - her second chance.

They canceled the most-watched late-night show.

Eventually, they’ll cancel her gen too—unless we stop them. #Medicare #Colbert #SaveDemocracy

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · Jul 18

My mother loves Colbert so much - we put her TV on KELO 11 at 7:45pm every night. Colbert is not on until after the news, but the remote in her room is so crappy that she accidentally changes the channel with the volume. She sits through the horrors of other CBS programming - just to watch Colbert.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · Jul 18

Colbert’s Late Show was still the #1 broadcast late-night show with 2.4 million viewers in Q2 2025.

It grew its audience while others shrank. It wasn’t ratings that killed it.

It was money. It was politics. It was the long knives of “cost-cutting.”

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m here because my mother is in her 20th day of rehab, recovering from a month-long hospitalization that nearly broke her.

She’s walking again. Barely. Slowly. But walking. That rehab—her hope—is paid for by Medicare.

A promise made to her generation.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · Jul 18

It feels both cruel and poetic that I found out Stephen Colbert was being canceled from the sound of a Fox News segment echoing from the next room.

I was sitting with my beloved aunt and uncle, here in Mitchell, South Dakota.

My uncle is a wise man who worked in soil conservation his whole life.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Jul 18

If we’re lucky, Colbert is about to have a year-long DGAF era. The man’s off the leash. What are they gonna do, cancel him?

Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · Jul 18

Stephen Colbert's program was the top-rated network late-night show though Q2 2025, casting considerable doubt on Paramount's claim that the cancelation was a "financial decision."

Coincidentally, here's a clip of a segment that aired just before Paramount's decision:

Paramount’s Trump Settlement: A Big Fat Bribe | Jeffrey Epstein Never Dies | FIFA Trophy Row

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · Jul 18

Seems like the right time to share this wonderful moment again, now with subtitles and some context at the beginning about what they were talking about before Jeff Goldblum shared a George Bernard Shaw quote with Stephen Colbert.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 22

And now... a moment of zen from Canada ... youtu.be/VTJyYhBRDnU?...

I watched a Bit of FOX News - OMG

YouTube video by Jim's Radio Shop

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 22

"As you can see, this dataset probably holds a million different leads. It's too early to tell if any of them will pan out and become something bigger."

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 22

"If you're a journalist looking for a tip: Most of the members of the group only listed names, but a few listed phone numbers. If you have access to this data and are looking for a story, why not send the phone-number people Signal messages and ask what this group is about?"

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 22

"The message says, "The biggest crime was USG ignored these fabs for two years." That's it. The dataset doesn't include any other messages from this Signal group."

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 22

More on the #telemessage DUMP!

"... found a message sent to a Signal group called "US / China AI Race." The Signal group had 100 people in it. [... ] many of the group members hold prominent positions at major universities, the defense industry, and the military, [...]. "

#signalgate #ai

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · May 22

My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-...

TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more

I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an up...

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 21

NBC photo with RFK Jr and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) with the text superimposed :

I am fucking lying to you, Bill
Yeah, I know.

To your fucking face, Bill.
Yeah, I know.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 21

And i say again .... FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCK

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 21

For all healthy persons — those with no risk factors for severe Covid-19 — between the ages of 6 months and 64 years, the FDA anticipates the need for randomized, controlled trial data evaluating clinical outcomes before Biologics License Applications can be granted.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM

This article from the FDA compares broad U.S. recommendations on Covid vaccination with those from other countries and announces the adoption of an evidence-based approach to such recommendations.

qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · May 21

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

This article links to the @nejm.org post from the FDA. It seems they want to go back to the "at risk only" folks & experiment on the "healthy" folks.

Am I crazy? Is this NOT as fucked as I think it is?

www.sciencenews.org/article/fda-...

From:
@sciencenews.bsky.social

www.sciencenews.org

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People's CDC @peoplescdc.org · May 20

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

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below:
"Submit a public comment to the FDA by May 23:
We all need access to updated COVID boosters "
"Our template makes it easy
(link in bio). Comment at
tinyurl.com/FDAVaccineMeeting"

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