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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈

@dataandpolitics.net

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Data and Politics. Engineer, then academic, now engineer again. Daytime is AI/ML research. I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator. Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart. A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️‍🌈

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · Jun 3

I've been wanting to tell my widowhood story publicly for years, but I know I don't have the kind of grief story people want to hear.

No community rallied, no family healed, no strength discovered.

I wrote about the gap between grief narratives and reality.
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Why I Find It Hard to Write About Being a Widow

Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation witho...

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T$ @streetberries.bsky.social · 8h

No orange wine? Are you rationing then?

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 9h

I just had an heirloom tomato salad with grilled trout in a warzone.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 12h

It’s been less than a year.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

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Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 13h

I hate it.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 14h

Perez Hilton has three children.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 19h

If Chicago were a war zone, why would he want his brand to be so prominently displayed?

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

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The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 18h

Real images of facility here:

(5th LD) Gov't to focus on restoring crippled state online services after data center fire | Yonhap News Agency

(ATTN: ADDS new info throughout, new photo; REWRITES headline, lead) SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Yo...

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Chris Tierney @readyuser.one · 18h

They could have prevented this with one $10,000 LTO machine and $1,000 in tapes rotated on/off site to a bank vault.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 19h

South Korea has lost 858 terabytes of government data after a fire destroyed its government data center and there were no backups.

quasa.io/media/south-...

South Korea's Catastrophic Data Center Fire: 858 Terabytes of Government Data Lost Forever Due to No Backup

The fire has ignited calls for overhaul - stricter battery protocols, mandatory offsite backups, and lithium-ion audits worldwide.

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Kris Vanherle @krisvanherle.bsky.social · 18h

I sometimes wonder how I would react if it happened to me...

This personal report, about having to continue after loosing your partner, is painful to read and really beautiful at the same time.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

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The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 18h

The only feasible way to back up 858 TB of data is with a geographically separated second 858 TB data center.

Or you know, 20 LTO-10 tapes.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 18h

South Korea has lost 858 terabytes of government data after a fire destroyed its government data center and there were no backups.

quasa.io/media/south-...

South Korea's Catastrophic Data Center Fire: 858 Terabytes of Government Data Lost Forever Due to No Backup

The fire has ignited calls for overhaul - stricter battery protocols, mandatory offsite backups, and lithium-ion audits worldwide.

quasa.io

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 21h

I know this is all bullshit because I can’t buy war insurance for work travel to Chicago.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 19h

If Chicago were a war zone, why would he want his brand to be so prominently displayed?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Amber @onionamber.bsky.social · 21h

“Forgetting they're dead and remembering again every few minutes.” No one talks about this. I had no idea how often thoughts of my children flit through my head every day. It took years before I stoped feeling that shock and gut punch because for a split second, I didn’t remember she was dead.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 21h

I know this is all bullshit because I can’t buy war insurance for work travel to Chicago.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

Most grief stories end at the funeral or jump to "years later."

What about everything in between?

The Christmas hold music while on hold with the bank. The weeks of not sleeping. Forgetting they're dead and remembering again every few minutes. The detective work through drawers looking for clues.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

www.dataandpolitics.net

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

I wrote about the three years after my husband's death.

The blurring of memory. The weight of unanswerable questions. The choice to continue anyway.

It's not about healing. It's about what actually happens.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 2d

Not citywide no.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 2d

Correct.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 2d

Not a citywide office.

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