Michael Brown ([email protected])

husband to lovely @pixipea, father, son, sysadmin, #Neurodiverse VAST, problem solver, coder, gamer, hegemonic patriarchal 🍩
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[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

@SAP I don't know if you care, but your Ariba system is sending out invalid email messages for account information and password resets. DM for details.

[LateNighter @latenightercom]

A concerned Jon Stewart spies a familiar face in Trump's now-infamous "Jesus" meme....

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Should we be calling Fortnite skins "Foreskins"?

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Was Mary *actually* a virgin, or was she just the first person to have transdimensional sex?

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Me: "Which one is she?"
Kid 1: "The one with her boobs out."
Kid 2: "Wait let me see! Is that her?"
Kid 1: "No!"
Me: "... that's a scarf."

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Is SecurityScoreCard merely extortion? Or legit?

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Does a biblically accurate angel have a torso?

Need to know for Codenames.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Reporters rushed out of the room because Trump shit his pants. lol

Lady in green tasted it.

🤢

[Ben Eater @beneater]

Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

@nateberkopec how is this different than today? :D

[TracketPacer @TracketPacer]

this is for everyone, but especially everyone who has ever looked at my posts & thought “wow, i wish i could work on a rocket!”, or your head is in the sand and you’re disappointed because i stopped posting tech content recently.

you know me as a rocket network engineer, so this is me speaking as one.

everyone who works at my company is either a US citizen or a legal permanent resident. this is a LEGAL REQUIREMENT that the company follows by law and ensures via passport & background checks. but many of my coworkers are nonwhite. some are disabled, some are LGBTQ+.

as we’ve plainly seen across the U.S., but especially in Minnesota recently, simply not being white, or being subjectively perceived as “disrespectful”, is all that it takes for someone to be abducted, beaten—in some cases tortured and humiliated or killed—and detained indefinitely by ICE. 

ICE have complete legal immunity & it no longer matters to them if you are legally here or not, if you can prove it or not. they are tearing up legal residency papers in Minnesota right now.

i am speaking out extra loudly now because, first and foremost, this is NOT MORALLY RIGHT. we shouldn’t be treating any human beings like ICE is treating people right now, documented status notwithstanding.

i am also thinking of what’s happening in Minnesota and the consequences for any of my coworkers if the same thing were to start happening in the Seattle area. if any of my colleagues or friends disappeared like this, it would not in any universe be because they did anything wrong. it would be because some violent ICE mouthbreather decided that’s what was going to happen. 

they’re clearly doing this to instill fear in nonwhite people of living in America. they’re trying to discourage diversity here, thereby ensuring we stay white. not only is it morally repugnant but it’s also objectively bad for our country in every possible way. 

i work with some of the smartest people on the planet. their nationality or the color of their skin doesn’t change that fact. 

if fascist leadership is allowed to continue making this country hostile to all other people from around the world, this will weaken us economically, socially, and intellectually on the world stage. it is complete and absolute nonsense. 
not to mention it will weaken my company and all others like it. we will not be able to make scientific progress as we have in the past. we will fail, and fall behind. 

the U.S. has a bloody, awful history but it has always been unique because it’s been a melting pot of people from all over the world, making homes here and bringing in their culture to strengthen ours. America is nothing without immigrants. it is already stolen land. 

what ICE and this administration are doing is wholly and completely against the America that we have all worked so hard for in the modern era.

do not let them take that away. stand up, speak out, and fight them.

[Твитгенштейн | Twittgenstein @shipulin]

@markgurman The average IQ of both companies has increased.

[jacob paris ▲ @jacobmparis]

remember when google showed search results

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Serious question @TracketPacer

As patch cable length generally denotes the length *not* including the connector, is this a 13mm patch cable or a minus 30mm patch cable?

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

@TracketPacer This is the content I log on for

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

One of my favorite things about Barbara Johns’ protest is how her radicalization started more than 100 years earlier.

A thread.

[Michael Brown ([email protected]) @Supermathie]

Boy it would be a "shame" if the entire episode got leaked and posted to the Internet.

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

Google’s first server bill, dated September 28, 1998.

"Includes all the setup and maintenance fees Google paid to get online - two network connections, one 15Mbps connection with 100Mbps burst capacity, and another 2Mbps with 100Mbps burst. The faster of the two cost $18,000 per month back then, but Google’s prorated charge was a mere $3750. Even then the basic bandwidth connections weren’t enough, so the company bought two additional megabits at $1400 each, just to be safe.

Google’s 7×4 foot server cage was running 30 PCs at the time, most of which housed the database. However, four were dedicated to crawling the web. Larry Page convinced the datacenter to give Google a break on the cost of the crawler bandwidth since it was all incoming traffic and didn’t cost much for Exodus. You can also see where the datacenter noted on the form Google was using “3 20 Amps in DC” in that little cage.

Shortly after Urs Hölzle came to Google, the company expanded into a cage next to the original one that was three times larger. This is where the first rack servers went up. We don’t know how expensive that one was, but if an extra megabit was $1400, it was probably a lot."

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Hi, ER Doc here.

I don’t know who needs to hear this
but do NOT even think about it.