Alex Elman (he/him)

Perpetual cynic and hopeless optimist. SRE. Resilience in Software Foundation. Journalism, security and privacy. Equality for all. (he/him)

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

Call for participation for @SREcon 25 Americas is now out! https://t.co/HupdeA9v0i

Joint Cognitive Systems is even mentioned in the call! How cool is that?

[Lund University Human Factors & Systems Safety @lund_hfss]

In remembrance of the late @ri_cook (August 31, 2022).

https://t.co/UHDu7OeFLc

[TigerBeetle @TigerBeetleDB]

It's happening.

Join us for the live premiere of Kyle Kingsbury's talk from #SD24 (“Jepsen 15: What Even are Transactions?”).

Wednesday, August 28 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET

https://t.co/tUiInqEeJm

[Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi @sangeetha_a_j]

While this week's storm was the largest in two decades, there have been much stronger storms.

The Disturbance storm time (Dst) index
May 2024: -412 nT
Nov 2003: -422 nT
Mar 1989: −589 nT
May 1921 (estimated): -800 to -1000 nT
Sep 1859 Carrington event (est.): -850 to -1750 nT

[Alex Elman (he/him) @_pkill]

The modern tech revolution is just three ultraviolet lithography machines in a trench coat.

[Alex Elman (he/him) @_pkill]

No.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Some scientists believe that there is an approximately 12-per-cent chance of a severe solar storm striking the Earth in the next decade—which could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared? https://t.co/9kpv2FdDl0

[Casey Rosenthal @caseyrosenthal]

Join me on Thursday, January 25 for a webinar on Chaos Engineering. Covering: fundamentals of Chaos Engineering, strategies for successful implementation, how to navigate common adoption challenges, and measuring success. Register now: https://t.co/b3Fa2ybSNM
#ChaosEngineering

[Neil Spenceley @neilspenceley]

Learning from what goes well:
⁦@HorsleyCarl⁩ ⁦@picudoc13⁩ ⁦@LfEcommunity⁩ ⁦@Kevin_Fong⁩

Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno - BBC News https://t.co/y8dDMhtgXo

[Jeli.io @jeli_io]

We're excited to announce Jeli has been acquired by @pagerduty 📟❤️

Jeli is made up of folks who have been carrying pagers our entire careers. Joining forces w/ PagerDuty gives users an all-in-one #incidentmanagement solution - from response to analysis.

https://t.co/8S5I8ZJO2C

[SREcon @SREcon]

Today is the day! Talk proposals for SREcon24 Americas are due today, Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 pm PDT. View the CFP and send in your submission now: https://t.co/pT2rmZbj9F #srecon

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[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

The fact that the CEO of OceanGate was in the submarine is a reminder that we can’t tell when someone deliberately takes an excessive risk (the stereotypical sloppy engineer or greedy exec) versus someone whose risk estimate is poorly calibrated (underestimating the risk).

[Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1]

A fabulous paper about the pioneer @ri_cook.

https://t.co/V8IkqkftEh

[Vanessa Huerta Granda @v_hue_g]

If you’re doing action items, focus on the quality over the quantity!

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

First up on the resilience track is our host @v_hue_g

https://t.co/ixg7SewcpG

[Marco Altamirano @marcosien]

Did you know that, taking into account relative weight, a gerbil could outdrink several elephants? My latest on the boozie-suzies of the animal kingdom for @NautilusMag

[Lund University Human Factors & Systems Safety @lund_hfss]

The topic for today in Human Factors & Systems Safety is Four Concepts of Resilience.

Rebound
Robustness
Graceful Extensibility
Sustained Adaptability

https://t.co/Mf9M2CrRI4

[Alex Elman (he/him) @_pkill]

@aakashgupta

[Alex Elman (he/him) @_pkill]

@QuantaMagazine That’s because AI isn’t human. It doesn’t understand. You can’t “teach” AI you can train and refine its models. We should stop anthropomorphizing this technology.

[Alex Elman (he/him) @_pkill]

AI is not going to exponentially self-improve and destroy the world. ChatGPT is pure mimicry powered by scores of wage-based workers helping refine and tune the language model, “We are grunt workers, but there would be no AI language systems without it” https://t.co/MgYPvOilHB