Chris Strauber

Boston area academic librarian. Cloud advocate. Fan of marine mammals. He/him/his. Also @[email protected]

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

localhost is my Higher Power.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

"The only true relationship I have is with my localhost. Even then, the connection can be refused from time to time. Be strong, coders."

[Gary Parrish @GaryParrishCBS]

Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it.

(Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.)

[Dr. Alexander S. Burns @KKriegeBlog]

I'm not sure there is anything wrong with enjoying your life and rollerblading. Normalize enjoying your life and rollerblading. I hope I don't reach my late 70s, and as I'm lying in my hospital bed, think, "man, I could have written more articles." 9/11

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

Imagine a World War II documentary shot like a drama. Imagine most of the people you'd want to talk to still being alive.

The World At War is one of the best things anyone has ever done with television.

This is a link to the cold open for a 20-ish part documentary.

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

The first two minutes of the first episode go harder than any documentary needs to go https://t.co/VJMz8RgXnf

[Dr Kate Compton @GalaxyKate]

Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, but

look

tech people

I'm not saying you are the problem
I'm saying the exchange rate is in our favor
and someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per year

so we should do that

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

@Thucydiocy LOL

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

@MrAtomicDuck I agree. Would love to see the left as the background for a voiceover intro/outro.

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

@MoiraDonegan "If this were an honorable court...." is a perfect piece of writing.

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

I see Brianna Wu's name in Trending and I see the same people doing the same shit, always with screenshots. Links or it didn't happen.

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

Lisa flips out from lack of praise during the teacher's strike and builds a perpetual motion machine. The segment ends with Homer putting his foot down and saying "In this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics."

[a knight who remembered his meows @ManuclearBomb]

Gun to to your head, what is the *best* Simpsons joke? However you wanna define it; pics, GIFs, clips, and overwrought explanations welcome.

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

@jillmwo It's not clear that AI training is a transformative use, so do you really want your AI trained on pre-1930 material? Agree that it's not feasible either. Lots of things I'd do with a book dataset like that before AI.

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

Mood.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Considering switching careers to become a doorstop. At least then, I'd only have one job and everyone would understand my function.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

Well, this has been quite a publicity tour.

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

Having police violently break up protests and then calling them “violent protests” is an old trick that succeeds only when the press takes the bait which is what’s happening now

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

@OnlyInBOS Just enough to be more than my raise, as usual.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

We must do everything possible to avert an entirely preventable, human-made famine in Gaza.

I again call on the Israeli authorities to allow & facilitate safe, rapid & unimpeded access for humanitarian aid & humanitarian workers, including @UNRWA.

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

I wrote about how last night, an over-the-air radio broadcast from a tiny FM signal was the sole news source for the most important national news story of the moment. And how that's.... interesting https://t.co/4ZF5ajGPxb

[Escalate Network @readytoescalate]

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

[Chris Strauber @cstrauber]

Please join me in subscribing to an obsessed reporter writing about a movie about reporters. Please.

[Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox]

Ok, an ALL CIVIL WAR Substack. If at least 50 people subscribe (SWIDT?). It'll be free & I don't plan on doing it forever (just a month?). Get Civil War (the 2024 movie) news, trivia, and my ENORMOUS THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT--once 49 other people sign up. https://t.co/UFyKNXSAgY