tbf IAM is the bastard child of many cloud providers.

It exists to provide CISOs and BROs a level of security that no one person has access to their infrastructure. So if a company decides that system A should no longer have access to system B, they can do that quickly.

IAM is so complex now that it’s a field all in itself.

It’s safe to assume anything redacted is Trump. They have the burden of proof to say it’s not.

I was on a non profit board where the founder realized he wasn’t the right person for the job after 20 years of growing the org. It finally got to a point that he felt like the growth was beyond what he ever imagined or wanted.

He was, on every metric, very successful. He grew the org from nothing, got millions of dollars in donations, amassed a huge base, and no one would have thought different if he just kept going.

I remember sitting down with him one-on-one and asked him why. He thought about it for a minute and said, “It’s time for someone to make it even better.”

Looking back, I think I see the exhaustion. To constantly innovate, to push people forward, to push the org, the mission…it was all one person at a time. He reached a point in both age and in life that it just wasn’t something he could keep doing.

He loved the mission so much he knew it deserved better.

If that isn’t leadership, I don’t know what is.

Trump 1. When I saw very close friends who voted for Trump, not because of who he was but the fact that abortion would be over turned.

That’s when I knew that these people would vote in Satan himself if he promised to get rid of abortions.

It took almost 2-3 to get from “I’m not voting for Trump” to progressive.

I sat in the middle for a while as a conservative leaning independent but still caring about social issues. But once I understood that conservatism was really about oppression, I hard lefted to be a progressive.

The only way to give her a chance is if she commits, right now, to vote to impeach Trump. If she does this, then I’ll say she’s serious.

I say this as a once very strong and vocal conservative who has now turned full 180-almost anarchist progressive.

At least they are admitting that they have lost.

this is, in a round about way, making a right. Democrats are being disenfranchised in Texas and to make up for it, Republicans are being disenfranchised in California. If you want to complain, fucking ask the Republicans in Texas. They can easily and quickly unfuck this whole situation by making no changes to their districts.

Want to know the test on the whether the Republicans want to play fair? Republicans in California should be scolding their colleagues in Texas for redrawing maps unfairly but instead are blaming Democrats in California.

The Democrats are finally starting to realize you can’t play chess with a child who refuses to acknowledge the rules.

Do you remember what the Trump administration promised to deliver two weeks ago?

That’s why it works.

It’s true in the same way that he had a chat with the president of Puerto Rico.

The political process and how to change it in a meaningful and lasting way without risking tyranny profits of the capital class is almost always the problem.

Ftfy.

The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.

Remember: Shut the Fuck Up

I have a very common name. My Starbucks name is Bart.

Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.

I point this out every time GOP and ObamaCare and Repeal are mentioned.

Republicans in 2016 fucking RAN on repealing the ACA. It was a full blown blitz. In the final years of Obama, Republican-controlled House and Senate fucking PASSED full repeals of the ACA. Obama, of course, vetoes each one of them. They amounted something like 80+ bills to fully repeal it.

Trump runs on getting rid of “ObAmAcArE!” He wins the White House with, again, a Republican-controlled House and Senate.

Not ONE single bill to repeal the ACA was ever introduced. Famously, Republicans said “TWO WEEKS!” for their plan that never came to fruition.

Republicans know how popular the ACA is. They also knew that Trump would be dumb enough to sign a repeal into law.

This is all performative politics: gaslighting their base so that they will look good in upcoming local elections. Republicans, again, fully control the House and Senate and could repeal the law full-cloth but they don’t. Because they know they’ll get slaughtered in the elections.

The sad (but predictable) thing is that it worked.

Republicans HATE Obamacare. But don’t you dare try to take away their Affordable Care Act Medicaid!!

In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.

The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.

Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.

Because police officers have qualified immunity.

This ruling only means something if SCOTUS upholds the arrest and conviction. It’s an improvement, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.

The reason why this administration feels comfortable blatantly lying is because no one is holding them accountable.

The press is just passing this off with “oh look what this shitty person did. No, we didn’t ask any followup questions or get other sources. We moved on.”

Trump’s base certainly doesn’t care about facts.

There is a chrome addon that will “block” anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.

I’m starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.