Camille Fournier
@skamille.themanagerswrath.com
she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
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Getting radicalized by the fact that it feels like my kids have had maybe 2 full weeks of school this entire year so far and one was Halloween which barely counts. We have to stop the holidays. It's too much.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Getting radicalized by the fact that it feels like my kids have had maybe 2 full weeks of school this entire year so far and one was Halloween which barely counts. We have to stop the holidays. It's too much.
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Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring!
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Developer Relations Engineer
San Francisco, CA
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring!
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
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This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
pubpeer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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when i see my wife carrying a little treat
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
when i see my wife carrying a little treat
Chrome got rid of the tab search drop-down in toolbar as a default and I'm about to murder someone and if you reply with the keyboard shortcut it might be you
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Chrome got rid of the tab search drop-down in toolbar as a default and I'm about to murder someone and if you reply with the keyboard shortcut it might be you
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i am glad that the norm when i was growing up was
you had your meltdowns and tantrums on a landline with (1) friend instead of posting stream-of-consciousness rants to the whole internet
you had your meltdowns and tantrums on a landline with (1) friend instead of posting stream-of-consciousness rants to the whole internet
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
i am glad that the norm when i was growing up was
you had your meltdowns and tantrums on a landline with (1) friend instead of posting stream-of-consciousness rants to the whole internet
you had your meltdowns and tantrums on a landline with (1) friend instead of posting stream-of-consciousness rants to the whole internet
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I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
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i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Man, Hades 2 is so good. Maybe even better than the original?
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Man, Hades 2 is so good. Maybe even better than the original?
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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"It's not enough to have a mass movement that takes to the streets and brings the fight to the enemy. All of us have seen such movements explode and then flame out in our lifetimes. Success against Trump will require genuine tactical acumen and strategic clarity."
Fight On Everything
"This dictatorship has been asserted but not yet consolidated. We must therefore 'fight on everything,'" according to Rob Tracinski's "Dictator From Day One."
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"It's not enough to have a mass movement that takes to the streets and brings the fight to the enemy. All of us have seen such movements explode and then flame out in our lifetimes. Success against Trump will require genuine tactical acumen and strategic clarity."
Since no one wants to give me a pretty blue check you'll just have to trust that I'm
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Since no one wants to give me a pretty blue check you'll just have to trust that I'm
I don't have to give a prepared talk again this year (not counting internal team stuff) and my God what a relief
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I don't have to give a prepared talk again this year (not counting internal team stuff) and my God what a relief
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How does the GOP ever live this down?
"By its own admission, the Trump administration can access tens of billions in leftover funds to finance SNAP benefits this month, sparing the program from any interruption. But Mr. Trump has declined to use that money..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
"By its own admission, the Trump administration can access tens of billions in leftover funds to finance SNAP benefits this month, sparing the program from any interruption. But Mr. Trump has declined to use that money..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
How does the GOP ever live this down?
"By its own admission, the Trump administration can access tens of billions in leftover funds to finance SNAP benefits this month, sparing the program from any interruption. But Mr. Trump has declined to use that money..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
"By its own admission, the Trump administration can access tens of billions in leftover funds to finance SNAP benefits this month, sparing the program from any interruption. But Mr. Trump has declined to use that money..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
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From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago
aphyr.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Lawrence Fishburne is so great in the new season of the Witcher damn
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Lawrence Fishburne is so great in the new season of the Witcher damn
A parade forced me to schlep my bags instead of taking a cab but on the plus side I got to hear a killer pipe and drum band warming up
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A parade forced me to schlep my bags instead of taking a cab but on the plus side I got to hear a killer pipe and drum band warming up
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black hole sun ii
Laura Loomer is in the Middle East, apparently with the world's campiest Andrew Mountbatten Windsor impersonator. As if that region hasn't gone through enough . . .
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
black hole sun ii
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
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Can AIs be conscious? Should we consider them as persons? Here are my current thoughts.....
blog.dileeplearning.com/p/ai-conscio...
blog.dileeplearning.com/p/ai-conscio...
AI consciousness, qualia, and personhood.
A note on my current positions, in a FAQ format.
blog.dileeplearning.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Can AIs be conscious? Should we consider them as persons? Here are my current thoughts.....
blog.dileeplearning.com/p/ai-conscio...
blog.dileeplearning.com/p/ai-conscio...
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
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Elon Musk's legacy, perhaps more than any person in the Trump administration, will be of wanton, deliberate mass murder on an unimaginable scale
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Elon Musk's legacy, perhaps more than any person in the Trump administration, will be of wanton, deliberate mass murder on an unimaginable scale