Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the #Bravo Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on #Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities.
Here is an article I wrote about how Bravo put the word #fallout into our lexicon.
"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene"
Announced today at BravoCon, all future Bravo cast reunions specials will stream completely uncensored on Peacock the day after airing on the network. Six reunions have already streamed uncensored, and this policy will extend to them all moving forward. #Bravo#BravoCon#AndyCohen#Peacock#Television#Streaming
"On Wednesday afternoon, Craig announced that she had formally introduced the "My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your Shutdown Act," also known as the "MCCARTHY Shutdown Act," with the expressed desire to halt members' pay for as long as the government remains shut down."
Isa Pulver 🇨🇭 gewinnt überlegen das legendäre, mit mehr als 5000 km lange, Race Across America (RAAM). 🚴🏽♂️
Sie ist als Gesamtsiegerin vor allen anderen Konkurrenten – inklusive Männern und Teams – im Ziel angekommen. 🎉
#CloudFlare had an #incident late last week affecting their #services. This has been widely commented upon, because #reliability is their raison d'etre (sorry if my French spelling is bad...).
To me, this should count as a resounding success. Even with a #cascading#failure of systems, backups, and #recovery procedures, customers' sites still didn't go down - they lost access to analytics and the ability to make changes, but no actual outage.