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[@_Mark_Atwood](/creator/twitter/_Mark_Atwood)
"One wonders if @amazon @aws fired just a few too many people to keep US-EAST-1 reliable. "The profits kept rising Until they didn't""  
[X Link](https://x.com/_Mark_Atwood/status/1980468255044300878) [@_Mark_Atwood](/creator/x/_Mark_Atwood) 2025-10-21T02:56Z 4224 followers, 1095 engagements


"OpenAIs current institutional psychology is that of a California liability-optimized risk-averse communications firm masquerading as a research lab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/_Mark_Atwood/status/1981072423371104570) [@_Mark_Atwood](/creator/x/_Mark_Atwood) 2025-10-22T18:57Z 4229 followers, XXX engagements


"us-east-1 has never been just another AWS region. Its the bootstrap the one that has to exist before anything else can exist. When new regions spin up they dont rise from nothing; they get power-started from the duct-taped heart of us-east-1. AWS and Amazon leadership have known for over a decade that this was a ticking bomb. Every post-mortem said the same thing: We must fix this later. But later kept getting more expensive technically financially politically. And inside a company that worships EBITDA preventing the next outage doesnt generate revenue today. You cant book avoided pain. You"  
[X Link](https://x.com/_Mark_Atwood/status/1980473504517779681) [@_Mark_Atwood](/creator/x/_Mark_Atwood) 2025-10-21T03:17Z 4229 followers, 79.8K engagements


"Lisa Simpson isnt a parody of smug liberalism: shes what happens when the writers stopped knowing she was one. Early on Lisa was the tragic moral voice: right but insufferable. The joke was that the world didnt care. Then the writers aged into Ivy-educated NPR liberals: they became her. The satire flipped. What was once irony became sincerity. Lisa stopped being the conscience of a flawed world and became the mouthpiece of a class that cant laugh at itself. The early Simpsons had teeth because it spoke working-class vernacular while understanding elite hypocrisy. Modern Simpsons lost that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/_Mark_Atwood/status/1981460716126425592) [@_Mark_Atwood](/creator/x/_Mark_Atwood) 2025-10-23T20:40Z 4229 followers, XXX engagements


"Inherited elites owned the consequences of their rule: their estates tenants names and family reputations. "Merit"ocrats own nothing but their CVs. Dis-establishing inheritance de-coupled power from accountability. This is one of those unhappy things I wish I had not realized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/_Mark_Atwood/status/1981521460507398423) [@_Mark_Atwood](/creator/x/_Mark_Atwood) 2025-10-24T00:41Z 4229 followers, XXX engagements