Lorin Hochstein

Oil crisis 2: [we should all be driving] electric [cars] boogaloo

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

i am hearing that any draft would only involve verified bluesky users

Maybe this is a Brewster’s Millions type scenario but it’s about losing popular support rather than money

Syncretism!

Also, Christmas trees are really cool.

Also, this fantastic phrase uttered by Oliver Cromwell: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.”

One of the downsides of being Jewish is that it feels wrong to use the exhortation “My brother in Christ”.

No idea what’s going on with GitHub

Burning clock

Remember to set your clocks on fire tonight.

Grow fast and overload things The general vibes I see online is that the AI companies have not been doing particularly well in the reliability department. Both OpenAI and Anthropic publish reliability statistics on their status…

New blog post on the surprising increases in load faced by AI companies and the operational consequences: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/03/07/g...

Are waffles the only food that’s ironed?

Saturation Saturation Every system has its limits. If you keep throwing more and more at a system, at some point it will no longer be able to function properly. The term saturation refers to the state of a syste...

I wrote about one of my favorite topics, saturation, for @resilienceinsoftware.org : resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11475336

I was a teenager when “Go to your room” was a punishment and not the same as saying “Go to your arcade/shopping mall/video chat room/infinite music and video library/recording booth/photo studio.”

The Science Behind What Causes Traffic

Is it cars? I bet it’s cars.

At least the War on Protein has ended

There are no tashen like hamantashen

tough to be tender

military-vs-industrial complex

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

The laser has become the lasee. apnews.com/article/mili...

Stationary Wilburys

Boston news looking out for us all

Great example!!!

Example of normalization of deviance: when you tune your alerts to be less sensitive (e.g., longer window).

Note: normalization of deviance is not inherently bad! Your initial operational definition of "deviant" was really too narrow, leading to harmful false positive alerts.

Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia

Yep! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fi...

I feel like we’re in the “using x-ray machines in shoe stores” phase of AI adoption.

Quick takes on Feb 20 Cloudflare outage Cloudflare just posted a public write-up of an incident that they experienced on Feb. 20, 2026. While it was large enough for them to write it up like this, it looks like the impact is smaller than…

I actually got the failure mode wrong: it was not an unscoped query, it was a misinterpreted flag. Wrote a quick blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/21/q...

Quick takes on Feb 20 Cloudflare outage Cloudflare just posted a public write-up of an incident that they experienced on Feb. 20, 2026. While it was large enough for them to write it up like this, it looks like the impact is smaller than…

I actually got the failure mode wrong: it was not an unscoped query, it was a misinterpreted flag. Wrote a quick blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/21/q...