TV Networks playing it like the race is not over so they can run their ads...

Because Quebec and Southern California's fire seasons are reversed, the two places struck an innovative deal where LA County leases two big air tankers with pilots & crews from Quebec every fall. They're in the skies above LA now, fighting our fires. Merci, Quebec!

Amphibious 'Super Scooper' airplanes from Quebec, Canada are picking up seawater from the Santa Monica Bay to drop on the Palisades Fire. Great vid from Las Vegas reporter Cristen Drummond.

Firehawks doing crazy number of rotations between Encino reservoir and Topanga state park.

I'm not a pilot but I have to imagine that you have to be an absolute BADASS to skim the water in what is basically a flying tank, over and over all day long, and do it with the accuracy it takes to scoop up 1,000+ gallons of water and not have an accident. My hat is off to

The view from the Fashion Square mall in Sherman Oaks.

We are watching in realtime the systematic unraveling of decades aviation safety accident investigative precedent and process from the President of the United States.

GENE HACKMAN at his tough-talking best in Mississippi Burning. Apparently he was so perturbed by his own performance that he vowed to not make another violent film again. (He did, though).

Kicking off a Gene Hackman movie marathon. Which one is your favorite?

Today, we’re excited to announce that mail0 will be the first fully serverless email service that’s completely based on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. We have been working closely with Cloudflare Developers to make this a reality. This would not have been possible without

I'm getting increasingly convinced that 95.4% of all software engineering problems are because 1) latency is highs and 2) people code like latency is low. Let me get through a couple of examples:

BREAKING: Boeing announces $10.55 billion deal to divest Jeppesen, ForeFlight, AerData and OzRunways to Thoma Bravo in an all cash transaction. Earlier reporting suggested the sale, which attracted multiple bidders, would be closer to $6 billion. Deal close expected by year end.

Stanley Kubrick was a real son of b*tch. But also the Da Vinci of cinema. He broke my brain. Yours is next. These are 9 tricks he used to f*ck with perception, and once you see them, there’s no going back. (Thread) 🧵

Today, after almost 12 years, is my last day at Cloudflare. I've seen the company grow from 60 to 5,000 people. I helped bootstrap things like DDoS, Spectrum, Cloudchamber, and Egress, and wrote hundreds of internal and dozens of public blog posts. It has been an amazing journey.

Someone had fun in the Los Angeles airspace today. Dunno what the message is though.

That one surely woke me up. Thought it was an earthquake.

Le monde entier utilise des climatiseurs. En France, la Clim est méprisée et combattue par certains écologistes. Pourtant, elle permet de s’adapter au effets du changement climatique. Il est temps de déconstruire toutes les idées reçues sur la climatisation. THREAD (0/12)👇

1/ A thread about the class dynamics of air-conditioning in Europe. I believe attitudes toward air-conditioning are class markers in many European countries. Air-conditioning is seen as prototypically American, and that's important.

Excellent week-end read from the excellent Bryton Herdes

🌐 New #ThisWeekInNET episode: Why the Internet Works (Most of the Time) Cloudflare’s Principal Network Engineer Tom Strickx explains what keeps the Internet alive — from submarine cables and BGP mishaps to automation, outages, and AI in network ops. 🎧 ThisWeekinNET.com