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This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars.

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Runner-up Titles

• From Montessori to your Funeral
• The Shit Pile of Enterprise Software
• Software Expires
• Bring in all the Kubernetes you can find
• You’re in Some Kind of Password Genie Hell.
• The salesperson at Gartner doesn’t want this report to go away
• Going back to the Monolith
• SRElon doesn’t do blameless postmortems
• Mastodon as a Service at re:Invent
• I am still betting on status quo outcome
• Keep the Twitter off the phone
• Bury me with my MP3 backup drives

Rundown

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services
• Musk's Twitter chaos opens door to challengers
  • Rivals see opening in Twitter's chaos
  • Here’s Mastodon Sign Up Link
  • Mastodon as an Open Source experience
  • Trust Thermocline
  • Twitter Blue Checks not exactly working out
  • CISO, Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Compliance Officer resign at same time
  • Inside the Twitter meltdown
  • Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
  • Fake Eli Lilly Twitter account drop stock
  • 'Killed It:' Elon Backtracks From 'Official' Twitter Badges Hours After Rollout
  • Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer
  • Inside the Twitter meltdown

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• Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features
• Tumblr will sell you two useless blue check marks for $8
• New in Docker Desktop 4.14: Greater Visibility Into Your Containers - Docker
• Does Kubernetes really give you multicloud portability?
• Report: The Evolution of DevOps | A Contrary Research Deep Dive
• Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees
• 5 of the Best Kubernetes Training Courses for Beginners in 2022
• Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services
• Snowflake gets caught in the storm clouds
• AWS is 'not done building' as cloud computing matures
• Video editor Descript raises $50M in round led by OpenAI Startup Fund
• MotherDuck: Hello, World! Quack. Quack.
• Tech Layoffs
• The nefarious new way companies are discriminating against remote workers
• Angry Taylor Swift fans rail about Ticketmaster glitches
• Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy
• Who Will Cisco Buy? Sources Say a Big Deal is Near

Nonsense

• Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics

Conferences

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Recommendations

• Brandon: The White Lotus Season 2
• Matt: TweetBot macOS

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