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endingon Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII

Given that the content described in the partnership here is part of a DLC, I wonder if the Tribe is party to any profit sharing agreement with the game company.

endingon Bespoke porn: Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests

Funny, I expect that if one marketed such services as "customized therapy videos," one would confront immediate objections that the service was facilitating heinous pornography.

endingon AWS is having widespread issues

From our EC2 dashboard in us-east-1:

[RESOLVED] Network Connectivity 07:28 AM PDT Between 6:47 AM and 7:10 AM PDT we experienced increased launch failures for EC2 Instances, degraded EBS volume performance and connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.

edit: looks like this message is now on the status page

endingon The sex-offender registry can be a life sentence

It's also worth considering that private prisons, once established, create perverse incentives to intensify those same retributive policies. A vicious recursion.

endingon Chatbot that overturned 160k parking fines now helping refugees claim asylum

Awesome projects, and I love the civic spirit from which they arise. Any others worth checking out?

Other than chat bots, just making forms and bureaucratic processes more accessible online seems like an arena that still has vast potential for improvement.

endingon CIA malware and hacking tools

I think that was the joke.

endingon Massive National Prison Strike! Maybe. We Don’t Know. That’s a Problem

endingon RFC 1984 status updated to “best current practice”

The rationale for this decision is discussed here: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/FXpz3-UE...

An excerpt:

"For both symbolic reasons (that the technical position then is the technical position now) and to better ensure that IETF specifications reflect the spirit of RFC1984, a number of participants in the discussion felt it would be advantageous to recognize the substantive content of RFC1984 as a BCP."

Also, the RFC number is worth emphasizing.

endingon RFC 7169 – The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension

Likely an April Fool's joke, no?