George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

I'm a Federal Chief Data Officer seeking my next opportunity: ideally guiding an organization to thrive amidst changing technological and financial realities.

If you know of anything for a senior leader who cares deeply and broadly, please reach out to weingart.scott+future@gmail.com.

My goal is to build the scaffolding that helps institutions help the world. I've led initiatives across academic, philanthropic, cultural, & public sectors, with portfolios spanning research, evaluation, tech, data science, AI, operations, & strategic/financial planning.

I appreciate your help in spreading the word.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, professional or otherwise.

For more information, see my résumé (https://scottbot.github.io/resume.pdf) and my curriculum vitae (https://scottbot.github.io/cv.pdf).

Postscript: do not lose sight of the fact that Pope Francis is not only not fooled by these false prophets, but felt compelled to call them out.

Which side are you on, boy, which side are you on? https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2025/documents/20250210-lettera-vescovi-usa.html

I'm hiring an L4 (mid-career, early side of senior/pre-senior) infrastructure software engineer! I'm looking for someone with:
• A broad understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure fundamentals
• Strong python or golang skills
• Ready to work with code managing infrastructure at scale (e.g., we break AWS APIs because they time out on describe calls)

and would like to see at least one of these skill areas:
• Experience building robust systems or easy to use abstractions for AWS native services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, DDB, etc.
• Experience leveraging AWS Config, Cloud Control API, CloudFormation, and CloudTrail
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

Netflix Cloud Security has industry-leading cloud security capabilities, and one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world. As a manager, I prioritize inclusion in order to maintain both the wellbeing and productivity of our diverse team. We hold folks to delivering high quality work by creating environments where you can operate to the best of your ability, through work-life balance, expecting folks to take ample time off (~6 weeks, but no one will track it). I'm happy to talk about this role and about how I manage teams — e.g., my Explicit Expectations and my commitments to my reports.

I'd love to hear what perspectives, skills, and experiences you could bring to our team!
https://explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers/job/790301953900
#Hiring #Infrastructure #FediHire

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:

Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!
https://xkcd.com/3073/

Delhi-ghtful! India mulls 2035 ICE ban, blocks fuel sales to older vehicles https://electrek.co/2025/04/05/delhi-ghtful-india-mulls-2035-ice-ban-blocks-fuel-sales-to-older-vehicles/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Read this. Spread it. Our nation does this in our name to a tourist--and much, much worse to immigrants without power or protection.
"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled & sent to an immigration detention centre"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?CMP=share_btn_url

ADHD is like having an incredibly fast and exotic RISC CPU with an 8-bit memory bus.

#adhd

Microsoft AI employee has interrupted Microsoft’s big 50th anniversary event to accuse Microsoft of using AI for war crimes by arming Israel. Powerful email included too.

https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

First month on record: fossil fuels drop below 50% of US power mix https://electrek.co/2025/04/04/first-month-on-record-fossil-fuels-drop-below-50-of-us-power-mix/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Do Not Track was a request, while MyTerms is inherently a demand. Websites and services could, of course, simply refuse to show or provide content and data if a MyTerms agent is present, or they could ask or demand that people set the least restrictive terms."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/doc-searls-myterms-aims-to-offer-user-first-privacy-contracts-for-the-web/

So the Trump administration is continuing to say nothing to see here with the whole leaking of war plans to a journalist over Signal thing. No investigation, no inquiry. Case closed.

“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday. “There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we’re moving forward,” she said.

@mmasnick has a great response to this bullshit, as he skewers a number of big media outlets for reporting on the White House statement as just, welp, that's it.

"Let’s be clear: uncritically reporting the White House’s “nothing to see here” stance isn’t journalism — it’s stenography. The press secretary’s statement isn’t just meaningless, it’s an active attempt to sweep serious actual violations under the rug."

"This White House’s strategy is clear: lie, mislead, and deflect until the story dies. We’ve seen it with Bondi’s desperate “but her emails” deflection last week, and we’re seeing it again with this premature “case closed” declaration."

"But there are plenty of things in this story that require investigation:"

How did multiple senior officials decide it was totally acceptable to plan military operations over a consumer messaging app?
What other sensitive discussions have happened on unsecured channels such as Signal?
Have these conversations been recorded, as required under the Federal Records Act?
Have other illegal commercial chats been scrubbed to see how many outsiders were allowed in to them like Goldberg was?
How did they fuck up so badly to add an external person (incredibly, a reporter) to this illegal chat?
Who approved targeting civilian infrastructure, and what was their legal justification?
What “steps have been made” to prevent this from happening again, and why should we trust them?

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/sorry-you-dont-get-to-declare-case-closed-on-war-crime-planning-over-signal/

Computer scientist goes silent after FBI raid and purging from University website
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TURKIYE PROTESTS

More than 2,000,000 against the Erdogan administration in Turkiye.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Turkiye #Breaking #breakingnews

Don't forget to boost posts so that others can see them.

This is important to keep Mastodon lively.
We are the algorithm here.

#Mastodon

I'm currently looking for PhD students in theoretical computer science, and we have a funding opportunity for a student in Inria Lille in France to work with myself and my collaborator Mikaël Monet. The proposed topic (quite flexible): https://a3nm.net/work/research/offers/phd_enumeration_changes.pdf. Applications are until April 23, to start in fall 2025.

I think the LINKS team in Inria Lille is a great place to do this kind of research -- in fact I recently joined it myself. :) Please apply or to forward to potential candidates!

GET ME HIRED

Hi, #seattle friends in #productmanagement or whatever hashtag makes sense.

I'm looking for a job (like many Seattleites lately). I'm not asking for a contract or money or anything like that, but if you can squeeze me into an interview related to writing, reading, and leading software endeavors, please do!

All the PMy stuff, all the soft skills, and a bunch of hard ones, mostly around React/TS/JS/Node, security, cloud, cloud security, and even some Rust!

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Please read the first 20%, at least, of this essential book by Natalie Foster. It describes how we arrived at this place in the USA in a way that really opened my eyes. I will also gift you — yes, you, anyone reading this — a copy of the book in any (legal!) format or delivery method you prefer. Just ask. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-guarantee-dispatches-from-the-front-lines-of-america-s-next-economy/20302377

HEY MASTODON: Today is the North American release date for When the Moon Hits Your Eye, my latest novel, and also I am on the road for a two-week US book tour! Please buy my book and/or come to see me on the road! All the details about both are at the link.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/25/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-is-out-today-and-also-hello-i-am-on-book-tour-please-come-see-me/

Meanwhile, Mike Waltz is going to be furious when he finds out what Mike Waltz did. https://x.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1668332264797896704