“Be truthful, but not neutral,” Amanpour urged. “Bothsidesism is not always objectivity. It does not get you to the truth. Drawing false moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful. Objectivity is our golden rule and it is in weighing all the sides and hearing all the evidence, but not rushing to equate them when there is no equating.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/media/christiane-amanpour-trump-town-hall-reliable-sources/index.html

Today's candidate for "news of the stupid." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-man-trying-avoid-dui-arrest-attempted-swap-places-dog-rcna84589

Redis Statistics Every Developer Should Know

How well do YOU know #Redis?
https://redis.com/blog/redis-statistics/

$25 million has been allocated to transfer more bison from federal to tribal lands and forge management agreements with tribes. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-to-restore-more-bison-herds-on-tribal-lands-by-tapping-indigenous-knowledge

Here's the happy WTF of your morning.
Story is from 6 years ago, but you'll enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsq_jZiB1_U

A short history of the O’Reilly animals (2013)
I didn't know how they got started. I bet you didn't either.
https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals/

U.S. workers are feeling very content according to an annual survey from The Conference Board which put overall job satisfaction at 62.3% in 2022, the highest level on record. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/11/success/employee-job-satisfaction-survey-conference-board/index.html

Deploy and Manage Redis Enterprise Cloud With Pulumi

#Redis Cloud is now supported by #Pulumi, an infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows developers to manage cloud resources using familiar programming languages. With Redis Cloud and Pulumi, you can automate the creation and configuration of Redis Cloud resources and ensure consistency across environments.
https://redis.com/blog/redis-cloud-supports-pulumi/

Lost Movies: Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/missing-pieces/lost-movies

This is a reminder that April is Procrastination Awareness Month.

Learn Clustering From #Redis Experts
These five videos break down the general concepts of clustering through webinars, tutorials, walk-through demos, and even a real-world customer success story from a Fortune 500 company.
https://redis.com/blog/learn-clustering-from-redis-experts/

This is a reminder that April is Procrastination Awareness Month.

This is a picture of my childhood.
https://substack.com/redirect/0a8b0163-52bc-4d4d-a999-ea2f54e4848e

Possibly a dream job for one of you: "Sports Reference is looking for a community-oriented marketing professional to join our marketing team." #baseball https://sports-reference-llc.breezy.hr/p/ce68ab1224fa-community-marketing-coordinator

Chinatown was born of diaspora but also of the human need to gather and make a home. It’s the most American story there is.
https://www.afar.com/magazine/writer-bonnie-tsui-on-what-chinatown-means-to-her

Monday thoughts

In the late 1980s, fishers across Japan started planting trees in coastal watersheds in order to protect their fishing grounds, an act simultaneously rooted in tradition and informed by new science. It worked. https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/saving-forests-to-protect-coastal-ecosystems-japan-sets-historic-example

This is a breathtakingly stunning D20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVK55hEtjk

When this Bell Telephone ad appeared in 1932, that transcontinental call was “just” $9 ($200 today) for the first three minutes. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/04/vintage-advertising-for-whom-the-bell-tolls/