There's a lot of tech companies that purchased the naming rights to sporting arenas, like the Intuit Dome in California or the Lenovo Center in North Carolina. I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't followed this trend, but I'm also not sure the world is ready for LinkedIn Park.

I've got a magazine subscription that I wanted to change to digital delivery only, but I can't manage my subscription online *at all*, so I've cancelled instead. 🤷‍♂️

I’m not sure why I feel compelled to write in my free time, when I already spend my work day writing, but: I’m starting a blog! It’s like a podcast, but for people who prefer reading. premise.blog

RIP Microsoft Office, 1990-2026, apparently killed by the "Copilot" brand assuming www.office.com is accurate Truly, the ways and wiles of Microsoft's branding team are beyond human comprehension

I finished Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones! Funny thing, I beat my first Fire Emblem game two winters ago in quarantine after getting COVID on a business trip, and now I think I just associate winter with Fire Emblem.

Get to know my music taste in 365 songs! Inspired by @kyleor.land's #365games thread, I'm going to post every day about a song that is meaningful to me. These aren't necessarily the "best" songs, but they're all songs that left an impression in some way, with a loose theme each week. #365songs

あけおめ

Doing a bit of winter cleaning, and I'm struggling to bring myself to throw out some old glasses I owned from 5-10 years ago. My prescription hasn't changed too much in that time, but I don't wear them (and probably won't again).

Christmas tips for new builders: 1. Your monitor probably does not connect to your motherboard. 2. Weird issues with a 4K or high refresh monitor? Try a certified DP cable before anything else. 3. Don't forget to set your refresh rate. 4. "x" is the best pattern for thermal paste.

Trying to do work on a Monday afternoon before Christmas, and GitHub is apparently down?

I hear that DDR5 is super expensive to get right now.

As much as "IT'S OVER 9000!" in the Ocean dub is a meme, this dub joke from Dragon Ball Z Kai is excellent.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

If you're having a conversation with someone in a snowstorm, does that make them a winterlocutor?

A million years ago I was a financial reporter. The rule was if it wasn't clear which of two companies was investing in the other then they were definitely doing something corrupt.

Cars (esp. the self-driving variety) are basically computers on wheels these days, and my colleague @aanwar-sa-ads.bsky.social knows the score. Check out his latest report.

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says

Are automotive semiconductor revenues finally back in balance with demand – and how long can that balance last? One TechInsights' projection suggests the automotive semiconductor industry is entering 2026 with revenues broadly aligned to underlying demand. Read more here, link.techinsights.com/xjgz

Why is it that hotels often claim to have a business center? Isn’t it technically a business annex?

there isn't really a "right" way to engage with retro tech but being able to divorce yourself from nostalgia and not blindly treating that nostalgia as a universal, shared experience are important skills to have. this is one of those cases; a *lot* of people at the time hated what w98 represented

“Trailblazing” is such an odd word. It’s as if there’s no regard for sustainable trail management, that we’re all okay with someone just blazing an entire trail. Not just okay, celebrated, even.

I’ll be at Q2B in Santa Clara for Day 2 and 3, if you want to talk about #quantum computing, or otherwise want to vent about something. DM or Signal to schedule a chat.

December is here, so it’s time to break out the world’s best Christmas album.

I’m in an Uber, and the driver is playing an FM radio station. The DJ broke in between songs to say “Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers, thank you for listening, thank you for keeping me employed.” It was unexpected!

It’s December, so it’s time for Apple Music Replay.

It's understandable to consider CUDA a moat, but the ubiquity of AWS made Arm in datacenter a mainstream option where others (Cavium, AppliedMicro) couldn't. AWS is committed to this idea, and the cost competitiveness could move the needle.

Hello, Bluesky! I’m in Vegas for #AWS #re:Invent. My schedule is weirdly packed! But, message me if you’re around.

We live in a bubble, baby, a bubble's not reality You've got to have a look outside Nothing in a bubble is the way it's supposed to be And when it blows, you'll hit the ground youtu.be/4e8Qd81brk0?...

Those who remember from the 1990s when GMO-pushing corporations argued that being forced to label any food containing GMO would impact sales, and that hey, GMO foods are everywhere anyway can see this nefarious argument being made again by AI co's.

I do kinda think it's important to know, like, anything about the thing you're critiquing. In this particular case "AI" just means "mathematical model". ChatGPT is not diagnosing fucking cancer

Just a hunch, but maybe we should be using RADHARD microprocessors and ECC RAM for life-supporting operations in airspace (I.e. all of them).

holiday clarification (by bill wurtz)

Detective Conan’s recurring cast is so sprawling, it’s basically The Simpsons but with relatively more murder and—occasionally—an overarching continuity.

Look, Nvidia thought it was a gaming company and OpenAI thought it was a charity so if you're expecting either of those companies to have some master plan to avoid the bubble popping you need to look elsewhere.

“Trailblazing” is such an odd word. It’s as if there’s no regard for sustainable trail management, that we’re all okay with someone just blazing an entire trail. Not just okay, celebrated, even.

Outlook indicates that I have 2^32 − 1 emails in my inbox. I'm busy, but I'm not that busy. I invite you to draw your own conclusions as to why Outlook would have this specific bug.

D-Wave CEO and CFO dump $29 million worth of shares of their own company. Quantum pump and dump in action! www.newscase.com/d-wave-quant...

At a HardOff I caught a glimpse of an oldschool Japanese mechanical typewriter. The Nippon Type PanWriter types in 3 colours and somehow impacts one of the over 2300 glyphs onto the paper after the user manually slides over the rows & columns and presses down to type it. (Zoom in for the details)

Most things are exactly what they look like, and we spend a lot of time twisting ourselves in knots to come up with explanations because we can’t believe people can be that obvious, greedy, and mean. They can. They are.

Love this! #retrocomputing #coding

Gingerbread Rainbow Road

My local dying mall has a simulation of what a bakery would plausibly look like, apparently, I guess. (alt text)

This is probably the most tone deaf question of the year from a tech exec.

Breaking: SEC says it is dropping high-profile lawsuit against SolarWinds: www.sec.gov/enforcement-... Story coming soon.

anyone know a non-fascist vpn that will forward me a dang port?

I’ve got a mysteriously unreliable SSD that needs replacement. The first new SSD is somehow lost in the mail, it want from CA to WA to AK. The second new SSD order was cancelled three hours after I placed it. 🤷‍♂️

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

Gentle reminder that FPGAs are absolutely emulation.

I haven’t had any coffee this morning, and my first read of the headline prompted the thought: Did ProPublica just interview a bunch of chickens, or…?