🤔 Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/m...

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I closed my office door while participating in a livestream with @shan-gsd.bsky.social, and my dog was not pleased. When I opened it, she walked past me into the room to make sure everything was as she last left it. Did not care about me, just annoyed that she was denied access to the room.

Hahaha. I decided to try CoPilot in PowerPoint because I just couldn't get something to work. The response: You’re asking the right questions — this is one of those areas where PowerPoint’s limitations surface hard, and you’ve run straight into them.

Please allow me to introduce you to my current unhealthy snack craving: tajin chili & lime gummy bears. I have to take a few and put the bag far away so I don't eat them all in one sitting. They also have tajin watermelon rings and peach rings, but the gummy bears are better IMO.

I'm working on a #python package to create #PowerBI dashboards. As a demonstration of the package, I used the package to finish the Week 13 #WOW2025 challenge by @sqlgene.com. Here's a link: www.russellshean.com/powerbpy/exa... @mmarie.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social

Ran into a problem in prod? Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix. #foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

This is a wood deck that I am tearing up because it was poorly built and not very safe. It's not connected to any other structure, just sitting on the concrete blocks. If you step on the edge, the whole thing tilts to that side. Turn this into a metaphor for data architecture/engineering.

Shoutout to @avatorl.bsky.social for this blog post. The settings/UI have changed a bit since the button slicer went GA, but it worked like a charm. Power BI – Date Slicer with Default Selection: www.powerofbi.org/2025/06/05/p...

This week's #Wow2025 for #PowerBI is posted! We are making a first snowfall scatterplot. Create the visual and add your own wintery spin! We've been notified about a potential security issue with the WoW website. So you can safely check it out here: community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Data-Stor....

Currently reading: The Turbo-Charged Abacus: What LLMs Really Are (And Why We Get Them Wrong) by @arcticdba.se www.arcticdba.se/posts/turbo-...

😡🤮😥 This is ridiculous and awful. It must be difficult to be a college student or professor in Texas right now. Reason #125421 I'm glad to have left Texas long ago. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Claude (Sonnet 4.5) is on some shit today.

💯 www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook

Have you explored creating data visualizations with Python in a Fabric notebook? Here are my thoughts on where this fits in your toolbox. datasavvy.me/2025/11/23/d...

Maybe skip the AI teddy bears for Christmas this year futurism.com/artificial-i...

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org

Retrieving Power BI bookmark information in a Fabric notebook with Semantic Link Labs datasavvy.me/2025/11/05/c...

I actually voted last week. My ballot was mailed to me a few weeks ago. I filled it out at home and dropped it in a nearby ballot box last week.

How Outlook Mobile for Android handles daylight savings time

It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a Power BI report. Check out a better way to review interactions with Semantic Link Labs in a Fabric notebook. datasavvy.me/2025/10/31/c...

Also known as DNS Appreciation Day.

And Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in Azure.

Here, I got you a present in the form of wonderfully awful date pickers. badux.lol

Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in AWS.

Dear Fabric lakehouse, if I have to go manually update your metadata one more time just so I can see my latest data (not even schema) changes that you have already accepted...

On October 22nd, the #PowerBI Visuals team is hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event for the r/PowerBI subreddit members! Don’t miss out! Visit the link below and select [Remind Me] on the post to be notified when they go live. #AMA #DataViz www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/co...

It's Patch Tuesday and ASP.NET Core has a doozy, with a CVSS score of 9.9, our highest ever. Let's examine why. The bug enables http request smuggling, which on its own for ASP.NET Core would be nowhere near that high, but that's not how we rate things... * Thread- (1/7)

Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor thehackernews.com/2025/10/micr...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Anyone other dog owners/vets happy that Nutramax finally figured out how to make a lid for Welactin bottles that actually stays closed? Not sure why it took until 2025, but better late than never!

Getting back to tech: If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage. ^ Mostly EMEA www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/k...

Greg Abbott, still the worst person to graduate from my high school in the nearly 50 years since then.

The phrase of the day is "treacherous ureter". Used in a sentence: My bulldog has idiopathic renal hematuria and apparently bulldogs tend to have treacherous ureters, which makes them less than ideal candidates for sclerotherapy. TIL 🤷‍♀️ #vetsky #vetneph

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

It's my turn to do the #Wow2025 for #PowerBI again! This week, we are looking at bar-in-bar microcharts in a table/matrix showing eCommerce data. workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2025-w41/. Give it a try and let us know what you think! @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social

Successfully derailed my team meeting to teach them about runzas and bierocks (they are all in Pennsylvania or Texas). 😁

Anyone else not comforted by this? futurism.com/future-socie...

I have made a graphic to use in response to every time someone calls Fabric mirroring "Zero ETL". You can call it zero "E", maybe. But it's kinda like serverless - there's still a server somewhere, it just might be managed by someone else.

Microsoft is making a very subtle color change in Office apps - Neowin www.neowin.net/news/microso... ^ They changed the red in the default colors to provide better color contrast against a white background to get it past the 4.5:1 threshold ❤️

Hertz deployed an AI vehicle scanner. Then came the CX meltdown. www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/hertz-d...

I'm technically a day early according to the calendar, but the leaves have already turned out in the mountains... Happy fall, y'all 🍂 Old Dillon Dam trail, Silverthorne CO

Tomorrow I'm talking about using Fabric notebooks to automate Power BI QA and pre-deployment tasks. I'll be demoing using Semantic Link Labs for checking themes & bookmarks, removing unused custom visuals, and more! Join me live Thursday Sept 18 at 1pm ET/10am PT: go.procuresql.com/webinars/aut...

Meagan Longoria @mmarie.bsky.social, a Data Analytics Architect & Microsoft Data Platform MVP, is presenting at four key sessions at #Live360 Tech Con. She focuses on data integration & visualization to enhance data usability and shares her insights at conferences, meetings, and on her blog

@frank.computer 11/10 for this post on data-ink ratio extremism. www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04... I was just writing up a section of this #rstats guide and had the same thought about it being unhelpful about minimums.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

No moose this week, but I did visit a lovely creek

I saw a moose last week.

You want temp tables? You got temp tables!! Today @dbabulldog.bsky.social walks you through how to use distributed and mdf backed temp tables in #MicrosoftFabric! Link: youtu.be/f_eZEmbZ69U cc @sqlballs.com @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social @joshluedeman.com