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The people loudly departing the biggest AI companies aren't necessarily looking for fatter paychecks or more stock options; they’re worried that AI businesses are putting profits over sanity and safety. www.computerworld.com/article/4133... by @sjvn.bsky.social

A fun conversation on theCUBE at NYSE discussing AI Factories, Kubernetes, and much more www.youtube.com/watch?v=taW-... #AI #K8s #KubeCon #redhat #ibm #NYSE

In The Clouds livestream tomorrow 11am ET - Sai Vennam (@birdsaiview.bsky.social) of AWS known for his lightboard videos joining to discuss the tech trends of 2026 www.youtube.com/live/CD5hPVK... #cloud #kubernetes #k8s #kubecon #reinvent #aws #redhat

Now more than ever - help fight cancer. I've committed to my 8th year 🚴‍♂️ riding the Pan-Mass Challenge. 100% of funds support Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's commitment to find a cure. Please consider a donation profile.pmc.org/sm0607 I'm riding my longest day 1 (100 miles) + 50 day 2. #pmc2026

Passionate about Open Source? Dream of joining #RedHat? Your opportunity has arrived! Check out this exciting job opening:

DORA 2025: Measuring Software Delivery After AI redmonk.com/rstephens/20... by @rstephens.me #AI #developers

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on Decoder podcast #ai #quantum #ibm podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

👋 to #reInvent Sorry to not to see friends, happy to avoid Vegas and crowds. My next conference is #KubeCon Amsterdam

Reminder that early bird pricing ends in 2 days for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou... Barely back from Atlanta and already on to planning the next.

OpenShift Commons Atlanta Keynote: Building an adaptable enterprise with Red Hat OpenShift youtu.be/Eifsp8HQ1VY?... #KubeCon #RedHat #virtualization #AI #sovereignty #developers

Important read. Thank you @ashimmy.bsky.social. "The best breakthroughs have always come from people who wanted to improve the human condition, not those trying to beat next quarter’s estimates." techstrong.it/featured/tec...

Excellent start to #KubeCon - blown away by the turnout for the 8am OpenShift Commons keynote. So wonderful to catch up with #cloudnative community friends already! Heading over to the convention center and will be around the Red Hat booth (100) when not in meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday

Preview video for #kubecon on theCUBE Check out the full video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FfE... All of the Red Hat activities at the show www.redhat.com/en/events/re... #redhat #AI #k8s #kubernetes #cloudnative

The Oatmeal on #AI art

💻 “Technical debt always charges interest.” #Monktoberfest 🦞

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

In systems, you don't eliminate a bottleneck, you move it. #AI

New episode of In The Clouds this Thursday at 10am ET Pets, Cattle and Robots w @randybias.bsky.social Discussion of #AI and #cloudnative with a preview of #KubeCon Atlanta www.youtube.com/live/U5M2NBG...

I long for the day that this speech feels more like science fiction again.

How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard theconversation.com/how-does-ai-... #AI tools can be valuable as supports, but they should be designed to encourage, not replace, authentic cognitive work.

Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis by @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/harsh-trut... 1. AI will not make you smarter 2. AI will not make you more interesting 3. AI will not make you more creative 4. AI will not make you an expert #genAI #AI

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

The big analyst reports are a lot of work; I had many clients cry on my shoulder about them over the years. Happy to share the Gartner Magic Quadrants w strong Red Hat showing! Container Management www.redhat.com/en/resources... Cloud-Native Application Platform www.redhat.com/en/resources...

Paradigm Shifts and the Winners Curse - a Stratechery dive into AI and the strategy of Apple, Amazon, and Google stratechery.com/2025/paradig... #AI #amazon #apple #google

An amazing #pmc2025 weekend 🚴‍♂️160 miles from Wellesley to Provincetown Over 6k cyclists this year all with the mission to cure cancer. In my 7 years I’ve raised over $37k Team Red Hat in just 2 years has over $50k! More pics www.instagram.com/p/DM5sZFPPUa...

the real punk rock - how one line saved Superman www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXyt...

Replay is available if you missed today's livestream with @mistwire.com ⬇️

Come join 2 tall guys for a conversation about community, cloud, open source, and of course AI @mistwire.com on In The Clouds next Thursday 17 July 11am ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Seh... #cloud #AI #opensource #community

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers

US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from megabill www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"On launch, they’re available only to a limited number of social media influencers." Are those the new crash test dummies? 😳

speaking of @monktoberfest.com content, we've got a ton of incredible proposals as usual, but we're still looking for better diversity amongst our speakers. if you're from a group under-represented in tech, and have thought about talking, do apply within. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mary Meeker's epic Internet Trends report on #AI distilled Substack: I Summarized Mary Meeker's Incredible 340 Page 2025 AI Trends Deck—Here's Mary's Take, My Response, and What You Can Learn open.substack.com/pub/natesnew...

Chatted with the temporary lead singer of INXS while waiting for a very slow elevator in SF back in 2010

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

My first Substack post open.substack.com/pub/daveweas...

How HashiCorp Vault and Red Hat OpenShift can work better together www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-... #hashicorp #redhat #security

Congrats Cornell lacrosse - NCAA champions 🐻🥍

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

Wrap of Red Hat Summit on theCUBE w @bgracely.bsky.social @realstrech.bsky.social and me Virtualization and AI highlights including vLLM, llm-d, and the broad ecosystem support around all of these #opensource solutions www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2EX... #virtualization #ai #rhsummit

My 10th Red Hat Summit (5 as an analyst and now 5 as a RHer). Let’s Go! Ping me if you’re here in Boston. #rhsummit

Digging deeper into vLLM at the NYC meetup #AI

2 weeks until Red Hat Summit in Boston Here's a Starter Pack of RHers - let me know if I'm missing anyone go.bsky.app/Du6L1Ec Hope to see you at #rhsummit - I'll be on the #cloud panel, add it to your schedule events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redha...

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

AWS multicloud aws.amazon.com/multicloud/ Alert @quinnypig.com

10 years ago - even more relevant today John Cleese talked about the Dunning-Kruger effect thecuberesearch.com/john-cleese-...