Really, Microsoft? Nearly a 50% increase? How about you exit the #LLM circle [thingy] and stop blowing money in ways that deliver exactly zero benefit to me? How about you stop wasting resources on adding questionable #AI to everything? I have no interest in Copilot's "suggestions" in Excel...

When Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor cut in the same direction, watch out! This is definitely not a post about the #AI industry...

Looks like non-enterprise, non-AI technology consumers are about to get squeezed like never before... Thanks, #AI! So glad you're creating so much value! www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

They're hiring, so maybe this is a self-fulfilling prophecy? 😇

I don't always scream about the mainstream media, but how does one post this headline w/ a straight face? Talks between Russia and *the US* don't yield a breakthrough in Russia's war *on Ukraine*? No kidding! Maybe Ukraine should represent themselves instead of Trumputin's stooges? #JustSaying

Stop the presses! Late breaking news! IBM CEO does grocery store-level math (with several extra zeroes) and figures out the #AI industrial complex is in severely problematic territory... www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-...

It's not just nuclear explosions that have fallout getting into the wind and downwind ecosystems. This is very worrisome about large-scale #battery fires... theconversation.com/when-the-wor...

A few thoughts on the #ROI of #AI projects and asking deeper questions... www.linkedin.com/pulse/roi-ai...

40F, dark, and drizzling is not optimal for a long walk, but it turned out well. A little music in the ears and a (hopefully) some decent thinking between them... #HappyMonday

Who could have predicted that using #AI in some of these ways would alienate and/or disengage employees? 🤔 An AI interviewer? #NoThanks An AI performance review? #DoubleNoThanks Using "technology" to review resumes is so 1990s... www.esgdive.com/news/us-work...

The Times of India gets it. I wonder when the rest of the tech press will catch up. #AI finance, and OpenAI in particular, is looking more and more shaky... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Not sure I have/remember the econ 101 background to really get the most out of this, but it's a fascinating read so far. Calling it terse or dense would be a disservice. So far, it is right on the money 😇 for brief introductions and explorations of these ideas w/ historical context. #BubblesPop

Well, I'll be darned... I guess I've always ass-umed that I couldn't make most changes to a #HyperV virtual machine's configuration while it was running. I didn't notice one was running when I changed it from the default virtual LAN to "not connected", but it did it on-the-fly and back. Cool!

Holy smokes... #GoDores with 10 wins in a season for the first time ever. A wee bit different from my days there for sure. Not sure if we won 10 games in my entire time on campus... 😀

I don't watch a lot of football, but am I watching football or rugby with this VU/TN game? #SoConfused

When The Hollywood Reporter is writing about an #AI court case, you know the tech has gone mainstream in a big way. Or, Big AI is an IP theft engine... 🤷‍♂️ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Looking forward to the Vanderbilt / Tennessee game tomorrow afternoon. Black for the color of our capitalist hearts and gold for what it gets us... 😈

Dunking on Oracle is one of my favorite pastimes, but this takes it to a whole new level. Java, MySQL, Solaris, SPARC, and so many other acquisitions they've Oracle-ified would like a word. Can't wait for Ellison's next keynote "explaining" all this...

Wow... 🤮 Un-doing my like on a post because the reply thread went in multiple toxic directions almost immediately. Using images from #AI may be even more polarizing than a lot of our societal discourse. The decent points that were made were completely lost in the vitriol being spewed...

Leak, rumor, etc. If true, it's yet another very weak link in the overall supply chain for #GPU hardware. Maybe, that's for consumer products. Maybe, it's broader... www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

Marcus is Marcus, but when you've lost Sutskever from the "scaling is everything" crowd, that's a sign that #AI has to fundamentally change in order to reach its potential. I know it's confirmation bias of the highest order, but I can't help agreeing... 🤔 garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...

Happy Thanksgiving, America! It's a tough time to feel thankful, but this community makes my list for sure...

Imagine having fast ferries with room for vehicles and people running along the U.S. coasts. We could have that, but just like trains (for most of the country), we don't. We could be so very much cooler than we are... 🤷‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9v...

I thought the headline was common sense, but say what??? "PJM is considering proposing to allow #DataCenter loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers" [hashtag added] www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-dat...

Gaga or no Gaga, putting in a few thousand quick steps in 10F lower than yesterday was a different experience... Definitely not prepared to go home to lows around 17F / -8C in a few days... #HappyThanksgiving America in a few hours!

The usual words just don't apply. It's not un-believable or un-real or in-conceivable, etc. A 40+ minute, rapid-fire recitation of actions that should each probably result in impeachment, conviction, and ouster in less than a year, but ... oh, well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hybL...

Interesting take on the situation w/ a couple of potential caveats. Fiber and other things from the dot com era were durable, long-lived, general-purpose items. #AI software, usage, and GPUs aren't. And, the Magnificent 7 have started borrowing heavily... 🤷‍♂️ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...

Not sure what made me click on some old school Lady Gaga for workout music this evening, but it added some spice for sure... 😇

One of those headlines... I have no MBA. I have spent no time on Wall Street. I disagree with an awful lot of what the WSJ publishes. And yet... No kidding! You noticed!

I know they keep shifting the goalposts, but we really are living in the dumbest and most corrupt possible timeline. If this was a one leg of a fully integrated plan, it might not look quite so ... abysmal. With everything else this regime is doing? 🤷‍♂️ www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"Lower materialization rates, project cancellations, and delays" is an interesting place to be as #AI and #DataCenter spending is exploding country-wide. Speculators exiting? I have to wonder how far those projects got and what they did to their environments... www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia...

This is the kind of thing that just screams "the wrong tool for the job". We need yet another markup language ... wait for it ... because #LLM tokenizers and #AI models require more tokens to represent the same data (in some cases) and charge per token? #NoThanks www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...

Well, that's a fascinating assertion. Not sure if it totally holds legal water, but one has to wonder if it's not yet another "but we deserve special treatment" plea from the #AI crowd. Copyright? ❌️ Anti-trust? ❌️ What's next? fortune.com/2025/11/23/a...

I think we've found a new definition of "perverse incentives" for the #LLM era, not the age of #AI. Celebrating how much I can spend on your services? #NoThanks www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OX...

I... I... I definitely wouldn't want to pick up some folks with my mouth, but heaving them into the pool to stop their yapping about certain subjects would feel so good. 👿 www.youtube.com/shorts/oaRQ4...

Charlie Brown killed three men in a bar with a pencil.

The real question is whether that made the 911 dispatcher's top 10 weirdest calls list even for that day... 🤔

Well, the folks at the #AI related presentation I was just watching from #msIgnite are really lucky I'm not there in person. What a bunch of horseshit and irrational boosterism. "Just ask the model what it got wrong. You may have to push it a little." And trust what it makes up??????? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

A1.1) That's tough because much of it is about feels/qualitative employee experience. For quantitative data, we usually have to tie systems together multiple sources and look at throughput and velocity on a per team basis w/r/t their on-lineness. #ciochat

Not always a fan of a16z, but this is a fascinating write-up about the US' #NaturalGas industry. Not sure I agree with their conclusion that these numbers aren't a big problem for the massive #AI/#DataCenter growth and power requirements, but they explain a lot... open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/g...

Well... That's a fascinating bit of news... Much better than that fake #Stargate that the AI nerds are currently failing to create down in Texas... 😇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82u...

It might be a bit much to call this "inevitable", but fast-tracking connection requests for large loads and new generation capacity specifically to serve them was always risky. Another loose spike that might derail the #AI / #DataCenter runaway train... www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-mi...

It's been a while since I was inside a telecom or a telecom software provider, but I would really prefer to see these rules tightened, not loosened. This seems like another bizarre example of deliberately weakening our #cybersecurity capabilities. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-tel...

What happened to fewer packages and less waste? I chose the nicer option. 3 books from Amazon today = 3 packages including 2 oversized soft mailers and 1 oversized box. 🤷‍♂️

So... When I was ranting about the cavemanesque "point and grunt" of graphical user interfaces reducing fluency and tech literacy 40 years ago, I was just ahead of my time? Who knew! 🤔 Time to start posting in all emojis like the cool kids! bigthink.com/the-present/...

A more nuanced take on the impending #AI bubble than a lot of folks. Not sure I buy the argument that backlash and another full "AI winter" might not follow an LLM bubble collapse. Much also depends on how he's defining the word "model" in there... techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/h...

Not great news for a number of stocks. It will be interesting to see who else gets hit. Modern #storage needs a boatload of cache memory to band-aid over capacity and performance woes. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

Got to love convergent evolution! AWS did "Nitro". Azure has to do "Boost" to compete on a number of levels. If nothing else, the performance / capacity numbers are impressive. I hope the gains in security / isolation are too! #MSIgnite

Ugh... "Breaking" news, indeed... Seems like end-runs to the Supreme Court are the big thing right now, and they get results far too often. Asking companies w/ half a billion or a billion in revenue to report on climate-related issues is really that burdensome? 🤦‍♂️ www.esgdive.com/news/ninth-c...

Well, this makes total sense in Trump II. Let corporations do anything they please with respect to shareholder actions and hope nobody has the will and resources to file suit. I'm generally no fan of #ActivistInvestors, but their time may be coming... www.esgdive.com/news/sec-to-...