Frontier model use seems to have replaced boat size comparisons for how groups of Western men figure out who’s alpha

Dude gets insulted to his face and is like nah, he must have been talking about Joe Biden.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I have observed this seeming contradiction too. But I don’t think it’s a contradiction to be using it and also hating it. Individual utility isn’t the same as being comfortable with its impact on society in general. And a huge amount of AI discourse isn’t about the tech so much as the …

AI simulates (imitates), that’s how it works. Am starting to regret the “generative” label. Simulating responses to questions by imitating past responses (THIS IS HOW AI IS TRAINED PEOPLE) guarantees false trend analysis

I interact with chatbots as if they were humans I’m interacting with face to face. But. BUT. I keep constantly in mind that this a human-simulating, truth-SIMULATING model. My biggest worry about AI is that users don’t get its core simulative nature. Treating it humanely amplifies this problem

It’s depressing how things that were seen as KKK-level racism when I was in college are mundane government policies and Supreme Court decisions today.

Good, short read on the two main threats democratic rule

Being a good writer is a different skill set from being a good editor even though they’re related. I believe we’re seeing the same patterns in tech. Being a good coder/designer/PM is not the same as getting good code/design/strategy out of an LLM. We’ll see failures as companies figure this out.

The Open Compute Project is growing fast: it’s now 623 (corporate) members ranging from startups to neoclouds to hyperscalers to classic IT vendors. 125—20% of all members—were added in just that last 6 months! 24 of them from EMEA. Are standards now foundational to tech? #OCPBarcelona26

I’m at the Open Compute Project EMEA conference in Barcelona. Astonishing how much industry discussion, on display on stage at this show, is about achieving more and power in the data center … but almost none is about how to create and send it TO the data center equitably and sustainably

2½ hours of keynote seems long? Granted, this one has 13 parts #OCPBarcelona26

The Open Compute Project was founded 15 years ago. It was founded by Facebook but has steadily become a coalition of a host of vendors up and down the stack—and remains a forum for inquiry, free information exchange, and cross-platform standards development. #OCPBarcelona26

“Today’s Apple … failures aren’t dramatic ones. They’re the small, persistent, daily-friction kind that the founder used to personally drive teams to fix.” Yup!

We’ve got to stop this criminal syndicate and charge its lawless members and leaders, root to branch. A country that allows some to be above its laws is not a country

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

Some companies are replacing SWE/PM/etc titles with Builder. Not my team but AI is blurring roles. 1. PMs build prototypes via Claude Code; SWEs review and own the code. 2. SWEs write strategy docs with Claude; I act as final reviewer. Both now handle tasks that were someone else’s job a year ago

Even AI won’t escape the discouragement and aversion phase thenewstack.io/claude-opus-... by @adrianbridgwater.bsky.social @thenewstack.io

Sure, but counterpoint: domain expertise and experience are not reflected in “builder”

Seems like just in the past year or two people are shuttering their windows in flight _and then not raising the shutter until AFTER landing._ They just wait in ignorance for the big bump of landing…. This is weird. OTOH, I’m the guy who likes to look when they insert the needle into my skin

Sana is the sleeper story in @workday.com’s #agenticAI strategy, extending their HR/Finance contexts into the whole estate. Agents will operate all over where work happens—a governance problem as much as a tech one www.linkedin.com/pulse/workda...

Happy 30th Anniversary to SWV’s second studio album ‘New Beginning’ originally released April 23, 1996 | Listen to the album + watch the official videos here: album.ink/SWVnb

"The flagship demonstration of unprecedented cyber capability is in fact a model that weaponized two bugs that a different Anthropic model had already found, in software Mozilla had already patched, in a harness with the actual defenses turned off…" www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy...

Anthropic is testing only making Claude Code available in their $100/month or higher plans. Another sign that we’re hitting the Uber moment for AI tools and everyone’s stopping subsidizing tokens. With data center capacity at a premium, they don’t need to attract more users. It’s monetization time

This is a fine acquisition

“… as a sign of disrespect to the man.” This is the essence of the thing. Disrespect the man. Because then we disrespect the cynical and hostile philosophy he represents, his venal acolytes and grifters, and most importantly, the cultural sect that bore him. H/t @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Pope Leo:

Good point

THANK YOU OMG. I would add “stimulative,” but still. I work in this business and freaking nobody ever makes this point. H/t @lizthegrey.com

Great fuckin job here

I’m at CadenceLIVE, where EDA vendor Cādence Design Systems has been showcasing their software and libraries that help with the design all these new chips we are needing and using more and more lately. Day 2 has this panel on #physicalAI and how to use simulation to speed its development 1/10

Brief 🧵. This is one of the best things #Qlik does. @ruchowdh.bsky.social is articulate, practical, and deep in #AI, and a founding member of Qlik’s AI Council. @jasondelrey.bsky.social is an experienced implications-of-tech journalist. Another reason I miss going to #QlikConnect this year

“What if your brain was wired so that no matter what I say, you just believe it. Then you wouldn’t be having any problems at all”

This message from #Qlik is at least two years old

🧵 Endorsed

#Qlik is a good company and brand with good, thoughtfully developed data analytics products and tons of quite dedicated custovangelists around the world. Wish I could go to Qlik Connect again this year—and hope to catch a little of the @techfieldday.com action this week

Really useful example if you want to understand how AI really works and how it 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 work, … along with a glimpse into the dangers of agentic AI, which necessarily has action loops without human review. Short 🧵 h/t @stephen.fosketts.net

Just arrived in Chicago for this year’s @nutanix.bsky.social .NEXT. Agenda for me is AI infrastructure, unified VM+containers ​ops, and new alliances to help architects and operators

Latest blog post. Being doing quite a bit of work with Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, Windows Server, and SQL Server installs for test builds. Fun times! snoopj.blog/2026/04/02/m...

As a Christian, I don't think federal agencies should be referring to "Christ, our Savior" in any context. I don't need my government to validate my faith. That's why it's called faith. More importantly, my government shouldn't be invalidating the religions of other Americans.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: 😆 #BuhBYE

It really doesn’t. I’m all for holding to known systems,and sympathize with the comfort of resisting change. But we also have to call a cat a cat

No …, and YES. YES! Also ST:TNG is about a few other important things

Worth reading, by the founder of Craigslist. My tl;dr for it is: What the fuck is the point of having all that money anyway? Y’all lost the plot

(Me buying poster board) Fellow shopper: Making a sign? Me: Maybe it's for a school science project Him: Those aren't allowed anymore Me: Maybe a sociology project? Him: See you in an hour! #NoKings

How is this not getting 1,000 Likes

Sad to see #storage being another victim of the AI hardware vacuum. It's very hard to find an external SSD or HDD at all, especially at an affordable price. 8TB USB HDD is about 2x what it was last year.

Might not be clear because of the mention of Nutanix up front, but @davegraham.bsky.social is talking about NVIDIA. Software, not hardware, wins _many_ races. Not just AI. And _many_ hardware vendors, up and down the stack, don’t realize this

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day