You can't just “sprinkle agentic ai on” analytics for them to work. 🫗 Mary Kern explains in this Qlik Connect clip that real value from agentic AI only happens when analytics systems are properly designed and tuned for it. #TFDx #QlikConnect #DataAnalytics #AgenticAI #AIData

"The white zone is for loading and unloading…"

21st Century warfare: Sylph-child uses Nintendo-style pad to direct miniature explosive drones into enemy tanks, hundreds of miles away, detonating them, killing the crew.

Moose #Vermont

Here's a better look at Killington Mountain this cold misty morning #Vermont

I imagine this place is absolutely rocking during ski season, but it's pretty calm now that mud season has arrived. #Vermont

Recycling has always been a way for plastics producers to shift the blame on to consumers. "Reduce, reuse, recycle" says "this is your problem not ours" Because recycling simply doesn't work at scale. We must drastically cut back on using plastics. www.houstonchronicle.com/opin...

Here's a really great article by my pal Zoë Rose! TL;DR: No the AI Hacker isn't going to kill your business… www.rosesec.com/post/is-the-a...

I was talking to a company the other day that has pivoted strongly to AI-generated content. They were mentioning that they're finding it difficult to get "market traction" with their new offerings. Gee I wonder why that is? Perhaps people don't want to pay for AI slop of questionable veracity?

#NFD40 #LinkedIn

As a UNIX sysadmin, it's embarrassing to admit, but whenever anybody pronounces /etc as "ET-see" I think of Etsy…

#NFD40 #LinkedIn

#QlikConnect #LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-ye...

Good read and good thoughts. routerjockey.com/tim-cook-is-...

it's still pretty wild to me that pretty much ALL press outlets inherently assume this FCC "router ban" isn't some shakedown. Nobody that's gotten "conditional approval" has had to actually explain what they've had to do to get it. A bribe? A backdoor for ICE? Who knows?

Trump has a week to resolve the Iran situation before it becomes illegal without congressional approval. Think congress will push back or even notice? #uspol www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/op...

The local political organizations rely 100% on Facebook groups and Messenger for communication. I tried to tell them that this was alienating younger and privacy-aware members, but they haven't successfully pivoted to plain old email and websites yet. I even volunteered to help, but no call back.

It would be easy to knee-jerk hate on this. But read the piece and you'll see that Jon's head is in the right place: Local TTS not "Ubuntu Clippy" Careful integration with snaps to protect data AIOps integration for SREs Use of AI to assist developers not replace them

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

China is dominating solar, batteries, and EVs because they made a national commitment, while we keep stalling. Every day we delay on clean energy is a day we fall further behind. This is an economic and national security fight we can't lose.

Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"The #RedSox have parted ways with manager Alex Cora, hitting coach Peter Fatse, bench coach Rámon Vázquez and game-planning coach Jason Varitek, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan. The club has not confirmed the report."

Here's a crazy story I missed! The senior enlisted leaders of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester installed a secret Starlink Wi-Fi network during a West Pacific deployment in 2023. The SSID "STINKY" gave them away…

#Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" is here! techstrong.it/news/ubuntu-26-...

#NFD40 #LinkedIn

Imaging being this despised yet so lacking in self-awareness that you think you're loved by all

"An army of yes men, in thrall to Donald Trump's shifts of temper and short attention span, is hampering any prospect of peace with Iran." www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2...

"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...

The writing genre of "let's see what <AI chatbot> says about <subject>" has thankfully expired and was never informative in the first place. Let it die.

I'm old enough to remember when politicians worried about the consequences of what they said and did

How much do I hate WEBP images? I spent $6 on this Safari plugin to avoid them… underpassapp.com/ChangeTheHea...

OHIO you have Primaries on May 5th!!!! Your house district may have changed! Find your new ones here:

If you live in Virginia, tomorrow you have a huge opportunity to make it clear to the GOP that if they want to win, it won’t be by changing the rules and redrawing maps. At least, not without a fight. Vote YES on the redistricting vote, and push back!

on the one hand, it’s notable that all the cabinet secretaries who have been fired are women, on the other hand, lori chavez-deremer’s personal conduct was truly reprehensible, above and beyond anything else that’s been reported about anyone in this admin besides trump

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

#RecordStoreDay treasure: Jesus Jones "Live in Chicago 1990" (from Record Store Day UK 2023) I saw them in Boston on this tour and it was one of my top five all time live rock shows!

#RecordStoreDay treasure: Soul Jazz Records "Power Pop!" Compilation special

It's #RecordStoreDay! recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/1...

We love and support the #HumaneSociety of Summit County #Ohio and are amazed to see how much good they do for the animals! #BowWowBingo26

"We have built a nothingburger so tasty it could destroy civilisation! If the AI can destroy humanity … it's definitely powerful enough to write your emails." pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/13/ai...

Winding a wristwatch has become so alien to most people, I get crazy looks when I do it in public. Especially when I’m winding this watch! #watches

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Are those Allbirds you're wearing or is it a GPU datacenter?

Friends, we are truly living in the very dumbest of times. techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/a... #Allbirds #IT #AI #stocks #$BIRD #BirdsArentReal via @techcrunch.com