"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

It's great to have Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and Jason Del Rey taking the stage at hashtag#QlikConnect to talk with James Fisher of Qlik about the future of AI. Here are some key points. I've been listening to Dr. Chowdhury in particular for years and she has incredible, nuanced knowledge of AI.

I just published Your Phone Knows Where You Are. So Does the Government. That’s Not an Accident. medium.com/p/your-phone...

The Day 2 keynote at #QlikConnect is focused on customers - awards, use cases, and customer stories. I always get more out of these than product presentations because it's what's really going on in the industry. They're doing a "lightning round" with 5 customers talking about their own stories:

We recorded an episode of the Utilizing AI podcast live on site at #QlikConnect today. Watch for it in the next couple of weeks!

Watch for a new series of Tech Talks recorded live at #QlikConnect this week! We'll be publishing them on the Tech Field Day channels soon!

The biggest issue when building reliable AI applications is that they lack context: LLMs will fill in the blanks if you don’t give them enough data. That’s one of the big takeaways from #QlikConnect today!

Not only does the US Administration think Iran isn't a failure, but now they're getting ready to go into Cuba!

I was very focused

“What if fusion power became practical and widespread in the next three months. That would really solve the problem. “

We collected some of our favorite social media coverage of the #QlikConnect keynote in this "reverse live blog" this morning! techfieldday.com/2026/tech-fi...

Love seeing our pal Kate Strachnyi on the #QlikConnect keynote stage!

Love this incredible illustration of the #QlikConnect keynote!

Sidney Drill is on stage at #QlikConnect. She's talking about the Qlik Discovery Agent, which enables data to watch itself, scanning continuously using the Analytics Engine to surface value. Qlik Answers is a 24x7x365 on-demand agent for contextual insights.

Now we have Qlik EVP of Products Drew Clarke getting into specifics about what they're seeing in AI, product innovations they're making, and bringing up more customers. #QlikConnect

More from Mike Capone of #Qlik at #QlikConnect: "AI has to have context, rules, governance and be grounded in understanding." Qlik announced an MCP server previously and now it's ready for use and providing real value.

Tune in to our Qlik Connect Live Blog! Learn what our delegates are saying about @Qlik and their partners! #QlikConnect #TFDx #AgenticAI #AI

#Qlik is making a ton of announcements at #QlikConnect: * Partnering with #ServiceNow * Improving Agentic Analytics from Qlik Answers to Agentic Action * Adding Agentic Data Engineering for open data for agents * Building Agentic Trust with governance capabilities for execution in the agentic era

Up next we have a customer on stage: UPS. He brings up geopolitical events, tariffs, weather, and general disruption to the global supply chain. The biggest thing UPS needed was trust and confidence in their data and platform before piloting AI applications. #QlikConnect

Now we've got CEO Mike Capon setting the tone. QUIK (Quality Understanding Interaction Knowledge) appeared 30 years ago and #Qlik remains focused on this. Companies are not getting the value of the AI investment they are making. Where is the return? #QlikConnect

"AI is fast and powerful ... until it's not..." Couldn't have said it better! It's all about the data, the context, and the trust! "Data is the difference" says Qlik. "Move from confident guessing to the AI you were promised." #QlikConnect

We're live at #QlikConnect! Once again it's Katie Linendoll as emcee, and we've got live art (with a real human artist), a DJ, and of course the Tech Field Day delegates live blogging on our website!

And we're live with Katie Linendoll at #QlikConnect

It's time for the #QlikConnect keynote!

Got a behind the scenes tour of the #QlikConnect show floor and the lighting wasn't yet working. So it was delightfully moody! Stay tuned for more all week (but with brighter lights)!

53 years to go back to the Moon. We threw away the hardware that worked, replaced it with a Shuttle that went nowhere, and hollowed out the companies that built Apollo. The autopsy, not the thought experiment.

2026 has brought many disappointments. None more so than #MLB refusing to bring back the #Pillbox hats. #Baseball

The question is not whether Trump's "negotiators" will cave but how deep they will dig to save their boss from his own mistakes

What’s the definition of boondoggle anyway?

Team @techfieldday.com, @stephen.fosketts.net, and the delegates are headed to Orlando for #QlikConnect 2026! ❇️ #Qlik has always held an exciting event, and this year looks better than ever. Tune in to our Keynote live blog and follow along on social media and on LinkedIn April 13 - 15! #TFDx

The new easy way to push my buttons: Tell me "yeah well AI has improved so much in the last few months that none of what you said is true anymore!"

EFF is leaving X/Twitter. Sorry but it's about freaking time. I don't expect everyone to leave. Yes it's a cesspool and the algorithm sucks. But the EFF of all orgs should care about this. This "we weren't getting engagement anymore" nonsense is weak sauce. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04...

It’s wild that the biggest threat to world peace and the global economy is the president of the United States of America.

No matter how bad he gets and no matter what he does, Republicans in Congress will never stand up to him or speak out because some agree with him on everything and the rest are spineless cowards.

Gosh, ya think?? "Our career diplomats who speak fluent Farsi and understand the negotiating behavior of the Iranians are a hidden strength of the U.S." If only we would send in the professionals and trust in expertise instead of "son in law and his father" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us...

The USA and Iran aren't on the same page with their 10 or 15 points to negotiate. Heck they're not even on the same book! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/wo...

“Because I accepted three concocted straw-man arguments I decided to side with people who hate me!” 🐆

So let me get this straight: Iran gets control of the Strait of Hormuz and will charge tolls to transit (something they never had before) and Trump gets to declare victory??

March 6. This aged well. #uspol

The Trump administration achieved all 3 of it's objectives in Iran! We achieved this by waiting until the cease-fire was negotiated by Pakistan and China and then picking 3 objectives we could pretend we achieved and claiming they were our objectives all along. #uspol

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

This rhetoric is not only unhinged and illegal it's counter-productive. It's TACO Tuesday at the White House and the president is making ridiculous sweeping threats that everyone knows will not be carried out. This is just a stupid negotiation tactic and the emperor has no clothes. #USPOL

His answer: we don't engage with the world as it is. We engage with "pseudo-environments", simplified pictures of reality we construct from the information available to us. We act on those pictures as if they were the real thing.

Ranger Suarez looks pretty good so far. #RedSox

We truly live in a dystopia. The voice assistant in my car is extremely friendly, but it hallucinates nonexistent controls rather than actually helping me use the car.

Watching pro-AI presentations from the Abundance 2026 conference and there's an extreme lack of skepticism. The demos are small scale and don't always work. The hype is for the next model version, which will be perfect and fast I'm sure. Pretty pathetic.