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Digital ecosystems, information systems, physicist, bulldog dad since 1996. Chicago. Silicon Valley. Scottsdale. Denver. Opinions and insights do not reflect any organization I am affiliated with.

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All that Miracle Hair Grow is burning up his scalp.

04.03.2026 00:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle | Fortune In December, Cooler Screens shut down access to hundreds of the digitized fridge doors, which Walgreens claims affected sales.

New CEO also has to unfuck several other shit piles they dove head first into like the whole Cooler Screen cluster fuck.

Comparatively, outside of supergluing shut all the doors at all locations, the new CEO can only go up from here! Sky's the limit!!!

fortune.com/2025/01/17/w...

03.03.2026 20:17 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Off into the sunset 😌

28.02.2026 18:13 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Not in MAGA Universe!

More like, "Donate life savings to the televangelist and bask in the light and glory of Trump, who has been sent by God and is homies with Jesus, to cure your disease forever"

Note: the "forever" cure? It's simple - die quick! But not until that donation clears the bank.

25.02.2026 20:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

23.02.2026 21:44 👍 1654 🔁 620 💬 18 📌 73
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Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude The allegations mirror those made by OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve AI models.

Gift Link: Anthropic (the company being sued for copyright infringement) doesn't like others playing by the same rules.

😭🫠

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

23.02.2026 23:52 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Moms for Liberty ceremony

Moms for Liberty ceremony

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community.

He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

23.02.2026 13:35 👍 3112 🔁 1487 💬 182 📌 242

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23.02.2026 14:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is 'ridiculous' While in New Delhi on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "there will come a time" for orbital data centers, but it won't be anytime soon.

Altman calling BS on Musk's space data centers is a bit much.

Can't wait to see how far down the rabbit hole these guys go to steer the other.

www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-e...

22.02.2026 19:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

22.02.2026 01:27 👍 3538 🔁 869 💬 60 📌 123

Sammy complaining about "unfair comparisons" has zero credibility.

Comparing a statistical language model to human intelligence is the original sin, grand daddy of un-fucking-fair comparisons.

He has no self awareness. No shame. No ethics. This idiot is dangerous.

22.02.2026 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"The subpoenas are coming," bipartisan firm warns corporate America "It's going to be so much worse than they expect," Miller tells Axios.

We're seeing what can happen with a massive email dump a la Epstein emails.

Imagine what emails from the top techbros would reveal...

There's only so much one can do to cover their tracks. Digital fingerprints are tricky.

www.axios.com/2026/02/17/s...

21.02.2026 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This man has lost his mind. What the holy hell is going on that he is still in office and there are no moves to remove him?

20.02.2026 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is also why agentic LLMs will never live up the hype. Error rates (ie hallucinations, bc those are errors) multiply.

Ex: if you chain two LLMs that individually have 80% success rates, the total success rate is 64%!

Chained 4 times? 41%

😳🫠🤷🏽‍♂️

15.02.2026 20:33 👍 138 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 11

Short article and worth a glance. The snowpack out west is crazy low which is not good for the wildfire situation. This summer is going to be crazy.

15.02.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE will be at the World Cup, director says Trump's immigration crackdown fuels a backlash that could affect how fans and teams engage with the World Cup.

ICE plans to have a presence at the World Cup this summer, acting director Todd Lyons said Tuesday.

10.02.2026 21:14 👍 19 🔁 14 💬 13 📌 6

No child left behind, ay.

10.02.2026 21:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"No child left behind" hits a little different now, doesn't it

10.02.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah. Lots of AI hipsters seem to be those that are simply trying to grift off of it.

08.02.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bonkers.

Gift link below.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...

08.02.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Damen frequently plays some know it all, and it drive me nuts. That he's pumping crypto further cements my disdain of him.

08.02.2026 19:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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IMO: Modern software dev, which leans heavily on Agile, is mostly guessing if something works or if a feature hits.

In this way, software development tends not to understand the problem as a practice.

08.02.2026 18:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah. And recent email dumps are clearly show Epstein had mind boggling access AND influence to the most powerful men and institutions on earth.

She likely knew and saw this first hand, YEARS ago. It must have been terrifying.

08.02.2026 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Her career in HR is def smoked.

Changing lanes to consulting, life coach or whatever she's aiming for is about the only thing she CAN do.

What's the over-under on attendance? Like 7.5? 😜

08.02.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dude is hella charming

06.02.2026 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is Frankie. He ran outside like he always does, only to find out his yard had been replaced with a white void. 12/10 (IG: frankiethenorfie)

29.01.2026 19:11 👍 7715 🔁 1077 💬 144 📌 88

Only difference here is Trump is still president and can very likely do some shady shit to prevent this.

This has zero chance of success.

05.02.2026 19:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also stupefying about space data centers:
- Shock/Vibe: launch is like slamming your phone on the ground repeatedly for minutes
- Radiation: high energy particles require shielding, special IC architecture
- Repairability: duh!
- Reliability: see above
- Obsolescence: compute HW gets old fast

05.02.2026 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bezos and Musk didn't invest in WaPo or Twitter to make money.

Any analysis that views these investments thru that lens is farcical. It's not about money at all.

It is a siege of power; a pawn on a chessboard; prestige; control; ego stroking; narcissism.

05.02.2026 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Disagree, only bc that would mean he has a capacity to not be a total and complete asshole.

He could not will himself to be decent, no matter how hard he tries or how big the prize.

04.02.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0