Look if you want to know why we’re spending money on detaining a tourist for longer than their planned leave date, take particular note of the profit motive hinted at in the article when they mention she’s being held by a private contractor…

We often say cruelty is the point, but it isn’t really… Profit is the point, and cruelty just happens to be cheaper than humanity.

Be still my heart

Because a ton of people have staked their careers, companies, and investments on it, and they’re better off riding a hype bubble than admitting the emperor has no clothes.

Agreed, it’s not completely devoid of value, but it’s definitely not saving me any super meaningful time.

There’s some labor efficiency but I would be really surprised if it even got to an hour a week in productivity gains.

I have copilot at work and honestly it’s not worth the price.

The number of times it has created grossly inaccurate meeting notes or summary items basically means I can’t trust it to be shared with someone who wasn’t there, so it’s mostly just there as a roll the dice memory jogger for participants.

The components embedded in office apps like PowerPoint are absolutely useless, and that’s where I really wanted it to help.

This is the buried lede that’s really concerning I think.

Their goal is to create AI agents that are indistinguishable from humans and capable of convincing people to hold certain positions.

Some time in the future all online discourse may be just a giant AI fueled tool sold to the highest bidders to manufacture consent.

One of the things I love about my Lightning is that it doesn’t look like a fucking cybertruck

This is totally me, my daughter, and my nephew with Pokemon.

Lol I love the odd couple dynamic those two have.

If any senior leader isn’t promising cost reduction bc of ai adoption they’re getting thrashed for it. So everyone has to say it.

There are clearly a few places it will be able to hit, but a lot of it is hopes and dreams and keeping up with the joneses.

Some days half my feed is PugJesus lol

Insurance companies don’t bill people as adults until 26 because our brains don’t finish developing fully until then and we make poorer choices in a statistically significant way until then.

So while the legal age of adulthood is often late teens to early twenties, the reality is you still probably act young in a way that older people pick up on.

When I was 21 I felt like I was an adult. But I wasn’t even finished growing, and looking back from 40 I was young and dumb and it was obvious to everyone but me.

That’s pretty neat, but photosynthesis separates that bond without using heat right?

Did not know they had one

While I have close to zero trust in MSFT and event much dislike a lot of m365, teams isn’t actually that bad and loop is really good.

Wow what a great use case.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts - the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.

If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

While he certainly wasn’t sensitive about how he said it, he did state is was sanctions related.

All it takes is reading the article to see why it was done. You clearly did not do that and instead inserted your own agenda.

My “office” is a network of interconnected multi-story buildings. It’s actually really convenient for me to know if I need to go meet someone in person or just use video.

Sometimes we have a room booked ahead of time and I learn they are wfh when I get to the empty room.