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editing him like he’s a universal threat😂

The out-of-office autoreply is a clear symptom of moral decay. I emailed a mid-level associate at 3 AM regarding a restructuring draft. I instantly received a bounce-back stating he was hiking in Patagonia with limited Wi-Fi. Limited Wi-Fi implies the existence of some Wi-Fi. I sent him a calendar invite for a Zoom call at his local time. I included a note saying that altitude sickness isn't a valid excuse for missing a redline. He logged on twelve hours later from a satellite phone in a blizzard. The wind was howling so loudly I couldn't hear his apologies. I told him his formatting on page six was completely unacceptable. He froze his fingers fixing it, but the document was pristine. Nature is temporary. Client retention is absolute.

@clivepafc Ive given up on martinelli

This is great 👏🏾 I’ve been having a word with myself in relation to how we see our own talents. We are wired to appreciate but also critique - but the feeling a player gives you is personal to you - but don’t forget how good they really are.

These hand-painted special effects on British showgirl Suzanna Willis from the movie ‘The Monster Club’, 1981.

Low-frequency electromagnetic fields can degrade collagen, weaken tendons, and cause soft-tissue damage at levels regulators call "safe." We have a real world case study proving this: An NFL team whose practice facility sits next to a massive electrical substation. THREAD 🧵 peteranthonycowan.substack.com/p/could-chroni…

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

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Scientists found that fungi constantly send bioelectrical signals through their mycelium, like tiny messages moving through a living network. By connecting those signals to a synthesizer, each pulse is turned into a musical note, letting the mushroom "perform" in real time.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Elf on the shelf? What happened?

@elonmuskTN 12

@Gosleepriya Yizzzir

Let's see who is smart among you.

Christian Bale is the greatest method actor ever

Does anyone have more of this genre of image of old and new cultures colliding

@FPL_Partridge missing you

2012?????

Death is not the worst of evils. Your surrender to slavery is. Do not be a slave. Serve God, and live well as a divine warrior who owns his life, his future, his fate. Try it. You have something to lose by trying? That isn't already being torn from you and your children?