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Why is @ATT SOOOO VERY BAD at customer support. Their AI is horrible. No help at all. They should be embarrassed. You have to wait days to get a real person to call you back. Walk into a store, they say call the main number. WTF! Your staff can't help?!

What happened to Grok? I did one heavy eval of a two page article I wrote and it said I was near my limit. The quality of response seems less, but that is subjective to me. Something changed and it's not good.

fun fact nobody asked for: at 11:15 UTC today the sun shines on 99% of the world's population simultaneously. 8 billion people, one sunbeam. anyway good morning

@k9_reaper Comb of doom?

The forbidden signal jammer thingy - we need a name - we already have the forbidden sausage for the mining explosives

Technology due diligence is evolving. Architecture still matters. But increasingly investors ask: "Can this leadership team operationalize technology?"

AI maturity isn't measured by the number of pilots. It's measured by the number of business decisions leadership can confidently explain.

The refs are giving Mexico everything and holding England to a higher standard. Seems lopsided

Jonah Hill made an amazing film with Outcome (2026) There are so many layers. The more you know LA, the more layers peel off. If you've made a movie you can watch this five times and feel more seen each time.

Another mechanic story: How would you like to have worked 44 hours the week before Christmas and receive a negative paycheck on Friday? It once happed to me while I worked as an experienced mechanic at a new car dealership. Dealership mechanics get paid by a system called flat rate book time. All jobs including warranty ones have a set time in the book for a certain repair. They do not get paid by the hour, only whatever time the book says to do the job. If book time say the job pays 1 hour then it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours to do it, the mechanic only gets the 1 hour pay. Plus there are many things a dealership mechanic has to do that he gets paid nothing for doing. Things such as jumping or pushing a car inside, waiting at the parts counter, researching for bulletins and other information, explaining problems to service writers and lots of diagnostic time that difficult to get paid for. This particular week was slow, the only cars coming in were warranty ones that were towed in. Which meant almost every 10 minutes I had to stop what I was doing and help someone push a car inside. I worked on a total of 22 cars that week. All 22 cars, I cleaned the snow off them, pushed them inside, charged the batteries, diagnosed the problem and ordered the needed parts which would not arrive until after the holiday. None of that pays anything. We only get paid when the parts are installed and vehicle is complete. So very few cars got actually completed that week. My pay after taking out family health insurance, uniform rental, federal and state taxes, social security and coffee, I owed the dealership $18.45. Yes, after using my gas to drive there for 5 days , using my expensive tools, working on 22 vehicles using many years of knowledge, I owed them money! Now maybe one can understand why there is a serious experienced mechanic shortage especially in new car dealerships.

@Roybattyforever I thought it was like a sorting hat but for which credit card to max out.

Cuando el bolso de tu mujer te pide que captures a Han Solo.

That red card was BS. USA has had horrible refs every game. FIFA should be embarrassed. While I like soccer, never should FIFA staff be allowed in the USA again. ANY of them. Corrupt bastards.

Boards shouldn't ask: "Do we have an AI strategy?" They should ask: Who owns AI outcomes? How is value measured? How is governance improving execution? Those answers tell you far more than another AI roadmap.

Coolest use of a drone

@GergelyOrosz The champions and greatest talent will leave first. On an HR chart it says "We only lost 5%", but the institutional knowledge and passion loss will be >50%.

A story of why Meta signaling they don't care about engineers a few months back is resulting in resignations month later: 1. A long-tenured dev I know lost faith in Meta leadership, put out feelers at top startups 2. A few weeks ago, got an offer at a high-growth startup. Was hesitating 3. Meta leadership did a half-hearted u-turn, signaling "oh sorry, our bad, we actually care about y'all" 4. This dev talked internally at Meta w leadership chain, and just about started to believe things could change, and the right move is to stay (network, impact, TC, comfort etc) 5. Said startup had more of their team talk with this dev, also with investors, upped their comp offer, and outlined how much more autonomy this dev would have there 6. The dev realized they already felt a part of this startup, and actually would contribute meaningfully (vs at Meta being dependent on the next mood change of upper leadership) 7. Startup offer accepted, resignation handed in at Meta This was just one such story. Meta will lose so much standout engineers this year: the damage was done recklessly (but Meta as a business will be just fine)

Ouch! This is worth checking

@BurchetteMason @truemetalsupply Looks great! Planning in using it on my next house.

Board and BattenSteel siding and Natural Maple steel ceiling liner panels. All American steel from True Metal Supply 🇺🇸

@FrankBr05713205 Sould be a way to rent tools at break even cost so that more can get jobs. I buy a first set of tools, 12K? TCO for two years 15k? Can a new mechanic afford 650/mo for tools? They pay it off, keep tools, and I'll buy another set....

I teach high school auto shop and one of the biggest problems with my graduates who want to get into the field is having the ability to purchase tools. As most of you may know, mechanics must have their own set of tools and box and that’s a rather expensive purchase. Many simply cannot afford that and end up working fast food or something like that. One of my good students recently reached out to me and asked if I had any extra tools he could buy as he got a job in a small shop and needed tools. Well me being a veteran technician had plenty of extra tools at home, so I gathered them all up and put them in a box and took them to him.. The shock and smile on that young lad’s face when I dropped that box off to his place of employment cannot be described. Of course, he asked me how much he owed me for those tools to which I replied, nothing. Good luck on your new career and thank you for being a good student in my class.

Germany vs Paraguay shoot out is tense!!

Technology due diligence shouldn't end with architecture reviews. A harder question: "Can this leadership team operationalize the next wave of technology?" That's increasingly what creates enterprise value.

Technology adoption is rarely limited by technology. It's limited by leadership, governance, incentives, and organizational readiness. AI is simply the latest example.