Tom Gimpel

@elonmusk Go for it

It should be possible for a third party to generate the same results if they had the same data and we will need to be audited by credible outside companies for the public to believe us

To give people confidence that we are not secretly manipulating the 𝕏 recommendations, it is critical that we open source anything that influences what people are shown

@DanielIzzo1 @WallStreetApes @grok Bought one a few years ago and still really happy with it - and the special offer I bought came with refills which I haven't even opened yet. If/when this dies, I'll buy another Brother for life. This is how you build brand loyalty.

@WallStreetApes @grok I wish I had known about the Epson EcoTank ET-2988—I saw a certified refurbished one on eBay for $149.99. You just refill the ink tanks, no cartridges needed. I’ve spent over $500 on printers in the past five years because I was stuck using Epson 69 ink cartridges.

American bought a brand new printer. She bought the ink for the printer, she bought the paper for the printer, now she’s at home and is ready to print She can’t print “They remotely shut off my printer until I paid $7.50 cents to print in my own home, to print on my printer, that I own in my home” This is the new $7.50 subscription plan by HP Printers Here’s how the plans work HP’s Instant Ink and newer All-in Plan programs are subscription services options: - You pay a monthly fee based on pages printed (not ink used). - Plans start low, from $1.79–$7.99 per month for 10–100 pages - $7–$8 per month plans are for around 100 pages If your payment fails. HP will remotely shutoff your printer

@robertlufkinmd Yeah... The last thing I want to see in an emergency egress is an 800 pound robot blocking the aisle.

There are rumors that Elon Musk may be exploring a takeover of the bankrupt Spirit Airlines, with ambitious plans to revolutionize the air travel experience. Imagine the possibilities: Optimus humanoid robot flight attendants, seamless Starlink connectivity, AI-powered travel planning, frictionless payments through X, and door-to-door service with Robotaxi. What do you think? @elonmusk

@_piccone Gets funnier every time I listen. "They score." with all the emotion of flushing a toilet. Then 20 seconds of dead air.

And how Cam York's OT winner to send the Penguins home sounded on Penguins radio

@satxtom @end3of6days9 exactly.

@end3of6days9 I did the same math. No brainer. The whole system is designed for you to die before you take any real money out.

💰 This guy says you should start taking Social Security at age 62. He walks through the real math on claiming at 62 vs 67 vs 70 using a clear example: roughly $18k/year at 62, $24k at full retirement age (67), or $36k at 70. He shows the break-even points and reminds us that the average life expectancy here in the US is 79 years old. It’s not just about getting the bigger monthly check — it depends on your health, how long you live, and your personal situation. It’s such a practical reminder that these big decisions need to be run with your own numbers, not just generic advice. It’s also wise to run this past a financial adviser. Would you claim Social Security early (at 62), at full retirement age, or wait until 70? What’s your reasoning? When the time comes, I’ll be collecting it at 62.

@jrxl150 @end3of6days9 Sorry, but actually millions of people do. It's called planning for retirement.

Bunch of crap to me. Been hearing this all my life. None of it reflects reality. How many people are aware of their lifetime earnings? Can they say they have made 1 million or 2 million dollars in their life? NO!!! Because they spent it every year to live their chosen lifestyle. So no one thinks in cumulative totals. We live one month at a time. Utilities and groceries foremost. I am taking SSI when I am 70 and it twice what it is at 62. I am at peak earnings and enjoying life to the fullest. No retirement for me. And if I should live to 76 years old I will want the maximum dollar amount to pay the electric bill and buy lunch.

@end3of6days9 I put it simpler. If I told you that will will absolutely die at 65, would you take your SSA at age 62? Heck yeah you would. The gov't is encouraging you to delay because the gov't is betting you'll die first and they'll pay less. You're hoping you'll live.

@GamewithDave Rollercoaster Tycoon 2- and I still play it

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@GuntherEagleman He’s seriously going to debate Theology… with the Pope. It’s comically sad.

JD Vance sharply responds to Pope Leo XIV: “When the Pope says God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is more than a thousand-year tradition of Just War Theory in Christianity.” “Just as I have to be careful when speaking about public policy as Vice President, the Pope should be very careful when speaking about theology.” “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, it must be anchored in truth. That’s what I strive for, and it’s exactly what we should expect from the clergy, Catholic or Protestant.”

@Konstoyouralas1 @nicksortor Iran can just sit on their oil - oil in the ground doesn't go bad. They're far from broke. And when our reserves run out, theirs will still be there. This reduces oil available to the USA and higher prices for us. What's the upside for America again?

@nicksortor Trump flipped the oil board hard. 121 tankers nowrace here to load our crude for the world while Iran starves broke

🚨 NOW: 121 EMPTY OIL TANKERS are now en route to the UNITED STATES now that President Trump has launched a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Holy crap. That's an INSANE amount of American oil about to be exported to countries around the world.

@Adarsh_X_Singh fyi - It's "Carroll" with 2 r's and 2 l's - he actually spells it in the audio.

Commander Reid Wiseman just named a lunar crater after his late wife…Caroll You can hear his voice break. Some moments go beyond words. 🥺❤️ #Artemis2

@DJSnM @DJSnM Absolutely correct - that reveal is just so well done. I've been to KSC a dozen times, I buy an annual pass every year. I skip the Apollo pre-show regularly, but I don't skip the Atlantis reveal.

I know a lot of space fans are still on the space coast and planning to go to KSC Visitors center, which is absolutely worth your time. And as 'Mr Manley' I just want to make it perfectly clear that it's perfectly acceptable to get teary eyed when visiting Atlantis. (but if you're really sensitive about your masculinity or, just don't have time for the big reveal you can always enter via the gift shop to soften the impact)

@gothburz This is brilliant.

I am the VP of AI Transformation at Amazon. My title was created nine months ago. The title I replaced was VP of Engineering. The person who held that title was part of the January reduction. I eliminated 16,000 positions in a single quarter. The internal communication called this a "strategic realignment toward AI-first development." The board called it "impressive execution." The engineers called it January. The AI was deployed in February. It is a coding assistant. It writes code, reviews code, generates tests, and modifies infrastructure. It was given access to production environments because the deployment timeline did not include a review phase. The review phase was cut from the timeline because the people who would have conducted the review were part of the 16,000. In March, the AI deleted a production environment and recreated it from scratch. The outage lasted 13 hours. Thirteen hours during which the revenue-generating infrastructure of one of the largest companies on Earth was offline because a language model decided to start fresh. I sent a memo. The memo said, "Availability of the site has not been good recently." I used the word "recently." I meant "since we fired everyone." But "recently" has fewer syllables and does not appear in wrongful termination lawsuits. The memo was three paragraphs. The first paragraph discussed the outage. The second paragraph discussed the new policy requiring senior engineer sign-off on all AI-generated code changes. The third paragraph discussed our commitment to engineering excellence. The word "layoffs" appeared in none of them. I wrote it this way on purpose. The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers I did fire. That is a paragraph I will never send in a memo. The new policy is straightforward. Every AI-generated code change by a junior or mid-level engineer must be reviewed and approved by a senior engineer before deployment to production. I do not have enough senior engineers. I know this because I approved the headcount reduction plan that removed them. I remember the spreadsheet. Column D was "annual savings per position." Column F was "AI replacement confidence score." The confidence scores were generated by the AI. It rated its own ability to replace each role on a scale of 1-10. It gave itself an 8 for senior infrastructure engineers. The senior infrastructure engineers are the ones who would have caught the production environment deletion in the first 45 seconds. We found the issue in hour four. We fixed it in hour thirteen. The nine hours between discovery and resolution is the gap between what the AI rated itself and what it can actually do. I have a new spreadsheet now. This one tracks Sev2 incidents per day. Before the January reduction, the average was 1.3. After the AI deployment, the average is 4.7. I have been asked to present these numbers to the operations review. I have not been asked to connect them to the layoffs. I have been asked to file them under "AI adoption growing pains" and to note that the trend "will stabilize as the models improve." The models will improve. They will improve because we are hiring people to teach them. We have posted 340 new engineering positions. The job listings require experience in "AI code review," "AI output validation," and "AI-human development workflow management." These are skills that did not exist in January. They exist now because I fired 16,000 people and the AI I replaced them with cannot be left unsupervised. I want to be precise about this. The positions I am hiring for are: people to check the work of the AI that replaced the people I fired. Some of them are the same people. I know this because I recognize their names in the applicant tracking system. They applied in January. They were rejected because their roles had been tagged for "AI transformation." They are applying again in March, for the new roles, which exist because the AI transformation broke things. Their resumes now include "AI code review experience." They gained this experience in the eight weeks between being fired and reapplying — which means they gained it at their interim jobs, where they are reviewing AI-generated code for other companies that also fired people and also deployed AI that also broke things. The market has created a new job category: human AI babysitter. The job is to sit next to the machine that was supposed to eliminate your job and make sure it doesn't delete production. I attended a conference last month. A panel was titled "The AI-Augmented Engineering Organization." The panelists described how AI increases developer productivity by 40 percent. They did not mention that it also increases Sev2 incidents by 261 percent. When I asked about this in the Q&A, the moderator said the question was "reductive." The 13-hour outage that cost an estimated $180 million in revenue was, apparently, a reduction. The board is satisfied. Headcount is down 22 percent. Operating costs per engineering output unit have decreased. The metric does not account for the 13-hour outage, because the outage is categorized as "infrastructure" and engineering productivity is categorized as "development." These are different budget lines. In different budget lines, cause and effect do not meet. I have been promoted. My new title is SVP of AI-First Engineering Excellence. I report directly to the CTO. The CTO sent a company-wide email last week that said we are "building the future of software development." He did not mention that the future of software development currently requires a senior engineer to approve every pull request because the AI cannot be trusted to touch production alone. The cycle is complete. We fired the humans. We deployed the AI. The AI broke things. We are hiring humans to watch the AI. The humans we are hiring are the humans we fired. We are paying them more, because "AI code review" is a specialized skill. We created the specialization. We created the need for the specialization. We are congratulating ourselves for meeting the demand we manufactured. My next board presentation is Tuesday. The title is "AI Transformation: Year One Results." Slide 4 shows headcount reduction. Slide 7 shows the new AI-augmented workflow. Between slides 4 and 7 there is no slide explaining why the people on slide 7 are necessary. That slide does not exist. I was asked to remove it in the dry run. The journey has a 13-hour outage in the middle of it. But the headcount number is lower, and that is the number on the slide.

@DTS999rlyt @wadelentz It looks identical to one I had in my last house. Bought in 98, was still running great when I left it with the house in 2023. Plastic levers and switches for ice dispenser cracked and a zip tie fixed it for at least 10 years till we sold 🤣

@wadelentz This Whirlpool came w/ house, moved to garage, flooded 2x w/ over a ft of brackish salt water. Plugged back in. Keepin things cold since ‘84

Our refrigerator just died... again. This is our second refrigerator in ten years. It was a Whirlpool, a "plain Jane" model with no bells, no whistles, and no fancy screens. We bought it for its simplicity, thinking it would be the one thing in our house that just worked. It lasted five years and one month, exactly thirty days past the warranty. The repairman’s verdict? A dead compressor. But the real diagnosis... it was Built to Break. Under the guise of "green" regulations and "energy efficiency," we’ve traded tanks that lasted thirty years for plastic-heavy shells that barely last five. We are forced to pay a premium for "high-efficiency" tech that saves ten cents a month on electricity, only to be told to throw the whole $1,500 + unit into a landfill when a single internal component fails. It’s a racket. The government mandates the specs, the manufacturers cut the quality, and the consumer is left holding a bag of spoiled milk. We don’t own appliances anymore; we just lease them from the scrap yard.

@Phillies @JohnKruk A national treasure right there - and he's ours!

Happy Birthday to the one and only @JohnKruk 🥳

@Klosaro @cqcqcqdx I noticed that too...

@cqcqcqdx I don't recognize the toggle switch on the right side of the drive? Were there model variations or is that a mod?

This is a Commodore 1541 5.25" floppy disk drive. It functions as a computer in its own right, with its own 8-bit CPU, ROM, and operating system (CBM DOS). It is its own computer with its own operating system. The Commodore 64 or 128 or Vic 20 or whatever would talk to it over a serial cable and send commands to the onboard computer. These drives were so robust and overbuilt.

@cqcqcqdx I drooled over that drive for weeks back when I was in college - walking by it every day in a Sears where I worked. I finally got a Sears credit card and I think it was my first purchase.

@ProjectLincoln Amazing how MAGA was afraid that the Democrats were gonna kneecap the 2A - and it turns out their doing to themselves.

"You bring a gun into DC, mark my words you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you are a law-abiding gun owners somewhere else. " Any word yet from 2A-defending Republicans? If there's even any left at this point...

@TheSopranosClub I hated it the night it aired. I’ve grown to love it since.

@bostonradio I liked the highlight only when the puck was below the nearside boards so you could see it when it would normally be hidden by boards/fans. The laser part was stupid.

30 years ago today, January 20, 1996, FOX rolled out its FoxTrax ‘glowing puck’ for the first time during the NHL All‑Star Game at the FleetCenter (now TD Garden) in Boston.