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One benefit of AI slop might be its ability to drown disinformation. Like a swarm of bees cooking a wasp, deploying AI slop around targeted propaganda may well be an effective tactic in rendering it useless.

@mipsytipsy IME because 'Coder job do code. Bossman job do boring spreadsheet shit'. My sincere hope is now that cutting code ain't the gatekeeping fun it used to be, folks will realise there's real value (& likely job security) in having a solid handle on financial literacy.

it is _so weird_ how financially illiterate most engineers and engineering managers continue to be. why is this? math and finance are different things i guess, but... why??

I hear the yanks want to use cowork in their next WAAAAAGH

@FKOGA_GS 手作りビーフシチュー🍲

お腹空いた！ 夜ご飯何食べよう？ みんなは？？

@cure_bass_baka おめでとう！ ツーマンを待ってます✌️

本日は私たちがリスペクトしている大好きな BAND-MAIDさんのお給仕を見学させて頂いた後に、挨拶もさせて頂きました。 お写真まで撮って頂き、光栄です…🥲🙏🏻 優しいお言葉もかけてくださり、パワーをたくさん頂きました。 いつか一緒にできるように精一杯頑張っていきます！

@natsu08_guitar オー おめでとうございます！ ツーマンを待ってます✌️

私たち4人が初めてスタジオで演奏したのはBAND-MAIDさんの曲でした。 ずっと憧れていた大尊敬の皆さんに今日お会いでき、温かく迎えていただき震えが止まりませんでした。 ライブも本当に圧巻で刺激をいただきました。かっっこよすぎました😭 幸せすぎてまだ夢見心地です。 今日は眠れなさそうです。

@nekiband_jp 10秒の時点で 「ダレダレ　I, なでなで❤️」 😆

2026.2.11(Wed.) NEK! 結成2周年記念イベント @ shibuya eggman "Scrap Book" #NEKI #ネキミーム

@46_hikaa お疲れ様。また逢えれ喜びました。

NEK! 結成2周年記念イベントっ！ ライブとお話もできて幸せすぎたっ✩.* ありがとうございました！！

@rakyll Good that you remember what it was, rather than what it became.

Sad to see this happening. When it was launched, Heroku was decades ahead of its time and was a true joy to use.

オフショットฅ( •ω• ฅ)ｶﾞｵ- #neki

@leadlagreport It's not about you. It's about someone else's need to fill the terrified emptiness in their soul with some sort of certainty. Unfortunately for them, you're not the Messiah, you're a very naughty boy.

I openly talk about being wrong. I openly talk about my failures. I openly talk about my vulnerabilities. And it’s still not enough. Still there are people who say comments like this, when I try to live my life with integrity. As I build businesses and try to do right.

@ailly_official @angradio 🎉お誕生日おめでとう!!🎉

＼今日はアンジーの誕生日🎂／ ** ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈** 　　　　HAPPY BIRTHDAY 　　　　　　Angie🤍 ** ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈**

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.

@kkyurosene Gacharic Spin - W, or their self titled album Band Maid - literally any album or EP Lovebites Hanabie Number Girl Maximum the Hormone Unlucky Morpheus Nemophila Asterism

i need to diversify my music taste everyone give me a non-kpop album rn

@leadlagreport Regardless of what we might aspire to, the actual answer is almost certainly 'each other, mostly'.

If robots and AI took over most jobs, what do you think humans would do with their time?

@FKOGA_GS サイン会はいけないけど😭 昨日のライブ、本当に最高だった！！🧡 娘たちも大はしゃぎで、たくさん歌って、たくさん笑ったよ🎤✨ 素敵な時間をありがとう🥹🙏💫

また後程ね✌️ 渋谷で待ってるね！！ サイン会😋😋

@Angelina__gs Magic umbrella girl, カチカチ山 I wish I なんまいだ 超えてゆけ Restaurant F Baku baku レプリカ ハレの日 何者にもなれなかった僕たちへ ロンリーマート ストロボシューター Mindset Juicy Beats よろしく🙏🎤❤️

みんな明日何の曲やってほしいのかいー？？ 何が聴きたいのかいーーー？ #gacharicspin

@46_hikaa リクエストいけるん？炙りなタウンのパピコ、ドヤ？😁

溶けない/マカロニえんぴつ #ネキ界隈 #NEKI #マカえん

@garyseconomics It strikes me that the Commonwealth as a name is a complete pisstake, given that the commons are increasingly divorced from the wealth.

@LordGrimdark is a clever, clever bastard. "The Devils" must have been written on a drunken bet. Take all the most hackneyed tropes and crutches of mediocre writers and turn them into spun fucking gold (and pain, suffering, intrigue, brilliant characters etc). Fucking nailed it.