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@StephenMulhern fair play on the swimming in the sea. I could see that was a primal fear. Very very very impressive. Hope you are well.

@gothburz Investing in AI != Copilot

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.

@DartCharge why can’t I pay for my crossings ? Details are correct but keep getting refused payment.

@oasis Class

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@Dominos_UK Jesus

Domino's please bring back __________

@EzraCollective immense. Just immense. Your words have touched me this evening. #JOY

@MrMichaelSpicer Amen brother. My thoughts exactly.

i don't think a political system is fit for purpose if it gives all the money and power to 2 of the biggest boo hoo babies in history

Did anyone else think Gateshead looked like Sydney ? Played #ThePiano

@scrandrescher To be fair. That’s better.

This is what Michael Fabricant looks like to me

@British_Airways hello. My mother in law is in Belfast. Her hotel booking ends today and her BA flight was back today to Heathrow. What does she need to do to extend her stay ? Contact you ?

#Adolescence. #StephenGraham is the antithesis of #AndrewTate. A proper #MaleRoleModel.

@AliMirajUK have you heard of Jeffrey Sachs ? Check - youtube.com/live/s9V-UtD3f…

@MrMichaelSpicer Yep. Spot on.

@mrjamesob another angle reddit.com/r/interestinga…

@lilduval Top 10 things I didn’t think I was gonna hear tonight “get to the prostate”

If i had to see it yall gotta see it too. We in this together

@dave43law Short memory these tories.

Look at the look on her face - she knows

@AJBishe hey man. Sorry about the Achilles. Hope you recover well. Amazing effort.

@AntStephen @MrMichaelSpicer Yeah I realised that as I was writing it. Apologies. Nor do I.

@loftyj @MrMichaelSpicer Just "or something", don't do The Scum (I live in Liverpool).

@AntStephen @MrMichaelSpicer Screenshot and send it to the Sun (or something)

@loftyj @MrMichaelSpicer I'm just stealing the job of the tabloid headline writers.