John Weir

Going to be fascinating to see the impact of a significant reduction in the workforce on US healthcare options that are anchored on Corporate employment.

@Sharat_Chander Nope. Funny tho.

This made me sad. Our Service men and women should not be left feeling this way

This cartoon has never been more accurate than it is now.

Nope. We have checks and balances. It’s good.

@levie on #3. I cant help but think that some variation of old tech (JINI )+ API Gateways + LLM's will be the solution space for this - The Technology landscape will have caught up to Bill Joy (of Sun Microsystems fame) . Or a CAN Bus model. autopi.io/blog/can-bus-e…

Coming off of meeting a couple dozen enterprises around the future of their AI strategies, here are a few notes on the state of AI in the enterprise right now. 1. The AI-first enterprise is emerging. Given AI increasingly is starting to be used across coding, customer support, marketing content creation, risk management, client onboarding, contract management, and more, it’s clear AI will touch almost every department in some way. Companies are starting to think through how entire functions get reimagined in a world of AI. 2. Enterprises want choice in their AI stack. The past couple of years have proven out that there are going to be models that perform different tasks in different ways, and enterprises increasingly want to flexibility in what they use. Further, the rate of innovation coming from the frontier model labs is so incredible that companies want to be in a position to leverage the latest breakthroughs from these players and not be stuck on a single architecture. 3. We will need more interoperability in AI. Especially as AI Agents emerge, and your software has to complete entire tasks for you just like a person would, increasingly there’s going to be a need for AI Agents from disparate systems to talk to each other. As an AI industry, we’re only in the earliest of stages of figuring out standards around this, but it’s going to have major implications on enterprise adoption. 4. Your AI stack will define who you can hire. Employees of the future are going to simply expect that the company they work for is going to enable them to be as productive as possible, and AI is going to be a core part of that. This is going to become more acute as the next generation enters the workforce. Having used AI in high school or college for years, the way they research, collaborate, and generate work product is going to be totally different. You won’t join a company that makes you work 40 hours to get 20 hours done when there’s another company that lets you get 80 hours worth of work done. This will define employee choices in the future. 5. The role of IT is continuing to change tremendously. Jensen called this out in his CES keynote, but we’re seeing a reshaping of what the IT organization will do in the future. In the past, IT has been responsible for deploying and maintaining software that enables the workforce; in a world of AI Agents, IT will increasingly be responsible for actually getting the work itself done. This has massive implications around how strategic IT becomes, and how this org more tightly coordinates with the company. 6. We’re still insanely early. What’s remarkable is that while we’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth in consumer AI, datacenter growth, GPU sales, and many initial breakthrough AI use-cases, we’re still very early. This feels eerily similar to the the first few years of cloud, where adoption is starting with the first movers inside an organization (IT teams, creative employees, etc.) and then expanding from there. Unlike the cloud, however, it’s perceived to be inevitable that every enterprise will be transformed by AI. The main hurdles to getting there are generally ones of AI quality, change management, privacy and compliance work — but not fundamental philosophy challenges, like we saw in cloud. Overall, this is the most energized I’ve seen enterprises in nearly two decades of being in enterprise software. There’s a palpable sense that we’re on the cusp of major changes to how business and work happens in the future, and it’s unbelievably exciting.

For those who have expressed outrage over my voting for Kamala Harris, in response to the MSNBC article that was published yesterday and has over 700, 000 views….please know that, anyone who has or will be voting for Donald J. Trump, I simply will not engage with you in a discussion surrounding my character, credibility, or whether or not I’m a Christian.

@Sharat_Chander Speedy recovery!!

So proud of the talented athletes representing @TeamUSA at the @Paralympics! I'll be cheering them on and hope you will, too.

Hey @RobertKennedyJr you forgot to delete this one.

Perfect 😂💀…..h/t @JRDuquette

A new day in Westminster has dawned...

@Sharat_Chander @kc_dc Feel better

In light of Louisiana’s recent decision to require that the 10 commandments be posted in every public classroom, I’m reminded of this astute observation from Kurt Vonnegut.

t.co/O4ErymI82n According to the Palestinians and their supporters, by turning an empty desert land into a thriving city the Jews kicked Arabs out of their homes and displaced them. Here is what the Palestinians don't want you to know: In 1947 the Arabs who did not have a national identity at the time (only during the 1960s they decided to identify themselves as "Palestinians") became victims of their own agenda which was backed by the neighboring Arab countries. They paid a heavy price for their own decision to try and ethnically cleanse the Jews who tried to prevent war and reached out for peace. Many left their homes and others were indeed forced to leave because of the war that the Arabs themselves initiated as they rejected the UN partition plan. The Arabs literally declared that their ultimate goal was not to establish a state but to "push the Jews into the sea". They had the opportunity to establish an Arab state, but they preferred to destroy their neighboring one for being Jewish. The Jewish state won, the Arabs lost but did not learn a lesson and repeated their fatal mistake again and again over the years.

A breathtaking speech by Miriam Novak at the UN General Assembly. Don't miss a word! For two thousand years we have lived among you, offering you our knowledge, discoveries and inventions. At the UN Special General Assembly in New York, held at the request of the leaders of the European Union and the New Arab Bloc, the representative of Israel, Miriam Novak, spoke. Standing at the podium, in front of the green marble wall of the main UN hall, Miriam Novak said into the microphone: "Ladies and gentlemen! As you know, eighty years ago, Europe, led by Germany, carried out an ethnic purge: it exterminated almost all the Jews who lived there. French, Belgians, Dutch, Norwegians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians – all helped the fascists. You killed at least six million Jews, including newborn babies. Each of them could have given the world children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, so you can multiply the number of killed by four or five... And now, when we are again plundered, beaten and killed in all your countries, and your courts release the murderers, you tell us that we have no right to defend ourselves? We have no right to warn our enemies that we will respond to a new ethnic cleansing with an even more powerful strike? Perhaps you can name another nation whose extermination is so fanatically sought by your new Iranian-led international community? And why? For two thousand years, we have lived among you, offering you our knowledge, discoveries and inventions. We have given you the alphabet, the Bible, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, the twelve apostles, Spinoza, Disraeli, Columbus, Newton, Nostradamus, Heine, Mendelssohn, Einstein, Singer, Eisenstein, Freud, Landau, Gershwin, Offenbach, Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Kafka, Lombroso, Montaigne, Mahler, Marcel Marceau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yehudi Menuhin, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Miller, Maya Plisetskaya, Stanley Kubrick, Irving Berlin, Edward Teller, Lion Feuchtwanger, Paul Newman, Robert Oppenheimer, Benny Goodman, Eugène Ionesco, Imre Kálmán, Marcel Proust, Marc Chagall, Barbra Streisand, Claude Lelouch, Steven Spielberg, Anouk Aimée, Leonard Bernstein, Norbert Wiener, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Andrew Lloyd Webber and thousands of other scientists and educators. Imagine how many such geniuses could have been born from the millions of Jews killed by you, and then from their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren! But these unborn geniuses disappeared forever in crematoriums, burned synagogues, and mass graves. So do you really think that your resolutions, boycotts and sanctions can bring us back to the gas chambers? No, ladies and gentlemen! Having lived among you for two thousand years, we have had to adapt to you and learn not only your languages, but also some aspects of your psychology. Otherwise, how would we have survived in Persia without Persian perfidy? In Spain without the Spanish cruelty? In Germany without German submission to discipline? In France without French avarice? In Poland without Polish vanity, and in Russia without the oaths and the Russian habit of court latrines, where one must squat and talk about one's spiritual greatness? — (Laughter in the room.) "And that is why I will tell you frankly: yes, we are not angels. Among us there have been international crooks and gangsters, Lansky, Medoff and Epstein, thieves, looters, adventurers and even pedophiles. But in all our common history, there has never been a Jewish Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. There have never been Jewish Josef Mengele and Erik Koch, Jewish Adolf Eichmann and Idi Amin, Jewish Andrei Chikatilo and Li Zicheng, Jewish Jeffrey Dahmer and Jean Bokassa, Jewish Fritz Haarmann and Ted Bundy, Jewish Nikolai Dzhumagaliev and Albert Fish. We have never made necklaces with human ears, never scalped, never eaten human flesh, never made soap with human fat, never made lampshades with human skin, never made mattresses with women's hair, never burned people in religious temples, and never killed children in gas chambers. Instead, we created things that changed the world for the better. Drip irrigation, seawater desalination, Intel processors and Centrino and Core Duo platforms, the world's smallest DNA computer and the world's first USB flash drive, nanowire and camera pill, multiple sclerosis drug and exoskeleton, Google Glass for the blind and baby breathing monitor, The radar that can see through walls, the holographic reality artificial intelligence synthesizer, and hundreds of other wonderful things. Representing only 0.2% of the world's population, we have given the world 32% of the Nobel Prize winners. Yes, I forgot to tell you: we have never consumed and do not consume the blood of Christian infants to make matzah. Already in 1913, three Orthodox experts on Judaism proved this at the famous Beilis trial in Kiev. In 1962, the Second Vatican Council lifted our guilt for the crucifixion of Christ, and in 2011, Pope Benedict XVI declared that "the Christian cannot be anti-Semitic, we have the same roots." In 2019, his successor, Pope Francis I, said that "every Christian has a Jew in him" and that "one cannot be a true Christian without acknowledging one's Jewish roots." In addition, the head of the global Catholic Church said that "the covenant between God and Jews continues to apply" and "that anti-Semitism includes not only attacks on Jews, but also criticism of Israel." Finally, in June 2020, the Rev. John Hagee, the leader of American Evangelical Christians, published his "Appeal to the World," in which he said simply and clearly, "Why do we, eight million patriotic American Christians, support Israel? Because God is on Israel's side! If a Christian says he doesn't like Jews, then his false Christianity is very dubious. God says, "I will bless those who bless Israel! I will curse those who curse Israel!" And now I want to ask the European delegates in this room: who do you think you are? Are you Christians or not? When you pray to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the holy apostles, are you not praying to the Jews? And when you say that you carry the image of Christ in your heart, do you not admit that you carry a Jew in your soul? Even if you are a hard-core atheist, your ancestors were Christians for two thousand years, and therefore, Judaism is in your blood – whether you like it or not! So, ladies and gentlemen. If you insist on the international boycott of Israel because you continue to hate Jews and want the total extermination of Jews on earth, then be consistent – start with yourselves, do seppuku! It will be an honest ethnic purge. And now, as we say here in America, I have news for you. Now, after the Christians, it is the turn of the Muslims to get rid of anti-Semitism. Yes, it won't be easy, but just as the Almighty helped humanity get rid of the bubonic plague, anthrax, cholera, and coronavirus, He will help you get rid of anti-Semitism. You ask: why? Why has the Almighty brought us back to Israel and forced you to give up your desire to destroy us? For He has to have a purpose, doesn't He? I will give you my personal opinion. For according to His purpose, every nation is to bring to mankind what it does best. The French - cooks and perfumers. The English and the Russians - writers and poets. Italians - artists and musicians. The Germans - soldiers and philosophers. And we Jews - geniuses. Geniuses who, in all fields, are advancing humanity from barbarism and idolatry to culture, humanism and technical progress. This is our mission, which we have been accomplishing for two thousand years, despite everything! So whether we have genetic, torsional, nuclear, tectonic, cosmic, or other defense weapons, that's none of your business! Whether you allow us to have defensive weapons or not, we don't care. As one of the founders of our state, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, once said: "Whether you like us or not, we don't care, we arrived before you and we will leave after you."

Nice to see more efforts to make building quantum applications easier for us mere mortals!! youtu.be/KDnDyl_N7M8?si…

@goldengateblond I’m in. Dolly is a Treasure

36 years later, Julia Sugarbaker is still right.

I can’t control my wife when it comes to flying a flag. However, I can control your wife when it comes to getting an abortion. - Justice Samuel Alito