Tornike Getsadze

I tweet about law, EU, world politics. Lawyer based in Tbilisi, Georgia

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JeffBezos @zerohedge Ad astra per aspera

[Tornike Getsadze @2kija]

https://t.co/ftyi5jEi4g EU Inc. is an optional, digital-by-default European corporate framework. It will make it easier for businesses to start, operate and grow across the EU – incentivising them to stay in Europe, and encouraging those who once looked elsewhere to return.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

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.

[Orlando Magic @OrlandoMagic]

Goga Bitadze said NOPE

@FLBlue

[Tornike Getsadze @2kija]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Detailed update on @neuralink

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@OwlsLabs 😍

[Hosun Chung @hosun_chung]

Your brain has a secret weakness.

Big Tech discovered it by accident.

Now Google, Microsoft, and PayPal are exploiting it to control how you think about their brands.

The science behind it is both brilliant and terrifying:

[Tornike Getsadze @2kija]

I just had my go on #Grok and I have to say, it is excellent

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Alyssa Griffin, a Trump appointee, announced she saw Donald Trump mull over an Executive Order that would remake every civil servant into a political appointee loyal only to Trump. Retweet so every American sees this

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

What happens to Ukraine matters to all of Europe, all of NATO, and all of the world.

We are united against Putin’s war.
We are united behind Ukraine.
And we are united behind a vision of the world where free countries never fear aggression from a brutal tyrant next door.

[Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag]

Why not do the same for Ukraine?

[Mykhaïlo Golub @golub]

This is how it has been going

[Jens Stoltenberg @jensstoltenberg]

It’s official – #Sweden is now the 32nd member of #NATO, taking its rightful place at our table. Sweden’s accession makes NATO stronger, Sweden safer, and the whole Alliance more secure. I look forward to raising their flag at NATO HQ on Monday.

[Tornike Getsadze @2kija]

The instant payments regulation will allow people to transfer money within ten seconds at any time of the day, including outside business hours, not only within the same country but also to another EU member state. https://t.co/myuki4HzWd

[NASA @NASA]

For the first time since the Apollo era, new NASA science instruments and tech demonstrations are operating on the Moon after @Int_Machines' Odysseus lander arrived on the lunar surface: https://t.co/l1VaQujvOZ

The IM-1 mission team expects to receive images in the coming days.

[Tornike Getsadze @2kija]

Thirteen myths about Russia’s war against Ukraine exposed

https://t.co/9c96UU6ifW

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As part of our well-established programme on Peace, Security and Defence, Friends of Europe is launching the Defence Capabilities Dialogues to respond to the new policy reality https://t.co/AF5NpKyxR3

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Why AI is more impactful on stocks than inflation data https://t.co/yvha7LRA3h via @YahooFinance