Laterrius Johnson

Lover of Christ. Hobbies include Technology, #CISSP, SciFi, and Nerd Activity. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers. #Galatians6:7

[Shaya Rhymes ✍🏾 @ShayaRhymes]

Hardest part about being raised like this is watching the family fall apart as your grandparents pass away

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

I am on Book 9 of 19 in the New Jedi Order series (read some of it in... high school maybe? College? Don't remember)

Book 1 (RA Salvatore) was great. 2 and 3 (Stackpole) was great. The next couple were solid.

Balance Point (Book 6) was kind of slow. However, I started picking up on pro-life themes and Christian theology throughout. So I looked the author up and yup she's a PCA Christian. Cool.

Book 7 CONQUEST is one of the best Star Wars EU novels I have ever read.
Book 8 was almost as good.

My overall thoughts now that I'm almost halfway through - still love the Yuuhzan Vong. And man what a waste that Disney didn't do anything with these characters. It's weird to see Luke happily married, Han raising his kids, etc., when Disney trashed all that stuff. It's a very pro-family, pro-marriage universe.

The hurdle I see the series having to overcome is Star Wars is all about heroes prevailing and saving the day against desperate odds. You can get away with a tragic ending in the 2nd movie of a film trilogy, because you know the heroes are gonna rally back in the third. But the first half of this series (and I assume most of the way through) is the New Republic losing battle after battle. So you're just waiting for that tipping point when the tide turns.

Thus, the very best books in the series have the heroes strike some kind of victory at the end, but the bad guys are gonna come back stronger in the next one. The weakest ones it's just the New Republic and Jedi evacuating planet after planet.

Anyway very excited to finish this series. And very sad Disney scrapped the EU.

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@The_Kyle_Mann Gonna have to go into storage and pull these out. Absolute classics. Disney really screwed up when they dismissed the EU.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Get your hearts checked, folks. Especially if you’re over 40. Throw in a colonoscopy while you’re at it. Don’t be stupid and die from a disease that’s preventable and treatable if you catch it in time.

If you’re overweight, now is the perfect time to get healthy. If you’re sedentary, now is the perfect time to get active. If you’re an addict, now is the perfect time to get clean.

And if you’re aimless and feel like something is missing in your life, now is the perfect time to accept Christ.

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@megbasham Hallelujah!

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

We should talk more about why the disc price and the download price of a game are EVER the same

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

"you're absolutely right! I shouldn't have launched those nukes -- that's on me."

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@AmazonMGMStudio #savethegate

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@AmazonMGMStudio You have the perfect IP available with deep lore and a dedicated fanbase… are you trolling us? #stargate

[Delano Squires @DelanoSquires]

VBF drops in 1 week! One of my mom’s friends sent her this text. What stuck out to me most was the *86th* family reunion because it is IMPOSSIBLE to build that type of legacy across generations without marriage as the foundation of family life.

Preorder VBF today. 🔗 in my bio.

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@DelanoSquires Looking forward to this read!

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I were talking last night about groceries.

I went back into my Walmart app and pulled up an order from January 2020.

30 items. $70.20.

I added every single one back to the cart today.

$165.42.
Same 30 items. Same store. Same cart.
$95 more, In six years.

They told us inflation was temporary. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was recovering.

My grocery bill didn’t get the memo.

135% increase in six years and nobody in Washington has missed a single meal.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Doom and Age of Empires creator Sandy Petersen blasts Amazon over their handling of Stargate:

"1) get handed a massively popular IP that spans 17 years of successful shows."

"2) realize it has millions of loyal fans, desperate for more. They are now in their 40s and 50s, flush with money. Eager to teach their kids & grandkids about Stargate."

"3) you could start with this. You are already three steps up the ladder to huge success. The fans will evangelize it, if you don't wreck the IP. Don't believe it? Look how the fans evangelized Battlestar Galactica after its 30 year hiatus. And the initial Dr Who reboot after 15 years."

"4) cancel the project because you want a "new take" that will eliminate all the loyal fans and turn them into bitter enemies."

"It's like an ancient Greek play about hubris."

Why are corporate execs like this?

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@capt_calhoun @Variety Perfection!🤣🤣🤣

[Laterrius Johnson @Laterrius]

@GateWorld This is sad news, but I would rather they not touch it than screw it up. It didn’t need to appeal to new audiences. The stories themselves would’ve captured the attention of New fans.

[Bible 365 @Bible365_]

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” – John 10:11

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Curtis Scoon @CurtisScoon]

From teacher of the year to donkey of the day.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Principal Kirk Moore, who tackled the school shooter, walked into prom a few days later to a huge celebration from the students and was named prom king.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices.

And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works.

Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse.

This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster.

The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit.

Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.