Paul

[Проф. Преображенский @prof_preobr]

Омская область, где находится крупнейший в России НПЗ - очень показательное место для понимания того, насколько безумна и катастрофична развязанная Россией война.

Территория Омской области больше, чем всё, что смогла захватить Россия в Украине с 2014 года, за 12 с лишним лет.
В Украине Россия оккупировала примерно 115 тыс. кв. км, а территория Омской области - 141 тыс. кв. км.
И этот регион абсолютно нищий.
Годовой бюджет области - 178 млрд. рублей.
Знаете, что такое 178 млрд. рублей? Столько Россия тратит на войну за 3 дня.
За 3 дня.

Нужны территории?
Ну вот же территория. Большая. Больше многих европейских стран. И захватывать её не надо, она уже твоя.
Возьми сумму, которую ты тратишь за месяц на войну - и вложи в эту территорию.
Там будет вторая Финляндия.
Но нет.
Это никому не надо.
А вот уничтожать территории в другой стране, убивать там людей, разрушать города - это, наоборот, очень надо.
И в результате теперь война пришла в саму Омскую область.

[Paul @PavelSea]

@Kremlinpool_RIA Поцелуйтесь

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

Keep them coming. This will not last the next admin and if the trumps want to defend it, that will be fabulous discovery in court. The benefit of the country seeing this corruption far exceeds any short term benefit Trump might feel. That nobody warned him of this is hilarious.

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Marco Rubio @marcorubio]

There is nothing patriotic about what is occurring on Capitol Hill. This is 3rd world style anti-American anarchy.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[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.

[Paul @PavelSea]

@enterprisecares please help. I've rented a car in the UK in August, had some damage, and can't get the repair bill for my insurance from Enterprise. My emails to DRU go unanswered, and calling didn't help either.

[Paul @PavelSea]

@grok what’s going on in the world?

[Paul @PavelSea]

@elonmusk Snowflake

[Paul @PavelSea]

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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

[Артемий Леонов @Leonov_mr]

Составил подробную памятку-гайд для ответов на вопросы:

«Ну хорошо, а какой настоящий процент у Путина?»
«Ну так без фальсификаций он разве не победил бы?»
«Почему ты говоришь, что Путин нелегитимен?»

Со ссылками и иллюстрациями. Надеюсь, кому-то пригодится:

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

Обращение мамы Алексея

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Today, I met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya – Aleksey Navalny's loved ones – to express my condolences for their devastating loss.

Aleksey's legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha, and the countless people across Russia fighting for democracy and human rights.

[Страдающее Средневековье @souffrantmitte1]

«Решается важный цивилизационный вопрос: тела убитых мы хороним или все-таки едим»

Е. Шульман

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

Путин убил Алексея

[Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh]

Сука, а скоро ведь дед попрется на Пасху в церкви со свечкой стоять. Про христианские ценности рассказывать. Про год семьи. Нелюдь.

ТРЕБУЕМ НЕМЕДЛЕННО ОТДАТЬ ТЕЛО АЛЕКСЕЯ МАТЕРИ И ДАТЬ ЕГО ДОСТОЙНО ПО-ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКИ ПОХОРОНИТЬ.

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

Я буду продолжать дело Алексея Навального. Продолжать бороться за нашу с вами страну. И я призываю вас встать рядом со мной.