Stas Bilodidenko

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

One of the best military officers in Ukraine has written a book everyone should read. Available to pre-order here: https://t.co/KBLJ9OjLHd

[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.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine should hold a presidential election in wartime. Nazi Germany demanded the same of Britain in July 1942. This is the story of why the UK delayed holding elections throughout World War II. ⬇️

[Kovyla Publishing @kovyla_pub]

A bit more effort, and Ordinary Guy at War by @dim0kq will surpass Provoked by Russia's propagandist Scott Horton in Amazon’s War & Peace category! That’s the way it should be—only #Ukrainians know why they fight this war and what they will accept as peace!
#StopRussia

[Kovyla Publishing @kovyla_pub]

Today, we introduce a new book—because the best way to mark three years of full-scale war is to keep sharing authentic Ukrainian voices.

This candid memoir by Dimko Zhluktenko (@dim0kq) is a story of resilience and the power of ordinary people. More in the🧵
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[Mykola Bielieskov @MBielieskov]

A lot of people in White House would be surprised to learn that Ukrainians are united not around specific person who holds office of President at specific moment but around idea of free, sovereign, independent Ukraine. Our allegiance is toward our Republic 🇺🇦.

[Stas Bilodidenko @bilyjdid]

@oblibenyblb Ти же чоловік - маєш хоча би трохи (а краще, звісно, нескінченно) страждати за всі ті звірства і знущання, які пережили представники інших ґендерів через ставлення до них з боку чоловіків в минулому.
Такою виглядає сьогодні соціальна справедливість.

[Stas Bilodidenko @bilyjdid]

@oblibenyblb чудовий текст.
Чекаю на появу норми обов'язкової згадки хоча би небінарних ґендерів.
А надалі - обов'язкової згадки усіх соціальних груп (з тих, що зуміли дожити до наших днів), будь-коли уражених в правах в країнах з панівними (навіть у минулому) авраамічними релігіями.

[Vasilina Orlova (Василина Орлова) @vasilina_orlova]

Here is how @NewYorker portrayed Zelenskyy, for comparison, in March of 2022. While Navalny is heroicized and romanticized, Zelenskyy is portrayed as a small and vaguely inadequate, in comparison to the clouds surrounding him, whereas the reality is the polar opposite: Navalny achieved nothing, and Zelenskyy is president of an embattled nation that resists a full-scale aggression of a much bigger neighbor for the third year, a president who successfully rallied international support for his country--Ukraine. I think we can safely acknowledge that something isn't right with the American highbrow journalism and popular imaginaries.

[Stas Bilodidenko @bilyjdid]

@oblibenyblb "кигне".
Досі не знаю точного значення.
З контексту - чи то тягне, чи то штовхає, чи то просто переміщує щось важке (мається на увазі саме переміщення об'єкта, а не хендлінг якоїсь важкої або складної діяльності).

[InformNapalm @InformNapalm]

Website networks in #Europe used as tools for #Russian information warfare — #OSINT-investigation InformNapalm & Insight News.
https://t.co/ozK4QERHfD

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Russia always denies it, but they started WW2 together with Germany.

On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland, splitting the country in half with Germany as previously agreed between the two.

This video shows the joint German-Soviet victory parade on Sep. 22nd

[розбишаки maslotom🥜 @maslotomcom]

Маємо ось таких девʼять топових смаколиків, але досі не маємо 9000 підписників. Тому давайте нарешті проб’ємо цей психологічний бар’єр і девʼятьом рандомним щасливчикам, які зроблять ретвіт, поїде рандомний смакоулик з цього списку😋

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Official requests to ban selling Atomic Heart game. I do believe neither of these businesses support bloody regime, murders or romanticizing communism. Brand new level of Russian digital propaganda – using gaming industry.
@Sony @PlayStation @Microsoft @Xbox @valvesoftware @Steam

[DW українською @dw_ukrainian]

Литовці за два дні зібрали 1,9 млн євро для України. На ці гроші планують придбати мультифункціональні тактичні радари, які допоможуть захищати критичну інфраструктуру в 🇺🇦 від російських обстрілів. Про це повідомив журналіст Андрюс Тапінас.

[UkraineWorld @ukraine_world]

Pacific country of Niue has issued a commemorative silver coin dedicated to the Ukrainian soldiers that resisted in Azovstal, Mariupol.
Source: Top World Coins

[лівобережна @livoberezhna]

Топ! Нарешті

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

So, russkies, you really think you can compensate for your impotence on the battlefield with missile strikes on peaceful cities? You just don’t get it do you - your terrorist strikes only make us stronger. We are coming after you.

[Stas Bilodidenko @bilyjdid]

https://t.co/XtIN7fKkzu