Accidental_Explorer

Texan. Bibliophile. Freethinker. Hiker. Excel nerd. World traveler. Crazy cat lady. Bucket-list accomplisher. Roadside attraction addict. ✈️📚🐈❤️🥾🤓

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@broadway_t @HistorianUSA1 @CreasonJana As someone who witnessed someone being hit by a driver running a stop sign, yes. The streets are safer. She should lose her license.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

A shove does not equal stabbing someone. Especially at a school function. Where weapons are banned. It’s not even remotely the same. This teenager instigated this. That’s not a defense of “standing your ground”. If you had time to engaged in debate with someone your life was not in imminent danger. Context is important.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Words do not imply physical harm. Being at a campus event means no weapons - period. Stand your ground doesn’t apply here because there was literally nothing done physically. A shove? Yeah. Okay…kids shove each other. They’re incapable of reigning in emotions at times. Fights happen on school grounds all the time.

There was no jumping involved. Just because you get upset about words doesn’t mean you go around killing people. This is what happens when people incorrectly convince themselves words are violence. They are not.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Posting long diatribes about the Bible doesn’t make you wise or righteous.

You can’t hide behind faith while still behaving like a narcissist.

Words without consistent, respectful action are just performance.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

This is how I get kidnapped. “Of course I wanna see whatever cute animal you have, sir” 😂

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@tuuu28283 The best ones are from local shops that make their own. It can become very overpowering and is really sweet. If you don’t like molasses you won’t like root beer. Though, I hate black licorice and love jaegermeister so… 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤔

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@SouthDallasFood I suppose you're looking for another answer other than "because they're assholes"? 🤣

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

You really think visitors from other countries make up MORE than American citizens at national parks? 😂 my dude, I have pictures upon pictures of US citizens abusing this land. It is literally a game when I travel. Who can spot the most assholery by visitors. And covid unfortunately changed the shape of our culture and how we treat others and our community spaces fundamentally. Look at how you respond to someone speaking about a different viewpoint. So aggressive.

I said what I said and quantifiable data supports it. Just because these two dumbasses were visiting from another country doesn’t mean they are SOLELY responsible for ruining our landmarks. People who live in this country do plenty of that themselves.

You can hold two thoughts in your head at the same time m, you know. You can push for sensible immigration policies and hold visitors accountable WHILE also holding your own citizens accountable who share this beautiful nation with you. It’s never one or the other. ✌️

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Things I learned this week:

1. People don’t understand what HR actually is (hint: it’s not just employee relations or DEI).

2. People have no clue how immigration and visas actually work in this country and refuse to learn out side of “meh fee-fees”

3. Those shouting “just give it to AI and let it handle it” have zero clue how AI currently works or how often it is wrong.

4. People think things are all or nothing. That you can’t hold more than two truths at once.

The more people refuse to get out of their echo chamber and actually dialogue and try to learn about something more than headlines the more faith I lose in people.

#education #criticalthinking #learn

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Not to mention the reality of AI, while learning at a fast rate currently, can’t get basic correct answers done 50% of the time. People whose blanket answers are “just let AI do it” are lazy at best, manipulative at worst.

I keep thinking of the small towns that were destroyed trying to give L.A. a “river”. Small towns and farms destroyed because of the water theft from L.A. this is eerily reminiscent of that to me.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@GradyWilso84364 @GaGal012 @Rightanglenews Literally not what I said. They aren’t mutually exclusive concepts.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@Michael33336959 @NizNellie3 Pretty sure they’re working on it.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Wasn’t the point. The comment was immigrants being the reason for parks being trashed. I simply stated that it’s not just them. And if we’re removing them from visiting we should be removing the imbeciles who are ALSO citizens and treat this great nation’s parks like a trash can. You can have more than one opinion on matters. It’s okay. It doesn’t always have to be “all or nothing”.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Pfft we have plenty tourons home grown doing that as well.

I have heard stories from former park rangers’ experiences about US citizens asking them “what time do they release the animals” and see with your own eyes parents taking their children up to mountain goat babies to pet them (or to moose of all things), or littering everywhere, or not respecting the terrain and not staying on walking paths. It’s not just foreigners though they exacerbate an already massive issue going on which is respect for the parks, respect for wildlife, common courtesy for others.

I think we have to be very careful lumping everything under the guise of “immigration” as the sole cause or it becomes meaningless. Do I think it’s an issue? Absolutely. Do I think it’s an issue driven because they are foreigners? No. They’re just inconsiderate tools like the US citizens who treat our national parks (and country) like shit.

They should 💯 still be thrown out.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

So this is an interesting question. I wouldn’t say the average American sees guns on a daily basis even though we have more guns than people.

Most people I know who have guns keep them in their house, car, on their person without showing they are carrying (why invite trouble). It’s there honestly JIC things happen and you need protection. I grew up in north Texas and live in OK and it was more normal for me to see police carrying them (still is and we have a lot of guns lol).

That being said I went abroad in 2015 and remember seeing military presence around all the major attractions in some European countries with full military garb, weapons, tanks, etc. THAT felt really weird to me as an American. It felt like walking onto a military base.

So while I enjoy going to the range, using my 2A, I think context determines whether something feels “normal”. That experience did not feel normal to me. It actually made me very nervous. But, know my husband and others are legally carrying when we go out to keep us safe, doesn’t make me flinch.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

Eh, because they aren’t mutually exclusive.

The bond was 110M give or take. The stadium was 60M of that. We could have built both of these amazing things without the stadium. I am a massive fan ball. Especially Texas ball. But it’s way out of hand. With -5% or less of the student body playing sports or anything to do with them, putting sports over studies doesn’t close that -24% functional illiteracy.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@cksenecaauthor @TheAKGuy @dronefishing1 Oh fuck. This made me lol. As someone who deals with provincial bullshit in my job, this is so feckin’ true. Thanks for the sore abs 😂

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

@TheEXECUTlONER_ Side note: I am Texan, and have lived in Allen, TX. I am very familiar with this city.

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

*AHEM*
::::stepping on soapbox:::

60M USD (at the time) and then had to wait +18m to use the stadium because it was unusable due to poor engineering. City inspections failing at every turn during the build and the architecture firm not doing its job.

I find it a travesty that we have professional grade stadiums for high schoolers while they (AHS) have a -76% literacy rate but a -97% graduation rate. Add in the fact only about -5% of the student population actually uses the field on a regular basis, well, it’s just not a good investment into the student population’s education.

Example: Over 10% of students are food insecure in colllin county. I would have rather seen some of that 60M go towards helping these students get nourishment or hell even 1 100% covered meal each day. The teacher to student ratio is only climbing every year.

I just don’t find this amazing in any capacity.

:::stepping down:::

[Accidental_Explorer @bookdarlin]

I will never have children and love my job. However, if I had ever decided to have them THAT would be the priority. It is the single most important job in the world.

And CLEARLY we (Gen x & Millennials) have fucked up child rearing to the point our kids can no longer hear the word “no” or someone disagreeing with them without going into conniption fits.

Stay home and raise your kids people. Mom or dad; who cares.