Hugh de Croft

finder || seer || anti-anti-ultracrepidarianist || self-loathing Kylie Minogue fan || hostile organism || undercover autist

[Hugh de Croft @HughdeCroft]

Feeling cute might delete later

[Haruspectra @haruspectra]

An ideal group of people selected to serve at the Supreme Court should look like the Precogs from Minority Report. They should have no attachment to anything, disconnected from the news and bound only and exclusively to the Constitution and the law. They should not be married or have children. They should act like priests and nuns appointed to serve the law exclusively. Blind and deaf. Separated from everything with the privilege to give their lives for the Republic and The People.

Such group would be taken care of for life and be treated with the honors such a duty entails, living in the joy to be able to serve the highest duty a man or woman could hope for.

I am positive such people exist and we could find them.

That is the only way. Anything else is bound to be corrupted and debouched, while The People pay the price for it.

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@TheRobRedFord @MattWalshBlog You sound like a woman.

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@BrewersRaptor @DisaffectedPod

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@JDLuckenbach @StephenM

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@frandalorian Not even just the injustice of it all. It’s been a type of civilizational self-sabotage we may possibly never recover from. The effects of it will continue to metastasize as the next several decades wear on.

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@yishan @GadSaad @megynkelly if you’re having that much trouble connecting the dots on this one, you might want to go get checked out by a neurologist.

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@NuevoRoma01 @TheRickWilson Definitely B.

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@Journojulz @DanTalks1 You sound Cluster B.

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@Journojulz @DanTalks1 Cringe.

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The missing comma in the second sentence of this Wikipedia entry is pretty hilarious.

[Gotham Groyper @GothamGroyperAF]

@SolaceCinema Some Wikipedia chud is super mad. Ive never seen a wiki entry header like this before.

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@Journojulz @DanTalks1 “…what Britain stands for.”
You watch too much TV.

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@GothamGroyperAF @SolaceCinema The missing comma in the second sentence is pretty hilarious.

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@taurusgrroove @MW45142973 @mattvanswol @buggirl “Can’t keep up” says the person using the term “alt-right” in 2026.

[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.

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@LFrundie @creightonx @PWestoff @KOBCOB2 @syptweet @policeconduct He’s being sarcastic.

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@HassanMamdani @davidyelland It’s astonishing to think about, but he literally cannot hear how utterly bonkers that sounds.

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@taurusgrroove @MW45142973 @mattvanswol @buggirl You people are such hopelessly delusional pearl-clutching squares.

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@irish_news So you’re saying that the 3000 dumbest and most gullible people in Belfast have been identified? Excellent news.

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@Coadyryan_ @tcmccarthy_ @GerryCarrollPBP You sound like you watch a lot of TV.

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@Harrystwaddle @Georgia_2890 @tcmccarthy_ @GerryCarrollPBP Such a saccharine and effeminate take. Breathtaking gullibility. The people you’re white knighting for hate you and snicker at how easy you are to manipulate. More often than not, the ones who don’t kill and rape vulnerable white people aren’t bothered at all by the ones who do.