Jonathan Walz

Catholic husband, dad, former PowerShell MVP, IT Pro, former PowerShell Podcaster. I'm into podcasts, weight lifting, playing the cello, AI, and other things.

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@Catholic_bro Soon to be Saint Fulton Sheen!

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@eternalarchtype All of it, the research, the story, the images, the background music. I’m using local models so I haven’t spent much on credits. Here’s the one for today’s Memorial https://t.co/2rt9lq2nbS

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@eternalarchtype - I thought you might appreciate this. It’s an AI project I‘m working on with my daughter to generate Saint stories. https://t.co/RNAQW8E6aR

It’s to the point where we can tell a bot in Signal, run Saint Augustine and the process does the rest.

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part:

→ The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit.

→ The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row

SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@eternalarchtype @thurrott It created a MacOS desktop app. I may have to look into the possibility of a mobile version, but it’s just for me so I don’t know how that would work.

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@thurrott - I used Codex to create a Notion replacement for myself last week. It stores the notes as .md files in my onedrive. It integrates with Jira and I have LLM integrated into it. It’s absolutely incredible. It perfectly solves a problem that only I have.

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

Codex is my new favorite thing. Wow! I’m amazed every day what it can do.

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@FrMatthewLC @PadreMichaelO @mys_world @JimmyAkin3000 @MadonnaHouse I love Bible In a Year and Daily Gospel Exegesis

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Kid just SMOKED a CNN reporter outside of Artemis II launch:

CNN: "Why do you want to be here?... Why do you love being a part of history?

Kid: "We're going back to the f*cking moon, that's why!" 🤣

[JoNation @JoNationLive]

Picked up a pizza order. As I walked out, an elderly couple was getting out of their new Tesla Model Y. I said, “Beautiful car.” He said, “Thank you. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned.”

I said, “Why?”

He said, “You see me—I’m 78 and can barely walk, let alone drive. I’m taking my wife out for date night again after 52 years of marriage. We couldn’t do this with our old car. I didn’t buy this to save the planet. I bought it to save me.” 😢

All choked up, I said, “Thank you for sharing. You two go enjoy your dinner!”

I see and hear this so often from elderly people buying Teslas, but it never gets old. Tesla is freedom🫶🏻

[The Rundown AI @TheRundownAI]

69% of baseball fans say they'd rather have a computer vision AI system call balls and strikes than a human umpire.

This season, the MLB gave them one.

For the first time in league history, a human ump's ball-strike call is not final. A Sony computer vision system called Hawk-Eye makes the ruling.

It can read the seam pattern on the ball, measure spin axis, and detect spin decay mid-flight.

Hawk-Eye's Head of Computer Vision Engineering says the pipeline runs "various AI and machine learning models" from camera capture to data output.

On Saturday, one umpire had 6 of 8 challenged calls overturned. Three of those missed by over 2 inches.

The team ran out of challenges by the fourth inning trying to correct him, then the manager got thrown out for arguing a call they couldn't challenge.

An AI computer vision system accurate to a sixth of an inch, sitting next to a human who misses by two.

The crowd cheered for the machine.

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@KevinBenSmith I already love this feature.

[Kevin Smith @KevinBenSmith]

I love podcasts, but I can’t keep up anymore.
My backlog is 400+.

I tried AI summaries — they suck! They lose what makes podcasts great.

I still want the *original pod*. Just… only the best parts.

So I gave AI control of my podcast app to guide me through the best moments. It's sooo good 🤯

We call it "AI DJ". It's now live in @snipd_app.

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@HumansNoContext 🎶You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth criminal 🎶

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

This gotta be one of the Top 10 videos I've seen on here

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

Actually, it's just downloading...

[Jonathan Walz @jonwalz]

@ChuckCook @DirtyTesLa - Woah, my model Y is getting 2026.2.9.1 right now. No notification, no scheduling option. It's not even on WIFI. My wife has it parked in a parking lot... Have you ever seen that happen?

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Sound advice.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The “Dance of the thousand-hand Quanyin” is possibly the most famous and most spectacular visual display in which geometry and synchronization create a kind of effective optical illusion