Manuel Mondragon

Tulane '92 & '00. Husband & Father to #dragonkid 1, 2 & 3. I do the numbers. SoCal by birth. I eat and do Jazz Fest.

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

I think this makes my 28th @jazzfest. Another great year.

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

Happy 50th @jazzfest. I’ve been to half of them!!! #JazzFest50

[Clint Lamb @ClintRLamb]

“We had 50 players in the draft this year that were over 25-years-old competing against 17 and 18-year-olds...” - Nick Saban

Why’s that important? Well… here’s Will Anderson Jr. at 17-18 years old (left) versus Will Anderson Jr. at 25 years old (right) 😂

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

@AccidentalCajun However, which is worst? Our food with our healthcare VS their food and their healthcare. I’ll take that bet, and pass the gravy.

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

@Kristine_Froeba I am a peaceful person, but this makes me want to choose violence in the worst way possible.

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

@markgurman @RemindMeOfThis in 1 week

[Dr. Holly A. Bell ☕️ @HollyBell8]

"A timely, page-turning tome for those who appreciate high-stakes geopolitical suspense. Speculative fiction rooted in the realities of modern international relations, it explores the fragility of democracy and the chilling possibilities of our shared near-future." https://t.co/XQXWQ0846v

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

Hell no. Remember to remove his glasses before the real violence begins.

[Dr. Holly A. Bell ☕️ @HollyBell8]

This individual also took our credit card and likely has that on video too.

[Dr. Holly A. Bell ☕️ @HollyBell8]

Went to our anniversary dinner at a nice restaurant tonight where we were recorded by our server, apparently through his glasses, without our permission for his Instagram channel. As we paid, he showed us his Instagram channel and showed us the video he took and asked if he could post it. We asked him to delete it and if his manager knew he was recording diners. He just said no one else has ever complained. I asked to talk to the manager. Manager seemed to know and asked “if the light was on.” I assume this meant on the glasses indicating he was recording. We noticed no light. He said he would make him remove the glasses, which was how we became aware he was recording with the glasses. Needless to say, I am now a dog with a bone and this is not over.

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

@HollyBell8 WTF! It’s amazing how many people feel that everyone is a willing character in their life story … without consent or compensation. Especially concerning that the manager didn’t seem to give a damn either. Give them hell.

[Asst. to Gov. Huey P. Longbody @WrittenNRed]

My award for Most Unhinged JazzFest T-shirt goes to this guy.

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

@KylePlaysDrums @JacksonTheFab Roll Wave 🌊 Congrats!!!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Microsoft's Fairwater Wisconsin went live today, ahead of schedule. It's the world's most powerful AI data center. Hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, wired to behave as a single computer.

The physical build is biblical. 315 acres. 1.2 million square feet across three buildings. 26.5 million pounds of steel. 46.6 miles of foundation piles. 120 miles of underground cable. The storage wing alone runs the length of five football fields.

Each rack holds 72 GPUs sharing 14 terabytes of pooled memory, pushing 865,000 tokens per second. One rack generates more text per second than you've written in your entire life. Fairwater holds thousands of racks.

The speed of light became a real bottleneck. Cable lengths between racks were introducing latency that slowed training. Microsoft's fix was a two-story layout so racks sit directly above and below each other. We are now architecting around special relativity to train AI.

The power numbers are where it gets surreal. Phase 1 pulls 400 megawatts. Full build-out approaches 900 megawatts. Roughly a nuclear reactor, feeding one computer. The grid draw equals 300,000 homes.

Fairwater Wisconsin is only the first. Atlanta is already online. Norway and the UK are next. Microsoft is stringing them together over 120,000 miles of dedicated fiber into one AI superfactory with 2+ gigawatts of total capacity.

The buildings outlast the chips. GB200 gets swapped for GB300, then Rubin. The cells are modular. Microsoft's real bet is on the real estate, the power hookups, and the fiber.

AI progress is now gated by concrete and megawatts.

[𝚃 @T_wontmiss]

24 years old.
Fully paid off Costco hotdog.
It's not "parents money".
It's not luck.
It's consistency.
It's discipline.
I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

Drew Brees' first look at his @ProFootballHOF gold jacket 👀

[Austin Berg @Austin__Berg]

This is one of the most impressive archives in the history of American music.

Aadam Jacobs taped 10,000+ shows in Chicago from 1984-2019.

It’s all being digitized for the first time.

Some of my favorites so far.

Nels Cline and Jeff Parker (July 2006)
The Feelies (March 1983)
Uncle Tupelo (November 1992)
R.E.M. (November 1987)
Archers of Loaf (August 1994)
Tim Easton (July 2006)
The Wrens (January 2004)

h/t @aidanshandle for this nifty player
https://t.co/kf6IMB7hjd

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

Carole King wrote some of your favorite songs and you never knew it.
#HIAW 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1981, the U.S. Army unveils the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle. Modelled on the 1976 GMC 26 Palm Beach line of motorhomes, it's fully equipped with machine guns, flame throwers and rocket launchers, along with a state of the art communications and navigation suite.

[OneOutOfFour @OneOutOf4]

This American singer and songwriter was born to a Scotch-Irish father and African-American mother. At 18, he trained as a boxer, won the Florida Golden Gloves lightweight championship and was made an offer to attend boxing school. Instead, he attended college for a year, dropped out and then enlisted in the US Army. He was dishonorably discharged in 1983 after going AWOL. He started his music career shortly afterwards.

‘Wishing Well’ was released in 1987 and it reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, the Canadian and Dutch charts.

👉🏻 Name the artist.

👉🏻 What’s the legal name he now goes by?

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

Everyday is a chance to begin again.

[Nicky Pakiloft @TheThird3mpire]

@Super70sSports

[Manuel Mondragon @mm_dragon]

@CGHollins @oop_echeng Unfortunately, not unbelievable … totally believable. Also totally crappy.