Paul Britton

Meteorology geek. Work @Microsoft Industry Solutions. Sees only 4 lights🖖. Ambivert. Pisces. 1/2 🇵🇷. Transit geek. Born @ 336 CO2ppm. He/him/dude 🌈

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

What changes when agents become both a new unit of programming and an emerging new unit of human-to-machine interaction? The mission of Project Solara, a new software platform coupled with tailored hardware solutions, is to pioneer agent-first experiences that are shaped around you: your agents, your tasks, your environment, under your control. #MSBuild

[Microsoft 365 @Microsoft365]

Meet Microsoft Scout.

An always-on agent that keeps work moving, taking action without needing to be prompted each time.

As Microsoft’s first Autopilot agent, Microsoft Scout works across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and more—taking action within the controls your organization sets.

Learn more: https://t.co/n8xTWVZA5P

[Omar Shahine @OmarShahine]

Introducing Microsoft Scout, the first autopilot agent from Microsoft - 57 days after starting my new job, we are launching Microsoft Scout to our Frontier customers. Big day for the team and for @openclaw #MicrosoftBuild https://t.co/ZGl47ADnCg

[OpenClaw🦞 @openclaw]

"You can run OpenClaw inside your company now." Annoucing our work with @Microsoft to bring OpenClaw to the Microsoft and Windows ecosystems. Claws now work securly in the enterprise.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Hegseth’s ban on transgender military members being ruled unconstitutional on the first day of Pride is hilarious.

[Paul Britton @paulstorms]

@BenThePCGuy Hear you. I think in this specific case - the audience is not the "normies".

Rather Satya is outlining a very clear difference from the vision SamA shared in DC back in March - that people will buy intelligence from OpenAI "on a meter" like a utility. https://t.co/27dnaBCoZk

[Pavan Davuluri @pavandavuluri]

Proud to introduce you to @Surface Laptop Ultra, the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built. https://t.co/mc8lVl3rUC

[Brad Smith @BradSmi]

Twenty years ago, @Microsoft broke ground on our first data center in Quincy, Washington. At a time when so many small towns have been shrinking, Quincy has grown, and the partnership behind that story is one worth telling. Watch how a farm town in Central Washington helped build the cloud, and built a thriving future of its own.

[Seattle Parks @SeattleParks]

Summer just got better with the reopening of Myrtle Edwards Park and Centennial Park on June 4!

To prepare for opening, both parks and the shared-use path will be closed from 7 PM on June 3 through 7 AM on June 4.

https://t.co/ru6o543RII

[Ben Levine @BenLevine_]

Flying past the #storms that just hit #Enid Oklahoma. Nuts.

[AirWaterLand Photography @airwaterlandcom]

Seattle, WA April 4th

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

ERA-5 data is in. March was indeed the warmest on record in the US. But what’s even more astonishing is the trend. Since 1940 March in the US has warmed 7.2°F (that’s like 9° per century and accelerating!) Do the math on what this means for future generations if it continues. The pace of warming is remarkable.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We’re bringing our growing MAI model family to every developer in Foundry, including …

· MAI-Transcribe-1, most accurate transcription model in world across 25 languages
· MAI-Voice-1, natural, expressive speech generation
· MAI-Image-2, our most capable image model yet

Start building: https://t.co/Mls2y7nRQT

[Kurt, etc. @Kurt_A_Eff]

Just now finding out about @weatherchannel’s retro option, music and everything, and I am weeping openly. Feels so good to be back baby https://t.co/ksAqfptyKS

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

She’s…. beautiful🥹

[Brad Smith @BradSmi]

Today marks an important moment for the Greater Seattle region. For the first time, light rail will officially connect Seattle and the Eastside across Lake Washington. @Microsoft is proud to have played a role in this milestone.

This didn't happen overnight, and it didn't happen because of any single organization or leader. It happened because businesses, civic leaders, elected officials, labor, and community advocates spent more than two decades aligned around a shared belief: that a thriving region requires infrastructure built for everyone. @SoundTransit

[Rebecca Stevenson @Rebecca_Weather]

Now HERE is a rare weather event for Seattle!
Record rain AND record Snow on the same day at Sea-Tac!!🤭#wawx #Seattlesnow #weather

[BrandGully @BrandGully]

Wow.

NPR.

This one deserves a big out-of-home push.