Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group

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[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@JATompkins What in the AI slop is this passed off as ideas 😬

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@Instacart Can you please show us a screenshot of how your App/UX gives us the ability to choose our bananas?

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

Marathon’s “NuCaloric” is giving very “Lorem Ipsum” default font shit

[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.

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@TylerCWhitmore

[Tyler @TylerCWhitmore]

Like 20 people got up and walked out during the middle of the movie and my take is that unless there is a legitimate emergency, walking out of a movie early is the behavior of a child.

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@moultano This is fucking hilarious and so true

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@matsonj LIMIT 10 to remove the wait

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@ghostdropout 🤣

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@hevanlyy They ruined the season

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@BNODesk Can’t wait for my Hondissan

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

At the start of COVID, the government implemented many social programs that helped people who were struggling. These programs were immensely popular.

Yet instead of fighting hard to extend and expand them, Democrats prematurely declared the pandemic was over and let them expire.

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@davidcrespo All greatness usually takes is someone with quality standards overseeing something

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

A lot of you still haven't processed the fact that professional life is only 50% iq, and the other 50% is being nice and talking to people.

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

@wtflanksteak This. Stop the Midwest-ification of Chicago!

[𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅ kel 🏳️‍🌈 | gemini season !!! ⋅ ✿ ✧･ﾟ @esseksoup]

i think about this a lot

[m 🧚🏻‍♀️ @spelunky_]

never reposted anything so fast

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

Ok maybe Metal Blood Castle instead

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

The parkour person is carrying this opening ceremony

[Majority Shareholder of the Soonyang Group @Suuurelock]

Like @ChiToolLib, the future/community is now!

https://t.co/TqQ99lGYKb

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

There is a makerspace in the village with pretty decent wood/machine shop equipment, but also a large 3D printer, a CNC router and a tailoring shop. Next door is a store that sells new and used materials and hardware - lumber, metal, etc. The makerspace is like a library - free.