Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing efficiency losses. Early adopters of cloud-native infrastructure report 40% faster deployment cycles. Commissioned by Broadcom, based on June 2025 survey. 🔗 🤖 Forrester: Modernize or Fall Behind – Rethinking IT Infrastructure (October 2025)

VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements across Greenplum (now VCF 9 certified), Data Lake 2.0 (adds Spark support), GemFire 10.2, Postgres (TimescaleDB), Valkey, and RabbitMQ 4.2 (distributed delayed messaging). 🔗 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence Gets Smarter with New Updates and Enhancements - Tanzu

Grok’s AI video generation is like lazy Sora. All you have to do is upload a picture and it does the rest. You can then refine it through chat. Some of these are the first versions, no input from me. They are mostly pictures from the internet. There are some ones that were still images made in ChatGPT. I think Grok is pretty good at this kind of thing.

I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I asked: Tyler Cowen has many maxims, principles, and aphorisms. One is “Context is that which is scarce” another is “all food is ethnic food” (from his ethnic food website). Sometimes his blog posts bring with “those new service sector jobs.” He often asks the same questions in podcasts (there are transcript of all his Conversations with Tyler episodes), often about someone’s “production function,” how they work.

I solo played “Touch of Water” last night. It’s a good representation of the adventures in the Uncaged series.1 Claude did a good job adapting it my campaign setting and evolving the story. The rusalka is a good monster - it’d make a good Eryines-like creature for Auril the Frostmaiden. You can recast Auril regionally, call her Marzanna or the like, and then have a little frosty pantheon. The story never resolves what happened to the drowned four year old boy that starts the adventure.

When I’m solo roleplaying D&D, or just farting around, I like to make pictures of characters and scenes. Sometimes I ask the robot to make me pages from artists sketchbooks, concept art. Here’s some recent pictures: Above based on this one from the Xoth player’s guide. Look how it made the new one’s décolletage more modest. For the next two, I wanted to use the ship map from the 2024 DMG, but put it on a very big, 100x100 ocean.

Most of these are human-made, two were given to the robot as guides. The video is me as a kid, maybe six or so. I gave it to Twitter’s video thing, and there you go. Fantastic and freaky.

Even when asked in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish, modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT deliver answers aligned with secular, center-left, Western liberal values. Language introduces minor stylistic variations, but the core worldview remains strikingly consistent. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Do AIs think differently in different languages? Key Points AI responses remain largely uniform across languages, with only slight variation in tone and emphasis. Modern LLMs exhibit center-left, secular, liberal values, regardless of the language used to prompt them.

Modern life has shifted from one of intentional selection to one of constant rejection, as boundless options—from music to AI-generated content—overwhelm our ability to focus. The piece reflects on a childhood of curated mixtapes and contrasts it with today’s flood of algorithmic output, arguing that simplicity now requires deliberate elimination. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: The world is increasingly noisier • V.H. Belvadi. Key Points Excess choice paralyzes decision-making, leaving people unproductive despite abundant options.