An IT modernization tale, with both technology and culture. // The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
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Slop might save us from social media
Social media has shifted from genuine connection and casual sharing to low-quality, curated content, leading to decreased engagement.
If your deal is nostalgia for another time (imagined on real), your customers are likely conservative regarding modernizing. They want things to stay the same, the job to be done, brand wise, is a nostalgia experience. Hopefully the food has good price/performance too. // Cracker Barrel halts remodels after logo backlash, lackluster test
“Today the only full time employees besides him are Horvitz and two full time editors. The rest of the staff – a book keeper and the remaining 23 editors – are part time working remotely in enough different time zones to supply Techmeme and Mediagazer with near 24×7 coverage.” // Gabe Rivera’s 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.
Looks like great additions for MCP. Spring AI 1.1.0-M1 Available Now
“won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU.” www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…
How to use AI to write conference talk abstracts, good ones
“GenAI can help you write talk proposals, but if you use it without injecting your own curiosity and humanness, reviewers can tell. Here’s the process I use to shape real, human abstracts that reflect my curiosity and experience. I developed this process for technical talks, but it adapts well to other formats too.” From Whitney.
VMware Explore and SpringOne Highlights from the Tanzu Division’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Strohmeyer - Tanzu - ”I think explaining to our customers the movement of all the Kubernetes resources into VCF was important in positioning VCF as a complete infrastructure solution and then having clarity that Tanzu Platform is a true, pre-engineered Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry. I think some customers were not aware of that change, and appreciate the power of simplicity with CF and how we are continuing to invest in that proven technology with Tanzu Platform 10.3.
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