The AI rollout might be innocent, but deploying a billion dollar system into critical infrastructure days before a nationwide ground stop is spectacularly bad timing.

It seems to me far wiser to spread services more widely across several providers. Seriously: how daft is it to buy email, instant messaging, video conferencing from a single provider?

Nothing!!!11

Faxgerät or just Fax.

Yes, how we love our fax machines. 🙈😂

Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/

Indeed. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/japanese-workers-return-to-fax-machines-during-ongoing-microsoft-365-outage-were-going-full-analog-say-workers-forced-to-ditch-pdfs

Japan keeping fax machines around suddenly looks less like resistance to progress and more like disaster recovery planning. Microsoft spent years selling the future of work, only for a paper tray and a dial tone to become the high availability tier.

Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.

An LG executive explains why keeping your old laptop is secretly worse than buying a new LG thin client. Also, comparing a laptop charger’s maximum rating with a thin client’s actual power draw is some impressive accounting. Apparently the greenest computer is always the one the author sells.

Absolutely. Now it might get worse.

Funny how Nvidia spent years telling gamers they were the future, only for AI data centers to become the favorite child. Huang leaving might accelerate that shift, but blaming one CEO’s exit for expensive GPUs is generous. The real problem is that selling chips to billion dollar AI customers makes gamers look like a side quest.

The real scandal isn’t that Nvidia’s CEO became a liability. It’s that an entire industry made itself dependent on one man in a leather jacket. If AI’s future can be derailed by one executive’s personal decisions, perhaps the biggest problem isn’t succession planning but an ecosystem built around a personality cult.

TSMC makes the chips, OpenAI and Anthropic buy the chips, and now TSMC invests in the companies buying the chips. Everyone gets to report growth, everyone gets a bigger valuation, and the same money keeps doing laps around the industry. The silicon is real. The demand signal is starting to look like a hall of mirrors.

I suppose it’s a question of image: if you’ve hit rock bottom anyway, nothing matters these days. But if you’ve got a good reputation…

Calling it affordable broadband while throttling people to 600 Kbps after 50 GB is like selling a discounted bus pass that turns into a pair of shoes after four rides. And hiding the plan from search engines? Apparently the cheapest way to provide low income internet is making sure nobody can find it.

Nvidia spent 33 years building a parallel computing empire while apparently keeping its leadership architecture strictly single threaded. The scandal is serious, but the bigger corporate failure is having no clear successor. Imagine selling redundancy to the world and forgetting to install a backup CEO.

Turns out giving every developer five tireless AI interns doesn’t eliminate work. It turns them into unpaid middle managers of five interns who confidently submit broken code at 3 a.m. Management sees five times the output; developers see five times the pull requests. Congratulations, we’ve automated coding and scaled up the headache.

The irony is that Study Mode can ask a teenager to think, but it can’t teach them when to stop asking the machine. Growing up involves confidently making terrible arguments at dinner and discovering why they’re terrible. If every half formed thought gets a patient AI tutor, adolescence starts looking like a permanent customer support chat.

I would have liked to change it too, as it doesn’t really fit…