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You too can read the sycophantic babbling of a rotten politician (nor a good one), as he brown-noses Zuckerberg the Immoral.
Why live in reality when you can convince yourself the world out there (the one you don’t live in) is not real?
Makes me sick.
You can tell a lie a thousand times, but that does not mean it is true.
You can tell it a million times, with the same result.
You may convince all the people around you that the lie is a truth, but still, it is only a lie.
You can dress it up in half-truths, cherry-picked evidence, anything. But still. It. Is. A. Lie.
This immutability will be revealed.
The truth will out.
Let’s see what the Empire announces tomorrow.
8 June 2025 — French West Indies
The datacenters are the Achilles’ Heel
You’ve probably heard about Vibe Coding by now. The method by which a person creates an application through the use of AI, in a most Dunning-Kruger manner.
It leads to poor code, poor maintainability, poor security, and misaligned outcomes that create more problems than it solves.
The next big thing coming is Vibe Hacking. And like its sibling, it will enable those with a hacking bent to mount cyberattacks at a frightening scale. However, unlike Vibe-Coding, the fact that the code is poor is a feature, not a bug.
If there is one thing that is becoming clearer to me when thinking about big tech, it is that the datacenters are the next target.
They will be attacked both digitally and physically, and I fear that physically will bring the most disruption to the services that we all rely on for our daily lives.
The datacenters are the Achilles’ Heel.
4 June 2025 — French West Indies
Rebel Alliance
At some point, your scrappy Rebel Alliance gets so big that it becomes the Empire.
7 May 2025 — French West Indies
Meta, as in data
Finally, I’ve changed my mind. Meta is a completely appropriate name for the organisation. Meta, as in metadata.
They are only interested in the metadata around what is on their products. Number must go up.
The minutiae, the details, the wellbeing, the mental health, the privacy, the collapse of democracy, the genocide; these are all things that ‘they’ have no interest in, specifically Mark Zuckerberg and the management team.
It will catch up to them one day. That day cannot come soon enough.
30 April 2025 — French West Indies
Adtech is a cancer. It will eventually eat and destroy a business and more often than not its morals. You will only notice when it is too late.
It is disheartening to hear of a wildly successful business focusing more and more on ads and not on the products that made it a good business in the first place.
It will destroy this company.
19 April 2025 — French West Indies
Any online-only survey on the economy that asks how people are fairing is inherently flawed and cannot be taken too seriously.
The ones suffering are the ones that have no access to the internet and smartphones to be able to take part. So these surveys totally miss possibly the most important cohort in their analysis.
29 March 2025 — French West Indies
Blockchain is still a solution looking for a problem. Why are we still talking about it?
From Ars Technica:
“It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” she says. “I don’t think we were ever able to find an instance where people were using blockchain where they couldn’t use existing tools.”
From a technology consultant helping large-scale humanitarian organisations adopt technology.
I’ll say it again, blockchain is a slow, wasteful database that at best is a curiosity and not GDPR compliant.
It’s like inventing a “new” combustion engine that is both slower and 100x less efficient.
26 March 2025 — French West Indies
“Ireland is Apple's second home” - Tim Cook
VIa Apple Insider.
When mere mortals have homes, they pay taxes.
Pay your taxes, Tim.
17 March 2025 — French West Indies