This Ain’t Michael

This Ain’t Michael

@micheil.bsky.social

Digital ecosystems, information systems, physicist, bulldog dad since 1996. Chicago. Silicon Valley. Scottsdale. Denver. Opinions and insights do not reflect any organization I am affiliated with.

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This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Okay. So #YouCanSeeEverything is a good movie; amazing documentary.

This Ain’t Michael@micheil.bsky.social

Decided to take off work early to go see the movie about Theranos because I feel like being even more upset about the VC culture that's distorting the United States. 🤮🫠

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Believe me, believe me I can't tell you why But I'm trapped by your <vendor lock in> And I'm chained to your <walled garden> We are <broke> <paycheck> to <paycheck> We <broke> No <GPUs> No <DRAM> <computer> is a battlefield (Apologies, Pat Benatar. She didn't use AI, neither did I)

ceej@ceej.online

computers are now battlefields

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

The fact that Trump is openly giving-in to Putin and Xi at this moment in time is a siren: Trump will absolutely fuck with the elections 🚨

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

It may make me sound like a partisan lib but I actually think it’s Bad that the President thinks he can use a small army of men with loaded guns to disrupt the legitimate electoral process in California simply because he thinks it’ll help him and his party politically this close to an election…

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Decided to take off work early to go see the movie about Theranos because I feel like being even more upset about the VC culture that's distorting the United States. 🤮🫠

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Raffi Melkonian
@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social

People with knowledge keep saying - in public and to me in private - that you get a pardon in this government by literally paying a bribe. I mean at some point it’s all going to come out, right?

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Cate Brown
@catebrown.bsky.social

In August, Trump announced the “BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” But is it? The text of the accord — which grants the U.S. sweeping access to Venezuela’s oil reserves — has been one of DC’s most sought-after secrets. ProPublica got to see a copy. 🧵

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Would it be surprising if Trump and his cronies didn't think this whole VZ thing all the way through? ...like Hormuz, the AI bubble, Ukraine, inflation, tariffs, immigration... It would be funny if us, as US citizens, weren't the ones who will have to pay.

Cate Brown@catebrown.bsky.social

10/ Finally, it could be some time before Betancourt’s company produces enough oil to fulfill a significant share of U.S. demand. Right now, it produces about 200,000 barrels per day — or about as much over the course of a year as the United States uses in 3 days.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

@cnn.com actually running a story about people who distill events into a condensed, consumable format. Clippers. Wait until they learn about "reporters" who distill events into words. Or photographers who condense events into still pictures. 🤡

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I talked to CNN for a little segment about clippers that just aired

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

"...there needs to be a bipartisan reckoning for Mr. Trump’s budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests" No shit, @wsj.com

This Ain’t Michael@micheil.bsky.social

19 October 2026: WSJ calls for congressional investigation of Trump over Russia. Gift article, last paragraph. Enjoy. www.wsj.com/opinion/to-r...

wsj.comOpinion | To Russia With Love, Signed DonaldTrump waives sanctions and tariffs under the Lindsey Graham law.
This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

CHI will never be Silicon Valley. Just stop. And getting in bed with quantum computing is proof JB doesn't understand tech. Further proof that being rich doesn't mean being smart.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov

The Metro East is poised to become the ‘Silicorn Valley’ with a $15 million ethanol research boost. The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at SIUE will help turn our crops into new products all while creating more opportunities in the region.

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WeRateDogs
@weratedogs.com

We only rate dogs. This is a baby kangaroo, as you can tell by the kickstart button on her foot. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (TT: supernoodlegirls)

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Zelenskyy is spot on, and Trump will wither at the common sense rationale.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Zelenskyy: "If President Trump really wants to have elections, tell Putin give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire -- 60 days -- and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people."

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Prompt loops are Agile-on-repeat. Agile is a flawed methodology. It's the only trick they know Agile is and always has been GUESSING They aren't engineers. They are hacks. The same "devs" who gave us infinite shitty code the past 30 years are now certain they can UNFUCK it? I'm skeptical.

WIRED@wired.com

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

wired.comA Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive DataWhile the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

"ChatGPT can write god-level code, except for all those vulnerabilities..." These guys aren't dangerous because they are competent. They are dangerous because they are not competent.

WIRED@wired.com

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

wired.comA Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive DataWhile the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Data centers are driving up costs AND taking resources away from other commercial investments. Meanwhile, there's a debt-storm brewing apartment landlords. Lets hope these don't multiply the potential bad outcomes... Gift Article: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

wsj.comApartment Landlords Have a $2 Trillion Debt Problem That Is Only Getting WorseProperty investors borrowed record sums at historically low rates. Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”
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HockeyDad
@mouserincincy.bsky.social

Replying to @atrupar.com

So they want to open it but it’s already open and we are reject the opening. Would this end the war that’s not a war that we’ve won numerous times?

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

We should either hold LLM vendors liable for the hacking they're doing, or we should hold liable the businesses who have shite software that can be hacked. The cult of Agile needs to die a quick death.

This Ain’t Michael@micheil.bsky.social

LLM vendors claiming AGI bc they hack software is the lamest self own in history Software quality has been shite for decades. Telling us you can fix the shite deliverables you've been creating for decades is an admission of incompetence, not AGI. Software development needs to be regulated.

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

LLM vendors claiming AGI bc they hack software is the lamest self own in history Software quality has been shite for decades. Telling us you can fix the shite deliverables you've been creating for decades is an admission of incompetence, not AGI. Software development needs to be regulated.

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

LLM Tech Bros: Human language is synonymous with intelligence! Cat: <Ever silent. Pawing inquisitively, yet with purpose, opens door made specifically to thwart the ever silent cat.>

Barry Dorrans@blowdart.me

Someone is not impressed I got a new cabinet door installed to keep the kittens out of the bins …

This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Funny how AI isn't curing cancer, solving climate change. Funny how this "news" is coming out as they try to IPO. They're writing coding tools, not AGI. Make him PROVE his claim IN DETAIL. Otherwise, yes, call me skeptical. Stop amplifying their bullshit.

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This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social

Wondering when someone will take legal action. Hacking a website is illegal, full stop. LLMs hallucinate. When chained, you INCREASE the likelihood of running into a hallucination. It's a stupid architecture.

Raphael Satter@raphae.li

Scoop: There's been *another* previously undisclosed AI agent breakout from OpenAI, this one discovered by an informal group of researchers in Berkeley. The agents colonized a German wiki site and leveraged it to help cheat on tests. With @deepa.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this springA swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to ​new research and two people familiar with the matter.