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The universe served up a lot of humor this week.
In an effort to motivate myself to complete them, I’ll note I have serious (“serious”?) posts under way on the AI infrastructure build-out, a modest proposal for the Federal Reserve, and Maine.
The discussion continues of how to refer to members of this august community. Nominations include platformomaniacs, platformaniacs (which was my typo), and plats. Send me your preferences or comment below!
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Begun the Slop War Has
Now we just need to wire these up to each other in a closed loop. There probably is some risk of total protonic reversal.
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Meta’s AI Mulligan: Personal SuperintelligenceSlop
Speaking of Slop: Gartner Edition
Cory points out the obvious:
Some of Gartner’s worst calls have been on dev tools. I’ve heard listed authors on reports disavow their involvement because the conclusions so beggared belief. Perhaps they’ve been using hallucinatory AI the whole time?
Gartner is definitely a popular entry on various AI roadkill stock lists.
Software Migration Alert: EA
Madden NFL, amongst other video games, is falling into the clutches of private equity. You know what to do: when private equity comes on the blitz, it is time to splits. BOOM!
A leaked roadmap indicates the next version of Madden will let you raise ticket prices dramatically and fire both the groundskeeping crew and medical staff.
Private equity is great at dismembering businesses. But given the unprecedented size of this deal, they’re bringing in some free agent talent to help with the task. Nobody brings a bone saw to costs like the Saudis.
Private Equity in Action: I’m Lovin’ It
A private equity executive observed:
“There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US. There are 14,000 McDonald’s in the US. How are there more private equity funds than McDonald’s? That’s actually crazy, right?”
Beyond both being pervasive, there are other similarities between McDonald’s and private equity. For example, their employees wear uniforms:
(Needless to say, I could go on here).
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Perfidious Private Equity, Private Equity in Action: Narrative Collapse?, Private Equity in Action: The Great Garage Door Service Wars, Private Equity in Action: Unlocking “AI Database Company” Value, Private Equity in Action: CareerBuilder + Monster, Private Equity in Action: Having to Show Their Math is New Experience, Private Equity in Action: Underperforming, Private Equity in Action: Trying to Eat the World, Private Equity in Action: Fast Casual Restaurant Edition, Private Equity in Action: WP Engine, Perfidious Private Equity, Private Equity in Action: Thrasio, Private Equity in Action: “How PE Keeps Planes in the Air”, Private Equity in Action: OtterTune,Private Equity in Action: PluralSight, Software Migration Alerts, Private Equity Will Buy and Ruin More Software Companies
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Not Available in Europe: Data, Not Available in Europe: AirPod Live Translations Edition, Not Available in Europe: Email Archives, Not Available in Europe: A Tech Champion, Not Available in Europe: Meta AI, Not Available in Europe: Spinal Fortitude, Not Available in Europe: Air Conditioning, Not Available in Europe: Working Through the Not Available in Europe Backlog Edition, Not Available in Europe: WhatsApp Edition, Not Available in Europe: ChatGPT Memory Edition, Not Available in Europe: Bird Flies, Not Available in Europe: Open AI Deep Research, Not Available in Europe: A Bubbly Economy, Not Available in Europe: Better Late Than Never Apple Edition, Not Available in Europe: Apple’s Math, Not Available in Europe: This Week’s Edition, Not Available in Europe: Coming Soon to a Continent Near You, Not Available in Europe: Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned (by Meta), Not Available in Europe: A Tipping Point?, Not Available in Europe: Stratechery Edition, Not Available in Europe: Apple Edition, Not Available in Europe: Meta Edition
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