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Cake day: September 29th, 2025

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    The document we reported on was not some random document. As we wrote at the time, the strategy document was written by Microsoft executives Omar Shahine, Jakob Werner, and some sort of AI writing tool. This information is in our original article and is readily available to Nadella. We wrote: “The document seen by 404 Media lists Shahine and another executive, Jakob Werner, as its authors. The document itself, however, notes that it was ‘co-created turn-by-turn with AI. Human verified every sentence.’”

    Shahine is the leader of Microsoft’s Scout project, as he has written numerous times on his own blog, on his LinkedIn, and on Microsoft’s own announcement of the software. In attempting to distance himself from his own company’s executives and strategy documents, Nadella has revealed that he either does not know how to read or does not know what is happening with some of the company’s highest-profile products.




  • If you were to do that, the Goldilocks zone would move inward as the Sun’s energy output dropped. So all the life on Earth would still die because the Earth would freeze.

    Still, since you have the tech to remove mass from a star, you would also surely have the ability to move the earth inward to keep it in the Goldilocks zone. But that still might not work. Being so much closer to the Sun, the Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere might not be sufficient to block flares and CMEs.


  • While they have similar life cycles, ending up as white dwarfs, red dwarfs are much less massive than our sun. Thus, our sun can’t turn into a red dwarf without somehow loosing a significant amount of mass.

    Alos, in the case of our sun, before it becomes a white dwarf, it will balloon up into a red giant and consume everything out to about the orbit of Earth. Any life on Earth at that time will be wiped out even if the planet itself doesn’t get dragged down into the sun.



  • Could be. OP’s article mentions Uber, but also mentions speculation that it may have been Amazon. Either way, I’m torn between laughing at corporate stupidity and crying over the enormous waste of resources consumed by the AI usage.

    Recently, Uber’s chief exec claimed there was no link between AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ and shipping useful products. It’s a phenomenon perhaps most keenly reported at Amazon (which some X users have speculated may be the mystery company in question), where employees are said to have been caught inflating AI token consumption to meet internal targets. In fact, a Financial Times report on Thursday indicates Amazon has scrapped its internal AI usage leaderboard to stop employees carrying out needless tasks in order to climb the league table.


  • Between November 2025 and March of this year, Rush asked for − and received − “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses,” the affidavit in his case says.

    A review of the government storage space where Rush was supposed to be storing the bars and money showed that most of it was missing, the affidavit says.

    “Hey boss, I need 40 or 50 million worth of gold bars for… you know, that thing you need me to do.” I wonder who he was supposed to have bribed with all that gold.