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Microsoft Knows How to Avoid an AI Bubble: Listen Up, Grunts, Discipline Now! Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I relish statements from the leadership of BAIT (big AI tech) outfits. A case in point is Microsoft. The Fortune story “AI Won’t Become a Bubble As Long As Everyone Stays thoughtful and Disciplined, Microsoft’s Brad Smith Says.

Microsoft Knows How to Avoid an AI Bubble: Listen Up, Grunts, Discipline Now!

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I relish statements from the leadership of BAIT (big AI tech) outfits. A case…

18.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI Content: Most People Will Just Accept It and Some May Love It or Hum Along Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. The trust outfit Thomson Reuters summarized as real news a survey. The write up sports the title “Are You Listening to Bots? Survey Shows AI Music Is Virtually Undetectable?” Truth be told, I wanted the magic power to change the headline to “Are You Reading News?

AI Content: Most People Will Just Accept It and Some May Love It or Hum Along

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. The trust outfit Thomson Reuters summarized as real news a survey. The write up…

18.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI and Self-Perception of Intelligence Here is one way the AI industry is different from the rest of society: In that field, it is those who know the most who are overconfident. Inc. reports, “New Research Warns That AI Is Causing a ‘Reverse Dunning-Kruger Effect’.” A recent study asked 500 subjects to solve some tough logic problems. Half of them used an AI like ChatGPT to complete the tasks.

AI and Self-Perception of Intelligence

Here is one way the AI industry is different from the rest of society: In that field, it is those who know the most who are overconfident. Inc. reports, “New Research Warns That AI Is Causing a ‘Reverse Dunning-Kruger Effect’.” A recent study asked 500…

18.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can You Guess What Is Making Everyone Stupid? Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I read an article in “The Stupid Issue” of New York Magazine’s Intelligencer section. Is that a dumb set of metadata for an article about stupid? That’s evidence in my book. The write up is “

Can You Guess What Is Making Everyone Stupid?

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I read an article in “The Stupid Issue” of New York Magazine’s Intelligencer section. Is that a dumb set of…

17.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Surprise! Countries Not Pals with the US Are Using AI to Spy. Shocker? Hardly Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. The Beeb is a tireless “real” news outfit. Like some Manhattan newscasters, fixing up reality to make better stories, the BBC allowed a couple of high-profile members of leadership to find their future elsewhere. Maybe the chips shop in Slough?

Surprise! Countries Not Pals with the US Are Using AI to Spy. Shocker? Hardly

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. The Beeb is a tireless “real” news outfit. Like some Manhattan newscasters,…

17.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Danes May Ban Social Media for Kids Australia’s ban on social media for kids under 16 goes into effect December 10. Now another country is pursuing a similar approach. Euro News reports, “Denmark Wants to Ban Access to Social Media for Children Under 15.” We learn: “The move, led by the Ministry of Digitalisation, would set the age limit for access to social media but give some parents – after a specific assessment – the right to give consent to let their children access social media from age 13.

Danes May Ban Social Media for Kids

Australia’s ban on social media for kids under 16 goes into effect December 10. Now another country is pursuing a similar approach. Euro News reports, “Denmark Wants to Ban Access to Social Media for Children Under 15.” We learn: “The move, led by the Ministry…

17.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Despite Assurances, AI Firms’ Future May Depend on Replacing Human Labor For centuries, the market economy has been powered by workers. Human ones. Sure, they have tended to get the raw end of any deal, but at least their participation has been necessary. Now one industry has a powerful incentive to change that. Futurism reports, “The AI Industry Can’t Profit Unless It Replaces Human Jobs, Warns Man Who Helped Create It…

Despite Assurances, AI Firms’ Future May Depend on Replacing Human Labor

For centuries, the market economy has been powered by workers. Human ones. Sure, they have tended to get the raw end of any deal, but at least their participation has been necessary. Now one industry has a powerful incentive…

17.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI and Learning: Does a Retail Worker Have to Know How to Make Change? This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. I love the concept of increasingly shallow understanding. There is a simple beauty in knowing that you can know anything with smart software and a mobile phone. I read “Students Using ChatGPT Beware: Real Learning Takes Legwork, Study Finds.” What a revelation? Wow! Really? What a quaint approach to smart software.

AI and Learning: Does a Retail Worker Have to Know How to Make Change?

This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. I love the concept of increasingly shallow understanding. There is a simple beauty in knowing that you can know anything with smart software and a mobile…

14.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Microsoft Could Be a Microsnitch Remember when you were younger and the single threat of, “I’m going to tell!” was enough to send chills through your body? Now Microsoft plans to do the same thing except on an adult level. Life Hacker shares that, “Microsoft Teams Will Soon Tell Your Boss When You're Not In The Office.” The article makes an accurate observation that since the pandemic most jobs can be done from anywhere with an Internet connection.

Microsoft Could Be a Microsnitch

Remember when you were younger and the single threat of, “I’m going to tell!” was enough to send chills through your body? Now Microsoft plans to do the same thing except on an adult level. Life Hacker shares that, “Microsoft Teams Will Soon Tell Your Boss When…

14.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Walmart Plans To Change Shopping With AI Walmart shocked the world when it deployed robots to patrol aisles. The purpose of the robot wasn’t to steal jobs but report outages and messes to employees. Walmart has since backtracked on the robots, but they are turning to AI to enhance and forever alter the consumer shopping experience. According to MSN, “Walmart’s Newest Plan Could Change How You Shop Forever.”

Walmart Plans To Change Shopping With AI

Walmart shocked the world when it deployed robots to patrol aisles. The purpose of the robot wasn’t to steal jobs but report outages and messes to employees. Walmart has since backtracked on the robots, but they are turning to AI to enhance and forever…

14.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sweet Dreams of Data Centers for Clippy Version 2: The Agentic Operation System Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. If you have good musical recall, I want you to call up the tune for “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by the Eurythmics. Okay, with that sound track buzzing through your musical memory, put it on loop.

Sweet Dreams of Data Centers for Clippy Version 2: The Agentic Operation System

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. If you have good musical recall, I want you to call up the tune for “Sweet…

13.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI Is a Winner: The Viewpoint of an AI Believer This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Bubble, bubble, bubble. This is the Silicon Valley version of epstein, epstein, epstein. If you are worn out from the doom and gloom of smart software’s penchant for burning cash and ignoring the realities of generating electric power quickly, you will want to read “AI Is Probably Not a Bubble: AI Companies Have Revenue, Demand, and Paths to Immense Value…

AI Is a Winner: The Viewpoint of an AI Believer

This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Bubble, bubble, bubble. This is the Silicon Valley version of epstein, epstein, epstein. If you are worn out from the doom and gloom of smart software’s penchant for burning cash…

13.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dark Patterns Primer Here is a useful explainer for anyone worried about scams brought to us by a group of concerned designers and researchers. The Dark Patterns Hall of Shame arms readers with its Catalog of Dark Patterns. The resource explores certain misleading tactics we all encounter online. The group’s About page tells us: “We are passionate about identifying dark patterns and unethical design examples on the internet.

Dark Patterns Primer

Here is a useful explainer for anyone worried about scams brought to us by a group of concerned designers and researchers. The Dark Patterns Hall of Shame arms readers with its Catalog of Dark Patterns. The resource explores certain misleading tactics we all encounter online.…

13.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apple AI Innovates: It Cuts an AI Deal with the Google Circular deals are not new. Google was on Apple's Board of Directors. Google cut a deal with Apple to make Google Search the one true way to get ads on the Apple iPhone. Now Apple --- after failing in its own smart software efforts --- has driven up Highway 101 with a freshly baked humble Apple pie. Apple, one might conclude, failed at AI, and it is Google to the rescue.

Apple AI Innovates: It Cuts an AI Deal with the Google

Circular deals are not new. Google was on Apple's Board of Directors. Google cut a deal with Apple to make Google Search the one true way to get ads on the Apple iPhone. Now Apple --- after failing in its own smart software efforts --- has…

13.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

US Government Procurement Changes: Like Silicon Valley, Really? I Mean For Sure? Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I learned about the US Department of War overhaul of its procurement processes by reading “The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed.” Rumblings of procurement hassles have been reaching me for years.

US Government Procurement Changes: Like Silicon Valley, Really? I Mean For Sure?

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I learned about the US Department of War overhaul of its procurement…

12.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Someone Is Not Drinking the AI-Flavored Kool-Aid Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. The future of AI is in the hands of the masters of the digital PT Barnum's. A day or so ago, I wrote about Copilot in Excel. Allegedly a spreadsheet can be enhanced by Microsoft.

Someone Is Not Drinking the AI-Flavored Kool-Aid

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. The future of AI is in the hands of the masters of the digital PT Barnum's. A day or so ago, I wrote about…

12.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Temptation Is Powerful: Will Big AI Tech Take the Bait Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I have been using the acronym BAIT for “big AI tech” in my talks. I find it an easy way to refer to the companies with the money and the drive to try to take over the use of software to replace most humans’ thinking.

Temptation Is Powerful: Will Big AI Tech Take the Bait

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I have been using the acronym BAIT for “big AI tech” in my talks. I find it an easy way to refer to…

12.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big Surprise: More Cyber Investigators Are Needed Europol recently held its 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets. The upshot? “Global Law Enforcement Plays Catch-Up with Crypto Criminals as Gaps Remain,” reports Cybernews. The conference participants pinpointed three specific ways the good guys are at a disadvantage: “Three key gaps were identified in legislation, implementation, and law enforcement’s capacity to fight crime. Therefore, participants agreed that new common standards need to be developed, cooperation deepened, and investments in law enforcement capacity increased.”

Big Surprise: More Cyber Investigators Are Needed

Europol recently held its 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets. The upshot? “Global Law Enforcement Plays Catch-Up with Crypto Criminals as Gaps Remain,” reports Cybernews. The conference participants pinpointed three…

12.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Innovation Cored, Diced, Cooked and Served As a Granny Scarf Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I do not pay much attention to Vogue, once a giant, fat fashion magazine. However, my trusty newsfeed presented this story to me this morning at 626 am US Eastern: “Apple and Issey Miyake Unite for the iPhone Pocket.

Innovation Cored, Diced, Cooked and Served As a Granny Scarf

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I do not pay much attention to Vogue, once a giant, fat fashion magazine. However, my trusty…

11.11.2025 12:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Marketers and AI: Killing Sales and Trust. Collateral Damage? Meh Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. “The Trust Collapse: Infinite AI Content Is Awful” is an impassioned howl in the arctic space of zeros and ones. The author is what one might call collateral damage. When a UPS airplane drops a wing on take off, the people in the path of the fuel spewing aircraft are definitely not thrilled.

Marketers and AI: Killing Sales and Trust. Collateral Damage? Meh

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. “The Trust Collapse: Infinite AI Content Is Awful” is an impassioned howl in the arctic…

11.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agentic Software: Close Enough for Horse Shoes Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I read a document that I would describe as tortured. The lingo was trendy. The charts and graphs sported trendy colors. The data gathering seemed to be a mix of “interviews” and other people’s research.

Agentic Software: Close Enough for Horse Shoes

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. I read a document that I would describe as tortured. The lingo was trendy. The charts and graphs sported…

11.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure, Sam. We Trust Your with Our Data OpenAI released a new AI service called “company knowledge” that collects and analyzes all information within an organization. Why does this sound familiar? Because malware does the same thing for nefarious purposes. The story comes from Computer World and is entitled, “OpenAI’s Company Knowledge Wants Access To All Of Your Internal Data.” A major problem is that OpenAI is a still a relatively young company and organizations are reluctant to share all of their data with it.

Sure, Sam. We Trust Your with Our Data

OpenAI released a new AI service called “company knowledge” that collects and analyzes all information within an organization. Why does this sound familiar? Because malware does the same thing for nefarious purposes. The story comes from Computer World and is…

11.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Microsoft: Desperation or Inspiration? Copilot, Have We Lost an Engine? Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. Microsoft is an interesting member of the high-tech in-crowd. It is the oldest of the Big Players. It invented Bob and Clippy. It has not cracked the weirdness of Word’s numbering weirdness. Updates routinely kill services.

Microsoft: Desperation or Inspiration? Copilot, Have We Lost an Engine?

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. Microsoft is an interesting member of the high-tech in-crowd. It is the oldest of the…

10.11.2025 21:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Train Models on Hostility Oriented Slop and You Get Happiness? Nope, Nastiness on Steroids This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Informed discourse, factual reports, and the type of rhetoric loved by Miss Spurling in 1959 can have a positive effect. I wasn’t sure at the time if I wanted to say Whoa! Nelly to my particular style of writing and speaking. She did her best to convert me from a somewhat weird 13 year old into a more civilized creature.

Train Models on Hostility Oriented Slop and You Get Happiness? Nope, Nastiness on Steroids

This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Informed discourse, factual reports, and the type of rhetoric loved by Miss Spurling in 1959 can have a positive effect. I wasn’t sure…

10.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mobile Hooking People: Digital Drugs Most of us know that spending too much time on our phones is a bad idea, especially for young minds. We also know the companies on the other end profit from keeping us glued to the screen. The Conversation examines the ways “Smartphones Manipulate our Emotions and Trigger our Reflexes-- No Wonder We’re Addicted.” Yes--try taking a 12 year old's mobile phone and let us know how that goes.

Mobile Hooking People: Digital Drugs

Most of us know that spending too much time on our phones is a bad idea, especially for young minds. We also know the companies on the other end profit from keeping us glued to the screen. The Conversation examines the ways “Smartphones Manipulate our Emotions…

10.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

News Flash: Smart Software Can Be Truly Stupid about News Chatbots Are Wrong About News Do you receive your news via your favorite chatbot? It doesn’t matter which one is your favorite, because most of the time you’re being served misinformation. While the Trump and Biden administrations went crazy about the spreading of fake news, they weren’t entirely wrong. ZDNet reports that if, “Get Your News Drom AI? Watch Out - It's Wrong Almost Half The Time.”

News Flash: Smart Software Can Be Truly Stupid about News

Chatbots Are Wrong About News Do you receive your news via your favorite chatbot? It doesn’t matter which one is your favorite, because most of the time you’re being served misinformation. While the Trump and Biden administrations went…

10.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cyber Security: Do the Children of Shoemakers Have Yeezies or Sandals? Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. When I attended conferences, I liked to stop at the exhibitor booths and listen to the sales pitches. I remember one event held in a truly shabby hotel in Tyson’s Corner. The vendor whose name escapes me explained that his firm’s technology could monitor employee actions, flag suspicious behaviors, and virtually eliminate insider threats.

Cyber Security: Do the Children of Shoemakers Have Yeezies or Sandals?

Another short essay from a real and still-alive dinobaby. If you see an image, we used AI. The dinobaby is not an artist like Grandma Moses. When I attended conferences, I liked to stop at the exhibitor booths and listen to the…

07.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How Frisky Will AI Become? Users Like Frisky… a Lot OpenAI promised to create technology that would benefit humanity, much like Google and other Big tech companies. We know how that has gone. Much to the worry of its team, OpenAI released a TikTok-like app powered by AI. What could go wrong? Well we’re still waiting to see the fallout, but TechCrunch shares that possibilities in the story: “OpenAI Staff Grapples With The Company’s Social Media Push.”

How Frisky Will AI Become? Users Like Frisky… a Lot

OpenAI promised to create technology that would benefit humanity, much like Google and other Big tech companies. We know how that has gone. Much to the worry of its team, OpenAI released a TikTok-like app powered by AI. What could go wrong? Well…

07.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Govini? Another Palantir Technologies? Good news. Another Palantir. Just what we need. CNBC reports, “Govini, a Defense Tech Startup Taking on Palantir, Hits $100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue.” Writer Samantha Subin tells us: “Govini, a defense tech software startup taking on the likes of Palantir, has blown past $100 million in annual recurring revenue, the company announced Friday. ‘We’re growing faster than 100% in a three-year CAGR, and I expect that next year we’ll continue to do the same,’ CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan in an interview.

Govini? Another Palantir Technologies?

Good news. Another Palantir. Just what we need. CNBC reports, “Govini, a Defense Tech Startup Taking on Palantir, Hits $100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue.” Writer Samantha Subin tells us: “Govini, a defense tech software startup taking on the likes of…

07.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Myanmar Direct Action: Online Cyber Crime Meets Kinetics This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. I read “Stragglers from Myanmar Scam Center Raided by Army Cross into Thailand As Buildings Are Blown Up.” In August 2024, France took Pavel Durov at a Paris airport. The direct action worked. Telegram has been wobbling. Myanmar, perhaps learning from the French decision to arrest the Mr.

Myanmar Direct Action: Online Cyber Crime Meets Kinetics

This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. I read “Stragglers from Myanmar Scam Center Raided by Army Cross into Thailand As Buildings Are Blown Up.” In August 2024, France took Pavel Durov at a Paris airport. The…

07.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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