Mike Murphy

an IBM z17 at our test facility in Poughkeepsie

I got to meet the international business machine today

NASA discovers 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth (video) "I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system."

let me chew the space gum
www.space.com/astronomy/as...

welp

it would be extremely on brand for this Chelsea team to lose this game after the amazing performances in the last two games

Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

no
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

Spotify thinks I’m 73

ooof

makes a lot of sense for the app about going out and taking pictures of the world

OpenAI Takes Stake in Thrive Holdings, a Buyer of Services Firms

so Thrive basically just got some of its money back ?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...

pretty wild to be getting served ads for random drugs as i wait for my virtual doctor's visit

every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat

YouTube video by IBM Research LASIK technology was invented this week in history

as you tuck into your turkey later this week, take a moment to remember that without those humble Thanksgiving leftovers, we might never have had LASIK surgery 🦃
youtube.com/shorts/DGUfL...

what do they have on her

So, we’re just moving on from the sedition-execution thing? It's quite tidy how the whole thing worked out, in a way. Democratic members of Congress, recognizing that President Trump would be more than happy to dispatch the military to aid his political object...

P-BUMP: ".. The problem is that we’re so used to this pattern that its effects are muted. This is the president of the United States suggesting that members of the opposition party should be *killed* .."

@pbump.com
www.pbump.net/o/so-were-ju...

yours, maybe

270 Park has the union flag blazoned across it

why is capitalism HQ lit up with the Union Flag ?

insane that this behavior doesn't result in a censure, an inquiry, anything... it's just an average thursday post for this guy

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.

Unreal hearing on this earlier:

www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...

insane

are you going to be at the BK show tonight ?

nice one

The future of AI is in your hands Small models and powerful personal devices are poised to upend how we use AI.

I wrote this story this week and I really like the headline, because it sounds like some grandiose proclamation, but it's actually just a bad pun
research.ibm.com/blog/small-m...

it's a quantum computer, and a nice little stat about having 40,156 subscribers

pretty happy that with nothing other than some good posts, we've managed to grow our weekly newsletter from scratch to 40,000 subscribers 🎉
www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...

trump stares gormlessly into a camera as his team attends to a CEO who fainted ten feet from trump

pretty much sums things up here

Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an ‘all-knowing copilot’ “Hey Google, where am I?”

why does every app now think i want to have a conversation with it
www.theverge.com/news/813588/...

just saw an ad that ended with "kids are safe when a gun is locked in one"

doesn't that technically mean the gun is locked in a kid

zohran is up 50.4% over cuomo's 41.6%

Koch beat Mario Cuomo 50% to 41%

48 years later, losing by almost the same percentage as his dad, in the same race

it's poetry

fart

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

wow, all those AI ads for nothing. who would've thought?

nothing more amazing than finding out @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won at a Taco Bell Cantina after coming out of a Broadway show