Peter Jones

#OnTheRoadAgain #KneeRoom and #LegRoom

Ukrainian Protesters Remind Us How to Fight for Democracy In the middle of a war, thousands of Ukrainians stood up against corruption and for good government.

#BreakingGovernment #FightingBack
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The Senate Confirms Trump's Criminal Defense Lawyer to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals In a tragic moment for the judiciary, Senate Republicans, instead of waiting to get all of the facts, rushed to confirm Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to a judgeship on the Third Cir...

#BreakingGovernment #CourtsAndJudges
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What's really appalling? Iowa leaders' suppression of free speech on campuses Gov.

#BreakingGovernment
"Protection for me, but not for thee."
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#OnTheRoadAgain #Lounging

When Truth Becomes Treason: The Ouster of Jen Easterly and the Right’s War on Reality A West Point alumnus with decades of national service is canceled for fighting lies.

#BreakingGovernment #WarOnTruth
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The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.

#WorthReading
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#OnTheRoadAgain.
Heading to Madrid via Dulles for #IEEE803dot3 #Ethernet.

#Ethernet is not slowing down any time soon.

#BeforeAndAfter
Skin by dbrand.com

We Are Fumbling the Fight Against AIDS Senate Republicans saved some PEPFAR funding at the last moment—but Trump has already heavily damaged the program.

#BreakingGovernment #ForeignAid
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#ICYMI #HeadsUp
I'll be in Madrid for IEEE 802.3 arriving July 26th/departing August 1st.
I'll have a little free time. Want to meet up? Let me know.

802world.org/plenary/

Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

#BreakingGovernment #HungerInAmerica
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Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.

#MustRead #AI
#Anthropomorphization is ready not a good thing.
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How Trump’s Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans What research tells us about how Trump policies are bad for your health

#BreakingGovernment #WorthReading
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#WorthReading
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Stephen Colbert's Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show's death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

#BreakingGovernment #WorthReading
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America Needs a Bold Constitutional Reconstruction Agenda to Tame Presidential Powers Fundamental flaws in our parliamentary rules, courts, and electoral system made our country vulnerable to an authoritarian takeover

#WorthReading
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The Arc of a Cult: From Birth to Breakdown We like to think we’d see it coming. We like to think we’d never fall for it. But history shows how easily belief can become a cage and how slowly the door closes.

#WorthReading, BUT, it's not a light read.
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#SemiAnalysis - Money is falling from the sky again.
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Encouraging Good Behavior How do I help create the work culture I want?

My latest Substack post is on human behavour. Let me know what you think.
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Cisco Live US 2025 Back to San Diego with 35lb of SWAG and 4 sessions to do.

#CiscoLive #BetterLateThanNever :)
I finally got around to writing a post on Cisco Live US 2025 at petergjones.substack.com/p/cisco-live...
Let me know what you think.

SD-WAN Shake-Up: Arista Closes VeloCloud Deal with Broadcom - Dell'Oro Group Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom, aiming to revive SD-WAN momentum and expand into the growing SASE market opportunity. Learn more

Mauricio Sanchez with #DellOro's opinion on #Arista and #Velocloud #SDWAN.
www.delloro.com/sd-wan-shake...

DoJ Allows HPE’s $14 B Gamble on Juniper - Dell'Oro Group HPE got the green light to buy Juniper. Can it finally challenge Cisco — or will culture clashes and market shifts derail the plan? Explore...

New from Sian Morgan at DellOro re #HPE and #Juniper.

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#CIscoLive #DistinguishedSpeaker #Humbled
I think I should ask for the "morning after the party" slot next event.

But seriously - thanks for listening. It's a privilege to be a Cisco Live Speaker, and this means a lot.

YouTube video by NetEvents International How AI is driving the convergence of networking and security

Dell'Oro Group Fireside Chat: How AI is driving the convergence of networking and security

Hosted by Mauricio Sanchez with Kevin Deierling (SVP Networking NVIDIA) and Renuka Nadkarni (CPO Aryaka).
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YouTube video by Ultra Ethernet Consortium The Ultra Ethernet Consortium Launches Specification 1.0

Want more on #UltraEthernet #UEC1.0 - Watch the video at
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Want more on #UltraEthernet #UEC1.0 - Read the white paper at ultraethernet.org/wp-content/u...

Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) Launches Specification 1.0 Transforming Ethernet for AI and HPC at Scale - Ultra Ethernet Consortium SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — [EMBARGOED UNTIL JUNE 11, 2025] – The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) today announces the release of UEC Specification 1.0, a comprehensive, Ethernet-based communication stack ...

#ICYMI
The #UltraEthernet Consortium released UEC Specification 1.0 on June 11, 2025.
Now we (the #Ethernet industry) have to go from the spec to useful product (pressure is on).
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How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.

More good work from #ProPublica.
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
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