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I bought a shirt from a Facebook ad and as soon as I clicked the BUY button, the website hit me with a popup for a review. I was all slow down dude I haven’t even received the shirt yet — let’s finish the appetizers on our first date before we plan the wedding and pick baby names.
My horrible, no good weekend at the UFC White House fight
America’s vast, sunburnt underbelly of sunglassed men with names that end in -ayden and their vacant-eyed girlfriends descended on DC to, at least in theory, celebrate President Donald Trump’s birthday and watch dudes beat the shit out of each other in a ring sponsored by crypto casinos, the now-unwoke Bud Light, and Saudi real estate, soundtracked by Godsmack and Diddy….
I went into this weekend with a fairly open mind. There is something actually endearing about opening up the White House grounds to the public for a fun event that families can go to. But after 48 hours throwing back some of the most disgusting $30 margaritas I’ve ever had the misfortune of suffering through, my conclusion is that UFC’s Freedom 250 could have only been dreamed up by a president and a fighting league that fucking loathes their own supporters.
Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick and Grant Irving went to the UFC White House event and Broderick’s write-up does not disapoint.
The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks. Why do you need to build a fake replica small town to train against cyberattacks? The answer is only hinted in this article; the village includes versions of computers and electronics you’d find in a small town.
Meta’s $100B house of GPU cards. “Not since Louis XIV converted a hunting lodge into the Palace of Versailles has the world seen a vanity project on the scale of Mark Zuckerberg’s Hyperion data center in Louisiana.” By my colleague Steve Saunders on Fierce Network.
Telco networks were built for humans — AI demands something different. To be ready for the next generation of AI, operators need to improve network observability, simulation and organizational culture. My latest on Fierce Network