I talked with James White, VP of AI for F5, about the state of AI post-Mythos. We talked about how Mythos proves AI is grown up and can do real work.

Mythos, he said, is on the leading edge of a new class of AI models specialized for specific tasks.

My latest on Fierce Network.

I was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason this month.

Cisco is uniting hardware and software under Jeetu Patel as Martin Lund exits — My latest on Fierce Network

The Sheep Detectives is probably the best movie about sheep detectives ever made — “Probably.”

Backblaze data shows that AI ’elephant flows’ are challenging networks. Network data shows AI workloads generate massive, bursty traffic flows that are forcing operators to rapidly scale capacity, according to a Backblaze report. My latest on Fierce Network.

Things you should not think about if you want to enjoy “It Happened One Night,” a classic 1934 romcom starring Clark Gable as Peter Warne, a streetsmart newspaperman, and Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews, an heiress:

  • That time Ellie’s father slaps her in the face.
  • That time Peter spanks her (without permission or a safeword).
  • At least two references to men having to hit women to keep them from getting out of line.
  • No Asian or Black characters, except for one Black man who has two or three lines, which is actually a lot for a Golden Age Hollywood movie.
  • The oligarchy.

I did enjoy the movie, which we watched again Saturday. I enjoyed it a great deal. I’m just sayin.

Watched: It Happened One Night 🍿It still holds up.

Social media and other apps glue people to the screens using features derived from video slot machines in casinos, writes Michaeleen Doucleff at NPR.org.

“People struggling with gambling addiction often cite video slots as their game of choice, studies have found. Some people gamble on these machines for extraordinary periods of time, [NY anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll] found in her ethnographic fieldwork. They can play for 24 hours, even 48 hours straight. Some people even told Schüll that they wear adult diapers to the casino so they don’t have to stop gambling to use the restroom.”

Three of the features are solitude; bottomlessness, or the never-ending feed; speed — new content keeps coming at you fast; and teasing, where the feed never gives you quite what you’re looking for, but it comes close.

Eric Trump bragged about a $24M Pentagon deal his company landed. The Trump family openly flaunts its corruption. They’re proud of it.

Cory Doctorow reviews Ada Palmer’s “Inventing the Renaissance.” That book is high up on my to-be-read list.