Tadas Karkalas @ktadas

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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

DEVELOPING: 🚨 President-Elect Donald Trump Outlines Plan to “Shatter” Censorship Regime, Restore Free Speech 🚨 President-Elect Donald Trump has released a comprehensive strategy to dismantle what he calls the "left-wing censorship regime," promising swift action on his first day in office. He warned that without free speech, America is not truly free, saying, “If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free country.” The five-point plan includes: An executive order to prevent federal agencies from collaborating on speech suppression with private companies. Executive orders are not long term solutions, but this could be a start to gain the momentum needed for legislation. DOJ investigations into censorship practices, with possible charges for violating civil rights and election laws. Reforming Section 230 protections to hold tech giants accountable for biased content moderation. Penalties for universities found engaging in censorship, including cuts to federal funding. This point is interesting because Trump also planned to crack down on antisemitism on day one by noon. A "Digital Bill of Rights" to safeguard Americans’ online freedoms. Trump’s strong stance against censorship has ignited debate over the role of government in regulating tech platforms. Could this move reshape free speech in the digital age? Should this be the priority?

“Patriots” for patriots Do you know how to visualize a dream? We must tell about it to the world and give it life! This is exactly what happened with the Patriots, even before the large-scale war, even before my appointment to the most important position of my life at the most important time of my life. This is exactly what happened during my visit to the United States in August 2021, while I was serving as the DPM on the Re-Integration of the Temporary Occupied Territories. That's when I first told our partners, "We need the Patriots." Our country's liberty and independence are under threat. And what did we hear? It's impossible! But the impossible is possible. Today, our beautiful Ukrainian sky becomes more secure because Patriot air defense systems have arrived in Ukraine. Our air defenders have mastered them as fast as they could. And our partners have kept their word. 🇺🇦🤝🇺🇲🇩🇪🇳🇱 This is the result of hard work led by our President @ZelenskyyUA Thank you to my colleagues @SecDef Boris Pistorius @BMVg_Bundeswehr @DefensieMin, and the American, German, Dutch people. We will win together. 📷 @BMVg_Bundeswehr

Zelensky knocks it out the park every time. I’m not a Russian conscript but I feel I should surrender to the Ukrainian Army.

#Artemis I update: Launch is currently in an unplanned hold as the team works on an issue with engine number 3 on the @NASA_SLS core stage. Operations commentary continues at nasa.gov/live x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Little girl singing "Let it go" in a shelter #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack

Гаага сообщила, что 7 марта начинаются слушания по расследованию военных преступлений, совершенных Россией.

Palmer Report @PalmerReport

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The Hague says it's starting war crimes hearings against Russia on March 7th.

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@MaxAMaxim @McFaul @Rogozin open your eyes

@Rogozin think again who are you working for and where this will lead you. Still there is time to wake up.

Димон, ты почему удалил этот твит? Не хочешь, чтобы все увидели, какой ты в сущности ребёнок?

All Ukrainian, you are great heroes! Today you are protecting the whole world! I’m Ukrainian and i’m proud of that! I’m proud of all our people 🇺🇦 #FightLikeUkrainian #StandWithUkraine

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Putin just put Kafka & Orwell to shame: no limits to dictator's imagination, no lows too low, no lies too blatant, no red lines too red to cross. What we witnessed tonight might seem surreal for democratic world. But the way we respond will define us for the generations to come.

This is a great story but to me It's even more impressive when you consider that in the same year he auctioned his 3 person start up off for $44M, @geoffreyhinton also openly taught the topic and made the lectures available for free online. Huge respect! wired.com/story/secret-a…

An open horizon, with so much to explore. Can’t wait to get going. #CountdownToMars