Holy shit.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees … while pouring money into artificial intelligence.
If I have that right, the potential redundancies amount to nearly 27% of Redmond’s current headcount. I want to say something, but I find myself struck dumb.
The bond market really is terrifying, isn’t it?
Source: Microsoft: 60,000 staff offered voluntary exit packages
Here’s General Yeager discussing his ejection from the Lockheed NF-104A rocket-assisted Starfighter.
It’s a crazy story!
This embed should take you straight to the free fall.
I just wanted to do a PSA
Everyone should know their egress system.
Godspeed, airmen.
Watching this again, for the umpteenth time.
Just noticed the video arcade in the introduction is actually on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley (Woodland Hills, I think).
We had a good time out there back in the day. 2400 baud modems, CRC, No handshake.
Anyway, just popping in. Later.
I’m dog-sitting one of these right now.
It’s a breed called Bichon Frisé, if I have that right.
They’re some kind of Belgian poodle from the Canary Islands. Oh, and they’re hypoallergenic.
When I first saw one, I thought of this guy:
It turns out they’re actually of Spanish decent. It seems the breed goes back to the 1500s.
This lady gets it.
As you can see, they’re cute little fuckers.
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