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The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street

The majority of companies are failing to see any returns on their AI investments, a report finds.

q: "A new report from MIT is casting doubt on the hype around the financial value AI brings to businesses, and may be triggering a small tech stock sell-off on Tuesday. The report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, found that the promised AI gold rush isn’t paying off for most companies yet." The comparison to the Gold Rushes of the US is apt since it was the case that it was not the gold diggers that became rich from the gold mania; it was those who sold tools and supplies to the hopeful golddiggers. Always beware of manias. #econ

Today, the 9th of August, 2025: We mark today the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, of the then Imperial Japan. Approximately 35,000 people were killed in the blast. A previous nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima three days before, on the 5th of August, 1945. The surrender of Imperial Japan was to follow six days later on the 15th of August, 1945, though formalized by the signing of the surrender documents on the deck of the USS Missouri on the 2nd of September, 1945. World War Two claimed over 73 million human lives spanning from 1931~1939-1945. #otd #nagasaki #ww2 #history

It's #monday and YOU CAN WIN IF YOU WANT!! #lol #music

128 GB of storage on your phone seems like a lot, right? WRONG! The latest update to Android 14 makes the OS, reserved storage and support files alone take up 84 Gigabytes! 😳 #mobile #tech

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Lets have a quick look at how the Fediverse is doing:

the federation - a statistics hub

As you can see from the various metrics, not very well. While the total user count seems to be growing, this is mostly an artifact of the fact that statistics gathering is op-in. The active users ratio is like always dropping and atm at an unimpressive ~15%. The comments to postsratio is ~1/20 which underscores that the wider fediverse is generally just the same astwitter was: A lot of liners talking to themselves, with hardly any interaction, and if there is, hardly meaningful or deep. Most interaction that goes on in fediverse are sterile post boosts and "likes". Who can blame them though, when the fediverse has been colonized by the very worst agressive and unpleasant drama-creators from the second twitter exodus in Oct-Nov 2022 that are just looking for an excuse to make you the next target of their ire, with certain to follow report bombings, defederations and the fediblock hammer in case? No sane and normal human wants to be part of such a network. The only part of fediverse that seems to be doing well in terms of genuine, organic user activity are the "dark fedi" and NOSTR. Everything else is languishing. #fediverse #status