Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due

Microsoft will pay you tomorrow for a token today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260319-companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due - podcast

time: 8 min 01 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/19/companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due/ - blog post

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting such store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy.
(Equal Rites)

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot

‘Do you want me to get a doctor?’
‘Are you mad? We want him to live!’ (Feet of Clay)

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot

They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

Discworld scientists at work
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Dead Can Dance have released their complete catalogue on Bandcamp

https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com/music

FWhen Nobby had gone Vimes reached behind the desk and picked up a faded copy of Twurp’s Peerage or, as he personally thought of it, the guide to the criminal classes. You wouldn’t find slum dwellers in these pages, but you would find their landlords. And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions. (Feet of Clay)

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot

Kai Lentit: Interview with a sweating AI CEO (2026)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnYaExb5JvM

Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse

the Metaverse just didn’t have legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr - podcast

time: 6 min 29 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/18/facebook-shutting-down-its-horizon-worlds-vr-metaverse/ - blog post