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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:01:02 JST Paul Cantrell

   RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/116807460725864716

   The whole presentation is worth the click-through:

   1. Honestly, the metaphorically mangled goose slides in the post make more sense than a lot of the rest of the presentation — which is •really• saying something.

   2. That deck is a magnificent example of why I don't like sharing slides as a means of sharing the content of a talk.

   3. If we •do• attempt to infer the content from the presentation's sloptastic slides alone, it’s a remarkable window into the investor thinking that’s driving the AI bubble: “Exponential money is hiding just around the corner! Get in on the ground floor! Buy now! Buy now and rocket to infinity and beyond!!”

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:06:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Investors with AI FOMO about other investors with AI FOMO about CEOs with AI FOMO about other AI CEOs with AI FOMO they contracted from their investors

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:08:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈

     @dtauvdiodr
     Oh, I’ve heard him give it in person. But even his example “chartjunk” back when I heard it could scarcely have imagined the generative eye-bleed glory of these slides

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     studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 (dtauvdiodr@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:08:59 JST studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈

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     @inthehands Have you ever read an Edward Tufte takedown of PowerPoint? It's marvelous.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:21:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Re this post:

     Years ago, the Minnesota Orchestra musicians went on strike over a semi-secretive plan from the board to remake the orchestra (one of the best in the world) by slashing player salaries, gutting creative direction, and turning them into a sort of pop-lite-classical easy listening machine of some kind — details very fuzzy, rationale even fuzzier.

     During the dispute, a slide deck of their shadowy plan leaked. It was somewhat garbled and confusing, and missing all the key details and analysis that everyone was dying for. “What are you hiding??” the public cried, “Show us the full plan!!” “What are you talking about? We did!” “No, not just the presentation! The actual plan!”

     A confused period followed during which it became clear that the slide deck •was• the full plan.

     This little gaggle of the Brightest Minds of Business moonlighting on a nonprofit board thought that gutting a local institution required so little thought that when people saw the full analysis, they assumed the board must be hiding something.

     https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116808542563847455

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:24:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Cheeseness

     @Cheeseness

     And we bring brain computer to life!

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     Cheeseness (cheeseness@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:24:34 JST Cheeseness

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     @inthehands Remember when we learned to coexist with intelligent robots 16 years ago? Those were such young, innocent days

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     Cheeseness (cheeseness@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:24:42 JST Cheeseness

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     @inthehands Goose value!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:24:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Cheeseness

     @Cheeseness

     In every goose, there is a factory!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:32:21 JST Paul Cantrell

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     (I am pleased to report, for those who don't know the story, that the MN Orch musician's union absolutely steamrolled that terrible board. Management locked them out for 15 months, during which time they staged multiple self-produced concerts without any help from the management they supposedly needed to function. The conductor who'd rocketed them to international fame resigned, and began conducting the locked-out orchestra's sold-out concerts. Eventually the board caved, tails between their legs. Many of them left, the tool of an orch president resigned, what remained of the board instated the musicians' preferred candidate as the new president, and the board got absolutely none of their precious Powerpoint plan except for a glammy new lobby. It was a rout. The orchestra is now doing better than ever — and the supposed imminent budget implosion that the old board has been raising hell about suddenly vanished along with them.)

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:33:48 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     @inthehands Oh come on. They're describing labor.

     Like, I know the whole premise is that AI turns capital into more capital without passing go and paying labor. And if that fails, it at least makes all labor rent the ability to do labor from capital. And if THAT fails, it at least shapes and filters all human communication.

     But still. They're describing labor. The value factory is labor.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:34:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Alathea

     @Poljack

     Not dissimilar! Although in the DNC case I suspect that was the result of the powers that be •prohibiting• substantive analysis, whereas with the MN Orch it was the result of those powers not even knowing what a proper analysis would look like.

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     Alathea (poljack@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:34:07 JST Alathea

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     @inthehands Same thing happened with the DNC Autopsy report.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:37:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     @jenniferplusplus

     But but Jennifer, see, if you stuff all the labor inside a goose, and then you own the goose, then you can own all the labor, so now you are Gooselord of the Golden Eggs! Why wouldn't you want that?!

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:44:19 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     @inthehands how are we being ruled by these people

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:47:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     @jenniferplusplus it's because the built the brain computer, it's in the slides

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 12:50:54 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     @jenniferplusplus
     excuse me, because they brought the brain computer •to life•

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 13:35:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • sarcoptus scabium

     @thegarbagebird

     All this time, the ??? was a goose but only Softbank knew

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     sarcoptus scabium (thegarbagebird@theblower.au)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 13:35:08 JST sarcoptus scabium

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     @inthehands sometimes the plan really is step one, step two, ????, profit.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 23:36:05 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • marcink

     @marcink
     Ah, yes, exponential curves, which are famously parabolic

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     marcink (marcink@stolat.town)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 23:36:07 JST marcink

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     @inthehands To be fair, this is the signal they consistently get out of the industry (chart from a DORA report).

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 23:44:34 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Julian Oliver
     • Cheeseness

     @energisch_ @Cheeseness @JulianOliver

     Paywalled, but interesting headline

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     Mensch, Marina (energisch_@troet.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 23:44:36 JST Mensch, Marina

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     • Cheeseness

     RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116804873809268211

     @inthehands @Cheeseness for more information, outlook and an interesting read, also this article "bovine manure" : https://troet.cafe/@JulianOliver@mastodon.social/116804873989036428

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     Mensch, Marina (energisch_@troet.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 23:44:38 JST Mensch, Marina

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     • Cheeseness

     @inthehands @Cheeseness Btw, just read an article, that looks on the losses and failure using A.I. tools in production. Looks like those brain factories produce empty eggs 😲

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     Mensch, Marina (energisch_@troet.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2026 23:44:39 JST Mensch, Marina

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     • Cheeseness

     @inthehands @Cheeseness It does explain a lot about the mess we're actually in. Unfortunately we chose an economic system, where such thinking sets the goals. Capitalism. It doesn't fit reality. And throws people and nature under the bus.

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     Hovav Shacham (hovav@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 03:27:17 JST Hovav Shacham

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     @inthehands Wow, you're not exaggerating!

     https://songofthelarkblog.com/2013/09/05/unveiling-the-minnesota-orchestras-full-strategic-plan/

     PS. It bears repeating that Emily Hogstad is a national treasure.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 03:27:26 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Hovav Shacham

     @hovav

     Correct and correct!

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     Roy Ridin' With Biden #BLM 🇺🇸 (rpardee@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 05:38:42 JST Roy Ridin' With Biden #BLM 🇺🇸

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     @inthehands Puts me in mind of the Dan Ariely quote about Big Data:

     "Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it."

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 10:36:49 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Roy Ridin' With Biden #BLM 🇺🇸

     @rpardee

     Great minds: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116488382767603080