#margins — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/dk/125142/ Novo Nordisk Leans on Buyback and Implant Deal as Price Wars Threaten Margins #Buyback #Deal #Implant #Leans #Margins #Nordisk #novo #NovoNordisk #price #Threaten’ #wars

https://www.europesays.com/ch/95890/ IIFL bullish on Thermax, CG Power and ABB; sees Dixon’s Vivo JV largely priced in #ABB #BioCNG #CapitalGoods #CGPower #DataCenter #DixonTechnologies #EnergyTransition #Exports #GridEquipment #IIFLInstitutionalEquities #IndustrialAutomation #margins #PowerSector #PowerSystems #switchgear #Thermax #transformers #VivoJV

Let the race to the bottom BEGIN!

Companies that are already losing $$, about to go IPO, and now they want to lower prices - I smell a classic HBR case study/fail article will result!

Reports are circulating that OpenAI and Anthropic are about to enter into a price war for their offerings. What ever happened to building true "value" that customers are ok to pay for? https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/your-chatgpt-bills-could-soon-get-a-drastic-price-cut/ #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #PriceWar #IPO #MArgins #Profit #Valuation #TokenCosts #ChatGPT #ClaudePro #Competition

Let the race to the bottom BEGIN!

Companies that are already losing $$, about to go IPO, and now they want to lower prices - I smell a classic HBR case study/fail article will result!

Reports are circulating that OpenAI and Anthropic are about to enter into a price war for their offerings. What ever happened to building true "value" that customers are ok to pay for? https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/your-chatgpt-bills-could-soon-get-a-drastic-price-cut/ #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #PriceWar #IPO #MArgins #Profit #Valuation #TokenCosts #ChatGPT #ClaudePro #Competition

"America's tech giants' #margins are now everyone else's #opportunity. The trillions that US tech companies extract could be someone else's billions – all they'd have to do is offer the #interoperable goods and services that disenshittify America's tech products. They could sell the tools that let anyone in the world use independent #appstores, or fix their cars and tractors, and put generic ink in their printers. A year ago, no country could afford to allow a company headquartered in its borders to get into this business, lest they be clobbered with tariffs. Today, any country that isn't thinking about this is a #sucker that will end up buying these tools from another country that gets there first."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

"America's tech giants' #margins are now everyone else's #opportunity. The trillions that US tech companies extract could be someone else's billions – all they'd have to do is offer the #interoperable goods and services that disenshittify America's tech products. They could sell the tools that let anyone in the world use independent #appstores, or fix their cars and tractors, and put generic ink in their printers. A year ago, no country could afford to allow a company headquartered in its borders to get into this business, lest they be clobbered with tariffs. Today, any country that isn't thinking about this is a #sucker that will end up buying these tools from another country that gets there first."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

"America's tech giants' #margins are now everyone else's #opportunity. The trillions that US tech companies extract could be someone else's billions – all they'd have to do is offer the #interoperable goods and services that disenshittify America's tech products. They could sell the tools that let anyone in the world use independent #appstores, or fix their cars and tractors, and put generic ink in their printers. A year ago, no country could afford to allow a company headquartered in its borders to get into this business, lest they be clobbered with tariffs. Today, any country that isn't thinking about this is a #sucker that will end up buying these tools from another country that gets there first."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

"America's tech giants' #margins are now everyone else's #opportunity. The trillions that US tech companies extract could be someone else's billions – all they'd have to do is offer the #interoperable goods and services that disenshittify America's tech products. They could sell the tools that let anyone in the world use independent #appstores, or fix their cars and tractors, and put generic ink in their printers. A year ago, no country could afford to allow a company headquartered in its borders to get into this business, lest they be clobbered with tariffs. Today, any country that isn't thinking about this is a #sucker that will end up buying these tools from another country that gets there first."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

"America's tech giants' #margins are now everyone else's #opportunity. The trillions that US tech companies extract could be someone else's billions – all they'd have to do is offer the #interoperable goods and services that disenshittify America's tech products. They could sell the tools that let anyone in the world use independent #appstores, or fix their cars and tractors, and put generic ink in their printers. A year ago, no country could afford to allow a company headquartered in its borders to get into this business, lest they be clobbered with tariffs. Today, any country that isn't thinking about this is a #sucker that will end up buying these tools from another country that gets there first."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

#TheBiggerPicture: famous album covers shown with the worlds outside their margins: https://zorz.it/dmImF

#Audra #AlbumCovers #AlbumArt #famous #Aptitude #margins #MusicAlbumCovers

Krystal and Saagar discuss corporations price gouging during the Iran war. #greedflation #PriceGouging #greed #inflation #surcharges #margins #profits #thieves youtube.com/watch?v=f-d5...

Corporations JUICE PRICES From...

I wrote some thoughts about margins, potentially moving back to Italy, living on the edge(s), togetherness + a few other delirious epiphanies after spending one week with a group of wonderfully insane and astoundingly bright humans in the middle of the Appennine Mountains.

Here is to Dwelling in the Margins

#blog #post #blogPost #margins #margin #edge #livingOnTheEdge #Aerosmith #Italy #Italia #Marche #SOS #LaScuolaOpenSource #XYZ

I wrote some thoughts about margins, potentially moving back to Italy, living on the edge(s), togetherness + a few other delirious epiphanies after spending one week with a group of wonderfully insane and astoundingly bright humans in the middle of the Appennine Mountains.

Here is to Dwelling in the Margins

#blog #post #blogPost #margins #margin #edge #livingOnTheEdge #Aerosmith #Italy #Italia #Marche #SOS #LaScuolaOpenSource #XYZ

I wrote some thoughts about margins, potentially moving back to Italy, living on the edge(s), togetherness + a few other delirious epiphanies after spending one week with a group of wonderfully insane and astoundingly bright humans in the middle of the Appennine Mountains.

Here is to Dwelling in the Margins

#blog #post #blogPost #margins #margin #edge #livingOnTheEdge #Aerosmith #Italy #Italia #Marche #SOS #LaScuolaOpenSource #XYZ

I wrote some thoughts about margins, potentially moving back to Italy, living on the edge(s), togetherness + a few other delirious epiphanies after spending one week with a group of wonderfully insane and astoundingly bright humans in the middle of the Appennine Mountains.

Here is to Dwelling in the Margins

#blog #post #blogPost #margins #margin #edge #livingOnTheEdge #Aerosmith #Italy #Italia #Marche #SOS #LaScuolaOpenSource #XYZ

I wrote some thoughts about margins, potentially moving back to Italy, living on the edge(s), togetherness + a few other delirious epiphanies after spending one week with a group of wonderfully insane and astoundingly bright humans in the middle of the Appennine Mountains.

Here is to Dwelling in the Margins

#blog #post #blogPost #margins #margin #edge #livingOnTheEdge #Aerosmith #Italy #Italia #Marche #SOS #LaScuolaOpenSource #XYZ

https://www.europesays.com/ch/63600/ Strong orders cushion ABB as margin recovery remains key concern | Markets News #ABB #ABBIndia #Automation #capex #Electrification #IndustrialSector #margins #MotionBusiness #OrderInflows #Q1CY26 #RawMaterialCosts

“Bosses betting on #AI to slash #headcount and boost #margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the #strategy isn't working.

New research from #Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying #IntelligentAutomation - and found that around 80 percent had cut #staff as a result.

The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced their workforces were just as likely to see negative outcomes or marginal gains as they were to generate any meaningful return on #investment”

PHB’s need to be schooled in critical thinking. Was there ever the case for Engineer replacement instead of AI as just another tool?

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #ROE <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631>

“Bosses betting on #AI to slash #headcount and boost #margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the #strategy isn't working.

New research from #Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying #IntelligentAutomation - and found that around 80 percent had cut #staff as a result.

The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced their workforces were just as likely to see negative outcomes or marginal gains as they were to generate any meaningful return on #investment”

PHB’s need to be schooled in critical thinking. Was there ever the case for Engineer replacement instead of AI as just another tool?

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #ROE <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631>

“Bosses betting on #AI to slash #headcount and boost #margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the #strategy isn't working.

New research from #Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying #IntelligentAutomation - and found that around 80 percent had cut #staff as a result.

The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced their workforces were just as likely to see negative outcomes or marginal gains as they were to generate any meaningful return on #investment”

PHB’s need to be schooled in critical thinking. Was there ever the case for Engineer replacement instead of AI as just another tool?

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #ROE <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631>

“Bosses betting on #AI to slash #headcount and boost #margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the #strategy isn't working.

New research from #Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying #IntelligentAutomation - and found that around 80 percent had cut #staff as a result.

The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced their workforces were just as likely to see negative outcomes or marginal gains as they were to generate any meaningful return on #investment”

PHB’s need to be schooled in critical thinking. Was there ever the case for Engineer replacement instead of AI as just another tool?

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #ROE <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631>

“Bosses betting on #AI to slash #headcount and boost #margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the #strategy isn't working.

New research from #Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying #IntelligentAutomation - and found that around 80 percent had cut #staff as a result.

The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced their workforces were just as likely to see negative outcomes or marginal gains as they were to generate any meaningful return on #investment”

PHB’s need to be schooled in critical thinking. Was there ever the case for Engineer replacement instead of AI as just another tool?

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #ROE <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631>

ASML’s Q1 Report Pivots on Orders, Margins, and China Strategy

ASML’s Q1 2026 earnings are pivotal. Investors watch revenue, margin, and China rebalancing amid AI demand and new…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #ASML #ASMLs #China #investors #Margins #Orders #Pivots #Report #Strategy
https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/2434/

https://www.europesays.com/dk/59525/ A Litmus Test for Margins Amid Price Cuts #amid #cuts #First #Litmus #Margins #Nordisk’s #novo #NovoNordisk #price #quarter #test

Excommunicate Me

Excommunicate me, then.
Ring the bell if you have one. Draw the line in ash. Nail the notice to the chapel door. Speak my name in the flat voice reserved for weather, death, and disappointment. Tell the saints to avert their eyes. Tell the children not to ask questions. Tell the old women in the kitchen to lower their voices when I pass. I have grown used to doors closing with the gentleness of those who think themselves righteous.

Excommunicate me for loving too widely, for asking where the missing ones went, for lingering too long at the edge of the map where the heretics, addicts, doubters, dissidents, and queer-eyed prophets make their fires at night. Excommunicate me for saying that Christ still wanders there, coat smelling of smoke, hands warm from other people’s wounds. Excommunicate me for suspecting that the kingdom keeps being born in places your committees have not approved.

Cast me out for refusing to confuse your fences with holiness.
Cast me out for noticing how often your purity is purchased with somebody else’s loneliness.
Cast me out for believing that a table is still a table even when the wrong people find bread there first.

I know how this works. First comes the sorrowful meeting. Then the careful language. Then the phrases dressed in prayer like soldiers dressed in hymnals. We say discernment when we mean fear. We say order when we mean control. We say peace when we mean silence from those already bruised. We say love while measuring who may enter it. We say truth with our arms folded.

Excommunicate me because I cannot keep pretending that the wound in the Body is healed by cutting off another limb.

I have seen too much of the outside to fear it now. I have seen the banished making soup for one another. I have seen the condemned share coats in winter. I have seen those denied the sacraments become sacraments for each other: bread in famine, oil in sickness, a hand on the shoulder in the long vestibule of grief. I have heard better theology whispered on back steps than shouted from polished pulpits. I have watched the Spirit climb out the stained-glass window and go where she is not expected.

Excommunicate me, and I will go down among the unclaimed.
I will kneel beside the ones your footnotes could not save.
I will keep company with the mothers whose prayers embarrassed you, the children whose questions outgrew your answers, the men who wept when they were told to be strong, the women who spoke and were called dangerous, the wanderers who could not make your narrow gate into a home.

And if you shut me out from your sanctuary, I will make a sanctuary of the road.
If you deny me your blessing, I will learn the blessing of crows at morning, of rain on rusted tin, of strangers who still know how to share fire.
If you call me lost, I will answer that some of us were never meant to be found by empires.

Do not threaten me with the outer dark.
I have met God there.

Not the tidy god of minutes and motions, not the well-behaved deity who always sides with the CEO, but the God who haunts the threshold, who leaves the ninety-nine to go where the crying is, who touches the unclean and is not diminished, who slips through locked doors and still carries wounds, who keeps raising what the pious have buried.

Excommunicate me for this: I no longer believe belonging is yours to ration.
I no longer believe grace requires your seal.
I no longer believe heaven trembles when your vote is taken.
The veil was torn without your permission, and it has never been properly mended.

So do it.
Write me out.
Strike my name from the roll.
Erase me from the minutes.
Tell yourselves the garden is safer now that one more wild thing has been removed.

But listen: roots work in secret. Seeds pass through the beaks of birds and are planted in their shit. Wind ignores decrees. What you cast out does not always die. Sometimes it takes hold beyond the wall and flowers in the rubble, and those passing by say, I did not know beauty could grow here.

Excommunicate me, then.
I will go with Christ among the cast out.
I will go where the lepers still ring their bells, where the scapegoats stagger into the wilderness, where the rejected stone waits in the dust.
And when at last you come looking for God, breathless with your censures, your keys jangling at your side, do not be surprised to find us already inside the feast, the doors flung wide, the music loud, the wounded laughing, and every empty place at the table set for one more.

Key printing terms: #bleed #bleeds #margins #trimming

Here are 538’s predicted margins in the seven swing states.

9/x

#Politics #Forecast #Margins #Game #Of #Inches

Here are 538’s predicted margins in the seven swing states.

9/x

#Politics #Forecast #Margins #Game #Of #Inches

I got #S. by #DougDorst and #JJAbrams for Christmas, and have been attempting to read it ever since. I'm only on pg 39, and have had to reread already as I try to figure out my "plan of attack" so I actually get what's going on. The main text is a story called #ShipOfTheseus by fictitious author #VMStraka and tells the story of a man with amnesia who gets shanghaied (is that still an acceptable term for it? Probably not. I'm gonna have to look into that later, but if someone else corrects me in the comments before I make an edit, here's a pre-emptive THANK YOU!) and finds himself part of a mysterious crew where he is apparently known as "S".

In the #margins is a conversation between two fictitious college students named Jen and Eric. They've so far never met, but converse via the margins of this book as well as random bits of paper they tuck between the pages. Most of their conversation revolves around solving the mystery of who VM Straka really is, but also some flirting and some comments on their own lives.

I'm having a bit of a hard time keeping both stories straight in my mind, so I think my plan is to read each chapter with the corresponding comments and bits of paper, then going back and rereading the chapter with JUST the text of Ship of Theseus. My brain is currently doing a GRAND job of keeping Eric and Jen's part of the story straight, so it's just the main text I need to revisit

Has anyone in the #bookstodon #fediverse read this book yet? Any tips on how best to proceed? This #book is definitely an amazing experience, it's just a lot to take in at once!

#AmReading @bookstodon #marginalia

I got #S. by #DougDorst and #JJAbrams for Christmas, and have been attempting to read it ever since. I'm only on pg 39, and have had to reread already as I try to figure out my "plan of attack" so I actually get what's going on. The main text is a story called #ShipOfTheseus by fictitious author #VMStraka and tells the story of a man with amnesia who gets shanghaied (is that still an acceptable term for it? Probably not. I'm gonna have to look into that later, but if someone else corrects me in the comments before I make an edit, here's a pre-emptive THANK YOU!) and finds himself part of a mysterious crew where he is apparently known as "S".

In the #margins is a conversation between two fictitious college students named Jen and Eric. They've so far never met, but converse via the margins of this book as well as random bits of paper they tuck between the pages. Most of their conversation revolves around solving the mystery of who VM Straka really is, but also some flirting and some comments on their own lives.

I'm having a bit of a hard time keeping both stories straight in my mind, so I think my plan is to read each chapter with the corresponding comments and bits of paper, then going back and rereading the chapter with JUST the text of Ship of Theseus. My brain is currently doing a GRAND job of keeping Eric and Jen's part of the story straight, so it's just the main text I need to revisit

Has anyone in the #bookstodon #fediverse read this book yet? Any tips on how best to proceed? This #book is definitely an amazing experience, it's just a lot to take in at once!

#AmReading @bookstodon #marginalia