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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. “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 <theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026>

  7. “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 <theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026>

  8. “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 <theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026>

  9. “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 <theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026>

  10. “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 <theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026>

  11. Most startups don’t have a formula problem, they have a sourcing problem. Founders overpay for inputs, buy specs users don’t need, and depend on one supplier, quietly eroding margins. The product can be fine, but smarter sourcing, negotiating volume discounts, qualifying alternate vendors, redesigning specs to match demand can unlock much stronger unit economics, higher gross margins, and improved cash flow. #startups #sourcing #uniteconomics #margins #supplychain

  12. 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
    europesays.com/netherlands/243

  13. Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
    --
    xkcd.com/3218/
    --
    “PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it…
    Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!...”
    #PSA #geology #platetectonics #subduction #margins #XKCD #fedservice #publicservice #RingOfFire #weddingring #humor #humour #PacificOcean
    #USGS #XKCD

  14. Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
    --
    xkcd.com/3218/
    --
    “PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it…
    Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!...”
    #PSA #geology #platetectonics #subduction #margins #XKCD #fedservice #publicservice #RingOfFire #weddingring #humor #humour #PacificOcean
    #USGS #XKCD

  15. Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
    --
    xkcd.com/3218/
    --
    “PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it…
    Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!...”
    #PSA #geology #platetectonics #subduction #margins #XKCD #fedservice #publicservice #RingOfFire #weddingring #humor #humour #PacificOcean
    #USGS #XKCD

  16. Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
    --
    xkcd.com/3218/
    --
    “PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it…
    Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!...”
    #PSA #geology #platetectonics #subduction #margins #XKCD #fedservice #publicservice #RingOfFire #weddingring #humor #humour #PacificOcean
    #USGS #XKCD

  17. Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
    --
    xkcd.com/3218/
    --
    “PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it…
    Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!...”

  18. 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.

    #bell #Belonging #Brokenness #castOut #ChristAmongTheRejected #Church #ChurchCritique #crow #ecclesiology #exclusion #Excommunication #faithAndDoubt #Grace #holiness #kingdomOfGod #lamb #Lament #margins #Mercy #outcast #outsiderFaith #propheticPoetry #ProsePoem #radicalHospitality #Redemption #sacredDefiance #sanctuary #spiritualResistance #stainedGlass #symbolicPhotography #threshold #Wilderness #woundedBody
  19. I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.

    But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.

    I read a lot and have mostly been using getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.

    So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?

    #Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost

  20. I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.

    But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.

    I read a lot and have mostly been using getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.

    So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?

    #Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost

  21. I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.

    But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.

    I read a lot and have mostly been using getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.

    So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?

    #Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost

  22. I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.

    But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.

    I read a lot and have mostly been using getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.

    So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?

    #Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost

  23. I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.

    But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.

    I read a lot and have mostly been using getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.

    So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?

    #Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost

  24. European #car manufacturers, not so long ago, bragged that they could reduce volumes more and still make more money from #margins.

    Dudes, no one likes your product, everyone thinks it sucks and it's way too pricy. Been like that for a couple decades.

    So you burnt through your political capital, you still got "reprieve", and now you're deeper in the crap.

    no sympathy.

  25. Tesla ends 2025 struggling with falling demand, aging models, shrinking margins, and delayed AI ambitions like robotaxis and Optimus. Competition especially from Chinese EV makers is surging, and the end of U.S. tax credits hit sales hard. Energy storage is growing, but not enough to offset weakening automotive cash flow.

    #Tesla #EVSlowdown #MarketReality #AIHype #Margins #Competition #TECHi

    Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/tesla-stock-rises-on

  26. 🤡 Let's take the thrilling world of #insurance #risk and transform it into something that's somehow even more sleep-inducing! 💸 Imagine the adrenaline rush of turning "collateral" into "investable assets" — because who doesn't love the exhilarating ride of #underwriting #profit margins? 🚀
    riskvest.io/riskvest-insights/ #investable #assets #margins #financial #thrill #HackerNews #ngated

  27. 🤡 Let's take the thrilling world of #insurance #risk and transform it into something that's somehow even more sleep-inducing! 💸 Imagine the adrenaline rush of turning "collateral" into "investable assets" — because who doesn't love the exhilarating ride of #underwriting #profit margins? 🚀
    riskvest.io/riskvest-insights/ #investable #assets #margins #financial #thrill #HackerNews #ngated

  28. 🤡 Let's take the thrilling world of #insurance #risk and transform it into something that's somehow even more sleep-inducing! 💸 Imagine the adrenaline rush of turning "collateral" into "investable assets" — because who doesn't love the exhilarating ride of #underwriting #profit margins? 🚀
    riskvest.io/riskvest-insights/ #investable #assets #margins #financial #thrill #HackerNews #ngated

  29. 🤡 Let's take the thrilling world of #insurance #risk and transform it into something that's somehow even more sleep-inducing! 💸 Imagine the adrenaline rush of turning "collateral" into "investable assets" — because who doesn't love the exhilarating ride of #underwriting #profit margins? 🚀
    riskvest.io/riskvest-insights/ #investable #assets #margins #financial #thrill #HackerNews #ngated

  30. The most competitive Kansas House races from 2024 are shown in the table below, which is organized by the 2024 margin, with the closest races listed first.

    The bottom two races weren't competitive in 2024, but they were in 2022.

    20/x

    #Kansas #Legislature #Politics #Fundraising #Election #Table #Data #Competitive #Margins

  31. I incorrectly predicted Florida, Texas, Montana, and Nebraska would be decided by less than 5%. Instead, they were decided by more than 5%.

    Nevada and Arizona were decided by less than 5%, which I hadn’t predicted.

    13/x

    #USA #Senate #Election #Predictions #Margins