#margins — Public Fediverse posts

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>

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

Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
--
https://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

Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
--
https://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

Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
--
https://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

Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
--
https://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

Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
--
https://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

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.

As I wait for my next book to wend and wind through the printing bureaucracy, I share some insights for independent publishers.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/14/new-book-pricing/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#publishing #printing #books #writing #author #business #pricing #choices #decisions #philosophy #psychology #inventory #logistics #margins #blog #podcast

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 https://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. https://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

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.

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 :- https://www.techi.com/tesla-stock-rises-on-market-sentiment/

Operating Margins

https://fi-le.net/margin/

#HackerNews #Operating #Margins #finance #business #analysis #economy #profitability

🤡 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? 🚀
https://riskvest.io/riskvest-insights/transforming-insurance-risk #investable #assets #margins #financial #thrill #HackerNews #ngated

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

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

Prefer Gaps to Margins, by @kyleshevl.in:

https://kyleshevlin.com/prefer-gaps-to-margins/

#css #margins

ESG Economist – Pressure on energy-intensive industry still high https://www.byteseu.com/1033602/ #CleanIndustrialDeal #CO2Levy #Competition #CompetitivePosition #deindustrialisation #electricity #Energy #EnergyCosts #EnergyIntensiveIndustry #EnergyTax #EnvironmentalTax #EuropeanCommission #Gas #Manufacturing #MarginPressure #margins #ReliefPackage #Sustainability

Easier Layout With “margin-trim”, by @jensimmons (@webkit):

https://webkit.org/blog/16854/margin-trim/

#css #margins #spacing #safari #apple #browsers

#Development #Approaches
Easier layout with CSS ‘margin-trim’ · Safari’s modern solution to an ancient layout problem https://ilo.im/163m8y

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#ModernCSS #Layout #Margins #Safari #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

#SamirSeksaria #CFO #TCS
#GenAI will aid #margins despite cannibalisation of productivity gains
The cost reduction and the volume it could bring in would help insulate profit margins from impact of any cut in deal values.

🚀💸 DeepSeek: redefining "solopreneur" as the art of making it sound like building a file system in your mom's basement is a groundbreaking business model. 🤔 They brag about a 500% #profit margin, but hey, when you’re playing with imaginary numbers, anything’s possible! 🙄
https://manidoraisamy.com/developer-forever/post/the-era-of-solopreneurs-is-here.anc-52867368-2029-4dc5-a7da-ece853a648b5.html #DeepSeek #solopreneur #margins #entrepreneurship #techhumor #businessmodel #HackerNews #ngated

#DonaldTrump won the #2024Election vote with one of the smallest #vote #margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project. https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/12/05/trump-wins-news-deserts-in-landslide/#news #journalism #democracy #GOP #MAGA #republican #voting #Elections2024 #news

A more hopeful article than the previous ones about razor-thin margins.

#Trump #liar #fascist #nazi #felon #rapist #campaign #2024 #politics #political #humour #humor #cartoon #cynical #threats #destruction #women #voting #voters #margins

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/what-polls-mean-so-far-trump-harris-election-voters

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

9/x

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

#Polish #ForeignMinistry suggests #Hungary #leave #EU, #NATO after #VicktorOrban's #controversial #statements.

"We do not do business with #Russia, unlike #PrimeMinister Orban, who is on the #margins of #international #society, in the #EU and #NATO," Bartoszewski said. #Budapest is often seen a key #ally of #Russia in the #EU.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Poland #Hungary #Russia #Nato

https://kyivindependent.com/polish-foreign-ministry-suggests-hungary-leave-eu-nato-after-orbans-controversial-statements/

[IMHO] The other #PrideMarch in the #Philippines.

We need to bring #Pride to the #margins, make them more #accessible to #rural #LGBTQI #members and our #allies

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Philippines #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture
https://www.rappler.com/voices/imho/imho-the-other-pride-march-lgbtqi/

#Stata question about #margins. Cross-posted at https://www.statalist.org/forums/forum/general-stata-discussion/general/1752205-margins-after-melogit-statistically-different-but-point-estimate-of-one-margin-inside-confidence-interval-of-another

As described at the above link, I am estimating `margins` (predicted probabilities) of a #multilevel #logistic regression. I am finding that in some cases the point estimate of one group is inside the confidence interval of the other group, but a test nonetheless indicates a statistically significant difference between the two groups. Any insights on this seeming paradox would be appreciated.

the perfect formula for a opnsense firewall box - 4 cores, 16gb ram, ssd and 2.5gb nics in sff case - total diy cost: 130, sell it for 150-200, profit, make another one..it may not be solid moneymaker - to go to upscale higher mkt tier add 10gbe nic dual port and more ram - add in cheap 2.5 switch with dual 10g and pihole vm or sbc/soc for total package, pkt cap ids/ips for smb clients (adds 300). documentation is a big plus - that is the intangible #margins

If #technology is doing all the lifting of #net #margins for the entire index, what happens when that margin expansion eventually declines?

#cpi #background #margins #2024-01 _ This note introduces 3 recently published Substack writeups that add background (and new charts) to my general thoughts on CPI inflation with reference to the wholesale and retail margins as well as unit labour costs,
Retail Service Price Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/pauljacobson/p/retail-service-price-indexes
Wholesale Service Price Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/pauljacobson/p/wholesale-service-price-indexes
Trade Prices and Unit Labour Costs Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/pauljacobson/p/thoughts-on-unit-labour-costs-trade

While Republicans are blaming Democrats for creating #inflation by pumping too much money into the economy through #social #welfare programs, The Wall Street Journal yesterday embraced the argument that a key factor in inflation has been #price #gouging by corporations.

A #WSJ piece by #Paul #Hannon noted that businesses are boosting their #profit #margins, confident that #consumers will blame supply chain issues and higher energy prices rather than the companies #padding their #profits.

On a related issue, Magda Mostafa was interviewed for a recent #ScientificAmerican article on #OpenPlan #office design:

“You #design better for the #center when you learn from the #margins,” says Magda Mostafa of the American University in Cairo, an architect who focuses on design for #autism.

Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fixing-the-hated-open-design-office/