weird al is a national treasure. it’s insane that in his decades-long career, no one has come remotely close to matching him

maybe he means “ai companies will fail” as not so much as a prediction, but just a given. kind of like “one day, you must die” isn’t really a “prediction,” that’s just the way it is

they only have to push it at the corporate senior executive level. people who notoriously don’t know dick about tech or operating systems or AI–only what one platform makes the most promises about “productivity” and “this can replace x% of your peasant cubicle drones that are costing you money”

once your job adopts MS and copilot, forcing everyone to use it, MS can then turn around and say “our shit is being used by millions!!”

i think i’ve had at least 10 or 15 external hdds since the early 2000s and have only had one die on me before i retired it to upgrade to a larger capacity