The Art of Clickbait and Public Narratives

This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs.

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Runner-up Titles

• Buy once, cry once
• Annual Recurring Regrets
• The Bathtub Problem
• Bathtime is My Time
• Your Daily Stoic
• No one cares about open source cold brew
• Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead.
• The Chrome ecoverse.

Rundown

• The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed
• OpenAI starts building out its app team
• OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
• Reorganizations
  • Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
  • No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
  • Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset
• New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths
• Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules

Relevant to your Interests

• Opinion | A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary
• Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
• Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?
• Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down
• How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
• Metal³ - Metal Kubed
• How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
• AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
• Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
• Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
• Tanzu having nothing to do with Kubernetes anymore
• There is no Tanzu Kubenetes, only VKS.
• Nvidia stock turns positive in premarket trading as investors buy dip following earnings report
• MongoDB Soars: Analyzing the Recent Surge
• NVIDIA Q2 Profit Soars 59% as Blackwell AI Surge Fuels Record Revenue
• Nvidia, $NVDA, has reported that a single customer accounted for 23% of its total quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, per Bloomberg

Nonsense

• The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week

Conferences

• VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: GFiber
• Matt: Zen web browser
• Coté:
  • Apple-brand woven USB cables (1 meter and 2 meter).
  • Tenshi Sushi Duivendrecht

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