🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-29
Vacation edition update - I'm moving all hot.fudge.org content to fudge.org using Buttondown and python
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This week is a shorter vacation edition of 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday. During vacation, I worked out how to mirror all prior hot.fudge.org Buttondown hosted content (~370+ posts) on fudge.org and will be collapsing the archives there soon with a redirect.
Once web archives are migrated, Buttondown will continue to be my trusted newsletter delivery service. In case you are interested, I ended up adding two simple Buttondown and Mastodon related python scripts to handle manual migration and a mistake I made with automation while testing.
GitHub - JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts: Simple python scripts for using the Buttondown API
Simple python scripts for using the Buttondown API - JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts
Last week
Last week I toook a glorious vacation, but NexusTek kept rockin’ without me!
NexusTek Appoints New CFO Joseph O'Hara
/PRNewswire/ -- Leading managed service provider (MSP) NexusTek is excited to announce the appointment of Joseph O'Hara as Chief Financial Officer (CFO)....
Enterprise-Grade NexusTek Cloud Management Solutions Now on AWS Marketplace
/PRNewswire/ -- Organizations ready to accelerate their cloud success can now tap into NexusTek's proven expertise directly through the AWS Marketplace, where...
This week
🪫 ➡️ 🔋 I’m recharged from vacation and looking forward to getting back into the groove again.
Hot Fudge Daily Digest
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-23
Last week
Quantumania!
This week
AI, space satellites, and AI related networking!
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/research-hub/screener/9bda6c7b-fe9e-41ca-9da9-e281a4a9889a
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-24
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
Eventual (developer of Daft) (multimodal AI data processing): $27.5M
Wispr Flow (voice AI dictation): $30M
Abridge (AI clinical notes): $300M
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-25
Each Wednesday I select the most interesting shared link from dozens of Slack communities. This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈
Enjoy the WeatherStar 4000 simulator!
WeatherStar 4000+
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-26
🟦 + ⬛️ One story that caught my eye this week
It seems that Microsoft will be changing the classic (mid 90s era) Blue Sreen of Death (BSOD) to…
[checks notes]
Black Screen of Dealth. (so, still BSOD?)
Techmeme: Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer” (Tom Warren/The Verge)
By Tom Warren / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
RIP BSOD (1993-2025)
Long Live BSOD (2025-????)
(and my commentary on Blacksky… I mean Bluesky)
Long Live #BSOD (1993-2025). And yet, photo memes of digital signage failures displaying post-2025 update will still be considered canonical for the same hashtag. Here's to vision models being extended and tuned to discern authentically classic blue from the new black. https://www.google.com/search?q=bsod&udm=2
— Jay Cuthrell (@cuthrell.com) 2025-06-26T19:57:13.942Z
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-27
🛜 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was continuation of US broadband subsidies.
Techmeme: SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
By Lauren Feiner / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Amid the buzz around AI funding, the success of the Universal Service Fund (USF) and its E-Rate program remains fundamental to American connectivity. Since the late 1990s, USF programs have significantly mitigated the digital divide. It is vital that schools, libraries, and NTCA members continue their effective management of these funds to maintain crucial access for rural communities, students, and low-income families. 🇺🇸
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-28
I select a Friday news dump selection that reaches a peak level of trope, cliché, or bromide on the slowest news day that may be attempting to avoid wider coverage.
Techmeme: Sources: mass production of Microsoft's next AI chip is delayed to 2026 and is expected to underperform Nvidia's Blackwell chip, released in late 2024 (The Information)
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
So, while Microsoft’s AI chips struggle, the past two weeks have seen positive coverage of Google’s AI chips and AWS’s AI chips.
#OpenToWork Weekly
I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.
I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we've grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
Trevor Schulz - 20+ Years in Tech Sales | Loyal, Dedicated, and Ready to Work Today
Brian Booden - Ranked #1 in the UK for Qlik and DataViz Content
Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
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