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Jukka Niiranen

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Power Platform Advisor. Former 11x #Microsoft MVP. #Lowcode 4 life. Read my perspectives on #PowerPlatform at https://perspectives.plus/

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎬 #PROMPTSPOTTING
👇 The unofficial movie poster:

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.

Movie poster on the street, in the style of Trainspotting, with Mark Renton laughing hysterically at you.

PROMPTSPOTTING

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.
Choose hidden paywalls.
Choose cloud lag.
Choose hallucinated “facts.”
Choose code that won’t compile.
Choose transcripts no one reads.
Choose privacy swapped for “productivity.”
Choose your carefully crafted prompt eaten away as Copilot stops responding.
Choose dashboards that have never been opened.
Choose AI glitter over real fixes.
Choose agents over apps.
Choose hearing “we should use AI for this” when no one in the room knows what the f*** that even means.
Choose watching a marketing demo with perfectly groomed prompts that never work in real life.
Choose rotting away at the office as Copilot thanks you for your service via Teams chat before disabling your user account.

Choose your future.
Choose Copilot.

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 4h

Look at the bright side: if the AI bubble pops before Xmas, there's gonna be HUGE deals for datacenter scale GPUs.🎅

A sleek, Nvidia-style promotional poster parody showing an H100 Tensor Core GPU glowing inside a high-end PC tower on a desk decorated with Christmas lights. The image features Nvidia’s signature black and green color scheme with bold text reading “HOLIDAY GPU CLEARANCE – NOW 90% OFF!” and smaller text “Because the AI bubble finally popped.” A fake price tag says “Was €30,000 → Now €2,999.” The overall look mimics a real Nvidia ad — polished, modern, and serious — but the festive details and absurd discount reveal it as satire.

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 4h

Ei se turhaa ole, eikä varmasti mitenkään vielä "valmis" tuotemielessä. Siltikin, miten tässä kohtaa 3v ChatGPT:n jälkeen ei löydy maailmalta ensimmäistäkään merkittävää AI-palvelua, joka tuottaisi enemmän tuloja kuin kuluja? Liiketoiminnan ei pitäisi olla ihan pelkkää VC-rahan polttamista.

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

Not all of my newsletter issues spark 300+ comments on social media. But my last week's take on Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure did.

Here's some further thoughts on both what these reactions say and what MS might do next with #Copilot (read: Agents):
www.perspectives.plus/p/selling-mi...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.

The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 13h

🧵 1/11
Tuntuu, että yhteiskunnan ytimessä jokin on repeämässä.
Kolme hyvin erilaista tekstiä näyttää sen eri kulmista:
Vapaavuoren ideologinen hätähuuto, Brunilan ja Rossin analyysi koulutuksesta populismin näyttämönä ja Kari Ylikylän kysymys: mitä tapahtuu, kun työ katoaa?

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 6h

Jep, eli lapiokauppiaille. Miten se bisnes tulee jatkumaan jos luvattua kultaa ei alakaan löytyä?🤨

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 6h

Onko siitä tullut vielä kannattavaa bisnestä kenellekään muulle kuin Nvidialle?

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room and says `` anybody ? ''

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room and says `` anybody ? ''

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 12h

Why did I have #Windows365 Cloud PC to begin with? Because an #MSpartner benefits package I pay for includes one "free" Windows 365 Enterprise, 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB Storage VM.

At least now I know not run anything important on it, or invest time in configuring the Cloud PC.

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 12h

Windows 365 seems to deliver a "Cloud PC" experience all too well. My standard MS image VM got stuck and couldn't be restored. Now, I'm torching it and starting from scratch.

Just like owning a PC, except you pay a monthly fee.

Windows 365 Cloud PC: "Disconnected - we couldn't connect because your VM failed to start"

Intune admin center: "Restore: failed"

Flames burning the Cloud PC instance that is now history as I had to reprovision the whole damn thing.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d

stop thinking right now

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 2d

Uh... what? And to think all these years I defended the guy to friends and colleagues who thought he was a blowhard empty suit who didn't really believe any of the pro-school pro-community politics he was spouting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

Enkä tarkoita, että tämä oikeuttaisi mielistelyn. Vaan sitä, että oli Stubb mitä mieltä tahansa arvoistansa, kun ollaan töissä Suomen nimissä, niin Stubbkin joutuu nielemään paljon. Vaikkei yläpuolella periaatteessa olekaan ketään.

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

Kyllä, se on sitä arkipäivän raadollisuutta. Presidenttitasolla ei ole tarvetta niinkään kalastaa irtopisteitä puolueelle ja vaaleihin. Mutta sielläkään et pääse pakoon sitä, että pienellä Venäjän naapurimaalla on lopulta aika huono käsi pelata pokeria gloaableilla areenoilla.

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AmyF67 @amyf67.bsky.social · 2d

Perjantaita ja viikonloppua kaikille 🍀

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

Tavallaan Stubb tekee juuri sitä työtä, joka presidentille kuuluu. Mutta niin teki myös Kekkonen, ja sitäkin ajanjaksoa katsotaan nyt eri silmin.

Tällaista arvoristiriitaa en ole suomalaisena joutunut vielä aiemmin itse kokemaan. Nyt ymmärtää ikävän paljon paremmin menneisyyttämme.

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

I am immedately taken back to the year 2010 when seeing this Microsoft Company Store experience with Metro UI today.😵‍💫

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

Look at the bright side of applying GenAI in business processes: you now have a realistic chance of being the lucky winner of 1600 free Apple TV remotes.

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

LinkedIn post: "We received 1600 Apple TV remotes this morning and nobody ordered them, nobody paid for them, and Apple says they’re ours now."

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Sami Laiho @samilaiho.com · 2d

Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door
www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/k...

Kubernetes crash takes down Azure Portal and Microsoft Entra

: This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault

www.theregister.com

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Its rider’s name was Death... @kittyonunicorn.bsky.social · 2d

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

What Linus Torvalds said back in 2012, @edzitron.com is using more words and numbers to express in 2025.

Ed Zitron in 2025:

"NVIDIA’s deal with Elon Musk also fills me full of dread, as it suggests that NVIDIA has reached the point where its customers are running out of cash, resorting to Enron-adjacent Special Purpose Vehicles and dodgy “rental arrangements” where NVIDIA effectively funds a company to buy its own stuff. Every one of these deals — such as OpenAI’s supposed plan to “lease” GPUs from NVIDIA — is a screaming, flashing alarm that there is simply not enough cash left in the actual hands of actual companies to support NVIDIA’s growth. "

Linus Torvalds in 2012:

"NVIDIA has been the single worst company we’ve ever dealt with. So NVIDIA, f**k you!"

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 2d

Just one example of Microsoft employee's noble attempt to defend the honor of M365 #Copilot with... Well, absolutely no arguments.

"You are misleading by not using sales numbers!"
"Okay, show them to me."
"You're missing the point!"
"Numbers or GTFO."
"Talk to Microsoft PR."

Oh MSFT...😏

LinkedIn comments to my piece on Microsoft 365 Copilot commercial failure.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3d

(don’t know who made this)

A painting of the building of the pyramids

How tf did they build this without Teams calls, pitch decks, or Al powered workflow optimization programs

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