🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-29

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.

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts

Last week

Last week I toook a glorious vacation, but NexusTek kept rockin’ without me!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-appoints-new-cfo-joseph-ohara-302492427.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/enterprise-grade-nexustek-cloud-management-solutions-now-on-aws-marketplace-302490091.html

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!

Even more spicy!
Even more spicy!

This week

AI, space satellites, and AI related networking!

Not so spicy…
Not so spicy…

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.

🤪 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!

https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/

🔙 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?)

https://www.techmeme.com/250626/p30#a250626p30

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. www.google.com/search?q=bso...

— Jay Cuthrell (@cuthrell.com) 2025-06-26T19:57:13.211Z

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-27

🛜 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was continuation of US broadband subsidies.

https://www.techmeme.com/250627/p16#a250627p16

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.

https://www.techmeme.com/250627/p11#a250627p11

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:

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