🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-12-07

Hot Fudge Daily digest for the week of 12-01-2025 to 12-06-2025.

Last Week

This Week

This week is is Gartner IT IOCS in Las Vegas.

76 weeks and the future of Hot Fudge Daily

Also, as a side note, today marks 76 weeks of the Hot Fudge Daily format. Next week, I’ll be starting a brand new format. I’m excited to flip the script a bit. Thank you for subscribing and reading!

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📈 Markets Monday for 2025-12-01

My screener was particularly selective today with just two “picks and shovels” purveyors of the AI compute trade, showing that the market is still hungry for specialized GPU cloud providers aka Neocloud providers.

SymbolCompany Name% Change
NBISNebius Group NV+5.27%
CRWVCoreWeave Inc+5.11%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-12-02

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI anything companies continues.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-12-03

Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.

Wacky Wonderful

NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K

  • 8 hours of 4K
  • Cozy rocket roar
  • Holiday ambiance

Wayback

Segway intro on Good Morning America Dec 3, 2001

  • Diane Sawyer rolling
  • Charles Gibson bumping
  • Dean Kamen inventing

Whoa

Poems can trick AI into helping you make a nuclear weapon

  • Jailbreaking chatbots
  • Safety guardrail bypass
  • Rhymes with destruction

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-12-04

5 Years Ago: December 4, 2020

Claims of quantum supremacy are part of the news hype cycle.

10 Years Ago: December 4, 2015

The beta release of Let’s Encrypt drives HTTPS certification to far more websites faster than ever before.

15 Years Ago: December 4, 2010

🛜✈️ Lufthansa brings in flight WiFi to intercontinental flights.

(trying a new idea out…)

I wonder out loud

(trying a new idea out…)

Has anyone written the book “Me Prompt Pretty One Day”, yet?

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-12-05

🍿 + 💰 One big story this week was Netflix planning to spend ~$83B for Warner Bros Discovery to secure Warner Brothers studio, HBO, and Max.

🤖 + 💰 Also, big story for users of Limitless Pendant… Limitless is joining the Meta devices division. I guess this isn’t shocking considering the increasing numbers of Meta glasses I’ve noticed at conferences.

🤔 While I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant, the company has been acquired by Meta… which is an ecosystem I try to avoid.

🗑️ So, my biggest story of the week is my plan to follow the instructions to download a copy of Limitless data and request deletion of Limitless data that I’ve enjoyed gathering since the first beta.

Download your Limitless data

YMMV.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-12-06

Friday is for burying news you hope people ignore or sleep through entirely. This Friday night, one story caught my eye like a fictional fiery flying creature soaring into the slow news day journalism night sky.

Meta’s mixed reality glasses project, “Phoenix”, is rising from the ashes not yet rising from the ashes, per a “leaked” memo. The timing of this leak avoids any immediate stock hit to the recent bump and misses the window for any of the weekend long-form think-pieces about Meta’s other burning metaverse cash pile corrections.

#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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