Dwayne Monroe
Critic with public evidence across Culture, work & education, Safety & security.
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Microsoft, as an organization, has mastered the, well, 'art' of massaging executive egos. This is one of the sources of its power and why C-suite denizens, Uni admins are many others roll over. Note the phrase, 'frontier firm' tailored for the biz class: www.microsoft.com/en-u…
- Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index attributes 67% of AI impact to organizational factors and 32% to individual mindset, from a 20,000-worker survey across 10 markets.
- BNY has 150 'digital employees' on its org chart as autonomous agents with employee IDs; Kantar rolled Microsoft 365 Copilot to its 20,000 staff.
- Active agent use in Microsoft 365 grew 15x year over year, and the Frontier Firm AI Initiative at Harvard Business School launched with a 14-company inaugural class.
We discuss climate change and the hydrocarbon cartel; Microsoft is a key factor and force multiplier in enabling extraction and burning: www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ene...
- Microsoft's oil-and-gas industry page names Chevron on HoloLens 2, BP on Azure and digital twins, and Ørsted on Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability as customer references.
- BP's David Boyd is quoted claiming predictive analytics with potential for reducing emissions by around 500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year.
- The partner slate on the page covers Schlumberger's DELFI, Baker Hughes' BHC3 AI Suite, Kongsberg's Kognitwin, Cognite Data Fusion, and DecisionSpace 365.
We talk about the imposition of 'AI' in education. Microsoft, using its decades-old market dominance is the most practiced at coopting educators and shaping institutions: www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...
- Microsoft frames Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft IQ, Fabric, Foundry, Agent Factory, and Learning Accelerators as a single AI stack for schools and universities.
- The page leads with governed, secure AI built into existing Microsoft systems rather than as net-new standalone tools.
- Case studies cite Orange Unified School District's 20,000-device rollout and a Philippine Department of Education workforce angle.
We correctly note Palantir's role as the tech stack for state surveillance but Microsoft has long been there: www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/def...
- Microsoft lists Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Security, HoloLens 2 and Power Platform as its core stack for defense and intelligence agencies.
- The Australian Army, Airbus and Aexa appear as named customer references, each quoted by a specific executive on their use of Microsoft tooling.
- Advertised capabilities span tactical-edge cloud, intelligence collection and analysis, mission planning via cognitive services, predictive readiness analytics and zero-trust architecture.
For OpenAI, Microsoft is the primary landlord: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...
- Microsoft's Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin covers 315 acres across three buildings totalling 1.2 million square feet under roof.
- Each rack packs 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1.8 TB of GPU-to-GPU bandwidth and 14 TB of pooled memory.
- Microsoft says the site is 'purpose-built for frontier models' and will deliver '10X the performance of the world's fastest supercomputer today.'
I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
🧵A shout-out to @olivia.science whose marvellous work in progress, 'Critical Computer' I highly recommended - critical.computer
In this essay, a consideration of one of the motivations for the increase in the harassment of researchers such as @olivia.science @emilymbender.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social from 'AGI' doomers: desperation: monroelab.com/2026/09/09/t...
Recent commentary
Please, stop using the media and tech industry phrase, 'AI boom' (as in 'AI boom increases memory prices'). There is no 'boom' there is an economic and ideological total war being waged against us by a dying system that is producing material consequences. An imposition, not a boom.
Whenever a tech propagandist says 'AI' will kill us all (or, as Gates recently said, a billion people) they're lying as part of a profit gambit *but also* telling everyone that western elites are willing to wage nuclear war rather than relinquish a micron of power.
Instead of saying 'AI' did this or 'AI' wants that (not only anthropomorphic but a diversion) I suggest we always name companies, products, customers uses and infrastructure. What, precisely is Microsoft, Google, Amazon selling? Who is buying and why? What are the angles?
This week, there’s been a lot of chatter here (and doubtless elsewhere, ideas, and apparently social media trends, are hegemonic) about so-called ‘AI’ in education. Specifically: should students be taught ‘AI’ to be ready for.. well, there you have it; ready for what, exactly?
I understand the frustration of scientists, scholars, techies, etc with the failure of media to accurately report on the 'AI' industry
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