Turns out the future does have flying cars

Accounting has accidentally made it financially impossible to replace an $89 laptop battery. An employee’s four-year-old laptop now lasts 18 minutes unplugged. Battery replacement: $89. Easy. Except Finance policy says IT cannot approve a repair costing more than 25% of the asset’s current book value. The laptop is fully depreciated. Current book value: $0. 25% of $0: $0. So according to policy, an $89 battery is an unacceptable investment in a worthless asset. I asked Procurement what I’m supposed to do. “Replace the device.” New laptop: $1,684. Approved immediately. The CFO saw the invoice and asked why we spent $1,684 instead of replacing an $89 battery. I sent him the policy. He replied: “That’s not what the policy means.” I asked what number I should use instead of the book value listed by Finance. No response. The new laptop arrives Thursday. The old laptop works perfectly except for the battery. We’ll send it to e-waste. Accounting has successfully protected us from wasting $89.

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Today, we’re launching ChatGPT-6 Astra for sales. Simply enter your website URL, and Origami will reach out to thousands of customers promoting your product in seconds, across every single channel. This is honestly insane.

This week SAMS students used a 1918 trench warfare wargame using miniatures to refight the Battle of Champagne with the objective of learning how infiltration tactics and elastic defense might inform offense and defense respectively today. The overall focus was to explore maneuver warfare in a highly lethal battlefield.