A new client told me the other day that their enterprise architecture maturity was low, and gave me access to their repository to assess it. What I found there was comprehensive, most of the artefacts I would expect to see in an organisation which has embedded an architecture practice over many years. I reviewed a few. Principles, patterns, capability models, catalogues and so on, to get a feeling for their organisation and their thinking. It all seemed well reasoned though it got lighter as I drilled into some of the downstream artefacts and there were notable absences, like solution designs and requirement specifications, migration and implementation plans. Evidence of the practice in practise. Which was the point I realised what I was looking at, confirmed by the same creation date on many of the documents: the organisation had done the high-level thinking -good on them- then used AI to extrapolate that downstream and fill in the gaps. Fantastic. They'd accelerated their architecture journey with AI. The artefacts that had been autogenerated need to be sanity-checked and improved but they're 70% of the way and the organisation had saved themselves a lot of time and effort getting there. In the moment I considered how much my role has changed. Architects use common frameworks. Like a project manager might use PMP and an engineer uses ITIL, architects typically employ TOGAF and COBIT to guide our work and coordinate with one another. The former is for architecture and the latter is for governance. Five years ago the typical split between thse realms might be 90%/10%. Blokes like me spent a lot more time creating artefacts than we did on gatekeeping. The robot generates the artefacts now. The value of an architect to an organisation today has transitioned it seems to me, to governance and COBIT. Align to business objectives, set the criteria, the boundaries, the thresholds: escalations, risk: evaluate, audit, assess. Quantify. Qualify. Compliance. Apply human judgement in other words, over increasingly autonomous systems. (Beneath it all though, integrate. The data domain remains the challenge it always has been, legacy systems chugging away, a mix of bespoke integrations and middleware bridging. Data governance, access control and hygiene are key constraints, in feeding the AI beast.) Developing an AI strategy is a component of the work the client is engaging me to perform. Once upon a time it would have been "here's this shiny new tech, it has these capabilities, this is how it aligns with your objectives, here is what the future will look like if you adopt it, here's the difference between then and now, here's how you get to there from here. These are the alternatives. Here are the risks and the costs" which really amounts to a glorified solution view. Now the AI future is too uncertain to predict in my opinion so I reckon the focus should be realising short term value and preparing for uncertainty: augment existing processes. Hybridise for flexibility in adoption of future capability. Establish solid governance and oversight. Set metrics and define criteria. Focus on the data and the access to it. Once upon a time this was all relatively straightforward. Architects applied logic and reason, critical thinking to empirical evidence, to model what is, design what will be, plan the transition and measure the results. Today, while most are focussed on the societal ramifications of AI and "what can it do for me" architects are asking "how can we implement it for our clients.* The best answer I can give is "fix your data, establish controls, augment what you're doing already, measure the results and prepare to rapidly evolve" because the honest answer is really "I don't know." I have lost confidence in my ability to extrapolate. AI is so far outside my paradigm much of what I have always done no longer seems applicable. Less will be applicable tomorrow.

The Teaching Council Enables Child Predators None of the Teaching Council members and trade unionists who knew Timothy Fisher was a predator for a decade before he harmed kids have been held accountable.

It'ss astounding that Cindyboy gives the diametrically wrong answer. The right answer is to leverage the situation to justify change. "Yes, DEI is a problem. We're prioritising merit-based appointments across the entire public service to minimise the risk of another Manawanui."

I thought this was quite cool. Paul Smith designed this Picasso exhibition, an aspect of which was the decor. On the left are drawings set against posters advertising his exhibitions over the decades. On the right is a portrait of Paul Picasso in 1924. Smith chose a wallpaper to match his harlequin costume. I'm one of those people who doesn't get Picasso. I've visited galleries and museums dedicated to the bloke in several cities and a print of one of his paintings I bought in Barcelona hangs in my lounge. Still, I look at most of his stuff and think "so what?" and "maybe I'm just too stupid to appreciate what everyone assures me is a masterpiece."

The Terrorists of Windsor Castle Mohammad Yaseen is free to roam about the UK countryside despite being a convicted terrorist who arrived on a small boat.

This is pretty funny. Right now in NZ the vestigial media and their far-left political party allies are squealing about enrolment closing, fabricating electoral legitimacy complaints. Meanwhile this bloke just voted from the middle of a DESERT on ANOTHER CONTINENT.

Opportunities is a Media Fabrication Chris Lynch documents the incessant RNZ promotion of the Opportunities Party and its leader, Ling Ling.

The political class and the corrupt media must be absolutely bricking it that this resource exists.

Track list Babes on the Run - Dont Call Me (Discotek Mix) Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing (Reboot Extended Mix) Basement Jaxx - Samba Magic (Reboot Extended Mix) Daniel Steinberg - Camino (Original Mix) Daniel Steinberg - Class Room (Original Mix) David Mackay, Meloko - This Is How (Original Mix) Enzo Gauthier, Kyparis - TRIP (Extended) Green Velvet, Detlef - Work With Me (Original Mix) Gruuve - Bailalo Conmigo (Original Mix) Gruuve - Swinged (Original Mix) IAN VII - Kick Back (Extended) Kiko Navarro - Sex & Love Affair (Rework) LOOZBONE - Nine To Five (Extended Mix) Lean Robotti, Ivan Akselman - Orbital Pulse (Extended Mix) Nacho Scoppa - Moovin (Extended Mix) Nico Leon - Dance Right Now (Extended Mix) Patrick Topping - What U Want (Original Mix) Rafael Cerato - Never Crash (Extended Mix) Wh0 - Burnin' Deep (Extended Mix) Soul Central - Strings Of Life Un Amore Supremo (Sgt Slick Remix) Adrian Mejias - Feelings (Original Mix) Antss - Up Your Game (FIRZA Remix) Babes on the Run, Gabi Price - Dont Go (Original Mix) CASSIMM - Your Lovin' (Extended Mix) Cyava - Keep Me Focused (Extended Mix) Daniel Weirdo, Steve Judge - Academy (Original Mix) Dimitri Vegas, Bountyhunter, BRANDON (DE) - Woops (Extended Mix) Earth n Days - Turn Up The Bass (Extended Mix) Joe Baxter - No Signal (Original Mix) Juany Bravo, Carl Dutt, Dr. Chaii - Fast Life (Extended Mix) Kenz - Hello (Original Mix) Mellizos - Combat The Whack (Original Mix) Reenday, Freenzy Music - To The Night (Original Mix) Shilla - Jumpin (Extended Mix) Shilla - Resist The System (Extended Mix) Shilla, FRANCO BA - Audio Flex (Extended Mix) The Cube Guys - Feels Good (Extended Mix) Trace (UZ), DISLA (UZ), Danis - Flashing Lights (Extended Mix) HIFI (KSA) - Movin' (Original Mix)

A lazy Sunday afternoon episode of cult TV. R. Lee Ermey plays a drill instructor in this series almost no-one has watched. Can you name the show?

Fun Fact: Cindyboy @chrisluxonmp inserted Annex 8L into the India Free Migration Agreement specifically to import this primitive shit. He calls it an "iconic Indian occupation."

Homogeneity is Our Strength At the minor party leaders debate only Winston Peters refrained from repeating the globalist thought-stopping dictum.

Foreign extremists should not be eligible for election to our House of Representatives. Deport Ling Ling back to her own country.

Brits Won’t Fight the Bankers’ Wars Tone deaf Jacob Rees-Mogg encourages ordinary Brits to sacrifice their lives for his interests.

Now THAT is comedy.

Pivoting to a Westphalian Equilibrium

Sure, the DEI hire is retarded. But so too is the entire @metpoliceuk. Consider the approval process this photograph had to traverse through the Met's bureaucracy. An ENTIRE ARMY of personnel saw this photograph before it was published yet noticed nothing amiss with it.