Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Is it just me, or would you agree that LLMs should refer to themselves as “this unit” instead of “I”, just like the AIs on the original Star Trek series did?
I think it might help prevent more people from going down the LLM rabbit hole.
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 15 through Sunday, June 21!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
Tuesday at 5:30 at Jan Kaminis Platt Library (South Tampa): The AI Study Group for Accounting & Finance is holding another “Summer AI Study Group For Accounting & Finance Professionals” event.
Their goal is to bridge the prompt-to-workflow gap faced by accounting and finance professionals through practical, collaborative, and responsible learning. They will cover:
• AI workflows for accounting and finance
• Using AI as a copilot inside real processes
• Practical demonstrations using tools like VS code, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Python
• Governance, controls, and human-in-the-loop concepts
• Real-world lessons learned from building with AI
• Beginner-friendly concepts with live walkthroughs and discussion
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. online: St. Petersburg AI Collaborative Intelligence Group presents an online session: Manage Claude Code – Routines, where you’ll learn how to build your first Claude Code Routine.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday at 6:30 at Oxford Exchange (Tampa): Florida Podcasters Association is doing something extra special: a celebration PLUS someone you won’t want to miss! Our Florida Podcasters Association meeting for this month marks one year since we started holding the gatherings at Oxford Exchange and they want to celebrate that occasion with us. There will be refreshments and light bites AND to make it even more special they have an award-winning podcaster coming from out of town as our featured speaker! (And if all that’s not enough, they’re even doing a big giveaway at this special edition of our monthly meeting!)
Find out more and register here.
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Pride Keychain Cross Stitch Class The Common Thread Yarn Shop & Café |
St. Pete Knit, Crochet & Fiber Arts at The Common Thread | 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Gaming Tampa Bay Bridge Center |
Tampa Gaming Guild | 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
| Tampa Gaming Guild Returns! Tampa Gaming Guild |
Blood on the Clocktower Tampa Bay | 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games | 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
| Tampa AI Builders Meetup – Casual Meet & Greet Steep Station Kava Bar |
AI Wealth Builders of Tampa | 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
| A Duck Presents NB Movie Night Discord.io/Nerdbrew |
Nerd Night Out | 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM EDT |
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How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 8 through Sunday, June 14!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
I’m returning for another appearance this Sunday on This Week in Tech, which will record live at 5 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Pacific / 2100 UTC!
As usual, it’ll be hosted by Leo Laporte and the other guest panelists will be journalist Jeff Jarvis (whom I know from BloggerCon and similar events in the 2000s) and priest/podcaster Father Robert Ballecer.
As usual, we’ll talk about the week’s tech events and what they’ve been up to recently, and I’ll probably talk about joining NetFoundry and working as a developer advocate promoting OpenZiti and the AI platform that builds on it.
You can watch the livestream or the recording on the This Week in Tech YouTube channel.
This will be my third appearance on This Week in Tech for 2026; here are my other two episodes…
January 4, 2026 with Dan Patterson, Sr/ Director of Content @ Blackbird.AI:
“Back of the envelope” is a time-honored tech tradition where someone does a quick calculation, works out a plan, or illustrates a concept on the nearest convenient piece of paper, which was often the back of a paper envelope.
In an era over-saturated with sterile, generated pics and diagrams, I thought I’d go in the opposite direction and try to revive this tradition. With that in mind, I made these illustrations that accompany an article in r/NetFoundry: Why Claude’s new MCP Tunnel matters, and how llm-gateway, mcp-gateway, and Agora fit into the same picture.
Here are the backs of envelopes featured in that Reddit post:
Read the post to see what these back-of-the-envelope diagrams are all about!