The point of taxing billionaires isn't to fund public works. That's a nice side effect, but the point is to make there be no billionaires.

Have we given up on the "AI doesn't work if it's not allowed to steal" angle? I feel like no one's talking about it anymore despite it being more relevant than ever

trying to explain to the guy mugging me that he can take all my money and consumables but i couldn't give him my key items even if i wanted to

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Actual conversation while ordering a drink: Me: do you have anything low alcohol? Bartender: I've got a 3.4%? How did we end up here!?

microsoft is a company which, among other things, is an ongoing BDS boycott target for providing ai services used in illegally targeting civilians. they didn't miss that they handed xbox to a far right reactionary. the company is run by people like that. it's just that they're no longer hiding it.

Pleased to say that Caves of Qud on the Switch 2 is an absolute delight to play. I was skeptical about how it would play without a keyboard but honestly it's even better than on PC. I have had one crash though, hoping that improves

The games industry needs to unionise ✊🌱

The thing is, games are a content business, a hits business, and a passion business. The fact that they run on computers is secondary to that (and is also of course the highest purpose of any compute device). So can MS get back to that pure place? It takes a lot of work to get there.

I've been intending to switch to Linux for years now but it still seems impossible to get a straight answer about how to do any of it

There's a lot of reasons fortnite and roblox specifically are bad for the industry but one of the worst is its exposed the executive class to potential numbers so high it can only be sustained by the mass exploitation of children and theyd rather chase that than just "good" sales

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

I mean, yeah, this. But it feels a bit silly to say "you can't push that agenda because it came from a billionaire paedophile" - the agenda was unacceptable from the start we don't need a new reason to say "no excuses"

Wondering why Western countries, especially Anglophone ones, are continuing to follow the public-policy prescriptions of a gang of billionaire paedophiles AFTER we discovered they're the public-policy prescriptions of a gang of billionaire paedophiles.

No it isn't. Don't use Substack. Don't publish on Substack. Don't subscribe to Substack. Tell people whose work you like that regrettably you cannot support the platform and would sub if they weren't on Substack.

if i post this link in the work chat, 2 things will likely happen - it gets ignored - someone will downplay it and say something along the lines of "because agents work well for me, it's not so bad" and it's worth it overall (with a false equivalence of older tech that was bad but now isn't)

Gi.biz have a survey up about genAI usage, you know what to do comrades survey.alchemer.com/s3/8679343/b...

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Liberalism

so insane anyone is talking about the ps6 when the ps5 only came out [looks at the year] ah beans

This is hands down the most perfect reply I've seen on this site so far

the playstation 1 wasn’t just discontinued, it died tragically of a UTI it contracted by rendering from back to front

Well anyway, relieved to see my MP @sianberry.bsky.social (no relation) has tabled an EDM calling on government to devise a digital sovereignty strategy. Ask your MP to co-sign if you’d also rather not give Peter Thiel & co your digital front door key: action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...

Hey so. Let's say that I believe. That the COVID-19 pandemic, and the stimulus/response to it. Was a major upward wealth redistribution event. If I believe this. Am I a wacky conspiracy theorist. And if I'm not a wacky conspiracy theorist. Then why does nobody talk about this

This is a fantastic, if (probably unavoidably) long, explanation of why LLMs can seem competent or even sentient without being either. (I've tried 4x to condense it to a TLDR but sometimes you just need to take the individual steps in order. Read it.)

City Turbo II + Motocompo counts as one, so I'll take that and a more modern Odyssey for long family trips

Irresponsible to do this without releasing the Support, Assault and Recon beavers at the same time.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

Reminder that it's not just the US. The question isn't "why is no one else stopping them?" Because we're all in on it

Oh jesus christ we're the good example

UK trains, including in Scotland, are all rented. It is the most profitable part of the rail network and was privatised in 1993-1997. Now we rent £9bn worth of trains which last for 25 years, for £3bn a year. It is the worst deal ever.

One benefit of my truly atrocious memory is that I never accidentally deadname my trans friends because I genuinely forgot what they used to be called one week after learning their new name

I always believed the purpose of Brexit was to destroy the ability of nation states to take on spiv capitalism. I never expected to see actual evidence of it.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

If you think you need to embrace AI as a software developer or risk putting yourself at a disadvantage, you were already at a disadvantage because you are bad at your job. Get better at it or you're gonna fail either way.

Why do your organizing over Signal? So that you don't do your organizing on an app that hasn't been tested or reviewed, run by a guy who doesn't tell his users about data breaches and security problems. www.ibtimes.co.uk/stopice-hack...

I genuinely thought this game got cancelled

Remember what I've been saying about not assuming that ICE is a US-exclusive problem? That we'd be unwise to think the same thing isn't happening here? I don't think ICE is the only thing that logic holds for...

Man.

The reason the docs didn't leak before now is because they could have done damage. That knowledge being public would have changed things. Now their power is so securely consolidated that it doesn't matter.

I'm not as active in terms of speaking about politics and morality on here than I was on twitter. It's because back then I had things to say which wouldn't get me banned from the platform.

I misunderstood what was meant by "skaters" and pictured a guy in a beanie kickflipping down a set of stairs to Damn These Vampires

The people who loved 2002's Morrowind would love 2026's Morrowind, but Bethesda's target audience in 2026 is mostly made up of people who would have hated 2002's Morrowind

The film business is always giving it "WE ARE THE FACTORY OF DREAMS BABY" while the game business is always like "yeha our shit sucks, lap it up serfs cos it won't get any better"

I somehow feel like I owe it to...who or what exactly? to know and understand all the new Epstein shit, but at the same time I've never heard of moot, only know the name lowtax from zero-context replies to Elon tweets, and I think it might be better to keep things that way.

Thinking that fascism is only happening in the US is a very dangerous mistake

Would you look at that: New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein www.404media.co/musk-to-epst...

that last note 😬 these are the numbers WITH spin