The reason they create devices is not to solve a problem but instead to build something that makes you a more perfect stream of data for them to monetize. www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

bsky.app/profile/hele... This is actually as good as it gets as a good description of what separates the uses where LLMs can be good at and the ones where they can't. There's actually many tasks where it doesn't matter if the result is good or not. For example: Spam.

Nintendo kept saying I should play Super Mario Galaxy 2 on my new portable console.

The "Advice" on AI turned from "you should use it, it saves a lot of time" to "you HAVE to use so that you are ready when the future comes" so gradually.

"Trump's Argentina bailout" just start saying that over and over again. Something goes wrong in the economy? What did you expect? Trump spent all our money bailing out Argentina

Unfortunately, the FT did this "analysis" with ... ChatGPT. They don't note this in the article. They do admit it in an FT podcast! www.ft.com/content/9232...

So, which of Trump's friends is just about to release a completely new Painkiller?

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

Gaming history blazing hot take: if recreating the experience of playing old games via CRT shaders is important, it's equally important to recreate crappy old emulators so you can experience what it was like to play these games for the first time on a low-env 90s PC.

You thought this was a joke

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

AI companies are getting subsidized by normal folk because they get huge discounts from Electric Companies while the increased demand translates into higher prices for the rest of us. And for what? For this. bsky.app/profile/bcme...

Super Mario Maker 2 kind of ruined Super Mario Galaxy's music for me. Heh. I am watching Nintendo's trailer for SMG, and whenever the SMG song plays all I think about is all the times I got trolled in Super Mario Maker 2 and that song played....

supposedly "RIP Charlie Kirk" is a valid review for my game. Good job @partner.steamgames.com

A blind computer trying to sell Optical wear.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Floridians are really ok with this? The Walt Disney Corporation is really ok with this??

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

tech bros: yeah I try to run my company based on the principles taught in the Art of War Sun Tzu: once again I am begging you to remember that your troops have actual needs and they cannot fight without them being met. please, for the love of God,

If this is the actual reason that major news outlets were reporting that the bullets had ideological engravings on them, I will faint from exhaustion. bsky.app/profile/mugr...

This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating

Women are underperforming in the tech grift victim sector

bsky.app/profile/sara... AI doesn't boost productivity as much as advertised and in many use cases it doesn't boost it at all. So there has been a very clear shift from "This will boost your productivity" to "It's here to stay" and "You will be left behind if you don't adopt it right now"

@hypervisible.bsky.social a classic example of a government department unsuccessfully attempting to justify having spent a lot of taxpayers' money on an expensive boondoggle www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

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The future is cool. We have fake computer therapy and it's considered a matter of personal responsibility to make sure it doesn't tell us to kill ourselves.

What's tragic is that if the PS Portal just had a PSP emulator and some store to download PSP games from Sony's servers, it would be one of the best Handheld consoles ever released?

I made this picture www.steamgriddb.com/grid/622904

The other day I was worried about AI translation and how it is a really bad idea? I mean, how can you ever be sure a translation is correct if you don't have any actual expert human being doing the translation? bsky.app/profile/vexo...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Woah, incredible. The release of Everybody’s Golf: Hot Shots today has crashed both the eShop and Steam. Guess fans are really excited to see a sequel to their beloved game after seven years

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

“The moral of the story is: Never trust an A.I. system,” Mr. Etzioni said. “Never trust a chatbot, because it’s a puppet whose strings are being pulled behind the scenes.”

The next time someone tries to shame you for pirating a Marvel comic just remind them that one of Marvel's top editors is pro-art theft 🫡

Marvel wasn't seeing a dime from me outside of Ultimates, and it seems that will continue to be the case. "I know this is dangerous, but look how quirky this is 🤪" is a piss poor take from one of your lead editors and shows zero commitment to defend the artists you're working with. Shame and ugly.

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

Needing a prescription, For a vaccine. During a pandemic. bsky.app/profile/luck...

If you think that’s a stretch, guess how “prior approval” for Medicare is going to work? Gift Link, but here’s a spoiler: they’ll “use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

Imagine if in any other period of history, you released a piece of software that made constant mistakes and your "fix" to the issue was to add a warning label to it.

Dear tech: My taste for Darker UI elements doesn't mean I want the Page of my document to be rendered in dark grey. The Page is going to be white. So I'd like it to be rendered as white. Thanks.

Enronvidia! bsky.app/profile/edzi...