is this the same survey that said 300 million americans died from fentanyl

When replaying FFT be sure to bring the story characters along, even after in the older version their dialogue ran out... because for this version they wrote a *ton* of new content. Agrias giving Gaffgarrion a lecture on equality, for example.

New research from AWU/CWU/Techquity on AI data workers in North America. “[L]ow paid people who are not even treated as humans [are] making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar AI systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future.” cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

My goodness, this poem. A beautiful, savage, blunt explanation of why we study war and conflict and also why military history is not and should not be just 'for the boys.' The poem is moving in its unwillingness to whitewash the many tombs of war, as we should too should be unwilling.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

This probably sounds minor to many of you but closing the commissaries will....not be taken lightly by the US all-volunteer standing military. The PX is everything (literally, as it's not just groceries!)

the mass killing at a manchester synagogue is really turning out the far-left "zionism is just another word for jew" contingent this morning

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

every time i get tempted to return to twitter/x i remind myself dhh posts there

finally, a game where you can be vampire napoleon because why not

The new version of Final Fantasy Tactics may be the best remake ever done. I'm just floored by how GOOD everything is. It gets the best parts of both the '97 PS1 version and the '07 PSP remake, the UI is much improved while still keeping to the old style, and the voice work is spot on. Game good.

the hippocratic oath is woke nonsense, doctors should demand papers of anyone they treat and drive away the illegals with electric cattle prods

Newly minted evergreen meme

someone asked me to explain the ai bubble --- i have a box of magic beans, that i will let you look at in exchange for enough money to buy a hamburger. please do not try to do anything with the box of magic beans, it's not ready yet. But it will be awesome. thanks for the burger.

who will champion the KMS Bismarck now

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

I checked in with Mark Kern's feed and apparently he's too busy fanboying over Pete Hegseth crushing a beer can on his head, but I guess the issue here is that a woman did samurai cosplay during a gaming event for a game she worked on? do these people just... not want women around?

at twelve i was very interested in trains and communism so this tracks

when you absolutely positively are going to win the paintball match by any means necessary

I’ve felt fat stupid and lazy literally my entire life so this tracks

most Americans don't know this because we don't teach about how other countries work but if the equivalent of the government shutdown happened in most parliamentary democracies it would automatically trigger new elections

remember that russian recruiting video ted cruz and other republicans fanboyed over as an example of a REAL! MANLY! ARMY! as opposed to our DEI woke armed forces? that video was for the vdv (airborne troops) the first week of the ukraine war they tried to take kiev's airport they failed and died.

This post is getting ratioed on X because all the Democrats are like "no they're not" and all the Republicans are like "no we're not"

always appreciate a good callback

Pete Hegseth vibes

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Hegseth is such a staggering embarrassment. This guy *should* be thinking about the details of Constellation-class procurement, about sourcing production for a few million 155m shells, about the level of the US security commitment in CENTCOM. Instead, he's thinking about push-ups and beards.

climate change will shape every conflict of the 21st century going forward as it drives migrations and weaker nations collapse but sure pete, yell at the command staff of the largest military in the world about dudes in dresses

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Night of the Long Knives, Day Drinking edition

I don’t care about your political leanings or affiliations. If you served (or just have common sense), then you know those generals are coming back PISSED at having their time wasted for this.

he literally is doing this because of the opening scene in Patton, isn't he

Crony capitalism in action. In what universe is Jared Fscking Kushner qualified to destroy an entire industry because he thinks gen AI will make it wildly profitable without the annoyance of having to pay workers.

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

"Christian Identity" is a specific far right fascist group. Which I'm sure everyone involved knew and didn't care. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...

Claude Code users: Claude Code 2 and Sonnet 4.5 just dropped. RIP Opus, it looks like it's being left behind.

the best thing about this is in EA's case they actually borrowed $55 billion from the worst people in the world. $300 million is rookie numbers.

The EA story is a crystal clear indictment of crony capitalism. The largest game publisher being stripped for parts to benefit vultures who are forcing the company to finance its own destruction, midwifed by corrupt political connections. Thousands of layoffs incoming. But the CEO will be fine!

The private equity reaper has come for EA, in a year they'll have scrapped it for parts until the entire company is some absentee executives and six engineers asking ChatGPT how to sell more FUT packs

Some context for the EA deal, my 2023 piece on Saudi Arabia getting into gaming. “Anywhere that Saudi Arabia is spending any amount of money lately, there are always strings attached. It’s never just a pure business investment." www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23...

how. how does this work.

A lot of people are (understandably) focused on the Saudi Arabia and Kushner part of this, but the far bigger immediate impact will come from the new private EA being on the hook for $20 billion in debt. That could mean mass layoffs, more aggressive monetization, and other big cost-cutting measures

Just reading my comments -- anyone who's worried about how MBS/Jared owning EA will impact the tone and content will impact BioWare titles needn't worry. I doubt BioWare can continue to co-exist with this ownership. Best you can hope for is they get spun out and bought by someone else.

Stephen Miller is an utterly unrealistic villain, the writers really just phoned it in with him. There's no way anyone would believe someone that amoral would completely succed at being a 21st century Grima Wormtongue. I'll forgive the writers if his ending is swallowing a poison vial at the Hague.

It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...