You can even put an exact date on the day when Brussels finally gave up on its decade-long dream of seeking to be the predominant global tech regulator that would rein in American tech titans like Google and Apple. It came last Wednesday — Nov. 19.

for instance, GPT-3 took 700,000 liters of water to train. That sounds like a lot! It is roughly the amount of water used to raise the amount of beef that *two* Americans eat in a year.

maybe i am going insane

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

ich habe eine frage zu führung im zeitalter von ki

Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...

Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there. "It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."

😬 brace, brace not going private then

Thank you (and/or Stacey) for talking in this post about how research and recreational play are two different types of preservation! This is something that's challenging to explain when we're talking about preservation, copyright, and all that

Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂

People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon

when i started writing this i was absolutely convinced it was going to be a joke on the level of the silksong chocolate cake debacle but after researching it they've made a believer out of me i'm sorry to say www.ign.com/articles/why...

Half-Life came out today 27 years ago.

Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam #Linux #Android #Steam #SteamFrame #SteamOS

Wenn rund 40% deiner eigenen Basis den eigenen Vorschlag ablehnen, könnte man sich ja auch einmal fragen, ob der vorgeschlagene Gesetzestext wirklich eine so gute Idee war. Kollateralschaden: Moderate Erbschaftssteuer ist für die nächsten Jahre wieder vom Tisch.

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Some good news this morning - exports of Xinjiang tomatoes have collapsed. Last year I worked with the BBC to expose how XJ tomatoes produced with forced labour were making their way to UK supermarkets via Italy. 🧵

"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official. How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar. www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

Some notes on an awkward stage in career over GenAI, and Chinese Whispers. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

not to absolve them of their other work, but every so often the Bee posts a banger

With the release of Proton 10.0-3, Proton 10 is now out of Beta!

Procedural violations (her emails) or personal flaws (Biden’s aging) are understandable in this framework and need to be punished to reassert the legitimacy of the system. “The president is a rapist who participated in a child trafficking network” breaks the whole premise of legitimacy.

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

"Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO" one of the more cursed @miasato.bsky.social posts in a while www.theverge.com/news/820165/...

a “Space Force”, if you will

All the Epstein emails are like On Tue, November 21, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Larry Summers wrote: Have you seen the latest news? Get the popcorn ready… On Tue, November 21, 2017 at 8:18 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: Pop cofn taste good .

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

Lots of those Hitlers stretch back to the early 1800s. Also, one of those Hitlers gave us an incredible rap name www.circlevilleherald.com/news/hitlers...

The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD Note "The" is not kerned correctly (see perspective-corrected still for reference)

This but postliberals dodging any criticism of their movement on the internet

This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal. We thought we could compete.

it's literally a box, what do you want from me?

Happy 25th birthday to version 1.0 of Counter-Strike! 🎂

If you want a critique of AI company financials you could go read Jim Chanos on Twitter, a distinguished short seller and accounting expert, or you could come to Bluesky and watch this guy try and fail to reconcile cumulative net income to change in net cash because he thinks they’re the same thing.

Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine

Half-Life fans believe they've worked out a possible announcement date for Half-Life 3 - and it's very, very soon www.eurogamer.net/half-life-fa...

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

These are the ones who have figured out why it happened and sued! Imagine how many more there are!

thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin

"google images" is not an acceptable credit for anything.

My favorite comment on the FT story

I wrote a thing, about a project you should knock out when you get 45 minutes free. fly.io/blog/everyon...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty