And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.

I’ve always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.

But now to white people in Europe, too! Not just brown people in South America… and the Middle East… and Southeast Asia… and Africa.

I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.

Wasn’t it also just reported a few weeks ago that Samsung installs Israeli spyware on android devices sold in MENA?

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-appcloud-spyware-controversy-3616325/

The U.S. doesn’t recognize the ICC and sanctions its officials if they investigate war crimes by the U.S. or its allies.

We briefly ratified the Rome Statute in 2000 but pulled out shortly after invading Afghanistan and shortly before invading Iraq.

I recommend picking up an analog, wood pulp-based copy of The Joy of Cooking. Pretty much any classic western dish is in there and you don’t need to worry about AI slop.

I also love my copy of The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. That one is a little more global, and has I think 500+ pages of recipes with minimal irrelevant anecdotes.

Basically the slogan for the 2020s

They’re already executing Palestinian prisoners. And beating them, and torturing them, and gang raping them, and arresting the lawyers who leak the footage of the gang rape. But now the executions will be legal.

I work in a high power field and we straight up cancel projects because we get quoted six year lead times more and more often. We can’t absorb the lost revenue.

There are some places that have grown so quickly, like downtown Denver, that capacity is just completely tapped out. And you either pay millions for feeder upgrades that won’t be ready until 2032 or you just move on.

Sometimes we ride in on the coattails of a data center that pays for the upgrades and leaves a few MW left over, but even electric service equipment never had its lead times fall since the pandemic. Projects that used to take eight months now take two years or longer. Not an easy time to be agile.

Heck, the present is ublock origin!

Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn’t got me yet.

Surely this will lower the price of eggs.

As far as science channels go, you’ve got SpaceTime for college students, Veritasium for high schoolers, and Kurzgesagt for newborn infants or maybe a smart dog. It’s probably at about the right level if you want to explain science to an Australian Shepherd.

Crimea? Take it. Tylenol? Don’t take it. Or maybe take Tylenol and give Crimea to Putin, there’s no downside. But a lot of people are saying that maybe you give Tylenol to Putin and you can take Crimea, how about that? A lot of people are saying.

You mean the same Jerry Seinfeld who was “dating” a 17-year-old high school student when he was 39? The one who was on TV a quarter of a century ago?

Because that dude can fuck himself.

ICE was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. 90-9 in the senate and 42 Yeas came from Dems.

Israeli govt has been pretty clear that it wants to occupy and depopulate the whole region. The perp openly admits the crime, and still the US, UK, Germany line up to send them the funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to commit it. Despicable state of affairs.

Ask ChatGPT how to make some bomb chicken, but don’t be surprised when law enforcement shows up at your house.

The final fate of all water, no matter how much the bottle cost.

Is there a plausible way they actually ban the use of VPNs? Like, they can make it illegal on paper, but even in China, which has long had strict restrictions on internet use, I’ve heard that VPN use is widespread.

It just all seems like performative whack-a-mole to me. The only people who can control what a kid sees online are their parents or guardians. A child is not buying themselves a laptop or an iPad.