Airfried

Microsoft was always buying companies to drive them off the cliff. Or rather to lead them behind the barn. There’s even an older Simpsons bit about Microsoft’s cut throat methods. Nothing about this is new or surprising.

And CEOs can always be believed. They would never lie for the company. If she said anything else she would’ve lost her job on the spot.

The new Xbox leadership seems competent. Which the Microsoft leadership quickly noticed and sabotaged. At least that’s what I’m stitching together from the timeline of headlines in recent months.

Many aspects of Xbox seemed to improve until Microsoft announced a tighter grip around Xbox recently. Now everything is going downhill faster than ever. It’s amazing how quickly Microsoft is demolishing their gaming branch.

Don’t read too much into it. I was merely criticizing the whole ecosystem around it. Because for every “government slapped” story there’s at least one where fans threatened the devs because they didn’t feel pandered to enough. The whole situation is just toxic.

Perhaps you should read the article.

Genuinely surprised they even dared to release a female character in shorts to a Chinese audience. You would think they know how much they indoctrinated their audience with trashy fan service by now. The stories about enraged lonely guys almost ending an entire franchise over not pandering enough to their fantasies are crazy. You don’t want to mess with those guys. It could put your employees in actual danger.

For acorns, pebbles and trash that seemed useful at the moment?

Fans of billionaire shocked to see billionaire does billionaire things.

He will continue to make our lives harder of course.

I thought the bottom row was already old a year ago.

Happy Birthday Cheeseburgers! Look who made you a cake!

I like that German social media that was targeted at teenagers and young adults (ShülerVZ, StudiVZ, Spickmich, etc.) has been pretty much wiped off the internet when they went offline. It was replaced by Facebook which is pretty grim but at least my generation doesn’t have to live with the shit we wrote online ~20 years ago as angsty teens. Back then you didn’t have scrapers in the capacity we do today so very little from that era survived. And that’s for the best.

Okay but have you considered: Fuck AI?

I started to dismiss AI apologists that merely urge us to differentiate between ethical use and abuse. They give examples of how AI is used in medicine or for climate research and while I don’t necessarily disagree the truth is that AI is a net negative for society by a long shot. About 99% of AI use is malicious at worst and wasteful at best.

The very few decent use cases of LLMs can be dismissed for the sake of simplicity for the argument that AI sucks and needs to be stopped.

At some point it’s more practical to burn down an entire infested crop field rather than trying to salvage the remaining 1% that are still good and waste precious time and resources. If we’re too gentle with regulations and bans we’ll never get rid of the mold. Just burn it all down and start from scratch. You’ll reach your goal of ethical AI use much sooner this way.

Valve is far from perfect but I for one still have access to the movies I bought on Steam even after they delisted them. They’re winning again by doing literally nothing.

He never really had a conscious and probably realized nazis would swallow his turds and ask for seconds so as long as they’re shaped like swastikas.

Because these are the times we’re living in I guess.

“Americans” as in white Europeans?

You know, going by this and other comments I think you have the right idea. Like, we all are wearing blinkers as we go about our day because our whole world would fall apart if we fully realize our part in this mess. I imagine some older folks lie to themselves about global warming because their whole world view would fall apart completely.

It felt surreal arguing with boomers about record breaking temperatures the other day. Like, a new record was just broken for the highest temperatures in many European countries while we’re sitting there, sweating our balls off in the middle of a 2 week long heat wave. “Nah” they kept saying “We’ve had hot days before.” When I showed them statistics they refused to look at them. Instead they changed the topic instantly and ignored me for a good 15 minutes. Those weren’t some strangers I just met, mind you. I’ve known these guys for my entire life.

Too many people but especially older people (at least from my experience) are completely delusional about climate. They aren’t interested in facts, not interested in other people telling them they’re wrong and they even ignore what they’re experiencing themselves right now in favor of a severely distorted, rather vague idea of what a summer used to be 50 years ago.

China has far more money than Italy. Especially in sports. They’re just traditionally bad at team sports. As a nation, that is. There are of course Chinese star athletes playing in a team on the international stage but not enough to actually compete in most things as a national team.