Senator Rand Paul said something similar earlier.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/05/rand-paul-trump-tariff-canada/82943622007/
“Tariffs have… led to political decimation. When (President William) McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Paul told reporters a day after Trump’s announcement, later adding “So they’re not only bad economically; they’re bad politically.”
The tech demo is part of Microsoft’s Copilot for Gaming push, and features an AI-generated replica of Quake II that is playable in a browser. The Quake II level is very basic and includes blurry enemies and interactions, and Microsoft is limiting the amount of time you can even play this tech demo.
Microsoft is still positioning Muse as an AI model that can help game developers prototype games. When Muse was unveiled in February, Microsoft also mentioned it was exploring how this AI model could help improve classic games, just like Quake II, and bring them to modern hardware.
Okay, here’s a much-less ambitious use of existing AI technology that I think would be vastly-more-useful than whatever they’re off doing: how about just going out and using existing AI upscaling techniques and limited human interaction to statically-upscale the textures by maybe 2x to 4x, take advantage of more VRAM on newer hardware?
There’s another article up saying that “Germany is going back to the 1930s”. While I think that that’s probably over-the-top, what happened in Germany in the 1930s was in significant part that the US had the Great Depression when German industry was desperately dependent on US finance. Then it was followed up by US markets closing up, which exacerbated things. Germany ultimately was hit harder than the US economically.
I don’t believe that Germany in 2025 has the same degree of extreme exposure to the US economy that it did in the 1930s, but I do think that there is a general problem that Trump’s tariffs, if left in place for any length of time, are probably going to produce a lot of wealth destruction, not just in the US, but also other places. Economic hardship tends to breed political extremism, so it could encourage political extremism in countries other than the US.
While on the dance floor, the complaint says that M.A. gave DeGiorgio’s wife, Nichol DeGiorgio, the middle finger.
The complaint alleges that the victim was dancing barefoot on the dance floor at the ship’s bar when DeGiorgio’s wife asked him to put his shoes on.
“N. DeGiorgio told him, ‘Look we are all grown-ups here, can you put your shoes on?’ The male responded, ‘Shut up you f—ing b—h,'” the complaint alleges.
It is noted that DeGiorgio’s wife took responsibility for the incident and told FBI agents and task force officers that she “should not have told the unknown male to put his shoes on” and that “the unknown male never touched her.”
Security footage showed DeGiorgio standing up and walking across the dance floor to the victim, grabbing him and holding him by the neck, according to the complaint.
M.A. told authorities that during the assault, DeGiorgio stated, “I am going to f—ing kill you.” The victim also said that DeGiorgio “used a lot of force” and it felt like his “throat was going to be ripped out,” according to the document.
https://www.cruisecritic.com/cruise/virgin/resilient-lady/activities
Resilient Lady is an adults-only ship, meaning no one under 18 is allowed on any sailings (this applies fleetwide). In other words, it’s not family-friendly in the traditional sense. Nearly every guest onboard expressed how happy they were to experience the ship kid free.
It may be all adults, but of the people involved, it sounds like they have worse conflict-resolution skills than the typical child.
I’m currently scraping the Steam barrel
Steam released 18,825 new games in 2024, beating its previous record of 14,311 last year.
That’s a pretty deep barrel. For comparison:
https://www.mobygames.com/platform/playstation-4/
There are 11,274 video games on PlayStation 4. They were released between the years 2013 and 2025.
Apparently in addition to Trump probably producing a recession and thus clobbering oil demand, OPEC decided, for some reason, to increase production.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-extends-sharp-drop-surprise-061831274.html
Oil’s rout was triggered Thursday by US President Donald Trump deluge of tariffs, which threaten the global economy and energy consumption. Hours later, OPEC+ tripled a planned output hike for May, in what delegates called a deliberate effort to lower prices to punish members that were pumping above their quota.
West Texas Intermediate futures have fallen about 14% in just two days — settling near $61 a barrel in a move similar to steep losses seen during the pandemic — while Brent also ended the day at the lowest since 2021. The declines were exacerbated on Friday by China’s retaliation against the US duties, including a 34% tariff on all imports from the US starting within a week.
Both are bad news if you’re a major oil exporter.
It will most likely make Europe, along with the US and most of the world, poorer than would otherwise be the case.
Non-mobile-specific version:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/investing/us-stock-market/index.html
With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption.
I mean, for something like an LED, maybe, but a lot of computing devices can vary power consumption based on what they’re doing.
I do agree that it’s pretty ridiculous that anyone is selling a power bank without a watt-hour rating.
I mean, that splitter device cannot be USB compliant, if it’s giving more than 5V to a device that never negotiated more than 5V.
I’d also guess that if it’s just silently feeding the second device from what the phone has negotiated, it’s probably not compliant in that it’s probably drawing more from its power source than the phone has negotiated – USB devices are responsible for indicating what they’ll draw.
You could make that multiport device USB-compliant, but it’d require having the splitter be a DC-DC power source and having it negotiate some PD draw sufficient to power both devices.
If so, wastewater concentration levels should remain high.
“B-but the old testament said…”
While the strongest Biblical criticisms of homosexuality are in the Old Testament, such criticism is also not exclusive to the Old Testament.
e.g. the Book of Romans is part of the New Testament:
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Any time you find a statistic that uses the term “real” on income, they’re making that adjustment.
Or are electronics getting to an unattainable price point? What 8 year old has $400+ for a console and $60 per game?
The Nintendo Entertainment System launched at $179 in 1983.
In 2025 dollars, that’s $573.45.
Super Mario Bros. 3 — which I think is probably the best NES game — ran for $50 in 1990. That’s $122 in 2025 dollars.
Ooh, I didn’t know that someone had developed a mechanism to move issues and PRs.
I remember commenting on the fact that while it’s easy to move the source repo itself from location to location, as git makes that easy and self-contained, issues and PRs didn’t enjoy that.
I guess that’s a positive.
Hard to conclude much about how much of an issue it is without knowing what “sensitive” means in this context.
If it’s “classified”, then there are formal rules. But sensitive isn’t precisely-defined.
How much you want to bet we’re going to start having military parades to “show off our strength”.
Trump specifically asked for this in his first term. As I recall, his advisors recommended against it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_2018_Washington_Veterans_Day_Parade
The 2018 Washington Veterans Day Parade (colloquially called “Trump’s military parade”) was a planned military parade that would have taken place in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2018, in honor of the Veterans Day holiday (which took place on 11 November).
The parade was expected to include members of all five armed services; the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, with other units that were to be dressed in period uniforms representing earlier times in the United States military history.[3] A memo from General Joseph Dunford reported that the parade was to have focused on historic battles and conflicts such as the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.[4] Between 5,000 and 7,000 service members were to have taken part in the parade, which was to begin at the U.S. Capitol and end at the White House. The evolution of women in the service was also to be highlighted in the parade, along with an emphasis on the price of freedom.[5] The parade would have included 100 wheeled vehicles instead of tanks, as well as a heavy air component featuring 50 aircraft at the end of the parade.[6][7] U.S. President Donald Trump would have been situated in a reviewing area and surrounded by military heroes.[8] Medal of Honor recipients would have been included in reviewing the parade with the President and would have marched in the parade.[5]
Opinion of parade
Support
In February 2017, very few lawmakers backed the idea of a military parade. Senator David Perdue, a Republican of Georgia, told reporters “He’s the President of the United States. Personally, I would prefer not to do it. But he’s the president.”[20] Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, supported the parade if it honored the military itself, and not the “…Soviet-style hardware display.”[20]
AMVETS, a group that advocates for military veterans, felt that potentially the parade would inspire more Americans to join the armed forces.[21]
Against
Other politicians spoke out against the parade. Representative Adam Smith, a Democrat of Washington and members of the House Armed Services Committee released a statement that highlighted “A military parade like this - one that is unduly focused on a single person - is what authoritarian regimes do, not democracies.”[20] Senator John Kennedy, a Republican of Louisiana, told reporters “We’re not North Korea, we’re not Russia, and we’re not China and I don’t want to be”, while speaking out against the proposed parade.[22]
Robert O’Neill, a former Navy SEAL, tweeted in February 2018 that any military parade would be “…third world bullshit.”[23] Other military veterans echoed the sentiment with calls for the money to be spent on housing, employment and mental health care to better support the troops.[22] A veteran of the War in Afghanistan highlighted that it would seem unreasonable to hold a parade in celebration while a 19-year-old war (per 2020) was still ongoing.[21]
The latest incident, Friday afternoon, occurred while four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons were en route to Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia for a flyover, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. A T-38 Talon is a two-seat supersonic jet used to train pilots, according to the Air Force.
Around 3:15 p.m. local time, Delta Flight 2983, bound for Minneapolis, took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Soon after, an alert sounded off inside the cockpit of the passenger plane, indicating that another aircraft was nearby, the FAA said. In response, air traffic controllers issued “corrective instructions” to both aircraft, the agency said.
VASAviation visualization with ATC traffic:
That’s frame scaling in real-time, rather than offline texture scaling.