Damn… it’s always the ones you most suspect

People who enjoy hardcore pvp and extraction shooters are hyped… but the important question is whether or not those people represent a large enough niche to sustain a game with such a massive budget.

I’m guessing no, but who knows.

Introducing: Microsoft Cosmos!

Send your data to heaven while we turn the planet into hell!

My understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter.

It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.

most moons

Pretty much every moon but Titan. Titan, however, would be excellent for heat dissipation. Long before generative AI was even a thing, scientists have speculated that Titan would be the perfect place for datacenters because low-temperature computation is so much more efficient.

Of course, building a datacenter on Titan would be a several-hundred-trillion dollar endeavor, so… good luck bootstrapping your way into that industry.

Hear hear.

It’s also clever politics. Minnesota has the largest iron mining operations in the entire United States, so choosing iron as your core battery technology is a smart (albeit cynical) way to drum to some local support with the promise of bringing new demand back to the taconite mines.

Whether that will be strong enough to overcome the extreme negative sentiments around datacenter projects? Who knows…

There have been some pretty high-profile departures from Anthropic over the past few months, so… I dunno, seems like there are plenty of insiders who are unhappy with the company’s current trajectory.

No it isn’t. This is an unsubstantiated rumor and watching 18 minutes of sensationalized AI slop isn’t going to make it true or teach you anything you couldn’t learn from a 10 second Internet search.

Sounds like my Outlook “sent” folder…

A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!

That’s the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!

To be fair, this all started under the Biden administration with the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.

The US is increasingly concerned that, if China invades Taiwan, it will completely lock them out from semiconductor manufacturing and crater the US economy. Rather than flex their soft power and exercise a little diplomacy like the US used to do in decades past, they’ve apparently decided that the invasion of Taiwan is inevitable and the only course of action is to bolster semiconductor manufacturing at home.

Trump, of course, has all the subtlety of a torpedo and his rhetoric here has been needlessly antagonistic… but yeah, this whole thing started under Biden and now Trump is pretending it was always his idea. So really the thing he stole was the policy.

So did his dad

Jesus Danny…

God, I wish I could get groceries for 70…

Overuse of H-1B visas.

It’s literally a system of indentured servitude and corpos are just free to abuse it with impunity.

Man… of all the vibe coding tools, Lovable has gotta be one of the most useless, too.

I work with people (all middle managers) who love Loveable because they can type a two sentence description of an app and it will immediately vomit something into existence. But the code it generates is an absolute disaster and the UIs it designs (which is supposed to be its main draw) is some of the most generic crap I’ve ever seen.

0/10, do not recommend.

The AI assistant answers are just synthesized from the shitty SEO results.

It’s a felony for federal workers to strike. Kinda makes you wonder why federal employees even have unions, but that’s the capitalist hellscape we live in…