Should have had a single tone growing in volume and intensity

Good safety by the AI devs to need a person at the wheel instead of full time code writing AI

This is how to draw “frustration” for Pictionary.

Also, everyone plays golf differently and someone will watch a pro take a swing and so try it themselves, only to fail awkwardly and in public. The lessons to be learned are misconstrued as golfing lessons when in fact it’s just an exciting story about how hard that kind of shot really is. Folks don’t seem to understand that a story isn’t giving directions but advice.

When there isn’t a need, there isn’t a reason. And egregious golf is gross.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

-Yip Harburg

Love is multiplayer and hate is single player. She has no one to love and doesn’t care to start with herself.

Conservatives are unable to imagine things clearly and so have to look to the past to better understand what is being said. But they also don’t have the imagination to distinguish between what’s being imagined and what happened in the past. So the end result is conservatives don’t want to do anything new because they don’t and/or can’t understand it.

MAGA look to the past to celebrate the psychotic asocial Trump crotch goblin because they don’t know and can’t guess what he will become. They can’t say “he’s going to be great because of this!”

Instead we get screenshots showing two human heads and how close they are to being the same. The person behind each is so radically different that there is literally no real comparison. But they want the accolades and history to remember them and the only thing they know is old shit that has happened.

Gestapo job application right there. Guess I’m going to learn how the Resistance operated.

“If a service needs to be online to play, it will eventually be offline at peak times”.

Doesn’t mean it’s good or should spread as an idea.

Company towns coming back as company apartments.

Damn, this video is garbage. Lots of yelling about smudging and “HOW COULD THEY?!” And then complains about how people aren’t implementing any effects like he says. And that part about “I told Epic Unreal 5.5 wasn’t ready!” Like he actually matters to Tim Sweeney.

Avoid the video. Nothing of substance or value is within.

Holy shit, that guy goes on to be a doctor in Cabot Cove.

It is a time of predatory billionaires grabbing all forms of media. It would not surprise me if he did get offers. It would also be very unprofessional to broadcast the valuation of Loops and Pixelfed while turning down the offer. It would be like recording and showing someone asking for a date and getting rejected.

It isn’t about race. It’s about making sure that all perspectives are taken into account when making a decision. That’s it. The think tanks against it are against having rules put upon them. Removing DEI is the same as stripping out market regulation.

Another way to see that 15% drop is hinted at in the article:

EA FC generates around $2 billion annually, Reuters reports, with around $800 million of that made up by Ultimate Team.

Loot boxes made EA $800M last year. It’s easy to see why EA and other publishers demand MTX in games. Can we amend “Don’t preorder” with “and ignore micro transactions”?

At the same time, social networking is built into the most popular Chinese online shopping platforms, like Taobao, Tmall, and JD.com. They feature livestreamed videos of shopping influencers, and robust chat and photo-sharing functions, blurring the lines between social media and e-commerce.

The model has delivered: In 2023, TikTok’s Chinese sister app, Douyin, said its platform sales exceeded 2 trillion yuan ($2 billion). Xiaohongshu doesn’t disclose detailed figures, but the app’s aggressive expansion into social commerce in 2023 coincided with the first year it turned a net profit to the tune of $500 million.

So China has several profitable social media companies and a model that works regardless of the platform. It feels like Insta has tried this and doesn’t quite understand the mechanics but imitates showing influencer driven decisions. The difference is that western influencers sell their exposure while TikTok (et al) use influencers as their product and charge to alter the algorithm to expose the product to a targeted audience. It’s insidious because people will be shown something that they didn’t know they wanted and led to believe that they made the decision to get this thing. It’s Inception, but with our hobbies and interests.

The ramifications for niche porn are tremendous. Both weird categories of pornography and the idea that small groups will be fed a constant stream of their own unique interests. Imagine if you didn’t know this was happening and had an expensive hobby. Social media wants you to buy things and will give you the connection to spend instead of pursuing the hobby.

The hobby may soon not be about what we do but what we bought to show we are hobbyists. Consumption as participation. I guess we already do this with streaming entertainment, so why not?

The bat’leth is completely nerfed compared to the real thing.

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