They get no engagement though. Social media’s dumped fact checking, which means most won’t see it.

Hear me out, theoretically this is actually cool?

Like, theoretically, take away the Fox propaganda and shameless lack of disclosure. Picture this guy presenting himself as a CI, like a convicted hacker, former cartel, defector or something. He has real experience with Iran, missiles, the whole Contra affair. He knows what they’d do with them, how they get them, what the buyers are like because he shamelessly sold them.

That’d be a cool perspective.

It’s of course not reality, but still.

Welcome to the future. I actually thought he was tangentially involved too.

No sane person can keep up with verifying news anymore. Most people’s feeds are pretty bad, and that’s the point! He literally burned out fact-checkers and journalists (and numbed minds to them) last term.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/four-more-exhausting-years-trump-reporters-mull-covering-a-second-term-1292213/

As he did on Wall Street before he got into politics:

https://www.fool.com/podcasts/marketfoolery/2016-02-26-our-mtg-w-donald-trump/

Might be better if social media changes, but… we basically elected Big Tech:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-politics-trump-verification-misinformation-00bc57b4a3c348a1363610c1cbbfd8ca

What’s also messed up is that it’s that hard for this kid to get citizenship. That’s just a broken system.

TBF those companies don’t have the budget for a astroturfing bot campaign, or at least can’t afford the PR hit.

What an ad. This is the second greatest YT video ever made.

Go over there and listen to x lines of dialog only up go back and listen to y lines of dialog only to return to the first person and listen to more…

Other games use similar mechanics at times but often not with characters that are so far apart and/or not without some kind of fast travel system that can make the whole process faster.

IMO the problem is character writing.

As an example, AC Odyssey had some great gems, like the underworld, that island intrigue quest, anything involving Phoebe, though many “mundane” quests had quirky characters too. Kassandra’s VA killed it through the whole game. I still remember all that, and I remember enjoying the in-between because I loved the characters and scenery. It was such a compelling reward.

It did have filler quests though.

…If talking and exploring itself feels like a chore, then that’s the problem IMO. It shouldn’t be a low point between gameplay.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. You can do most of your work in linux and boot windows as a ‘secondary’ OS for stuff like adobe? I do this, and share NTFS SSDs/hard drives between them.

You are hitting weak points of linux though. I do all media work on linux (a lot through vapoursynth or ‘lower level’ frameworks than resolve I suppose), but TBH do most of my gaming on Windows, not just for convenience but for performance reasons too.

A big share of black males are Trump supporters, going by older surveys I’ve seen. Could be reflecting that.

There’s got to be some complexity behind that (and there are articles on it), but one theory I’ve heard is that many feel “abandoned” by the establishment like, say, young males (who also skew more Trumpy than 30+). Maybe social media usage is a factor too? Keep in mind the public knows Trump as the anti establishment candidate.

The original report:

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_CyorzxR.pdf

“Invade Afghanistan, you will regret it,” is one of history’s NCDish lessons. Like:

• Don’t invade Russia in winter.
• Don’t let Germany get too economically depressed.
• Don’t let the Chinese people get too unhappy with their govt.

Iran feels geographically close enough to inherit the curse for sure.

Yeah that’s the thing, shes broadcasting to people that need to hear this, that would never see this in their feeds otherwise. Bannon and Carlson are too.

But if Trump pulls the trigger? Well, let’s see how they’ll cross him.

Not totally accurate, there’s a huge group of people actively cheering all this on. Read opinion polls on this stuff, and the approval rate is surprisingly high.

Much of American seems to think we’ve elected Tony Stark Warren Buffett Jesus to save us from what seems so grim, and there’s a massive machine making money off that fantasy, perpetuating it. It’s what opposition doesn’t seem to understand, and a big differentiator vs old dictators.

I think that’s what historians will see. Not that most were apathetic. Many really care, but reality warped around us.

“all-in-one API” that will allow agencies to connect their systems to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

This is a huge red flag to me.

It means:

• They are ignorant of existing APIs and standards that are exactly this. Uh, MCP or OpenAI API? Which everyone already uses?
• They have zero interesting in models they can host themselves, or from cheaper providers. Or, heaven forbit, finetune for their own work.
• They have zero interest in actually useful tools. Like, say, SGLang’s cached hosting and fast fill-in-the-blanks formatting which is perfect for say, processing government forms.

In other words, it’s just full corporate AI Bro capture. And shitty.

One of the consequences is that it will be very bad, unfortunately.

To be fair, Axios didn’t rag on Iran here. They didn’t do any kind of labeling, just stating what happened: Israel bombed a live Iranian news station.

That’s what news is supposed to be. The opinion columns are where terms like ‘Zionist regime’ goes. Same with whatever you’d want to call Iran’s govt, but news is just the event as it comes, maybe with context.

Bombing a live news station, and clarifying that there was no warning, speaks for itself. More context of Israel’s many other crimes would be better, but Axios has a very-brief writing style.

What about the used market? The Nvidia 1080/1080 TI or AMD 6000/7000 series is not too bad.

5090 is kinda terrible for AI actually. Its too expensive. It only just got support in pytorch, and if you look at ‘normie’ AI bros trying to use them online, shit doesn’t work.

4090 is… mediocre because it’s expensive for 24GB. The 3090 is basically the best AI card Nvidia ever made, and tinkerers just opt for banks of them.

Businesses tend to buy RTX Pro cards, rent cloud A100s/H100s or just use APIs.

The server cards DO eat up TSMC capacity, but insane 4090/5090 prices is mostly Nvidia’s (and AMD’s) fault for literally being anticompetitive.

It seemed like horrible value at the time, but in hindsight a 4090 was not the worst investment, hah.

One issue is everyone is supply constrained by TSMC. Even Arc Battlemage is OOS at MSRP.

I bet Intel is kicking themselves for using TSMC. It kinda made sense when they decided years ago, but holy heck, they’d be swimming in market share if they used their own fabs instead (and kept the bigger die).

I feel like another is… marketing?

Like, many buyers just impulse buy, or go with what some shill recommended in a feed. Doesn’t matter how competitive anything is anymore.

TBH we should be rioting in front of big news headquarters.

In front of Facebook. Twitter. Google. They’re not too far from LA. Employees should feel scared about enabling all this.

None of this shit matters if algos ignore it, deliberately. Trump can do whatever TF he wants because the media ecosystem built around him is so profitable and engaging, and covering it milquetoast (or worse) is so profitable, not because absolutely everyone obeys him for no reason.

We should make that unprofitable.