Daniel Kaszor
@dkaszor.bsky.social
A former journalist and current writer and editor. Used to trick a national newspaper into letting me run a videogames vertical, back when videogames verticals were a thing. Avatar doodled by Chip Zdarsky in 2015.
This is fundamentally the transfer of compute-power as something a person can own, to something a person rents. Which is, you know, not good.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
This is fundamentally the transfer of compute-power as something a person can own, to something a person rents. Which is, you know, not good.
~whispers to avoid alerting the discorse~
(it actually does feel like something fundamental has shifted in the AI space first at the end of november and then again in the past two weeks, though I wouldn't punditify about the results of what it means)
(it actually does feel like something fundamental has shifted in the AI space first at the end of november and then again in the past two weeks, though I wouldn't punditify about the results of what it means)
February 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
~whispers to avoid alerting the discorse~
(it actually does feel like something fundamental has shifted in the AI space first at the end of november and then again in the past two weeks, though I wouldn't punditify about the results of what it means)
(it actually does feel like something fundamental has shifted in the AI space first at the end of november and then again in the past two weeks, though I wouldn't punditify about the results of what it means)
Carney is apparently polling super well right now. I am reminded of a conversation that I had with a co-worker about 10 years ago that Harper probably could have been a generationally popular PM if he wasn't just such a weasel asshole, and I think Carney might be proving that out.
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Carney is apparently polling super well right now. I am reminded of a conversation that I had with a co-worker about 10 years ago that Harper probably could have been a generationally popular PM if he wasn't just such a weasel asshole, and I think Carney might be proving that out.
For real though, what?
February 7, 2026 at 5:32 AM
For real though, what?
"Fetching emails from third-party accounts into your Gmail account, with POP, will no longer be supported."
blinks .... really?
blinks .... really?
February 7, 2026 at 5:28 AM
"Fetching emails from third-party accounts into your Gmail account, with POP, will no longer be supported."
blinks .... really?
blinks .... really?
I mean, I know that this really isn't what people are riled up about over this, but this doesn't feel like something you should be able to patent. Like almost certainly wouldn't hold up in court, right?
Sony has patented the idea of AI-generated podcasts hosted by characters from its games.
The idea would see players getting their own bespoke podcasts on their console, telling them what's new, hosted by the characters of the games they've been playing.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-pa...
The idea would see players getting their own bespoke podcasts on their console, telling them what's new, hosted by the characters of the games they've been playing.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-pa...
Sony patents AI-generated podcasts voiced by characters from its games | VGC
Players would get their own personalised podcasts on their consoles telling them what’s new…
www.videogameschronicle.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I mean, I know that this really isn't what people are riled up about over this, but this doesn't feel like something you should be able to patent. Like almost certainly wouldn't hold up in court, right?
The reason AI em-dashes stick out is that AI uses them where most people use a comma or colon (or sometimes brackets). Thing is? The em-dash usually reads cleaner! It's just that most people don't /write/ like that: their work gets EDITED to read like that.
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The reason AI em-dashes stick out is that AI uses them where most people use a comma or colon (or sometimes brackets). Thing is? The em-dash usually reads cleaner! It's just that most people don't /write/ like that: their work gets EDITED to read like that.
Wonder Man does a great job at showing why the two very different leads might be friends, and also why they also don't have any other friends.
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Wonder Man does a great job at showing why the two very different leads might be friends, and also why they also don't have any other friends.
It sucks that clear writing fundamentals—active voice, readable sentence structure, and, yes, appropriate em-dashes—are now flagged as "sounding like AI."
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
It sucks that clear writing fundamentals—active voice, readable sentence structure, and, yes, appropriate em-dashes—are now flagged as "sounding like AI."
Any typos in my skeets are to prove I'm not AI
January 26, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Any typos in my skeets are to prove I'm not AI
Since people DMed me on this: the actual thesis would be about how legitimately they couldn't have shown that exact same nudity if it was MEANT to be titillating. And the gag in the scene is them pushing how far they can go with it in that context. (See also The Chair Company)
Legit, you could write a thesis on the male nudity in the first 30 seconds of tonight's KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
January 26, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Since people DMed me on this: the actual thesis would be about how legitimately they couldn't have shown that exact same nudity if it was MEANT to be titillating. And the gag in the scene is them pushing how far they can go with it in that context. (See also The Chair Company)
Legit, you could write a thesis on the male nudity in the first 30 seconds of tonight's KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Legit, you could write a thesis on the male nudity in the first 30 seconds of tonight's KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: What if a Himbo was so big and dumb and puppy-dog-eyed that even the world of Game of Thrones couldn't bring itself crush him.
January 26, 2026 at 4:18 AM
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: What if a Himbo was so big and dumb and puppy-dog-eyed that even the world of Game of Thrones couldn't bring itself crush him.
After MASK OF THE PHANTASM and BLADE, I think the superhero movie from the 90s that holds up best is bizarrely THE SHADOW, which is much better than it has any right being. Actually, I think it's probably better than BLADE, or at least more watchable.
January 22, 2026 at 8:44 PM
After MASK OF THE PHANTASM and BLADE, I think the superhero movie from the 90s that holds up best is bizarrely THE SHADOW, which is much better than it has any right being. Actually, I think it's probably better than BLADE, or at least more watchable.
Every 90s kid who remembers that huge box going on clearance for a year because they couldn't sell the thing.
Someone brought EarthBound to Antiques Roadshow
($800 - $1200 for game and strategy guide, no box)
($800 - $1200 for game and strategy guide, no box)
a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on
Alt: A gif of Matt Damon rapidly aging into an old man
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Every 90s kid who remembers that huge box going on clearance for a year because they couldn't sell the thing.
I know not everyone here follows AI news (understandable), but the last few months of developments imply that OpenAI and ChatGPT are kind of cooked. I don’t mean AI is cooked necessarily (though who knows!), but it feels like it's MySpace in 2007.
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 AM
I know not everyone here follows AI news (understandable), but the last few months of developments imply that OpenAI and ChatGPT are kind of cooked. I don’t mean AI is cooked necessarily (though who knows!), but it feels like it's MySpace in 2007.
A fun thing I liked about Anthem, which isn't a spoiler now that you can't play it: The character who was your handler (+did basically every open-world radio bark) betrays you near the end of the plot. A new character fills in. So they had a full different set of voice lines for basically every bark
So now that Anthem is officially shut down (RIP to a game with much better "bones" than it was given credit for), anyone at BioWare want to confirm it was supposed to be a "several centuries later" sequel to Mass Effect Andromeda, and probably would have been revealed as such had it lasted longer?
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
A fun thing I liked about Anthem, which isn't a spoiler now that you can't play it: The character who was your handler (+did basically every open-world radio bark) betrays you near the end of the plot. A new character fills in. So they had a full different set of voice lines for basically every bark
So now that Anthem is officially shut down (RIP to a game with much better "bones" than it was given credit for), anyone at BioWare want to confirm it was supposed to be a "several centuries later" sequel to Mass Effect Andromeda, and probably would have been revealed as such had it lasted longer?
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
So now that Anthem is officially shut down (RIP to a game with much better "bones" than it was given credit for), anyone at BioWare want to confirm it was supposed to be a "several centuries later" sequel to Mass Effect Andromeda, and probably would have been revealed as such had it lasted longer?
Historica Canada has been making new "Heritage Minutes" for youtube about 10 years now, and it's interesting to watch the style evolve for the new minutes.
January 10, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Historica Canada has been making new "Heritage Minutes" for youtube about 10 years now, and it's interesting to watch the style evolve for the new minutes.
Man, remember when AppleTV+ did a big, glossy ambitious sci-fi series about the cumulative effects of climate change filled with big-A-list stars and not only did no one watch it, it seems to have been completely memory holed?
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Man, remember when AppleTV+ did a big, glossy ambitious sci-fi series about the cumulative effects of climate change filled with big-A-list stars and not only did no one watch it, it seems to have been completely memory holed?
It's actually kind of amazing looking at the Canadian stores after they were sold by GameStop last summer and rebranded back to being EB Games. Almost overnight they felt reinvigorated. Really does feel like rot from the top.
Visited the nearby Gamestop. Even though it technically doesn't close for another week, all of the games were packed up and sent off. Only stuff left was some toy junk.
January 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It's actually kind of amazing looking at the Canadian stores after they were sold by GameStop last summer and rebranded back to being EB Games. Almost overnight they felt reinvigorated. Really does feel like rot from the top.
The thing I think is funny about people rejecting the Stranger Things ending is I really think the primary thing the Stranger Things ending was designed to was to be as crowd pleasing and and generally palatable to the widest possible audience it could be.
January 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The thing I think is funny about people rejecting the Stranger Things ending is I really think the primary thing the Stranger Things ending was designed to was to be as crowd pleasing and and generally palatable to the widest possible audience it could be.
Let’s talk about AI for a second. Most discourse is stuck on "is it good or bad?" (consensus here reasonably settling on "bad"). But that focus causes people to miss the macro shifts actually happening. AI is a huge part of the economy now, and the broad details matter. (thread, I know, sorry) 1/10
January 6, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Let’s talk about AI for a second. Most discourse is stuck on "is it good or bad?" (consensus here reasonably settling on "bad"). But that focus causes people to miss the macro shifts actually happening. AI is a huge part of the economy now, and the broad details matter. (thread, I know, sorry) 1/10
FWIW This is why I really try to stay away from political and "current events" posts. Not because the stuff isn't important, but because basically all of bluesky is already that. I'm not adding anything. I feel like I have more to contribute on dumb, irrelevant topics.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
I'd be happy with big non politics accounts.
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
FWIW This is why I really try to stay away from political and "current events" posts. Not because the stuff isn't important, but because basically all of bluesky is already that. I'm not adding anything. I feel like I have more to contribute on dumb, irrelevant topics.
Reposted by Daniel Kaszor
I actually liked Stranger Things 5, but it really says something about how much people LIBERALLY skip forward through scenes in the show that I've now seen three different people say they thought Jonathan proposed to Nancy.
January 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM
I actually liked Stranger Things 5, but it really says something about how much people LIBERALLY skip forward through scenes in the show that I've now seen three different people say they thought Jonathan proposed to Nancy.