One of the things that has me curious given the rush to cancel Game Pass is about how significant the attrition rate was expected internally at MS.

Any time you change a service offering or increase pricing, there is an expectation you'll price out some of your customers.

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If your government is setting up concentration camps then you're the bad guys. It's remarkable that even needs saying in the 21st century.

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Six film titles that are misleading…

6. Mission Impossible (it was possible)
5. Goodfellas (they were pretty bad actually)
4. Jurassic Park (Cretaceous Park more like)
3. The Constant Gardener (never even starts gardening)
2. The Man Who Wasn’t There (yes he was)
1. The NeverEnding Story (ends)

Declaring economic war with countries that own trillions of your debt and from which you need to keep buying your future IOUs to avoid a massive interest rate debt spiral bankruptcy, ranks alongside "never get involved in a land war in Asia" as the dumbest strategic blunder.

Fable delayed to 2026

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Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist

Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance

Reminder that a tariff is a tax.

Trump is raising your taxes.

OpenAI scraped the internet and copyrighted material, and now it’s suddenly concerned about plagiarism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As a free thinker alpha male one of my highest values is unquestioning obedience to authority. Boss knows best, that's why he's the boss

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

Hey, couple notes on your post. Personally I think it's fine. Totally get it. But someone I imagined, in my head, might not like it. They haven't seen it yet but I'm just saying, if they did. They might freak out a little bit. Anyway take it down or I'm calling the cops

The amount of bots who have followed me today, Christ!

The central problem social media has failed to tackle is that it's easier to build an audience using controversy than real thought.