Nice.

This duck is the new acceptable answer, when someone asks “what is art?”.

All philosophical answers need not apply. The answer is just this picture.

Any detailed philosophical arguments about art are still allowed to continue, but those discussions must now treat this “smoking duck stuck in traffic” as their shared first axiom.

Everybody says the data isn’t retained. It’s very stylish, today, to claim to delete unused data, at least until it get breached

And when it comes to number 2, they’re number 1!

Camera pans uncomfortably and refocuses on MoonRaven’s cat buying NFTs on an old laptop in the background.

I think Warframe is the only (non-open source) free to play game I have nice things to say about.

I never felt any pressure to pay, but every few months of playing and I would think, “I feel like I should chip these folks some cash, again”.

And then they do make it fun to chuck them some money.

Most of the purchasables may as well just say “trust us, it’s fun”, for all I understood any of them before buying. (I think I bought maybe 4 frames while playing for about a year.)

After playing for awhile, I do trust them. I’ve not been disappointed with any purchased frame or item - with the understanding that both are pretty much just amusing “thank you” gimmicks for supporting.

Warframe has been a good time. I sort of expect it to enshitify at any moment, but for now they seem chill.

You got my hopes up.

I don’t wish Alex anything but a long life after a hopefully complete rehabilitation of his sociopsthic habits.

But I do have a nice drink set aside for my own enjoyment on the day that I’m convinced Alex will stop harming others.

I don’t have any particularly strict rule about how I get convinced he is done hurting people. I suspect I’ll see it in the obituaries rather than an op-ed. But I’m open to either.

Alex doesn’t seem likely to fix his life, but he also looks like he doesn’t cares well for his health…so I do have that drink near the front of the cabinet.

Oh well. My nice drink can wait. Maybe I’ll open it to celebrate his reform yet. Like Alice, I try to believe six impossible things before breakfast.

It won’t be a problem, because companies are taking the risks of AI seriously, and compensating employees at every level well enough to ensure each employee takes proper precautions.

Free markets hurt capitalists.

Fucking communists and their free markets and open competition! None of that for us, please.

(Poe’s law: This is meant to be taken as absurdist humor.)

Yes, it’s the people who put in decades of hard work, not the cocaine snorting golden parachute executives, costing US auto makers their chance to compete. That might be it.

Edit: If only there were some way for citizens united to do something to help those poor executives.

I’m glad to hear it.

I have a friend Jody reminds me of, and I appreciate that he’s still around.

Is that the one The Onion now owns?

Feels like this could happen…

How is Jody doing, now?

We’re still quoting this fucker after his Epstein emails?

I heard one of their private rape islands got shut down. That had to be inconvenient.

Luckily for the billionaires they don’t own any homes, their homes are part of a complex companies, or some bullshit.

Makes sense. Building a home ‘steam machine’ alternative for my home TV has been on my own todo list for awhile. (Unless I can get my hands om the real deal before I get around to it, I suppose.)

Thanks.

Thats makes me wonder if the dip there is natural wear and tear taking SteamDecks out of play, and folks not replacing them because there were none in stock for awhile this summer.

Does anyone have their Steam Holo yet? Or could that drop just be all of the Valve staff taking a break from their game testing?

FYI, whether fair or unfair, since you don’t mention having an error-catching mechanism, the rest of us suspect that Lumo is hallucinating things regularly, and you’re not catching the lies, because you lack familiarity with the original source material.

I desperately hope that AI makes drastically fewer mistakes in some roles than others, because most people do not report the error rates that I see in my areas of expertise. So either the errors aren’t happening evenly everywhere (probably true) or some people are simply not catching the many mistakes (also probably true, though?).