… during a performance

They’re performers on a stage. Such a farce.

Good shot, though.

I wonder how the Washington Post feels about it?

Counterpoint:

It’s a bit surprising how many CEO’s express disdain for their users and employees.

When employees are reduced to an “input resource” number on a spreadsheet, and they sit insulated from user complaints, and likely surround themselves with sycophants, I suppose it’s inevitable.

Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

If it can be done, they will do it. Power is unconstrained by ethics, empathy, or morality. Never assume that anyone in power shares these traits with the rest of us, they do not.

The only thing that constrains power is enforced laws with teeth.

That’s a nice.

Flabbergasted that people will pay so much to have McDonald’s delivered.

Top Ordered Food Nationwide:

Fries

Chicken Quesadilla

Mozzarella Sticks

Garlic Naan

Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Pepperoni Pizza

Chips & Queso

Traditional Wings

Cobb Salad

Fried Rice

This is what they need to do. Give people the choice.

If it’s not technically doable, then we’ll do it ourselves, we’ll fight over which game is and isn’t full of slop. And, we’ll be wrong sometimes, but increasingly right. Because, soon ALL media will be full of slop, including games.

The only way to avoid it will be to play old games. Which is fine by me, but there’s always the next generation of gamers coming up who won’t be so picky.

Wake me up when it beats fossils:

The poll is here and includes many questions beyond this one that grabbed headlines: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-10/ABC-Post-Ipsos Trend Topline 10.21.pdf

Including these two questions:

For now, I can avoid AI because it’s easy to spot. Even product website AI chatbots are poor imitations of people. (Honestly, the mental acrobatics people must go through to talk to one of these things as a trusted advisor baffles me. It’s a fucking machine, you’re talking to a box, a piece of software. Stop anthropomorphizing the damn things. But, maybe that’s just me.)

In the near future I expect for anything important to me (namely, doctors, lawyers, friends, advisors), I’ll only trust face to face conversations--but then, no more so than I ever have. Because, they won’t perfect androids in my lifetime.

The threat is that for paid positions, like doctors, etc., the option for face to face may become too expensive for anyone but the rich. Because, you know the rich won’t take digital advice. Hell, they’re trying to replace teachers in public schools with machines, right now. The rich never let their kids have phones when they’re young. Or, at least not the parents who give a fuck about their kids, which seems not many filthy rich do. Let alone will they let some machine teach them in school.

I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren’t paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.

They’re using AI. They think it’s wonderful, they’ve barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think “data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don’T yoU?”

The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):

• Therapy and companionship
• Organizing my life
• Finding purpose
• Enhanced learning
• Summarizing content
• Generating ideas
• Generating code (for professionals)
• Improving code (for professionals)
• Creativity
• Visual art and design

Only 50 center per hour, you say? I mean it’s only 75 cents, that won’t even buy a soda anymore. Who wouldn’t pay a dollar an hour to play the games they love?

God forbid he man-up and liquidate some of his assets. Pay your fair share, asshole!

Billion is officially the new million.

I predict it gets canceled.

I suppose if the AI bubble pops, and memory and CPU prices crash, then maybe it will happen. But, that’s going to be very hard on the entire economy, so maybe it will be canceled for that reason, instead.

All those loans are getting hot. They’re starting to toss them around and trying to hide them.

I have strong doubts they can ever make this particular approach to AI work at all, let alone in time to cover their bets.

This path looks like a dead end. But, I don’t know jack about shit.

If she were a he, and he were white, they’d quietly hire him back later or he’d be hired one county over.