Fuck this shit of trying to push the onus onto the common person. A single megacorp does more environmental damage in a day than I’ll do in my whole life. So I’m not gonna drive slow, I’m not gonna use dumbass paper straws, and I’m not gonna spend 2 hours/week hand washing fast food plastics until they’re finally good enough for the recycling center. Not while they’re building fucking AI data centers across the street. Fuck right off.

Microsoft: It isn’t fair to call us that!.
Also Microsoft: breaks everything immediately after

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AI boosters are no longer allowed to explain what’s good about AI using the future tense. You can no longer say “it will,” “could,” “might,” “likely,” “possible,” “estimated,” “promise,” or any other term that reviews today’s capabilities in the language of the future.

This is a horrible take. What if providing access to these dolls actually decreases the likelihood that a buyer will offend against a real child? Would you be against the sale of said dolls then?

Facebook for “professionals”.

*Highguard

So all this is supposed to be part of what lobbies do - provide subject matter input, recommendations, and direction to lawmakers, so that said lawmakers can make better laws. This protects the lobbies’ interests because they aren’t forced to do unreasonable shit just to comply with nonsense laws.

BUT Citizens United happened, and now lobbies are for funneling money to politicians so that they will produce laws that benefit you, as a company/org, and not the general interest.

On your TV?

Great read. Thank you for sharing!

Honestly, I think gaming is done with new live service offerings.

Live service used to be a way to get a core-complete, feature-limited games in front of players earlier than if they were fully baked. This was actually good for everyone, as player feedback often guided roadmaps and changes. But now everyone expects every new game to be better than Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. on day one. This just won’t ever happen.

Also, the gaming community of today is OBSESSED with popularity numbers (steam concurrents and twitch view count, mostly), and if players don’t see that everyone else is playing a game then they won’t play either. This is fucking dumb, but we are where we are.

And don’t even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate. They bitch about being stuck with CoD, then shit on anything that could someday compete with it. It’s baffling.

That’s becoming my takeaway here as well. Don’t jump into any live service game early, because it might get rug-pulled right as I’m getting into it.

Of course, if everyone took this approach then no live service game will ever take off, which kinda feels like where we are anyways.

https://kansaspublicradio.org/2026-02-26/kansas-transgender-id-invalid-drivers-license-bathroom-law

FTA

If you don’t want to see AI on Firefox anymore, all you have to do is click on Settings > AI Controls. You’ll then see a very bold and prominent option called ‘Block AI Enhancements.’ Hit that, and every AI tool gets disabled.

Why? He will never face any consequences.

So yeah, about that…

Skate is free to play

This - like most problems we’ve created in the US - comes down to money. Google will often donate/grant Chromebooks to schools in order to create future addicts customers. It would cost schools a lot more to do what’s right (or at least better) for their students, so they don’t do that thing.

Let the enshittification begin!

Sony really learned nothing from Concord. Incredible.

Xbox consoles are generally not good 4k/UHD Blu-ray players. I tried using my XSX for (physical) movie watching for a while, and my experience was poor enough that I went out and bought a dedicated Panasonic player instead.

Not all discs would play in my XSX, picture was often noisy, and I ran into a fair amount of audio issues up to and including no sound at all.