anti-machine machine

@bluewmist Adobe, they are the dark pattern masters

What company lost you forever as a customer? What did they do?

@RealJessica Atlas is shrugging

A NYC school teacher has a GREAT idea for billionaires leaving New York. 🤣🙄 He suggests that if the billion dollar companies leave then the regular folks should just take over their businesses. Journalist: “What do you say to the folks who say, if you tax millionaires, they're going to leave the city and the top 1% pays 40% of the taxes in the city. What happens if they leave? What's your response?” NYC Teacher: “We should take their business and we run it for the city ourselves.” 🤡 Journalist: “They take their business to Florida, you feel like you can keep it here?” NYC Teacher: “They can't leave the building. They can't just bring their whole entire workforce to Florida. Right? They can't bring all of the resources that they have to build the business here to Florida. Thats where you would say we're building a real movement, right?” “To stop that, we’d make it illegal for them to actually leave. We would find them to hell if they're gonna try to abandon their property here. Because clearly people do need to work, right? People do need to make a living.” Are they really all this stupid?? Follow: @RealJessica

@KeenanPeachy Not in OC

Rich beachside cities in California will literally raze their downtowns before getting a single homeless junkie off the sidewalk

@__tommyFR__ @JohnCleese @StateDept RIP Europe

@StateDept The US leaves NATO - fine. The US then also leaves military bases that it depends on for its operations such as Ramstein, Mildenhall, Lakenheth, Diego Garcia, the list goes on. We'll see if the US is still a military superpower then.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Why are we in NATO? You have to ask that question. Why do we send trillions of dollars and have all of these American forces stationed in the region, if in our time of need, we won't be allowed to use those bases?

@californiapost @sighswoon That Johnny rockets isn’t even there anymore update your slop

Santa Monica's plan to bring dead mall back to life includes turning promenade into a mini Bourbon Street trib.al/MzJcdbK

@nic_carter @micsolana Don’t want to sling poison to fat sheep

first vibecoded billion-dollar company?

@St2station @0xAlaric So basically never stop never stopping

WSJ had a quote from Artemis II’s commander, a widower who admits to “worry about his daughters. ‘I could have a very comfortable life for them. But I’m also a human, and I see the spirit in their eyes that is burning in my soul too. And so we’ve just got to never stop going.’”

@TheCartelDel Oh that’s just me on my side project

Never in my life have a I heard of a title trying 4 different game engines before being canceled. That's an astonishing amount of pain.

@SandyofCthulhu God willing

She's going to put out someone's eye with those things.

@CollinRugg First good news I’ve heard out of SF in a long ass time

NEW: San Francisco police trap 85 bicyclists on an offramp who were seen taking over the road, swerving around cars, & riding the wrong direction. The bike gang tried turning around after they were blocked on the ramp by SFPD & CHP, but quickly realized they were trapped. All of the bikes were confiscated. This is amazing.

@ZssBecker Anyone who says otherwise is either an AI grifter or an idiot

I vibe code every day. I have a team of 30+ engineers. We spend F tons of credits. And I will tell you this about AI from my experience. It’s being wildly over hyped. Everyone is drunk. Fucking drunk. All the CEOs and Gen Z’s saying coding is dead are idiots. IDIOTS.

Noah strapped on his $180 Nike Air Jordans this morning—manufactured by Taiwanese contractors paying workers $2.68 per hour—and felt the revolutionary fire burning in his chest. 9:15 am: Posted "ACAB" from his iPhone 14 Pro. Apple's $3 trillion market cap makes it the most valuable corporation in human history, but Jake needed those extra camera features for protest documentation. The lithium in his battery came from Bolivian salt flats, where mining operations displaced indigenous Quechua communities. But Evo Morales opposed American imperialism, so the math works out somehow. 11:30 am: Grabbed his usual oat milk latte ($6.50) from the local coffee collective. The beans traveled 4,200 miles from a Guatemalan cooperative that pays farmers $1.20 per pound while Starbucks charges $12 per pound retail. Jake tipped $2 on his Square reader because workers deserve dignity. The collective's owner graduated from Wharton and drives a Tesla Model S. 2:45 pm: Bought a new black hoodie from an "ethical" streetwear brand. Cotton sourced from Xinjiang province, where the Chinese state apparatus runs the world's largest forced labor program. But the company's Instagram bio says "Anti-Fascist" and donates 2% of profits to local bail funds, so Jake felt good about the purchase. The hoodie cost $85. A Hanes equivalent costs $12. 7:20 pm: Ordered Thai delivery through DoorDash while ranting about gig economy exploitation. The driver earned $3.47 after expenses for a 45-minute round trip. Jake rated him five stars and added a $4 tip, then posted about dismantling capitalism on his $1,200 MacBook Air. The beautiful irony: every single transaction Jake made today strengthened the exact system he claims to oppose. But he measured his day by his stated intentions, not by where his dollars actually flowed.

@kiwitalkz Name the 10s coward!

I’ve often felt gaming outlets review scores have been inflated for a long time and they hand out way too many 9s and 10s. There are only 2 games I would personally consider a 10/10 and the last game I’d personally give a 9/10 to is Astro Bot. Keen for peoples thoughts

@thomasmahler Will you be releasing this?

Hey folks, I've been recently talking a lot about why we're adding different styles of play into No Rest for the Wicked and I wanted to prove my theory that that would result in players having more fun, so, long story short... I turned Quake 1 into a Roguelite! 😂 Here's what that means: 1) Roguelite-inspired Run Structure: You start with limited stats in a hub map and are greeted by actual NPCs, then fight through sequential arena rooms across 4 biomes, each ending with a boss fight. 2) 40+ boons across 5 categories: Damage, Movement, Defense, Utility and Risk. And these also come with Rarities: Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. After clearing a room, you pick from 3 random boon offerings. 3) Permanent Meta: Death sends you back to the hub with you retaining the 'essence' currency you collected by killing mobs. Then you spend it at NPCs: The Gatekeeper starts runs, the Wraith upgrades your arsenal (ammo capacity, starting weapons, weapon damage), and The Shaper sells permanent stat upgrades (max HP, armor, boon capacity, rerolls) 4) Difficulty Scaling: Enemy health and damage ramp up as you push deeper. 5) Damage Numbers: Floating combat text and floating healthbars for good measure, so you can understand how much stronger you become over time. All just built on top of unmodified Quake 1 maps and enemies - no new assets needed, it reuses the entire original campaign as roguelike content. To me, this is point proven: I think even hardcore Quake lovers back in the day would've spent a whole bunch of time playing a mode like this given that it'd allow you to experience the thing you love in a whole new light by crossing genres. If you're interested in seeing how this exercise turned out, here's a video for your viewing pleasure! :) I have to wonder what @romero thinks about this given that he originally wanted to add more RPG elements into Quake!

@Jonathan_Blow It’s very strange that employment is attached to health insurance. We deserve an open market for insurance as a product.

I don’t think breaking up insurance companies will solve much, but this is absolutely a huge economic problem that is deeply hurting the US economy. x.com/mcuban/status/…

@11_Jeff_11 @Handre That’s just the tax

@Handre $4.30 for gas?? When did you write this, last week? Try $6/gal

The great migration from California to Texas tells you everything you need to know about taxation and human action. Since 2010, over 700,000 Californians have fled to Texas. They brought $36 billion in adjusted gross income with them. Why? California's top marginal rate hits 13.3% while Texas charges zero state income tax. Add California's 10.75% sales tax, $4.30 gas tax per gallon, and property taxes on steroids, and you get a textbook case of capital flight. The productive class votes with their feet when government becomes parasitic. And the results speak volumes. Texas created 1.8 million jobs between 2009-2019 while California managed 1.3 million despite having 10 million more residents. Tesla moved from Fremont to Austin. Oracle ditched Silicon Valley for Texas. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise followed suit. These aren't coincidences—they're rational responses to confiscatory taxation. Every entrepreneur who relocates takes jobs, tax revenue, and innovation away from the high-tax jurisdiction. California politicians then scratch their heads wondering why their budget runs perpetual deficits. Ludwig von Mises explained that capital flows toward environments where entrepreneurs can keep more of what they create. Government spending crowds out private investment dollar for dollar. California spends $175 billion annually yet still has the nation's highest poverty rate when adjusted for cost of living. Texas spends $60 billion less (with 75% of California's population) and maintains higher median household income growth. The tax-and-spend crowd claims California's services justify the extraction. Yet San Francisco's streets overflow with human waste while Austin's infrastructure improves yearly. High taxes don't buy you better government—they buy you more government, which means less prosperity for everyone except the political class who skims off the top. New York is next.

@boycereads The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

What’s the best sci-fi you’ve ever read not named Dune, Red Rising or Sun Eater?

@XS29L8B000001 @bethanyshondark Read it again, use your brain or a dictionary if need be

@bethanyshondark OK, but a lot of flights are not going to be able to accommodate your family. Better book early!

Every time I post about our family getting split up on a flight I’m told I didn’t pay enough for our seats or book far enough in advance. But this is what Macaulay Culkin just posted. It should not be legal for airlines to split up kids and parents on the same reservation.

@BestMovieMom Had to make their quota to avoid bad press

I still can’t believe he won the Oscar. It’s really not the kind of performance the Academy usually rewards. It’s great to see an action performance recognized, but I still wonder why they made that choice.

@rebelmindx @solgob_ Not quite the right comparison in ER you can lose souls but nothing else

If Elden Ring can thrive for its difficultty. I would like to believe that Marathon can too. Completely different games but sometimes it's the challenge that draws people in and keep them there. They nailed it with Cryo Archive. There is nothing like it out there right now. They really cooked with this game. 🔥🔥🔥

Marathon from the viewpoint of a competitive-spirited gamer that is older: Marathon is a very good game. I don’t consider myself a “sweat” these days but I have competed in shooters at a high level my entire life, always reaching the top ranks in games like Halo, StarCraft, Warcraft 3, CS, League of Legends and Apex. As well as attending LAN tournies in a few of those games. (Also currently loving Deadlock) I would have been absolutely in love with Marathon as a young fellow with more time to spare, as some of you probably are. I’m 35 now, on top of all of my responsibilities, I have like two hours a day on average to play video games. Some days, zero. And the following point is why Marathon will never be huge and might actually suffer greatly and ween off. Which genuinely makes me sad. It is simply too time consuming and unforgiving. I can’t even imagine trying to play this game as someone who isn’t inherently talented at shooters but still plays them for fun. It’s probably so brutal that it simply isn’t worth your time. While Cryo Archive is SO sick, it is a perfect example of this. I guess I’m just worried that one of the best multiplayer games I’ve ever played is going to suffer from the thing that also makes it so cool. 😂 I would love to be wrong and for Marathon to go on and gain a larger playerbase and keep releasing badass content for years.