Fulano Rando

@bocchiyuri This clip of some rando getting into an altercation with Jon Jones today reminded me of your video x.com/ChampRDS/statu…

one day ill make a marathon tweet so beloved that one of those insanely cracked teams will carry my ass thru cryo archive

@EYakoby He's literally a foreign registered agent. His defense of working for Russian state media is amazing: "I can't get a job anywhere else." Surprised MK and Tucker are so naive unless they're doing the same thing as him.

Didn’t this guy literally sell out to Russia?

@nikitabier @beffjezos That is excellent news. Any chance you could also apply the LLM bot model to posts? Half of my "For You" feed is LLM contrastive negation slop.

We need a blade runner model whose job it is to filter out replicants from X replies

@EYakoby Isn't that Glenn Greenwald's thing? He shifted from supporting Maduro to supporting the IRGC now? Fitting

Drop Site just went full mask off.

@P_Adejoh @SeeRacists @pangramlabs is this comment AI-generated slop?

@SeeRacists Deeply disturbing. The level of hatred and premeditation here is terrifying. Nobody should have to fear for their life because someone decided to provoke them for sport. This isn’t ‘drama’; it’s attempted murder rooted in racism

🚨BREAKING: Allegedly a Group of white girls deliberately provoked this Black man by calling him the n-word on purpose to make him react. They already had the gun loaded and ready the second he responded they opened fire trying to k*ll him. One of them was caught on audio saying “I should pop this n*gga.” THOUGHTS?

@EYakoby He's a registered foreign agent and works for Russian state TV, in addition to being convicted of espionage. He works for adversaries.

John Kiriakou at the start of Operation Epic Fury: “If Iran sinks an aircraft carrier, it would trigger World War III. There’s no defense against hypersonic missiles, and Iran possesses them.” Never before have people been so wrong so often.

@jackprandelli @nikitabier please save us from AI slop posts

Trump's number is wrong. The strategy behind it is genius. China doesn't get 90% of its oil from Hormuz. The real number is closer to 50-55%. For reference maybe he was thinking about Iran that's selling 90% of it's oil to China. But here's why the exaggeration doesn't matter. The strategic move is real Think about what Trump is actually doing If China has to guard Hormuz: → Chinese naval assets move to the Middle East → The Taiwan Strait gets less covered → Beijing has to choose between its oil supply and its Taiwan ambitions → China either lets Iran lose a key protector or gets pulled into the conflict It's a forced choice. Guard your oil or guard your future. You can't do both. Trump isn't giving Hormuz to China. He's handing Beijing a problem that drains its military focus, its diplomatic capital and its budget. And the 90% number? Doesn't need to be accurate. It just needs to make China feel responsible. Have a look at my latest article, where i explain the deeper strategy behind all of this🔗 Link 👇 themerchantsnews.substack.com/p/what-is-the-…

@staycationtg Getting rich in solo is easy. Fully upgrading factions in solo is nearly impossible

I’ve played Marathon solo for the past 2 days and it’s not easy. Respect to you solo warriors who never have a squad. From rook runs to dealing with the inconsistency of randoms. If you can get rich playing alone, you can do anything.

@Ziegler_Dev Any chance of gear-based matchmaking? If I solo on a free kit, I run into purples, and if I run purples I get matched with a free kit trio

BALANCE SHAKE UP! We're looking to make some changes in the next couple of patches to adjust some of the outliers in the combat space that we've both seen in our observations and heard from your feedback across all of the various (and plentiful) channels we watch. Some of these changes will be likely coming in the next patch, the next set will likely be arriving a week after. Here's some of the areas we're focusing on adjusting: - Bubble shields being too easy to get, too powerful to use. - The Knife scaling too easily to god like power levels. - Thermal scopes being too present and dominant - Snipers being too strong in all scenarios. - Giving Vandal and Recon some more oomph to match their counterparts. ALSO we're adding some stuff that can help add texture to the outcomes of fights: - SECRET: A new item to give solos a more common option when downed. - SECRET: A new item to give a more merciful option between crews. There'll be a lot more goodies in the coming patches and more details as the patch notes go live. Thank you all again for keeping the feedback flowing. We've still got a big list of things we're looking into that extends beyond this that will take us more time to figure out and we'll update you as we continue to build on our evolving plans.

@asalisbury I'd happily wait longer in the queue if it meant getting matched with people carrying more or less the same loadout value. Right now it's free kits vs purple sweats with thermals in the same lobby, same with trio filling. Please make queues based on shields and such

1.0.5.2 is live - some notable updates to dig into! Keep the feedback coming. We may not be able to reply to every single @, but I promise we read them 🙏

@Ziegler_Dev It's fantastic, it just needs a way to fill rando trios better. Free kits are running into full purples, or a purple is filling with two free kits, etc. The difficulty is good, but people without their own squad can barely play

(update about an update: we have some iterations / big balance changes brewing right now and will talk about it soon) but... OFF TOPIC: I feel like as a kid of the 90s and a person who's worked on PVP FPS games for over a decade, I may have taken the first two lines of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" too much to heart.

@real_lord_miles Brazil has regularly been the most violent country in the world, Colombia has been in a civil war for 50 years (the longest in the world), Venezuela had a commie revolution, how do you mean?

How come nothing ever happens in South America? Everything is constantly popping off in Europe, Asia, the Middle East etc but you never hear of anything independently taking place in South America. Is it because their genes are Spanish and Portuguese so they’re genetically lazy and sleep all day? Doesn’t make sense

@isolatedrook After taking five minutes to load up and find a match as a free kit, it'd be nice if purples and golds didn't sprint 90 degrees to my spawn point and obliterate me within 20 seconds

If a less rewarding and somewhat limited PVE mode is what it takes to get people on Marathon, I would be fine with it. I'm thinking something along the lines of Sea of Thieves' Safer Seas mode if anyone is familiar with that. Something to better ease players into the game so it's not so daunting at first.

@MarathonDevTeam Can we get LFG raids with some requirements, like in Destiny? I'd love to queue up a trio with people who have at least blue shields and a microphone

We're officially in our second week with the experimental duo queue - moving from Perimeter into the wilds of Dire Marsh. How have you been enjoying it so far? What feedback have you got for us? We want to hear!

@gothburz @nikitabier It's obviously AI. That's not a guess. That's contrastive negation. (see what I did there) Your response comment has a totally different voice from the post. And yes, AI posts are in paragraph blocks like yours. Nobody wants to see AI summaries.

@FulanoRando @nikitabier The AI writing assistant would have made it shorter and said nothing. That's the difference between slop and a post you read to the end.

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

@hr_unhinged Have you considered replacing your copywriter with Claude? It never makes mistakes and costs almost nothing. That's not just efficiency - that's progress.

How many times is an employee allowed to second-guess themselves before it becomes a liability? I was reviewing our keystroke tracking software and noticed a disturbing trend. Our lead copywriter hit the backspace key 47 times in a single hour. I scheduled a mandatory one-on-one to discuss her lack of conviction. She argued that editing is literally the core function of writing. I countered that deleting company-owned words is a form of intellectual property destruction. Every time she backspaces, she's throwing away thoughts we pay her to produce. She asked if I wanted her to just submit unedited gibberish. I told her I expect her to be right the first time. I physically popped the backspace key off her mechanical keyboard with a flathead screwdriver. Efficiency means never looking back.

@SenSanders We all become politicians and take money from big pharma like you guys

Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots. That’s a declaration of war against the working class. He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?

@Zzkam19 @zerohedge Uribe led M19? Then why does Petro still wave its flag and write eulogies to its militants when they die? He is very proud of being a member of M19

@FulanoRando @zerohedge "Petro's guerrillas group" Imagine thinking the guy was the leader. The funny thing is that the commanders of the M19 are in the Centro Democratico party which is the one from Alvaro Uribe, linked with paramilitars and the one who gave flying licences to Pablo Escobar

US Probes Colombia President for Alleged Narco Ties, NYT Reports

@staycationtg How did you get the hazard capsules to rank up nucal? Do they eventually give them to you at VIP rank? I need some purple shields so I can walk for two minutes in peace

ALL FACTIONS VIP IN MARATHON LET'S GO!!