Mark Day (markday.eth)

@Dalrymple Maybe it’s the 💩 on the sidewalk

Spent a few days in Seattle and wondered: Why isn't this place New York City? Temperate weather (compared to the East), a big port, plentiful natural resources, big tech sector, etc. Seems the PNW should be a tier A global economic powerhouse.

@kellabyte Blue hair energy

The personal attacks on Jarred have not stopped by the way. They have continued on the Zig mailing list.

@theo “Evil”? 😂 you are such a dork

Read this on stream earlier. Big mistake. I've never been so pissed off on camera. I cannot fathom how anyone could publish an article like this. Andrew is a petty, evil man, and you should not trust any software he writes.

@asha_shar Is there anything gayer than letting the world know about your company emails. 🤡

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX: Team, We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale. I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication. Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX. First, we will reset our content portfolio. Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision. Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options. We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions. In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX. Second, we will reset our platform. We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify. We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend. Third, we are resetting how we operate. As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done. For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results. Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best. These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates. I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027. History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them. Asha

@PalmerLuckey @elonmusk I have a hunch this can be traced back to the acceptance of the “selfie”

We need a bit more shame. People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this. Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 40% of young women (under 35) claim mental illness, and SSI disability payments have gone up 400% in a single generation. It isn't good for anyone, least of all people who are actually disabled, when everyone looks the other way as friends and family and peers con the system with a level of shamelessness no architect of our safety net ever imagined could be possible in America. When everyone is disabled, nobody is.

@Fx1Jonny Pre pew

This is what Elon is promoting. THE MASS KILLING OF MUSLIMS!!! Fucking sick twisted bastards!!

@RichardHanania “No charges were brought” Dork

Can't make this stuff up. Armie Hammer, the guy who stars in the movie where he massacres Muslims' families for rapes individuals have committed, was himself under investigation for rape. No charges were brought, but it's funny that the people who reject due process and are into vigilanteism and collective punishment chose this guy as their mascot.

@BostonTea84 Pew pew

Najbogatszy człowiek świata promuje film, w którym biały Europejczyk zabija wyznawców islamu, stosując przy tym odpowiedzialność zbiorową. Nie sądziłem, że dożyję takich czasów. Wahadło historii odchyla się ostro w prawo?

@JoshEakle Pretending not to understand this hard will give you a hernia

Setting aside half the misinformation in this post, the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society. And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.

@paulg @Noahpinion My son is an idiot, but our house is his home, his friends on the other hand must be people I want in our home.

@Noahpinion It's fine to want lots very smart people to come to the US. It's more controversial to want to keep out all other immigrants. And it is a bit hypocritical to want to do this when you yourself would be among the people being kept out.

That's actually fine. It's actually fine to want to recruit people more talented than you for your team.

Every year that Elon Musk refuses to seize the continent of Africa by force and rule it as king he kills another 10 million people

@spencerpratt His frame is bent in the shape of despair

See the look on the Wiener guy's face? That's the realization that his Frankenstein ain't going back in the grave. Every communist revolutionary thinks they'll have a seat at the table of power...in reality, they're always the first against the wall.

@BIG_PARMENIDES Spoken like a true commie

I regret not having kids. I’m finally ready to admit that to myself. I mean, I guess I still could but I’m not sure how fair that’d be to do to a child since I’m in my 40’s.

@NYCMayor lol what?

Ashura is a time of remembrance, sacrifice and reflection.  Today, on the 10th day of Muharram, we are reminded of Imam Hussain's unwavering commitment to truth and dignity. His timeless legacy reminds us of the enduring values of faith, service to one another, and the belief that justice is always worth fighting for. Our City’s strength comes from the many faith traditions that shape it — and our shared struggle against injustice and oppression. May we carry these values forward as we continue building a more just City for every New Yorker.

@boomersdid911 @stoolpresidente Tell me you’re poor without telling me you’re poor

@stoolpresidente That’s a crazy clip… hard to believe you’ve been morally mogged for so many decades now Your need to point out how rich you are highlights how insecure you are about it. Money, but no friends, no love, no true purpose in life. Must be lonely down there mate.

It’s hard to believe this guy I was interviewing at some protest a decade ago is now basically the face of the Democratic Party in the United States.

@matthewstoller Why do these guys all look the same

Mark Zuckerberg burns $100 billion a year on dork glasses and failed AI models. I don't ever want to hear about waste in government again until you acknowledge corporate America is far far more wasteful.

@MattWalshBlog Covid’s a bitch

As I’ve argued for years, the “insanity” defense should not exist. It should not be permitted by law.

@krystalball Pretending I don’t understand = “beyond insane”

I read this 5 times to make sure I was properly comprehending that he is actually facing 30 years for having leftist reading materials. Beyond insane

@smcroasters “There’s so much things we don’t know about Covid” 😂

@xwanyex I’ve never heard someone describe me so on the nose

I'm as IQ-pilled as anybody, but it's always been obvious to me that there's a kind of guy who is very funny and perceptive and quick, but also basically retarded