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“The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power—whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive.” — Milton Friedman

Android has always driven innovation in the industry through its unique flexibility and openness. At this important moment, we continue to be at the forefront of how developers distribute their apps and games on billions of devices globally. Today we are announcing big changes: – Leading the way in store choice: A registered app store program that makes installation of participating app stores easier with a streamlined flow – A new business model for Google Play with lower prices for developers: The ability to use your own billing alongside Google Play Billing, and lower service fees. These changes will make for a stronger Android ecosystem with more choice for users and even more successful developers who can further invest in higher quality experiences on mobile and beyond. The above will be rolling out in phases, subject to local laws and processes. We are also excited to announce that we’ve resolved all our disputes with Epic Games globally! Details on all of this can be found at our blog post. android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-…

A bleak report about the games industry made the rounds a couple of weeks ago. Then, last week, @ballmatthew added this chart to it What it shows: Game industry revenue growth in 2025, excluding China, Roblox, hardware and console services was near 0 gamefile.news/p/one-key-char…

AIが復元した「清明上河図」に言葉を失う。確かに、AI特有の「滑らかすぎる質感」に違和感を覚える瞬間もある。だが、張択端が描こうとした千年前の喧騒が、圧倒的な解像度で迫ってくるのも事実だから、これは模写ではない。AIという異質なフィルターを通すことで、われわれは初めて「大宋」の熱気に触れる。賛否はあろうが、この没入感だけは否定できないかもしれない。

- 630 k games started; 15% finished. - Multiplayer is 12.3% of the playerbase (PvP is 1.3%). - 12% games in Ironman mode. - Win rates hover reasonably close to 50% for all leaders. - Human "race" is the most popular with 56%. "Monster race" (Voice) is the least popular with 16%.

We're celebrating ZEPHON's past year by sharing some stats of the last 365 days. My highlights: - 73 k new players (including pirated copies). - Many from non-English countries play in English: 24% players from Russia but only 15% play in Russian.

“Do more hard things everyday” is a great mantra but it should be less about ice baths and more about making that decision you’ve been putting off for three months.

It's TACTICAL TETRIS INDIE-TRYOUTS-FEST...DAY! On stream today - checking out a great list of new and upcoming indie games where you: TAKE STUFF AND PUT IT NEXT TO OTHER STUFF to roguelite em up! Brought to you by DOWN WITH THE SHIP from @IronAnchorGames (Demo Out Now)

President Ursula von der Leyen officially announced the EU–INC today at Davos! A single legal entity for all European founders to grow massive companies in Europe. Online incorporation in 48 hours. No more bureaucratic mess across European borders. All of you made this happen!

Politicians openly admit that taxing cigarettes, gas, or alcohol is meant to reduce consumption. They understand perfectly well that higher costs discourage behavior. But when it comes to taxing income, that basic logic suddenly disappears. They pretend people will keep working, investing, and taking risks at the same rate while receiving less of the reward. You can’t have it both ways. If taxes discourage behavior, income taxes discourage earning. If incentives matter for consumption, they matter for production. This isn’t ignorance. It’s convenience. They understand incentives when it supports control, and deny them when it exposes the cost of punishing work and success.

Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money: 1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither) The last one is how government spending works 🚨

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Rampage Pack Out Now! Deploy 8 brand-new units with the Onslaught Pack on the battlefields of Gladius Prime. Special thanks to MaidrosTwin and the rest of the Gladius community for helping to identify and fix bugs for this patch. Link below.

ZEPHON 1.2.14 & 40% OFF! Curl up for the winter with **ZEPHON and its add-ons**—now up to **40% off**! - The AI now makes full use of transports, keeping pressure across land and sea. - Tutorial tips have been expanded and improved to better guide new and returning players.

It took me a decade and a receding hairline to understand it. If you want to become better at influence, at negotiation, at consulting, at parenting, or pretty much anything that involves humans and egos, try this: DO NOT say the thing just because it feels good. Say the thing only if it helps you get where you want to go. My most recent newsletter on Consulting Intel explores this idea... Link in the comments.

Valve, the makers of Steam, Half-Life and CounterStrike, made ~$17B in revenue this year with ~336 employees. That's >$50M per employee, the highest for any (non-crypto) company in the world. The average pay is ~$1.3M/person. One of the most efficient businesses of all time.

One thing that the neoliberal technological solution enjoyers will never understand about ordinary people’s feelings about crime, is that if Guy A gets his package stolen off his porch, but Guy B doesn’t because he checks the door every 15 minutes to see if the Amazon driver has arrived and diligently removes the package from the porch before anyone has a chance to see that it’s there and take it, and Guy C has to drive across town to an Amazon locker because he’s tired of dealing with it — these are all the same outcome. Only one of these things shows up as a property crime. But all three of them are the same outcome.

@SebAaltonen Great point!

And why would you even think about generating Python with AI? Why would you choose a 100x slower language if AI is writing it instead of you? Same applies to Javascript and other common internet languages. Just generate C and compile to WASM. Nothing runs faster.

AI generated C is a real deal. C coders wrote fast & simple code. No high freq heap allocs, no abstractions slowing the compiler down. Lots of good C example code around. Ai workflows need a language with fast iteration time. Why waste compile time and perf on modern languages?

Over the last fifteen years, Reddit's relationship advice has shifted towards recommending: - Breakups - Boundaries - Therapy And against compromise, communication, and letting people have their space.

.@joelhellermark: If you could have a billion Deutsch-level intelligences, wouldn't that be a massive advantage for humanity? @DavidDeutschOxf: I think having two might be an advantage. I mean, people, there's the law of comparative advantage says that the more different you are from other people, the more valuable you are economically. That suggests that if you have an exact clone of you, you're almost not at all more economically valuable than just one of you. You know, you'll be competing with each other for the same job. You wanted a unique job, your perfect dream job, and now it's the perfect dream job of a billion other AGIs, you know, in your conception. I don't think it can be like that. People are valuable because they are different. Everybody is unfathomably different from everyone else. That fact is not being harnessed enough and can be harnessed more.

Did you know that when they say stuff like "The A18 uses TSMC's 3nm process" or "announced the 2nm node" The 3nm, 2nm actually doesn't mean anything?! It's just like a version number. They make it up. Literally nothing measures 2nm or 3nm. I certainly didn't know.