it gets worse

Everyone out here talking about the prompt (which is very funny) but not one mention of this dude hitting the spacebar with his index finger. Carpal tunnel speed run, bro has two working thumbs why are they not being used here

@Eye13Sky It must be nice having the ability to be so confident while being completely fucking wrong

The strait of Hormuz situation:

How the shotgun in my drawer looks at me on a Sunday after 5pm

the era of autistic deep work is over your agents are more autistic than you and better at deep work welcome to the shallow work future total ADHD dominance

Our job is to solve problems, not write code

@wariocolosseum Put your money where your mouth is. Stop using all software that has been actively developed past 2023. Otherwise this is just performative bullshit, you have no idea what you’re talking about

yall can’t just pick and choose when gen ai is acceptable the reality is that gen ai is not only still harmful to the environment regardless of what it’s used for but it also robs actual ppl of work opportunities

@hecubian_devil Any boomer that didn’t put away 5% a year has no sympathy from me. End social security, incentivize saving for retirement instead of dependence on the state

It’s important that we have a social safety net that prevents old people from being poor/homeless. That’s bad. We do not, however, need to maintain them in the exact circumstances they had when they were 45 with careers raising families. They should downsize.

It’s good when property taxes force seniors to move out of their 3bd homes and downsize so young families can move in

@hecubian_devil Like sorry but this is not the slam dunk you think it is, both are costs which price people out, one is just done at gunpoint

Like sorry but this is a slam dunk for liberal technocrat allocation logic. It’s so common for old people to stay in houses that they can’t even maintain, refusing to sell and use the proceeds for professional care, out of stubbornness and status quo bias.

@hecubian_devil How does property tax functionally differ from increasing maintenance costs with respect to incentivizing downsizing?… if an oldster wants to live in a dilapidating shack, that should be their choice. Someone else can scoop it up at a bargain. Property taxes are better bc… why?

@asha_shar At least this is honest, not another “AI is making us so much more productive” smokescreen. An actual “this is unsustainable” layoff. This sucks but I respect the transparency. @jack should be taking notes

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

Palantir? the open weights company?

@cryptotriv @mitchellh

@mitchellh Are you seriously arguing the size of Ghostty, Vagrant, Terraform, and Vault, can even be remotely compared to how big Spotify is? It is pretty clear that no amount of "consumer satisfaction reports" from even the largest of companies using AI will convince you that it's real.

Goalposts keep moving by people who have never shipped software this big.

Your earlier implication was that it was one way, just in the opposite direction, as if the Fed having rates at 0 had absolutely nothing to do with the 40% increase we saw during COVID. Ofc there are many factors that affect inflation, but the Fed’s policy is a key driver. Who benefits from inflation? x.com/simspron86522/…

@worsened_ @BobaCyclist I said “to act like the casual relationship is only one way is intellectually suspect”. The implication of this is that I believe that it’s two way, and that a myriad of factors affect the inflation rate.

I can name a half dozen beloved businesses in my neighborhood that have closed recently, and it’s the same old story: ten-year commercial lease expired, landlord seeks an astronomical rent increase that only a corporate tenant or smoke shop can afford.

Low rates increase borrowing and spending while raising money velocity, which pushes inflation higher. That’s exactly why the Fed uses interest rate adjustments as its main tool: the mechanism itself shows policy has direct causal effects on demand and prices. Treating inflation as purely an external force that the Fed is only ever reacting to is intellectually suspect.

@worsened_ @BobaCyclist To act like the causal relationship is only one way is intellectually suspect

@simspron86522 @BobaCyclist Can you tell me what the interest rate was set at during that time period you’re referencing? Could that 40% possibly be the result of giving away free money for two years in order to stimulate spending to prop up the economy? Inflation is downstream of the interest rate my guy

@worsened_ @BobaCyclist Then you recognize that inflation is an external force and that external situations exert inflationary pressure which the fed tries to control. Such as a 40% increase in home values over the core 2 years of COVID.

@c75qffxtfj @MattBinder European detected, opinion dismissed

@worsened_ @MattBinder You’re a retard

i have never ever seen all these people who care so much about the well-being of landlords raise the same concerns about the cost of living for literally any one else

@simspron86522 @BobaCyclist I literally just told you: unemployment and inflation

@worsened_ @BobaCyclist I’m asking a simple question: what is the fed attempting to control by setting interest rates?

@simspron86522 @BobaCyclist ? They have a dual mandate to maximize employment and stabilize prices, with one of two levers being the interest rate. Not sure what point you’re trying to make here

@worsened_ @BobaCyclist And why are they setting the interest rate?