The idea that they’ve already deployed this in production is absolutely insane.

“You don’t get to fuck over the artists! That’s our job!”

• Sony

And that selfish son of a bitch even died before I could pirate his work.

There’s a fantastic movie called Kind Hearts and Coronets from the 1940s. A guy discovers he’s tenth in line to be a duke, but his mother was disowned by her family for marrying a commoner.

Naturally, he decides to kill his relatives to avenge mom and grab the dukedom. Oh, and all nine of his relatives, male and female, are played by Alec Guinness.

Are big businesses still advertising on Facebook? I’d heard that they were running ads for full-on scams, presumably because few real people are left on the platform and it’s no longer attractive to most advertisers.

How else to appease the eldritch spirit therein?

Yep, and Colbert has no reason to pull any punches either. They already canceled his show to appease the administration. Why would Stephen hesitate to tell the world every time CBS bends the knee?

Good on him for calling out every time they act as state propaganda and not a news network.

The people in power are the same ones who created DOGE. It’s like Epstein - not like they’re going to investigate themselves.

A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.

What do you have against the British overseas territory of Anguilla? Ultra-specific geographical prejudice.

There’s a good 3blue1brown video that walks through the actual math they can perform, which does a lot to temper expectations about what they can accomplish and how much of an improvement they would be over digital computers for certain types of problems.

Here’s the YouTube link, or search for “But What Is Quantum Computing? (Grover’s Algorithm)” on your preferred front-end: https://youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU

An orange cat could outsmart this orange president.

Every other genus: “We don’t want her either.”

Yeah, I agree, and that’s what I was trying to get at with the last point. I think morality systems in the sense of a binary choice with a scorecard is exactly why those systems are unsatisfying. Real choices have complex consequences and games are more immersive when they show that versus when everything boils down to a simple “good” or “bad.”

The games that do moral choices well do still give you feedback - alternate endings or lasting changes in the world - but it’s not as simple as one number or slider showing a morality spectrum.

I’d put Witcher 3 and The Alters on the list. Both of them give you choices where it’s not really clear which is the “good” or “bad” one. And if you play through both, you find that neither is one-sided - everything has pros and cons, and even if you judged one option to be morally better in the moment, you still have to live with the negative as well as the positive consequences of your actions.

Maybe you could argue that those aren’t traditional morality systems, but for me, that’s why they work.

Once all your waterworks are automated is when the sandbox portion of the game begins. They’ve added so many features, and in particular aquaducts and overhangs, that you can really go wild with designing your Beavertopia.

Their best and brightest were fired or retired.

For context, the genocide started 80 years ago.

One thing I’ve learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.

Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.