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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 5h

Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2h

I really hope this scene from Peacemaker stops being relevant soon

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 6h

And yet it may not even break 300M WW at the Box Office.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 7h

They should just say "Len McCluskey decides and that's the end of it!"

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 10h

Peston, Mason and all the other political hacks have sacrificed their reputation for access to politicians and an easy life.
Fanboys and gossip merchants not serious journalists.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

If Clarkson was leading Remain in 2016 it would've won by at least 20 pts.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

And rightfully so, they literally canned a very promising MMO Project (Blackbird)that had amazing playtests... and canned it and laid off the team because Nadella and Hood want all the cash flows to AI.

Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

Doubt it'll breakup but Nadella and co will be beyond cooked.

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ʟɪɴᴇs @lines.snail.skin · 1d

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

The new "Xbox" Rog Ally X is showing Bazzite running better than Windows apparently. Nadella is basically letting Windows be dominated by vibe coding at this point.

Amazing how MS doesn't really care about Windows running poorly, I mean obviously nostalgia but at least Vista had excuses.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

*baffling we've been stuck on Shader Model 6.0 for a decade... hell I can't count even fully one hand games that have fully utilized DX12U Feature set (Mesh Shaders, Sampler Feedback etc). Alan Wake 2 did it greatly but the "un0mptimized!!!11!" just ruined things, c'mon GTX 10 gotta die eventually.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

Hell if Valve really feels like it, they probably could make their on Steam Machine V2 with those RDNA 5 GMDs being rumoured (could get a modified Magnus SoC + whatever RDNA 5 GMDs avaliable) and screw up MS's crappy transition of their gaming division due to not caring about Windows much.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean 2027 or so it'll be very possible to build a top end Linux gaming PC rig, big problem you kinda forgo a lot of online games sadly due to anti-cheat (unless this changes somehow) which is the big issue than anything else.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the weird thing is Shader Model 7.0 by MS is opening to new standards w/ SPIR-V (99% RDNA 5 & RTX 60 Rubin will support 7.0*) and Proton is very good at converting Windows gaming. I mean AMD setups run Linux great *and* RDNA 5 is competing with the high end with that leaked AT0 GMD...

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

And converts most AAA games fine! Just sadly not able to do a lot of modern MP games due to anti-cheat. And Shader Model 7.0 supporting open standards (RDNA 5 & RTX 60 Rubin): devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/dire...

DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future - DirectX Developer Blog

Today the Direct3D and HLSL teams are excited to share some insight into the next big step for GPU programmability. Once Shader Model 7 is released, DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V™....

devblogs.microsoft.com

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

I actually lol'd.

Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

Considering how Sataya Nadella bet MS on OpenAI at the cost of Windows*, Xbox* etc 😬...

*Considering how Windows performs poorly Vs Bazzite even on the new "Xbox" Ally X they're blundering the transition of their Gaming Division.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 1d

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean those are "beings of powers that our pitiful minds can't comprehend" which has been a staple of non-fantasy Speculative Fiction (since arguably, I mean King In Yellow?).

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

Considering the budgets involved for the standards of Dr Who to stand out I think there's some at BBC who want it killed off and only doing Crime Dramas. Speculative Fiction TV Shows are sadly too expensive to do in the 2020s Vs late 90s-late 2000s.

Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

To be frankly honest but there's a huge complacency of "nope, it will never happen in Scotland!" when one can look at RoI with Anti-Migrant stuff going on in there (frankly would not be surprised if RoI in the next decade gets a prominent far-right party).

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's huge complacency of a fresher (read no Salmond) anti-immigration, pro-Indy party that gets 10% of the vote that mostly eats into the SNP vote share.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

*Yeah*
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean can replicate that rest of the UK, how would a Labou+LD+Green+Nationalists+Gaza Independents/Your Party Govern? Would all strategic Subs all have to be scrapped immediately?

This country feels cooked more and more.

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Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social · 1d

Like only viable way to govern would be a SNP+Labour+LD+Green coaliton and even then... yeah.

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