death knight death knight

increasing inequality also resulting in an overcrowding in luxury services is vaguely funny

This bit from thediff.co extends out to fiction as well - there isn't really a need for genai fiction because there's already more fiction than there exists appetite for it, and people often read specific works for paratextual reasons as well.

The period of 'Consumers expect computers that talk to have human-like intelligence' and 'Computers with human-like intelligence are really expensive' probably would have been lethal to Alexa had it not been an 'Amazon terminal', but now quality tokens are cheaper, but still squeezes Alexa margins

can I send you one of these bad boys

This bit from Dave Wiens (Siemens) reminds me that there are a lot of jobs that are in v high demand but

1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them
2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining

semiengineering.com/what-scares-...

wait shit fuck fuck fuck

I can't believe Monolith Soft insists on making buckets of money with Xenoblade games instead of making more Baten Kaitos for me specifically

er, Instagram automatically logged me into someone else's account? How does that even happen?

riding the brown line

If I had a nickel for every time I played a game based on a beloved Polish novel I'd have three nickels - which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice

This Matt Klein bit drifts into my head every now and then