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David Lumb
@outonalumb.bsky.social
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Tech/gaming journalist at CNET, WGAE union member, burrito fiend.
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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d
give greta thunberg a gundam
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · 14d
I should’ve been more specific: high end for max battery life/efficiency (aka laptops) formats
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · 14d
Qualcomm's also got a pair of new PC chips: the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (high end) and the Snapdragon X2 Elite (slightly less high end). Aside from performance/efficiency upgrades, it's powering up Agentic AI:
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Qualcomm's Big Compute Play: An 18-Core Chip Capable of 80 TOPS for AI Power
The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme are a pair of PC chips aimed at the performance laptop market.
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · 14d
Qualcomm debuted the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip with performance & effiicency upgrades plus extras, like a new video codec that lets you pull still images at photo quality from footage. (Also a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 coming later, presumably slightly less premium.)
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Chip Will Boost AI in 2026's Most Powerful Phones
The next mobile chip boosts efficiency, performance and AI neural processing.
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · 14d
In Maui, I’m at the #snapdragonsummit2025 keynote with @katiecollins.bsky.social hearing about what Qualcomm’s got in store for next year’s phones and PCs via their chips
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 29d
Very excited to try the new Star Wars mixed reality playset experience - my colleague @outonalumb.bsky.social checked it out in LA, and I’m envious www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...
A Star Wars AR Game Got Me Playing With Virtual Action Figures Like I Was 6 Years Old
It's not every day that an AR game has me reliving childhood, but the upcoming Star Wars: Beyond Victory is a nostalgic experience.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26d
If only so many of the writers we need right now hadn't lost their jobs
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 9
Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild @zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social · Aug 28
ZDCG demands accountability for continued attacks on media workers in Gaza:
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Aug 15
Happy birthday Manda! Plants, nurturing, growth for next year — all the good metaphors for 39 🙌
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Aug 13
This sucks so much, you and everyone at IGN deserve better, Amelia 💪
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · Aug 12
NEW: Israel targeted and killed five @aljazeera.com journalists in Gaza.

They risked everything to document atrocities so we could know the truth. Killing them is an attack on journalism itself.

With @nwu.org, we demand accountability:

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The NewsGuild-CWA and National Writers Union condemn Israel’s targeted killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
The NewsGuild-CWA and National Writers Union join press freedom advocates around the world in condemning the targeted killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza.
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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · Aug 12
Our Eater GoFundMe is up! We all know this has been a difficult year for Vox, but the folks at Eater have been extremely dedicated in their support for each of their colleagues, past and present. Let's support them now!!! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u

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Screenshot of a vox media union logo over the Eater logo. The heading reads, "Eater isn't essential without journalism." Screenshot (condensed for Bluesky word limit): On August 8, without warning, Vox Media laid off 15 members of Eater, Punch, and Thrillist, the award-winning food, drink, and travel news and recommendation sites, while management celebrated Eater’s 20th anniversary. The cuts decimated local coverage, including Chicago, the country’s third-largest market. This is the second restructuring at Eater in less than 10 months. The cuts come not only one month after the Vox Media Union ratified its new collective bargaining agreement, but also two months after the James Beard Awards, where Eater and Punch earned four nominations and two wins. The firings came a week after Jim Bankoff claimed in an interview there would be no imminent layoffs. Eater says farewell to a cohort of award-winning and dedicated journalists who fought tooth and nail to keep the wall between editorial and advertising intact. We sound like a broken record, but we are once again grateful to have bargained for industry-leading severance language in our latest contract. This GoFundMe is organized by members of the Vox Media Union. All funds raised will directly benefit union members impacted by the August 7 layoffs, and will be distributed in equal shares to those who opt-in to receive funds. The organizers will be reaching out to those impacted in the coming days with details. Our union is committed to supporting our colleagues who were laid off, and will hold management accountable for how these layoffs were conducted. With these funds, we hope to ease the financial burden that these layoffs have placed on our colleagues some of who face mounting medical bills and are charged with being their family's primary caretakers. The Vox Media Union layoff fund is being overseen by a committee of Vox Media Union members, including Ashok Selvam, Jaya Saxena, and Amy McCarthy. The fund will operate transparently, with full accounting of all donations that are received and distributed.
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Aug 12
❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Aug 9
Absolute garbage.
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · Aug 7
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Aug 1
Ahh congrats! Millennial journalists making it 🎉🎉🎉
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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · Jul 26
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · Jul 24
Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · Jul 17
"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · Jul 11
ICE is out of control. This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jul 11
There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Jul 3
Hell yeah dude 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · Jul 2
I honestly think ANDOR is more inspirational and rousing than like, the past 20 years of democratic messaging.
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David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social · Jun 30
At SGF, I played Snap & Grab, @nogoblin.social’s glam 80s heist game where a stylish photographer steals from the rich by shooting photos of her targets — a “Hitman meets Pokémon Snap” as the game’s dev described it

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Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game Where Hitman Meets Pokemon Snap
Take photos, steal art from rich bozos. What's not to like?
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