Tired. I probably know you from Barbelith? I like RPGs, philosophy, comics, that sort of thing. Anyway nice to see you, come on in.
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula WirthPixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
I tend to bring up obscure Vertigo comics and shit whenever the topic of superhero "deconstruction" arises not as a gotcha, but because if your stuff fails to rise even to the level of self-directed criticism that fucking DC Comics is willing to put their name to, you need to rethink your premises.
'The Market', looking at a guy who's last Big Idea was 'Second Life Minus Legs' which lost EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS: hmm, what if this guy isn't a genius?
Scott HortonThis morning, the market is questioning the long assumed entrepreneurial genius of Mark Zuckerberg. What if he's just an idiot? www.ft.com/content/06d9...
We… really need to learn that money isn't meaningfully real before we're all destroyed by the fact that some of the worst people in the world have learned to hack our shared consensus hallucination of a value store. …I mean, "the crash following the 'AI' bubble popping is going to be extremely bad"
Timnit Gebru"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Oh boo fucking hoo, second home parasites feel unwelcome in the communities they're destroying, how sad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Second home owners 'feel unwelcome' while locals struggle to buyAre second homes - a hotly contested topic in Wales - pricing young people out of areas they grew up in?www.bbc.co.uk
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotionExclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalitieswww.theguardian.com
