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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • sure, but this isn’t a clickbait article. It’s a substantial article with quotes, data, and context, which uses a clickbait headline to garner engagement because nobody clicks on boring headlines anymore. You could certainly distill the article down to “Manmade dams shifted the Earth’s rotation”, but that doesn’t even get into the “how”. Becky Ferreira gets into the “how” in the article. I understand that the internet has turned into a hellscape of ai-generated clickbait articles, but could we be more careful about throwing that accusation at real articles from real journalists?






  • I kind of feel like the golden age of “rebooted live service game” is behind us, tbh. We had games like FFXIV and Rainbow Six: Siege that launched rough, but committed to fixing it and then successfully turned it around. In those days, there weren’t many live service games, so people were willing to wait out a possible turnaround. In the time since, we have been absolutely drowning in live-service games, and many of them are free-to-play. Why would I wait for the Splitgate turnaround when there are 3 other live-service f2p shooters that I haven’t even tried yet? If I’m a kid or young adult that came up on Roblox, I might even be content with the shooters built into that platform.


















  • I am always honored to get your extremely thoughtful replies. I think you’re right, it’s kind of a case of the lies catching up to them. They built up the files as this white whale and then Trump punted on the chance to release them. I guess I’m just surprised to see allies like MTG turn on Trump. I kind of wonder what is happening behind the scenes to fuel that break in rank, because so far they have been pretty eager to lockstep with Trump for political gain. Is something happening in the realpolitik space that we don’t yet know about?




  • That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media.

    Is there a reliable source that he is a billionaire? I haven’t seen that in any reporting. “Billionaire” is a four letter word around these parts, I would be careful about throwing the label around without solid evidence.

    Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue

    This I think is the real story. This isn’t necessarily about our surveillance state, but more that we are constantly observed by the world and it is a specific type of hell that we cannot escape. The fact that this makes adultery more difficult is a bittersweet benefit, I guess, but there are no guardrails on this sort of thing. If this was in any other context besides a cheating CEO this would all be supremely fucked up, and that’s why I think this is an article worth talking about.