How is it these days? I imagine it is still sycophantic but not to the extent it was before.

That does hit the nail on the head. It’s just baffling that he is the anti-establishment academic in the overton window of acceptable academic yet he is simping for a child sex trafficker because he schooled him on money laundering.

I’ve always had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around this. Did he really enjoy having intellectual discussions with him? Or is it just hogwash trying to hide how Epstein helped him get funding through his connections?

Suiting up in my salmon costume to dance before the volcel police as we speak

I think Valve benefits from being a private company (which allows it to retain its autonomy) while running a relatively tight ship where the engineers highly skilled. This combination of autonomy and skill with the money from having a monopoly on PC gaming lets them do some nice things. Because they are a private company they haven’t been compelled to cannibalise their consumers yet, though I can’t speak for vendors who use Steam to sell their games. For a big company their approach towards hardware and software is sort of a silver lining in today’s world. Their contributions to Wine and Proton have elevated gaming on Linux. Their hardware like Steam Deck is extremely open both in terms on the software you can run and the repairability.

This is not to say that Valve is not explooitative. Their workplace is made to sound like a paradise but I can guarantee you you wouldn’t have much influence if you are a woman there or from some other minority demographic. Valve has made a ton of money from selling lootboxes which are a prominent entry point for children into gambling.

Valve is an outlier where their monopoly and their expertise has allowed them to remain “nice” in spite of being massive. It’s not a set of circumstances that can be replicated. It is possible that one day even Valve resorts to enshittification. But thankfully it is not an imminent threat seeing how terrible the hacks at Epic Games and Microsoft are at creating a video game storefront.

I couldn’t see his shares. He went offline.

They just hate women and hate seeing them depicted and treated as human beings.

How is the story in this one? The first one had a conflict between samurai honour and ninja dishonour which felt kinda silly and shoehorned.

WAFFLES

The problem I see is that this bubble is insulated from reality because palantir is a monopoly-monopsony situation where palantir does not have a real competition and they mostly have one buyer (US govt) who are happy to funnel money into them.

What in tarnation

Okay but why palantir? I expect them to make money hand over fist selling genocide software and machines which is not completely tangled with AI.

Meanwhile: Reporter asks White House press secretary if Trump plans to build Third Temple

Add CW for rape

This is New York’s 9/11

Can someone list some things he did? I can imagine the kind of shit he had his fingerprints on but knowing something concrete would be nice.

Jesus christ when you think you can’t think lower of israelis something new and worse pops up every day.

If she wasn’t an authoritarian sisipee shill she would know that in a real democratic election there are two viable candidates instead of just one.

Economist puzzled at how a physicist knows what to say without being told by their benefactor

In response to:

The question is, why should the opinions of the largely impartial UN and human rights scholars be weighed equally to the obviously partisan opinions of commentators and governments?

Jimbo says:

Because that’s what neutrality demands.

Lmao