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The prices, they keep a-rising
Microsoft in a support document today:
As of May 1, we have adjusted recommended retailer pricing for our consoles and controllers worldwide. We also expect to adjust the pricing of some of our new, first-party games starting this holiday season to $79.99.
This PDF shows the new pricing in the US, which includes
The vast nothingness of Threads
For many years I've kept a spreadsheet with a few metrics on my online life. I don'
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is
There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game appears to either, but it hasn’t stopped
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A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use
Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment
If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early. If you normally take a 5 minute shower, set a timer for 299 seconds instead, and you’ll have saved enough water to
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Here we go…
Jay Peters reporting on yesterday's Epic vs Apple trial decision:
Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases
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+ Impressions of that secret product I'm not talking about yet
Another 2,000 words on the thing that I'm not talking about yet.
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It's a legal issue, not something AI is here to fix
Microsoft has released a demo of an AI-generated version of Quake you can play in the browser (well, desktop browsers, iPads aren’t good enough, apparently). And I don’t mean a version of the game vibe-coded, I mean one that takes your inputs and generates every updated frame using an LLM. They’
Ghost just made 3 nice updates to federation (and native sharing in general)
Ghost, the blogging engine that powers this site, just made 3 nice enhancements to the way your posts are natively
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Foo Fighers, but ska (trust me)
JER is awesome, and he's been doing these ska covers of pop songs for years now. They're a surefire way to brighten your day.
A totally reasonable content warning feature request
Mastodon has a content warning feature that I think is pretty useful. Basically, when someone marks a post as having
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+ A new gadget enters the fray
I got a new gadget that I've been wanting to try out for 6 years.
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The Academy makes another reasonable choice!
Brooks Barnes: Oscars OK the Use of A.I., With Caveats
A.I. and other digital tools “neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination,” the Oscar rules now state. The academy added, however, that the more a human played a role in a film’s creation, the better. (“The academy and each
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You don't have to be famous to be great at your job
Christopher Butler: You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
Especially today, when we live in an attention economy that equates visibility with value. Social media follower counts, speaking engagements, press mentions, and industry awards have become the measuring sticks of design success. This creates a distorted picture of what greatness in design
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🕹️ I recommend Pokémon Emerald Seaglass
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Get Off My Turf, Lawley
Matt finally found a new use for the action button, Niléane is here to fix your Finder, and Chris raises
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The Intuit vs the government cage fight
Daniel Boguslaw: Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
Even when the Biden administration broke through in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund a pilot program for Direct File, which expanded to 25 states this tax season, Intuit didn’t stop fighting. Instead, it continued cajoling lawmakers and the White House into
On the "streaming is more expensive than cable" complaint
A social media post flew by today where someone was complaining that they stopped paying $180 for cable and now they're paying $200 for streaming apps. I see this sort of complaint a lot, and I find myself feeling like I'm taking crazy pills whenever I do: I had cable, I