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optimist: the glass is 1/2 full

pessimist: the glass is 1/2 empty

excel: the glass is January 2nd

I think i stumbled on the next billion dollar idea: AI bots to play video games for you. Playing video games can be mentally taxing - wouldn’t it be nice to offload that work to AI so you can do other things, like get a 3rd job to help pay for my game playing AI bot?

Microsoft are effectively giving up on Copilot Pro subscription ($20/month) as almost nobody paid for it.

Instead they are bundling it into Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions and inflating the renewal prices there. There’s no opt out.

Effectively allows the Copilot revenue and user numbers to be inflated.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24290268/microsoft-copilot-office-features-microsoft-365

George Monbiot says: "Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism – it *is* capitalism."
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Capitalism is not, as its defenders insist, a system designed to distribute wealth, but one designed to capture and concentrate it.

The story capitalism tells about itself – that you become rich through hard work and enterprise – is the greatest propaganda coup in human history.
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LEARN MORE -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers

#Capitalism #History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

i am seeing what i know for certain to be absolutely garbage analysis of this election, writ large on the internet.

my take is that it's a redo of trump's voter suppression tactics from 2016--i.e. people who would have otherwise turned out for harris did not.

presumably because they had unwittingly seen some trump propaganda against harris.

honestly, the fact that trump got convicted before the election probably was intended to destroy him. apart from the fact that it was somehow conveniently forgotten that all press is good press.

i dunno look at the fall of the roman empire. before julius caesar there was general sulla in his own civil war. sulla and caesar both hated the plebians but were populists for the disenfranchised in their own uniquely tyrannical way.

it is my considered opinion that the solution to the problem, if it is given that the USA should solve its problems by voting, is to make voting compulsory, as it is here in australia.

americans seem resolute never to be forced to vote, so many who otherwise would have voted for harris did not.

fuck it i'm starting my new programming language project

Love how media is reporting on the Trump win as if this is somehow an entirely normal, neutral thing and not incredibly fucking concerning on all sorts of levels to the point where it might just be an existential threat to the entire world

*monkey's paw finger curls* The Switch 2 is retrocompatible, but the console actually downgrades back to a Switch and its performance when launching an old-gen game.

*monkey's paw finger curls* The Switch 2 is retrocompatible but Nintendo's games have to be bought at full price again.

"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams

What #games are people playing? #gamingOnLinux

#lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/202411060000_screwtape.mp3 000UTC Wednesday!
#climateCrisis d-day writing by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113432757278072314
Unreleased track by @sigrid #music
#lispGameJam @mdhughes sigrid^ me! @awkravchuk
https://appdot.net/@mdhughes/113413503867705163
https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2024/rate/3085473
https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2024/rate/3084545
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/828749/my-very-own-computing-revolution
#gamedev

mdh remembers a video about the future of 3D clustered search results with relevance (on #gopher of course) with 10 views from 2001 here:
https://appdot.net/@mdhughes/113429730867306625

https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/828749/my-very-own-computing-revolution
#lisp #sorta
My very own #computingRevolution. It feels like that anyway. I guess I'm just cyber-spatially organising #commonLisp code in a #moo #VR ? Is this revolutionary or passé?

Anyway it took form in the quiet ending of #autumnLispGameJam #lispGameJam .
In the article, instead of attempting to 'play my game', I make a counter object containing a common lisp closure @verbed into it that I pick up and use a few times.

I have wed MOO/reality and common lisp images.