Howard the Duck: Refugee from Blue Hell

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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Will be stunned if they ever ship anything again

my reaction to that information

More people are saying it!

I blame Harris and her team for running a bad campaign whose goal was chasing Republicans that would never support her and choosing not to court young people and marginalized groups, all while refusing to stand for anything but "I'm not the other guy," a historically terrible strategy.

Media is awesome because it can show an organization trying to get rid a guy who is underwater with state Democrats by 50 points, undermines any Democratic policy, and is just completely off-putting to anyone who has to spend five minutes around him; and they phrase it as “seeding discord”

I don't think the guy who directed a WW2 Call of Duty and the fucking Callisto Protocol should be talking shit about the rest of the industry

They are beyond delusional.

smiling serenely as quantic dream goes under because of a utterly delusional service game

a swastika? in a republicans office? of the republican party who all explicitely endorse fascism? no way this could have been predicted

Why the fuck did they do that

Worked great for the news

Oh wait

I didn't hear about or perceive this at all which is a good indicator of how much it didn't work in any direction lmfao

Mine’s always half disaster zone

a good night's sleep in the Deadly Premonition bed could fix me

The crab-men encroach upon the borders of your fiefdom, broseph

It also stems from him being from the rare era and being conspicuously absent from the Retro entries

This pretty much put to bed a lot of fan concerns about how Nintendo sees stuff from those ones

the xbox 360 permanently ensorcelled a very specific kind of Guy who is shockingly prominent in game coverage so you get very special takes like "maybe consoles are just obsolete, they must be since xbox failed. Exclusives are obsolete too, because the platform with none of them failed."

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be. Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene. But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there? Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term. Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage. But th…

Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Good for them

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lol @ the head of mobile game studios shitting their pants at the EU going 'so uh this shit is clearly evil and partly responsible for the explosion in gambling apps, we need to regulate this shit'

You’d think JRjr would care more about his dad’s most popular creation

Not to defend Akira Yoshida, but that was Marvel Studios, not Marvel Comics. Not something he has any say on.

Tom Brevoort playing with AI and acting all cool about it, his direct subordinate, on the other hand, is his problem.

Maybe he should give Tom the news

sometimes I fact check google's AI slop and it treats me like an idiot for searching for a source on something it said. 'No, of course that's not true. What are you, fucking stupid?'