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stories going around yesterday has finally gotten me to a point where I can't support Microsoft products anymore. I don't use much from them basically just games. I won't be buying anything from them anymore

wash marmot

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

I’m tired of stupid people treating me like I’m an idiot Why are the biggest backers of generative AI so incredibly stupid? And why do they think we're as dense as they are?

My latest newsletter is about how the generative AI crowd is trying to gaslight people into thinking that genAI is better than it is, and why it fails because these people are, broadly speaking bad and stupid.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/im-tired-o...

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way.
colton.dev/blog/curing-...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

I’ll put it far more simply: if AI capex represents such a large part of our GDP and economic growth, our economy does, on some level, rest on the back of Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon and their continued investment in AI. What should worry everybody is that Microsoft — which makes up 18.9% of NVIDIA’s revenue — has signed basically no leases in the last 12 months, and its committed datacenter construction and land purchases are down year-over-year. While its capex may not have dipped yet (in part because the chip-heavy nature of generative AI means that capex isn’t exclusively dominated by property), it’s now obvious that if it does there will be direct effects on both the US economy and stock market, as Microsoft is part of what amounts to a stimulus package propping up America’s economic growth. And not to repeat the point too much, but big tech has yet to actually turn anything resembling a profit on these data centers, and isn’t making much revenue at all out of generative AI. How, exactly, does this end? What is the plan here? Is big tech going to spend hundreds of billions a year in capital expenditures on generative AI in perpetuity? Will they continue to buy more and more NVIDIA chips as they do so? At some point, surely these companies have built enough data centers? Surely, at some point, they’ll run out of space to put these GPUs in? Is the plan to, by then, make so much money from AI that it won’t matter? What does NVIDIA do at that point? And how does the US economy rebound from the loss of activity that follows?

Paul Kedrosky thinks that AI spend could have been as much as half of 3% of Q2's real GDP growth, or as much as half of the US GDP's full-year growth. US economic growth is supported by big tech's obsession with a product that loses them billions of dollars.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/

what I feel when looking at this king of the hill promotional art must be what gacha game fans feel when they get new card illustrations

Ice Cube doing his best Jeffrey Wright impression looking at a computer screen with intense concentration

real egg game from I Think You Should Leave

this is a remaster of a mobile game apparently

*Slack reloads for 1.5 seconds*

My brain: Oh fuck have I been laid off

That’s late for dinner

I'm going to make the first post to get one hundred likes on BlueSky. With YOUR help, of course 😉...

I can’t tell if “the game costs $50” is supposed to be too much

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

this was harder to get than the actual console

So, I was initially salty this got featured.

However, this piece is getting a lot of pickup, as is the big WSJ data center story it's based on, as is the OTHER big WSJ data center story. Reality is setting in.

new spidey suit looks great. Love that it’s inspired by tobey and Andrew’s suit. Looks like clunky less high tech web shooters too

I am going through it with AI at work right now and having mixed emotions about it so you are gonna see a lot more negative AI stuff in my feed

I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.

People want to use the shortcut machine and they want everyone else to use the shortcut machine but they don't want to admit they used the shortcut machine because they know it makes their work suss

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

This being on IGN is sending me

It's Friday, and this is your reminder to close all of your browser tabs! Just close your entire browser window and start fresh.

if I can be an obnoxious jackass for a second, I do not give a shit about switch 2 game key cards and the fact that some people get SO outraged about it is hilarious to me

love the switch 2 pro controller but the dpad is broken just like the launch switch 1 pro controller was broken. It’ll frequently register that wrong input as you use it

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

Nintendo Switch Announcer (gravely): What is the true origin of man's inhumanity to man? What fate awaits our souls in the next life? Death and oblivion await all of us, this September.

<fade to black, slight pause>

Nintendo Switch Announcer: Who's up for ice cream? That's right - Hello Kitty!