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How Far Trump Would Go

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.

Pure insanity that people are on the fence about whether or not to vote against this guy.

Todd Howard reckons he knows why Starfield was so divisive: It was too 'different than you've seen from us in past'

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/todd-howard-reckons-he-knows-why-starfield-was-so-divisive-it-was-too-different-than-youve-seen-from-us-in-past/

Do we have any figures on chatty usage?

It feels even more dead here than usual lately. I imagine there’s a cliff where when the community is sufficiently small it disappears rather quickly.

“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.”

AI Action

I've been too busy at work (and suffering from too much anxiety) to follow all of the AI progress news over the past couple of weeks. We can discuss it here, but I mostly wanted to share out some things I've recently created with AI.

https://imgur.com/a/hlNGMaB

I hate to be a downer but do you ever have days where you just fucking hate everything

Musk cutting summer internships at Tesla to try to cut costs

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/

You know you're getting old when you get a thigh cramp while having sex. Wife asked me afterwards: "Which came first the pleasure or the pain?" It was the pain but I powered through.

Made it through surgery. Whole experience was surreal.

In my room recovering. Gotta share with Shack because I’ve been talking, arguing with, and sharing with you folks for 22 years!

Sonny's put an $26b offer for Paramount

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/sony-apollo-make-26-billion-all-cash-offer-for-paramount-ade26ca4

Video game magazines

Ok, got this updated finally.

https://i.imgur.com/8Sfv35i.jpeg

Top left is Next Generation and Games Republic, then GameFan and Game Developer, Game Players, EGM, Computer Games Strategy Plus, and then Game Informer (~10 years with some from 01/02/03, but mostly just 04-14)

On the right is a shelf of Amiga magazines (CU Amiga, Amiga Format, etc), Retro Gamer, two shelves of PC Gamer US (first 15 years or so), and finally Computer Gaming World.

Couldn't bear to part with these over the years so I just kept dragging them along with every move around the world. Zero regrets. Much love to Axeman808 for helping with this back in like 2008. ❤️