Fuck this is some sick shit. Decades of silicon valley brainworms and being surrounded by yes-men have genuinely turned the brains of these tech bros into soup. IMO, anyone whose greed facilitates real, tangible harms like this needs to be made an example of by the justice system. Not “fined” or “sanctioned” but put in custody and denied access to their system of enablers. Goddamn, Musk and his billionaire cohort make me see red.

Oh, you mean the same Hideo Kojima who watched Konami/Sony unceremoniously yank his work (P.T.) off consoles a few years ago with next to no notice?

Yeah, that tracks.

I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I’ve taken to calling them “podcasts” ;)

Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don’t recognize catastrophic issues until it’s too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares “for now” that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes… Ugh. Nightmare fuel.

I do hope this move results in more support for the IA/Wayback Machine and helps them to update some of their crawler tech — thanks to the rise of AI, some sites are effectively (thru captchas etc.) or actively (through straight-up greed [coughRedditcough]) blocked from being archived almost entirely, which is frustrating for legit archivists/contributors.

WHERE does this motherfucker get off?? What kind of lunatic still has the audacity to claim some right to head a Board of PEACE when 75% of the headlines I’ve read today said he’s been gasping, sweating and salivating in anticipation of getting to start yet another idiotic middle east war, this time with Iran, of all places…

Funnier if it just funneled all requests to the GeoGuessr dude.

Heh…my only real memory of the film from viewing it back in the day is Liev Schreiber’s time-traveling character snickering at the word “erection”. Clearly I should rewatch it!

Terriers - excellent 2010 caper-style dramedy series starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, created by the screenwriter behind “Oceans Eleven”. Relatable & endearing characters, compelling arcs, razor-sharp writing, wrapped in a noire detective plot set in sunny San Diego. Aired for just 13 eps on FX back in the day, only a couple of years before streaming platforms really hit big (and where it likely would have found its audience) and I’ve mourned “what could have been” ever since. Can’t recommend it enough, despite the final ep having a bit of a “lady or the tiger” ending. I urge you to seek it out.