KnitWit

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Texas Be an AI Powerhouse from its Energy Mega Campus?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are known for their electrical grid, that’s for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, perhaps I’m just wrong then. But for me, I see twenty tears of MS buying up studios, sitting on them, and closing them with some sort of excuse about changed plans. It’s always the same though, studio performs well, gets bought, makes no games or games out of their genre, and closes. Call it whatever you want, I call it business as usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s how these large corporations operate though. Ignore, buy, or bury, that’s how they all operate. They may have ‘plans’ to use the studio, but for them if all they get are the assets and a less of a threat from the old ip, then that’s enough. I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it also absolutely something microsoft has done for years in their larger business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hell yea, brother⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, my time to shine? Back in grad school I used to clone paddlefish (gynogenesis) by heat shocking a freshly fertilized paddlefish egg at the right time so that the egg is activated but the males dna is never incorporated. Paddlefish and sturgeon, while looking totally different, are actually fairly closely related (they had a common ancestor like 200 mya) and so the chemical reactions take place to get everything going. But they are also distinct enough that if the timing isn’t right and the father’s dna accidentally gets incorporated, they create these hybrids. The hybrids are important because its the only way to identify males, which this whole process is designed to exclude. The reason you’d want to do this is the production of caviar in which males are of no value and cannot be easily identified for years.

  Now, I was in Kentucky, and we were breeding paddlefish (the colbert report had a segment on ‘kentucky tuna’ that the economics professor terribly tried to promote if you can find it) for the non-existent paddlefish caviar market as opposed to breeding sturgeon like they did in this study, but its the same general principle at play. The inly real difference is that unlike these hybrids that could apparently grow to juvenile or adult status, the paddlefish mother hybrids were very much dead within a week of hatching and were obviously deformed at hatching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next geo-engineering proposal: suck all that extra energy into space. Just skim a little off the top, maybe we’ll get some of those greenhouse gases out of here while we’re at it. There’s a lot of atmosphere out there, ok. We’re in an abundance economy with the atmosphere. We could probably stand to lose a little if I’m being honest. I ran the numbers through my bespoke AI, AImosphere, and it really liked the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juneteenth Goes Uncelebrated at White House as Trump Complains About ‘Too Many’ Holidays⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last week: We should have a parade. This Week: We can’t just go around celebrating everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bryan Cranston Reveals What He Loves About the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Revival and Why He ‘Missed’ Playing Hal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All I know, is that whenever I walk into a room, I want everyone to say ‘it smells like Hal in here.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Javier Bardem Takes the Wheel in High-Octane F1 Drama⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Javier Bardem, Dean Stanley Morgan, and Gerard Butler are one person fused like the King Ghidorah meme in my brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was on Bluesky the other day and saw greg pak posted something along the lines of:

  _We’ve successfully recreated the pre-elon twitter experience, but we forgot that it also sucked. _

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kirsten Dirksen - Tetris founder's family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While we’re pointing things out, this is also a non-islander owning 32 acres of land on the big island. Cool that a rich guy is going green though I huess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have parrots been the missing link between man and ape this whole time!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Annular throbber? Is he trying to one up Trump and the microphone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mennonites Making the Amazon Their Home | Groups of Mennonites, seeking cheap land far from modern life, are carving out new colonies in the Amazon. They are also raising fears of deforestation⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the orc hordes of Saruman, mankind will not rest until every tree is felled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Skibidi Toilet’ Film and TV Franchise in the Works From Michael Bay, Adam Goodman⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With somehow worse graphics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vote Justin Kays 2024 #47!!!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as the old norm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay the Spire 2 - Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder if this will finally get me to put down the original or if I just play both from now on lol.