Week 22 - Eric Schmidt, Anthropic AI, and Canadian Tariff Debates: A Social Scan of Tech Ethics, Gaming Economies, and Policy

Gaming

Everything Will Be Commoditized

Not even mad about it getting a TCG. Just knowing though that 90% of those buying this are gonna be scalpers and speculators hoping to make a couple of pennies on the dollar.

At least it’s not NFTs 🤷‍♂️

Source: ign.com

New Kpop Demon Hunters Trading Cards Are Officially Up for Preorder, Releasing This Summer Over June, July, and August

Kpop Demon Hunters is getting its own collectible trading cards that are now available to preorder, releasing over the next few months in June, July, and August.

["ign.com"]

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Was Not Expecting That

GaaS -> gaming as a service isn’t all bad - but when games go offline and there’s nothing left?

Ya that’s ass.

So why not just allow stripped down community servers? or go back to built in LAN access?

No reason games even MMO’s can’t exist within there own communities.

Source: ign.com

Stop Killing Games Gains Momentum After Bill Passes California State Assembly Vote

The Stop Killing Games movement has reached yet another major milestone after the California State Assembly passed a bill protecting games from being pulled offline.

["ign.com"]

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Attack Of The Tool

Tim Sweeney is a dull screwdriver - both literally and metaphorically

Steam Deck pricing though is an L, and you’d hope it weren’t the case

But with AI bastardizing the supply chain for consumer tech, and Valve not subsidizing costs - gaming gonna be in for a rough 5 years

Source: share.google

Culture

The Kids Are Gonna Be All Right

I loved watching Eric Schmidt get boo’d to hell, and I loved watching Woz talk about creativity and passion not being replaceable.

You just know the folks on LinkedIn are big confused and blaming woke liberal indoctrination.

But eh fuck em

Source: futurism.com

Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: "I'm Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI"

Tapping into widespread frustrations, "The Daily Show" host Ronny Chieng issued a profanity-laden anti-AI tirade at Harvard.

["futurism.com"]

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I Hated Summers..

I hated sweating on impact as soon as you went outside.

I hated needing the refuge of AC during the days.

Then I started golfing and while I still hate most of those things, it made me despise being locked indoors in Winter more.

Give me perpetual spring and fall over winter.

Source: thestar.com

Navneet Alang: After 37 years in Toronto, I’ve finally found a reason to love summer

For decades, summer felt like it was for others. It seemed to me as if it belonged to the popular, the young, the thin, the desired.

["thestar.com"]

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Tech

Big Smart

Eigenpulse: Eliminating Demographic Bias in Pulse Oximetry and Remote PPG from First Principles

Won’t pretend like I understand what any of that even means but kudos to Gurnoor Kaur.

Happy to seel my people being celebrated for positive things again.

Source: cbc.ca

Kitchener teen wins innovation award at Canada-Wide Science Fair, fixes 35-year-old problem | CBC News

Gurnoor Kaur, a Grade 11 student at Cameron Height Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, has won the best project award for innovation at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Edmonton.

["cbc.ca"]

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Congrats I’m Happy For You?

Anthrophic gets blacklisted by the US government after citing the emotional turmoil they suffered - forced to use their AI to bomb schools in Iran… err wait.. they just didn’t want people dictating their model weights

Yet despite all that they continue to melt numbers

Source: qazinform.com

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become world’s most valuable AI startup

Anthropic has become the most valuable artificial intelligence startup in the world, surpassing OpenAI in market valuation. Following a new funding round, the valuation of the developer behind the Claude AI assistant has approached the $1 trillion mark, reports a Qazinform News Agency correspondent.

["qazinform.com"]

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Politics

My Current Gauge for Stupidity Is Musk Fanboy-ism

Musk realized with $Doge (coin) that the more that you yell “moon”, the more the heavily regarded will rush to their knees in front of you

Pushing to change laws and protections to push this ponzi is wild, but yell “moon” enough and it’ll happen 📈📈

Source: theglobeandmail.com

The SpaceX IPO is the clearest sign yet of a bull market at its peak

The sheer implausibility of the deal allows us to gauge just how gullible investors have become

["theglobeandmail.com"]

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Kubek The Hero We Need?

Interprovincial alcohol tariffs are one of the most bizarre trade restrictions we have

We can safely import from America but not BC?

Likely an economist ready to “well actually” me, but this is borderline absurdity

The Feds need to step in on this, not just pass the buck

Source: theglobeandmail.com

Blown deadline for provincial alcohol shipments bodes poorly for broader internal trade push

Only two provinces allow their residents to freely buy booze directly from other parts of the country

["theglobeandmail.com"]

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Sports

Arse-nal?

Not sure if there’s any other sport where a team and a fan base can be chirped relentlessly for losing, while also simultaneously get chirped for winning.

Yet, the things I’m being exposed to in some of the group chats, is… wow

Source: espn.com

How PSG bested Arsenal to win UEFA Champions League

Paris Saint-Germain are your UEFA Champions League winners for the second year in a row as they bested Arsenal on penalties. Here

["espn.com"]

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