Week 22 - From AI Ethics and Gaming Futures to Musk's Dogecoin & Interprovincial Tariffs: A Social Media Analysis
The first edition of what will hopefully be a week in review – or kind of?
Am I cheating by just using my Bluesky account? – Yes.
Do I care? – Kind of? Actually No.
Look, content - is well hard. There’s 50 platforms we’re constantly being told to use. How am I supposed to do all that and still have time to think about posts and essays? I mean you’re right, I don’t have too, but stay with me for a second.
This site has quietly transformed into my digital lockbox. The place all my content aggregates and lives together. My Bluesky ain’t bumping, likely because I’m not important enough to matter, or maybe I don’t really say anything of value, but to also leave that place as a silo seems wrong.
As far as platforms go though, I appreciate what it is, and what they’re trying to be. Even if the rest of the internet doesn’t agree. It’s open enough for me to want to post my content on there, without feeling like I violated some ethical HIPPA like compliance.
So we have this. A place where all my thoughts on articles I actually read will come together. I’m not just link spamming. I read every one of these and had a few thoughts. Enough that I shared the article with my one takeaway. Enough that I cared to share it in a way that it ends up here.
Eventually this will build and become the thesis for a newsletter that I can email out to everyone. But before we get there we need to get used to making the content.
The header will be the overall thought for the week. Maybe in the future this will act as the basis for a new podcast or video or something? I don’t know. I’m big on recycling content and repurposing it. Because time is of the essence and I’d rather find the most efficient way to share my shit, than to recreate it from scratch each time.
So if you happen to have read this, just know - I appreciate you!
Now on to the show!
P.S - Habs got knocked out and my post about it didn’t make the formatting cut so here it is -
Habs got the shit kicked outta them. And getting the shit kicked outta you is a lot different than losing. When you lose you can dwell about the ways you could have prevented the loss, things you could do to improve. But when you get the shit kicked outta you? Well then you’re just happy it’s over.
Tech
The Kids Are Going To Be All Right.
I loved watching Eric Schmidt get booed to hell, and I loved watching Wozniak talk about creativity and passion not being replaceable.
You just know the folks on LinkedIn are confused and blaming ‘woke liberal indoctrination’. But, eh, fuck ‘em.
Big Smart.
‘Eigenpulse: Eliminating Demographic Bias in Pulse Oximetry and Remote PPG from First Principles.’
I won’t pretend like I understand what any of that even means, but kudos to Gurnoor Kaur. I’m happy to see my people being celebrated for positive things again.
Attack Of The Tool.
Tim Sweeney is a dull screwdriver—both literally and metaphorically.
Steam Deck pricing, though, is a loss, 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 is going to be in for a rough five years.
Congrats, I’m Happy For You?
Anthropic 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.
Gaming
Everything Will Be Commoditized.
Not even mad about it getting a TCG. Just knowing, though, that 90% of those buying this are going to be scalpers and speculators hoping to make a couple of pennies on the dollar.
At least it’s not NFTs.
Was Not Expecting That.
Gaming as a service (GaaS) isn’t all bad, but when games go offline and there’s nothing left? Yeah, that’s terrible.
So why not just allow stripped-down community servers? Or go back to built-in LAN access?
There’s no reason games, even MMOs, can’t exist within their own communities.
Politics
My Current Gauge for Stupidity Is Musk Fanboy-ism.
Musk realized with Dogecoin that the more 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 will happen.
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 British Columbia?
Likely an economist is ready to ‘well, actually’ me, but this is borderline absurdity. The Feds need to step in on this, not just pass the buck.
Sports
Arsenal?
I’m not sure if there’s any other sport where a team and a fan base can be chirped relentlessly for losing, while simultaneously getting chirped for winning.
Yet, the things I’m being exposed to in some of the group chats are… wow.
Culture
I Hated Summers…
I hated sweating on impact as soon as I went outside. I hated needing the refuge of AC during the day.
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.
