So…

https://legalclarity.org/who-owns-ubisoft-guillemot-family-tencent-more/

The brothers together own ~10.7% of the shares, but, due to a French law about this, their shares give them double the voting power per share, as compared to all other shareholders, basically because they’ve held their shares for more than 2 years concurrently.

So, that means that ~21% of the controlling interest is now, presumably, split between 4 people, instead of 5, though it could depend exactly on what the will stipulates… if anything.

Of course, there is no current evidence of foul play… but when this much money is involved… might be reasonable to check.

Would not be the first time a private plane crash with a very wealthy person onboard was employed in a familial dispute amongst the wealthy.

They tested where AI use is disclosed.

On Steam, if you use AI, and don’t disclose, that’s literally a breach of contract with Steam.

But you’re basically asking for a study on a likely unstudiable thing, at least not directly. What, are you gonna … ask every game dev team on Steam if they knowingly lied to both Steam and their players?

Its like the question on your taxes that asks if you are currently a felon with an outstanding arrest warrant.

Yeah, you might catch some absolute total morons, probably not anything close to the entire demo you’re ostensibly trying to poll.

What do you mean ‘deal with Baulmol’s cost disease’?

You mean general, broad inflation, right?

You’re worried that non-automatable low wages jobs will continue to be non-automatable low wage jobs, but slightly less low wage?

You’re worried that jobs tend to need to be done by people who can afford to be alive?

Most predatory mammals do this.

Fight or Flight -> Need More Visual Input -> Dilate Pupils

He is desperately rhetorically flailing, trying to pitch the idea that temporary demand in construction of data centers = job creation.

Despite that the entire point of an AI data center is to automate away 100x to 100,000x as many jobs, permanently, as will actually exist for maybe 18 months, to build the thing.

Its a nakedly bad faith line of bullshit, literally insultingly stupid to anyone that’s taken a year of macro econ.

Even if you build the datacenters, … the amount of power needed for them would be roughly equivalent to building the entire electrical power infrastructure of Germany, and that would need to be done in 18 months.

Conpletely impossible, that’s like 10 years of the world’s current production rate of power transformers, in 18 months.

These guys would need a top down command economy and 5 year plans to do this, and they do not have that, so they’re basically just pretending they do. When it becomes evident that they were bullshitting, they’ll try to say ‘well thats how things should habe been the whole time, with me in charge of everything!’

Delusional.

Base.

Base.

Base base base bAss bAsS BASS BASS…

(and something like that is how dubstep was born, lol)

I mean, you’re beyond correct, but also, we have a lot of people with moderately lead posioned brains, who are narcissists that will punish you indirectly in a hundred ways, if you don’t act like they’re funny.

‘How to avoid the inlaws during the holidays, or die trying.’

‘Free Thinker’

… test the Doctor’s reflexes, first.

Oh, there are ways out, that don’t involve windows.

In case of emergency, HALT_AND_CATCH_FIRE.

Broad rule of thumb for me:

If your website needs ad revenue to either exist, or that’s fundamentally its entire business model?

That website does not need to exist.

Now sure, are their caveats to this? Yes. But broadly, its usually true. The website should exist as a small loss leading part of your whole shebang, or should have some kind of membership or donation model or something else, to fund itself.

Its also not that hard to make a website follow broswer agnostic standards. If the website can’t figure out how to do that, if they think its fine to be a browser-vendor exclusive website, I don’t need to use it.

Why does reddit hate privacy?

Because their business model is to sell the data you give them and generate on their site.

You are the product.

They do not want bad product.

Department of War Crimes?

Department of Fails our Audits without Fail?

Department of Disease Proliferation?

Department of Terrorism Generation?

Department of Actionable Kinetic Subsidies to Powerfully Lethal Biblical Fan Fiction?

Its even more literal than that.

Write them into your will.

Leave everything to them.

Barely related tangent, but maybe kinda related:

The Seattle Light Rail.

The train cars have computerized voice speakers for announcing stops and such.

When you get to a stop, they say ‘Please use the exit doors on my left/right’, depending on which station, where the platform is, etc.

But it’s her left. Not the left.

… The train owns its own body and is apparently alive.

I mean… even if they’re not moving a lot of units, its still broadly a good problem to have -> considerably more people than you thought, want to buy the thing you sell.

So at bare minimum you’ve over delivered in terms of product design.

The extremely obvious capitalist response to that would be to raise prices on that thing. Win win, right? The extra profits go toward more capex to make more future production.

… But they haven’t done that.

They haven’t done that because they care about their image more than their profit margins on this particular product.

And/or because in the current environment… basically, the cost/reward on spending more capex isn’t worth the reputation hit.

The capex spending to meaningfully ramp up production would be so expensive, that it’d end up being a net loss, in terms of reputation damage.

… At least this is my semi-informed guess.

Well, on the one hand… having more demand than you can actually fulfill is the kind of problem most busineses would like to have…

I’m still counting this as a very broad win.

The corruption is hilariously obvious now, they had no other choice.

They’re afraid.

Them being afraid, the lying and bullshit being undeniably obvious to anyone with ~+90 IQ, and there now being actual substantial public awareness and concern, and real organizations dedicated to combatting this corruption?

Should have been that way a decade ago, but better late than never.

EDIT:

To be a bit intentionally dramatic…

If ya’ll don’t know, before Ross Scott became semi-famous as the Stop Killing Games guy… he has a youtube series on reviewing usually older, niche or odd games, and before that, he was probably most well known for a long running show…

Freeman’s Mind. Basically he plays through Half Life and just roleplays as Gordon, his inner monologue. He got somewhat into Half Life 2, but uh, Stop Killing Games started to ‘happen’.

Now, you don’t think one man alone can topple an incrediblely well resourced machine of propoganda and power, with scores of thousands of loyal agents, do you?

Follow Freeman.

… to a liitle old place where,

we can get togetheeeerrrrr~!

Love shack, baby, love shack!

… well now I have to try that, just to see how much I hate it or not, hahaha!

Does sound like that would basically taste like being violently kicked in the face.