"The Scalzi Endorsement: Kamala Harris for President"

"I am deeply tired of Donald Trump and everything about his shitty, selfish, criminal and hateful self, a man whose only lasting legacy to this point is encouraging the worst parts of the American public to free themselves of any social bond to their neighbors and to be just as awful as their idol. Kamala Harris fucking laughs, and seems happy, and actually appears to like people, not just tolerate people she needs something from. It would be too much to say she embodies the better idea of what the US could be — that's a lot to put on anyone — but I will say that at least when I look at her, I know that there’s a chance that the better idea of what the US could be is possible. I can't look at Trump at this point and see anything but hate and anger, and the worst of what we are as a nation.

"I deserve better than Donald Trump. We all do, even and including the people who will, to me unfathomably, give him their vote once again."

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"'I think this industry is finished'"

Full headline, because of course all of this wasn't going to fit up there: "'I think this industry is finished': not quite Disco Elysium spin-off studio Summer Eternal on the chances of things getting better for game devs"

I think it is very close to "finished" as it exists right now, at least. The current business models and trends of the huge (and too many of the "not so huge") video game companies are simply not sustainable, both from a developer standpoint and from a consumer standpoint (and also from a stuffed suit, brainless, don't-actually-play-video-games-themselves-at-all-and-thus-really-don't-have-a-fucking-clue executive standpoint, but they're the vast, vast majority of the problem in the first place, so to hell with them, they deserve to be washed away when the dam finally breaks). It will fail, sooner or later (hopefully sooner than later). The modern video game industry needs a very hard reset. Or, you know, it needs that crash for which I've been calling and hoping, for at least the better part of a decade now.

"Rage against the machine"

"For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can't think. To think is to resist – something no machine does"

Headline for this as it appeared in Google News (and as it appears on the tab in a desktop browser) is "Can computers think? No. They can't actually do anything."