I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space reclaimed for humans. Human brain cycles and attention capital freed up from “lane following” to other pursuits. Cheaper, faster, programmable delivery of physical items and goods. It won’t happen overnight but there will be the era before and the era after.

🎮 The W4LL team is heading to @gamescomasia in Bangkok, Oct 16–19! 🇹🇭 We’ll be on the ground all week connecting with game studios, streamers, agencies, and creators who are shaping the future of gaming and live content. If you’ll be there - let’s talk AI, analytics, and the next era of creator marketing. 🔗 gamescom.asia

“We verified your campaign worked”... Said no company in gaming without seven interns and a jumbled up spreadsheet. Until now.

Heading into the weekend, W4LL has never been stronger 🚀. What started as a simple Chrome extension is now a cash-earning tool for our users and a product shaping up for app stores at the click of a mouse🖱️. This weekend, we’re integrating a one of a kind AI module - the engine that will connect studios and creators in ways that make old models obsolete and unlock what’s next for gaming ⚡️. None of this happens without our community. And to our testers: your feedback, grind, and trust are powering something truly unique. There's too many names to list… But we will anyway 💙❤️. If you want to follow some of the best creators this market has to offer, give these legends below a follow and start networking 👇. @TheChimeraGamer @H1story_Nugget @kennytoesttv @HealDeeznutz @DeltaTVLive @NecroNumNum @NGL_Productions @N1GHTM4R3_VO1D @AtomicAdam72 @PatrioticDragyn @sareecantgamee @StarlordGaming @that1sg @UrkyG @Ypsiowns @KINGxKARASU

Game studios would never launch a game without playtesting 🎮. So why would they launch expensive campaigns without playtesting their marketing? Manual checks. Guesswork. Vanity metrics. That’s how campaigns still run in 2025. So what’s the fix? Automating qualitative analytics verification at the stream level. Because if you can’t measure authentic engagement, you can’t scale it. That’s where we come in

Rollercoaster Tycoon taught my brother and I the importance of interest rates. When we first played, we’d max out our loans because it felt good to see a flush bank account. Then we noticed “interest” payments that varied from level to level. Soon, we started only taking out loans for revenue-generating capital investments. We were, like, eight or nine years old.

Acquiring knowledge is easy, the hard part is knowing what to apply and when. That’s why all true learning is “on the job.” Life is lived in the arena.

The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

We found the title of a scroll for the first time! This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus

Yesterday, April 20th 2025, was the date in which the first “future” mission in the campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops ll was set, a game whose plot contains U.S. military operations against extremist militant groups in Yemen, the rise of AI and drone warfare, as well as a cold war between the United States and China which eventually leads the Chinese to halt the export of rare earth metals. Thankfully this was just a game and sounds nothing like our current timeline…

I am old enough to remember when President Trump promised to end this war on day 1. Sadly, rather than deliver on that promise he is instead misleading the world and the American people about what is happening. TRUMP: "[Zelensky] is always looking to purchase missiles. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles." 1. Patriots are not missiles, they are air DEFENSE systems. Why does Ukraine want air defense systems? Because Russia keeps slaughtering civilians with its missiles as it did in Sumy over the weekend killing 34 people and injuring over 100 on their way to church to mark Palm Sunday. 2. Zelensky didn't start the war. Putin did. 3. On this occasion, Zelensky hasn't asked to be given missiles, he has asked to buy them. We are, no doubt, going to be told that this is The Art of the Deal to get Zelensky to work for peace. The problem with this is that putting more pressure on Ukraine will not produce peace since Ukraine has already agreed to a ceasefire. The obstacle to peace is the side which hasn't: Russia. Secretary Rubio was right when he said when announcing the ceasefire negotiations that once Ukraine accepted a ceasefire proposal we would know "where the obstacle to peace is". We do. And the way to peace is to put pressure on Putin instead of criticising Zelensky for doing everything in his power to stop Ukrainian churchgoers from being blown up by Russian missiles. For some reason, instead of following through on his threats to apply further sanctions to Russia get *them* to the negotiating table, we are fed this nonsense instead. I worry that rather than playing some sort of 4D chess, President Trump has met his match when it comes to these negotiations, as his truly "special" envoy who knows nothing about the region, the conflict or, indeed, anything else of relevance to these negotiations is playing into Putin's hands.

This season just writes itself, doesn’t it?

Why would an FBI director need to fundraise on an initiative that's literally something his agency can pursue with federal funds? How is this not a blatant grift?

If you want someone better than Trump in charge, drop this stupidity asap.

I went to Kyiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Pavlograd and Dobropillya in the Donbas. NO PRESS GANGS. Young Ukrainian men everywhere walking freely. Ian Miles Cheong is a liar. Tucker Carlson is a liar. They are all liars. They get paid by Russia to lie.

FROM MAGA TO CHINA Here are four things MAGA is getting wrong, and why it's handing over the world to China. (1) First, MAGA correctly understands that America’s economic position is in decline but thinks this is due to economic competition itself, rather than lack of competitiveness. (2) Second, MAGA also understands that the US has wasted trillions abroad in foreign wars, but thinks the problem is global leadership itself rather than poor leadership. (3) Third, MAGA knows that their Blue American enemies have allies abroad, but has incorrectly overreacted to this by treating every non-Red-American as an enemy. (4) Fourth, MAGA sees the billions of dollars flowing from the US to foreign recipients, but isn't grasping that the US can only print those dollars in the first place so long as it's the hub of a global empire. When you put these together you can both understand MAGA's actions and understand why they will not lead to the intended result. Basically: MAGA is hyperfocused on cutting off any apparent flow of funds from Red Americans to Blue Americans and non-Americans. And they only have ~500 days in power. So they're trying to quickly shut off imports, close down institutions, and exit all wars. OK. Except the reason the imports exist in the first place is because US products aren't competitive relative to Chinese products (or Fed printing). The reason those institutions exist is because the US set them up to run the world. And the reason those wars are happening is not because of American leadership per se, but because of the absence of good leadership. If you shut all of that down at once — if you abandon global competition and global leadership — you shut down American Empire, and with it the ability to print money. And then everyone in that empire has a very bad time.

No words. So dumb.

Trump's rhetoric about the way borders were drawn wrongly in the past is pure Putin rhetoric.

Despite a Pro-Palestinian Russian-based Hacker Group claiming responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack this morning against 𝕏. Elon Musk of course decides to instead point the finger at Ukraine for the Attack.

This lie is so stunningly pathetic that believing it should qualify as a brand new category of stupid.