TIL, via passing mention in a video about a different bit of AI business-model fuckery, that Claude Code users recently […]

Steam is phasing out physical gift cards…
Via Jez Corden at Windows Central: Today, Valve confirmed (via SteamDB) that it will no longer offer new stocks of […]
Because some fool namedropped Citizens United
A YouTuber was going on one day about the plague of verificosis threatening to spread to New York, I was […]

Undertaker (demo) – we have Tainted Grail at home
Undertaker got on my radar by way of a Splattercat video, in which he called it single-player Hunt: Showdown. Having […]

Startpage mistakes me for a bot
I was going about my leisure as usual, which includes the occasional Net search and also includes the occasional disconnect […]

Motorola indulges in small-time affiliate code chicanery
Prologue: Lenovo makes laptops. Sometime in late 2014, it started selling laptops with preinstalled Superfish, reverse-image-search software (useful?) which was […]

Gray haze

Fight-Quest (demo) – Bare-Knuckled Gnome Massacre Simulator
Fight-Quest is a first-person brawler. With fisticuffs. Versus gnomes. And it’s glorious. After I got past the demo’s short […]
DC man’s disingenuous blather reminds me about some ridiculous retail security theater
I once went into a pharmacy to buy a cheap pair of earbuds and found them locked to the rack […]

Your periodic reminder to disregard Google Search
For a little while a couple days ago, Google served up a meaningless AI message and a wall of blank […]