You're gonna read a whole bunch of spin about this, but the bottom line is that Microsoft is planning to lay off 60,000 workers, or about a quarter of its workforce.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-read-the-memo-2026-10

I can't think of any situation like this where a mass reduction in force wasn't an extinction-level event for the company. This is less "the boat is taking on water," more like "We've hit an iceberg and now the back half of our unsinkable boat is sticking straight up out of the sea."

"Sure, the endless stories of all the puppies The Long Island Puppy kicker has kicked during her long and absurd reign are awful, and her promise to kick even more puppies once elected are deeply concerning, but I really don't feel like Personhero has earned my vote, so I think I'll just stay home."

"Sure, she's notorious for kicking puppies all over Long Island, but she's promised to kick illegal puppies at the border!"

It's wild, though, how elections could be like "Friendgood Personhero vs. The Long Island Puppy Kicker," and it'd still be like 51% to 49% with like half of eligible voters sitting out the vote.

Everything doesn't have to be a franchise. Movies, games, books, everything. Shakespeare didn't have to write Macbeth 2: Glasgow Drift; he told the whole story in one play. Likewise, John Wick told the whole story. There was absolutely no need for any sequels.

And I get why everything's a sequel now. It's much easier to go back to the same well than to dig a new one. But man, we're paying a hefty price, culturally.

Nobody needs another GTA game except for the money ghouls in the C-suite.

Data centers are the Moai of the information age.

Here's a word we should add to our dictionaries:

vericide

noun
ver·​i·​cide (ˈver-ə-ˌsīd)
: the deliberate and systematic destruction of truth

One of the chief uses of generative Ai is large-scale vericide.

vericidal (ˌver-ə-ˈsī-dᵊl)
adjective
: tending toward or producing vericide

Generative Ai is an inherently vericidal technology.

Spread the word.

A Grasshopper frolicked while an Ant stored food for the winter. Then the Ant and their hivemates decided to put a horrible parasitic Wasp in charge, and the Wasp destroyed all the food, antagonized the hive's neighbors, and disappeared any Ant who dared speak out against the Wasp.

The Grasshopper looked on in horror as the ant hive collapsed, then shrugged and went back to frolicking with their friends because grasshoppers know how to fucking party.

If I've blocked you and you're wondering why, I just want you to know that it wasn't because I thought there was no possibility of meaningful dialogue between me and you, or that I wanted to save both of us time wasted on pointless bickering, or that I felt unsafe, or anything like that.

It was because you're a terrible human being and a genuine waste of a life, and I hope that deep down you know that's true.

❤️

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