Are big businesses still advertising on Facebook? I'd heard that they were running ads for full-on scams, presumably because few real people are left on the platform and it's no longer attractive to most advertisers.
Yep, and Colbert has no reason to pull any punches either. They already canceled his show to appease the administration. Why would Stephen hesitate to tell the world every time CBS bends the knee?
Good on him for calling out every time they act as state propaganda and not a news network.
A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.
There's a good 3blue1brown video that walks through the actual math they can perform, which does a lot to temper expectations about what they can accomplish and how much of an improvement they would be over digital computers for certain types of problems.
Here's the YouTube link, or search for "But What Is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm)" on your preferred front-end: https://youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU
Yeah, I agree, and that's what I was trying to get at with the last point. I think morality systems in the sense of a binary choice with a scorecard is exactly why those systems are unsatisfying. Real choices have complex consequences and games are more immersive when they show that versus when everything boils down to a simple "good" or "bad."
The games that do moral choices well do still give you feedback - alternate endings or lasting changes in the world - but it's not as simple as one number or slider showing a morality spectrum.
I'd put Witcher 3 and The Alters on the list. Both of them give you choices where it's not really clear which is the "good" or "bad" one. And if you play through both, you find that neither is one-sided - everything has pros and cons, and even if you judged one option to be morally better in the moment, you still have to live with the negative as well as the positive consequences of your actions.
Maybe you could argue that those aren't traditional morality systems, but for me, that's why they work.
Once all your waterworks are automated is when the sandbox portion of the game begins. They've added so many features, and in particular aquaducts and overhangs, that you can really go wild with designing your Beavertopia.
I know this isn't even the main point of the post, but this passage is just insane:
Bessent was at an event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to launch what U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed "Trump Accounts," an investment vehicle for children.
The fact that they're not in uniform is closely interrelated with the fact that they're paramilitary goons and not a legitimate law enforcement outfit. It's all part and parcel.
The images are being generated by editing photos of real children. It's not fictional characters. This is discussed in the article and has been widely reported as this issue has been in the news.
Are big businesses still advertising on Facebook? I'd heard that they were running ads for full-on scams, presumably because few real people are left on the platform and it's no longer attractive to most advertisers.