Yesterday was a tough day for good websites. Multiple Giant Bomb employees left after their parent company, Fandom, decided to do a "strategic reset", which traditionally means "getting rid of anything good or human in a media brand and selling off its corpse". Shortly thereafter, Polygon was sold to Valnet, a content farming business best known for their ownership of Collider and Comic Book Research (as well as their terrible labor practices, scummy SEO, and general behavior ranging from the upsetting to the criminal).

I think it's fairly illuminating that it took me significantly longer than it should have to

I've been thinking about the usefulness of AI since I wrote about it last week. The latest salvo in this battle is a recently-released study showing that AI is neither replacing jobs nor drastically affecting wages. Plenty of grains of salt to be taken here: the data is from Denmark, self-reported, and from 2023-2024 so predating some of the recent leaps and bounds made in the technology.

Still, I think there's a growing realization that, while this tech might have the potential to be world-changing, it's not actually there yet. Most of the cases where it's getting the most use

I got punched in the face tonight. This is not the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last. When I was a kid my older brother and I got in fistfights constantly - I still remember the first time I beat him, when I was around 8. There's no better feeling. When I was in high school I got in a few real fistfights because I grew up in West Virginia and that's something you do there. When I was in college I did drunk fight club because I'm an idiot and so were my friends.