This was never about sport. It was a campaign rally with punching. Glad it's never happening again.

Spending $60 million of UFC money to throw a birthday party for a president while fighters still complain about pay. Make it make sense.

This isn't the first time Microsoft has looked at Xbox and struggled to justify the numbers. The original Xbox launched in 2001 with the company losing over $100 per unit sold, and by some estimates they burned through close to $4 billion in that first generation. Wall Street called it a vanity project. They stayed anyway. The difference then was that the losses were intentional bets on future territory. What Asha Sharma described last week is something messier: revenue down nearly half a billion in five years, hardware costs up 4x, and a studio system that's overextended. That's not a startup making strategic sacrifices, that's a division that outgrew its own business model. The YouTube line from Nadella is the most telling part. If there's more monetization of Xbox games happening on YouTube than at Microsoft itself, then Xbox has a cultural relevance problem in reverse — it's everywhere, it just can't capture the value it creates. That's a structural issue, not a quality one, and Microsoft has fixed structural issues before. Azure spent years being dismissed before it became the engine the whole company runs on now. Nadella still says the goal is to build great games and great hardware, just in an economically sustainable way. That's almost word for word what the original Xbox team said before shipping a console they knew would lose money. They turned out to be right. Whether this leadership team has the same patience — or whether the company does — is the real question here.

The collaboration is well executed. The black dial with the red transmutation circle, the indices inspired by Edward's automail arm screws, and the sub-dial featuring the Amestrian military emblem show there was real research involved, not just slapping an anime logo on a generic watch. El-balad It's priced around $455, with deliveries expected in January 2027. Not cheap, but reasonable for a limited Seiko with this level of detail. Essential Japan The usual problem though: distribution is restricted to Japan via AMNIBUS, which pushes international buyers toward resellers with a markup. Esquire covering this makes sense, it sits right at the intersection of menswear and early 2000s nostalgia that their audience eats up.

Something that took me years to figure out: the avoidance pattern is self-reinforcing. The longer you don't look at your finances, the more anxious you get about looking, which makes you avoid it even longer. Breaking that loop was harder than any actual budgeting step.

What is curious about this story is the American silence. While the UK and Australia act, the US remains paralyzed, and not for lack of evidence. Studies on the effects of social media on teenage mental health have been piling up for years. The problem lies elsewhere. Trump and the movement he represents spent the last few years defending big tech under the banner of free speech. But you only need to look at who was in the front row at the inauguration, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, to understand this was never about principles. It was always about alliances. The paradox is hard to ignore. The same political camp that waves the flag of family and "traditional values" is the one most actively protecting the platforms that expose children to addiction-engineered algorithms, violent content, and contact with strangers. Not by oversight, by choice. Starmer may have his domestic troubles, and this law will certainly face resistance. But at least he is asking the right question. On the other side of the Atlantic, that question never even gets asked.

The most interesting point is the gap between rhetoric and reality. It seems much more like a political move by Georgia to gain leverage in its relations with the West than a real economic shift. At the end of the day, partnerships like this only become meaningful when they start to produce actual projects, real investment, and visible impact and based on what was presented, that still seems a long way off.

The issue here is less about “lack of warning” and more about a lack of practical consequences. Both health organizations and World Cup organizers seem too confident that general vaccination campaigns and basic recommendations will be enough, when in reality an event of this scale requires much more aggressive and preventive coordination. There’s a sense that public health is being treated reactively, only stepping in after problems emerge, instead of being fully integrated into the planning of the event from the start. Meanwhile, the World Cup continues to be promoted as a global spectacle without fully accounting for the public health burden it creates. In the end, the risk is not just measles itself, but this disconnect between those organizing the event and those responsible for ensuring it does not become a public health crisis.

I'm not really one to reconnect with someone who's long gone; I think it's a total waste of time

Retail got somewhere in the low 20% range of the allocation, which sounds generous until you realize institutional demand was so strong they actually had to cut the retail tranche. So the "democratization" narrative has its limits. You got 11 shares if you were lucky, enjoy your rounding error

$75 billion raised, 555 million shares at $135, that makes this the largest IPO on record, surpassing Saudi Aramco by a wide margin. The difference is Aramco was a government asset dressed up as a company. SpaceX actually builds things that leave the atmosphere. That distinction matters more than people admit

Chet's death was inevitable the moment Rob-Will handed him that gun and called him "the brother he should've had." That's not loyalty, that's manipulation Rob-Will needed a body between himself and the consequences, and Chet was drunk enough to volunteer.

Something worth adding: the turbo button on most 486-era PCs existed partly because of this. Some DOS software was so tightly timed to specific CPU speeds that running it faster broke the logic. Windows never had that problem — its abstraction layers accidentally made it more speed-agnostic.

Only those who worked with and used computers in the 80s and 90s will understand the importance of this post. Thanks for posting this :)

A country with strict laws and highly advanced technology, yet this kind of situation continues to grow more and more. It’s a sad situation.

It is heartbreaking and frightening to see gun violence hit our city like this, turning a regular Friday morning into a scene of chaos and tragedy. No one should go to work or leave their house fearing they won't make it back. We need clear answers on what motivated this, but above all, we need changes so that episodes like this stop destroying lives.

Hanks is right on the main point, but wrong on the diagnosis. The problem isn't a missing category. It's that Academy voters have never been able to separate "performance" from "physical presence." The unspoken logic is: if I can't see the actor on screen, how do I evaluate what they did? It's a visibility bias, not a merit one. The Andy Serkis example is perfect, but also the most convenient for the argument, because he uses motion capture, meaning there's a body, a face, something "visible" for voters to anchor on. A pure voice actor, with no associated image, would still be overlooked in the existing categories, not for lack of quality, but because the voting system favors what's easy to remember and easy to picture. The real question is whether the Oscars will keep rewarding performance or keep rewarding *appearance*. Until that distinction is clarified, the debate over separate versus integrated categories is secondary.

Multiple golden ages!!?? That's so weird.

The cancer scare detail is what gets me. He showed up to a press day for Jumanji while dealing with that privately. Most people would have called in sick for a headache.

Strong piece, though I'd push back slightly on one thing: I don't think the format is the root cause so much as a convenient amplifier. The consumer tendencies you're describing the entitlement, the harassment, the hype cycle those exist in film fandom, in sports, in music. The not-E3 presser makes it louder and more concentrated, sure, but I'm skeptical that a better format produces meaningfully better behavior from the same audience. That said, the point about smaller games being used as spacer material between megaton reveals is one I hadn't quite articulated to myself before reading this. That's a real structural problem. An indie with an honest trailer getting buried not because the audience dislikes it but because it exists in the wrong slot that's a format failure, not just a culture failure.

The part about hype being what a game is imagined to be rather than what it is hit harder than I expected. I've been burned by that exact thing — convinced myself a game was going to be one thing based on a 90-second trailer, spent months in that headspace, and then felt genuinely betrayed when it turned out to just be a normal video game. That's not the developer's fault. That's me mistaking marketing theater for a contract. What gets me is how normalized that feeling of betrayal has become. People talk about being "lied to" by a trailer like it's a factual description of events. Nobody lied to you. You extrapolated wildly from carefully edited footage and then held a real human being responsible for the gap between your imagination and their product.

And the worst part is you defend the people who wrote that script because you love them. Took me a therapist and two failed relationships to figure that out.

This hit harder than I expected. I spent 30 years thinking I was the problem in every relationship. Turns out I was just replaying a script I never agreed to follow.

When things are left up to individual families, it gets a little complicated. For example, if I teach my son one set of rules, but his best friend comes from a more lenient household, that influence might tempt my son to use technology behind my back.

This driver also covers integrated GPUs in APUs like the A10-6800K, which came out in 2013. That's not ancient by most definitions. A lot of living room PCs still run on that kind of hardware and do it just fine for desktop use. Keeping the driver alive and out of Mesa's main development path is a reasonable trade-off.

Eh, not everyone using old hardware needs a full gaming rig. I ran a Radeon HD 5450 in a headless server for years just for local console access. The driver matters more than people think once you're actually dealing with those machines day to day.

What's the point exactly? If you're running hardware that old, you'd probably want an older OS anyway. Not sure this kind of maintenance justifies the effort.

This probably doesn't qualify as vibe coding at all. The developer involved is an experienced Mesa contributor, and just tagging Copilot in commit notes doesn't tell us how much of the actual logic came from AI. Vibe coding implies someone navigating code they don't really understand. That doesn't seem to be the case here.

Honestly, this says more about online culture than about her. When even someone like Milly Alcock gets mocked, it shows the standard isn’t “beauty” — it’s control. There’s also a weird pattern where actresses in big franchises get judged on looks before talent. At some point, it stops being criticism and becomes normalized bullying. The real question is: are fans actually harder to please now, or are they just louder?

I really like the concept behind NBA The Run. The 3v3 format brings a faster pace and connects the game to streetball culture, which has always been a big part of basketball. If the NBA balances competitive gameplay with a strong urban identity, this could attract not just league fans but also gamers looking for something quicker and more social. It’s interesting to see the league exploring new formats beyond the traditional 5v5.