Dustin Westphal

@Bachus
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Owner of Killer Robots. Game Developer.
http://www.killerrobots.com/
it’s very funny that the one game the Knicks lost was the one game that Trump attended
Promises made. Promises kept.
Imagine the reaction had there been players who refused to wear parts of the uniform or had written a message about the 150+ schoolgirls in Iran that the U.S. military killed. There'd be no end of it until the guy got fully Kaepernicked.
Honestly, if guys like Landen Roupp don't want to participate in promotional stuff for things like Pride Night games, whatever, fine. Do whatever you want to do, man.

But we all know that if someone did this for one of the league's million "military appreciation night" events, the same people cheering him on about this would absolutely lose their minds.
#san francisco giants

This really is excellent and should be required reading for anyone pushing AI bullshit.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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"The tarp, as you know, never came down. The Kennedy Center became known as The John because that's all you could still see. Old Donald wanders around it at night, howling, under the scaffolding, where he lives now, eating cheese sandwiches the kindly workmen slide under the tarp."

@fazalmajid @blogdiva Assad killed 300,000 civilians over a decade in Syria: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/01/world/syria-war-united-nations-report-intl-hnk/index.html

which Elon bypassed with at least 500,000 deaths in 2025 as CNN reported.

Pol Pot killed at least 1.2 million people according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

So by the fall we can expect Elon's DOGE cuts to have killed at least that many people.

If we take the higher estimate of 3.3 million annual DOGE deaths, Elon will surpass the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust by summer 2027

More than 300,000 killed in decade of Syrian conflict, UN says

More than 300,000 civilians were killed in one decade in Syria, the “highest estimate yet of conflict-related deaths” in a civil war that started in 2011, according to the United Nations.

CNN

@fazalmajid @blogdiva For those keeping score at home:

USAID was fully dissolved by July 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/18/trump-administration-usaid-doge-cuts

That means by July 2026 Musk's DOGE cuts to USAID will have been in place for one year.

The Center for Global Development's low estimate of annual deaths might be a million a year.

The Lancet mentions an estimate of 3.3 million deaths prevented by USAID per year.

‘Ignorance and cruelty’: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts

Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administration

The Guardian

Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-trillionaire-is-a-killer

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.

The Verge

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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