William Moss

tfw you just want to see “Flying Life 3” and this soap opera shit goes down in the row in front of you

This is what a decade in the chip industry does to you.

I'm sorry, even with multiple patterning we've reached the resolving limits of the available tools and simply cannot make a violin any smaller.

On the bright side, at least nobody got caned!

Ooh, bad timing award.

It will not surprise you to hear that this did not work out. But one long-term consequence of that adventure is that my son, who turns 18 next week, has to do national service in Singapore starting this summer.

In 1995, I, an American idiot with hair to my shoulder blades and no relevant experience, pitched an Internet videogame based on the Cyberpunk TTRPG to the chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board and he signed off on the project.

He turns 18 next week and now he'd be thinking, "that would be a very long walk with your old ass, dad."

We did have go-bags and a plan to walk to the airport if we had to. Fairly glad I never had to put that one into practice. Would have been a very long walk from Dawanglu with a toddler.

For 16 of my 17 years abroad I was a local hire and always assumed I was on my own if shit went sideways. My wife is Singaporean and the years we lived in Beijing we assumed we might have better support from Singapore than the US, if only for reasons of scale.

It's also an editorial decision to leave that exchange in the final article.

An Office of War Information style image of a WWII GI holding a mug and smiling. The text at the top says, :”HOW ABOUT A NICE BIG CUP OF SHUT THE FUCK UP,” and at the bottom, in a red banner, “Think before you talk to Chotiner.”

We’ll need to see that newscast to make a final determination.

Spanish fly now to be known as "freedom fly"

Endorse, for wholly self-interested reasons.

A brown tabby cat lies partly hidden under a tan upholstered couch, peeking out with one wide eye visible and a paw resting near the chair leg. He’s clearly playing. The chair shows scratch marks on the lower corner. On the rug beside the couch is a cardboard scratcher box and a small orange plush toy.

What is happening??

Honestly, idc. The shit I ate when I was young would have killed labaratory rats in hours. No judgment.

Am I too late to surf the wave of ground beef and rice discourse?

Can't be any worse than the "Monsterverse" tbh.

"...the AI talent studio Xicoia, which is part of Particle6..."

Presumably AP data will be used to resolve bets on US elections?

Yes, writing that sentence is makes me feel bad.

Read the AP announcement. The data flow is from AP to Kalshi, which is the less bad configuration. The fundamental idea of turning elections into at-scale gambling remains grim.

Lol amazing! Reminds me of the Chinese "Cars" ripoff that was sold from DVD racks at supermarkets in Beijing back in the day.

NB: I liked Pacific Rim. Delivered exactly what it said on the tin, no pretensions.

Will I watch this series because I am a craven kaiju addict since boyhood? Yes. Will it feel like tedious homework? Also yes.

As long as you don't expect them to do anything unnatural, like bend.

I am here to assure you that it gets worse.

For the Old Heads

Thank you.The cats appreciate your thoughts and prayers.*

*They do not. But I like to imagine that they do.

A white and gray tabby patchy cat standing on a cardboard scratch pad next to a gray couch.

Don’t be fooled. This little marshmallow is a bag of scimitars and she’s not afraid to use them on her (much bigger) stepbrother.

Today was the darkest day in all of recorded history.

Which is to say, it was claw trimming day and we're talking about cat history.