Bluemax

@bluemax.bsky.social

I work on video games, love ska, Scottish terriers and when people don’t have to struggle for their basic needs. (He/him)

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Dr. Manhattan on mars meme

I had to pause the game and clip this replay, because this was prime “oh no! Disaster! Bad idea!” I want to note that SJSU was in 4 wide all game and then lined up like this. I don’t think this happened because they tried to get cute, but in my head that’s what happened. #cfb27

Councilmember Rick Cole was out all night in Pasadena and honestly is the only elected official who is properly expressing the outrage at the federal government felt by terrified constituents — in this case living across the street from where homes were burned in the Eaton Fire

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"

The influential 1994 early horror visual novel/adventure SNES game 'Kamaitachi no Yoru' (Banshee's Last Cry) is now fully translated into English! It's about a murder mystery set in a ski lodge with multiple routes.

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Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

First time at a Mariners home game since uhh, actually I can’t recall. Most random player thing I’ve seen was a Yuniesky Betancourt shirsey.

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

In its most recent quarterly financial report, Palantir reported $1.28 billion in total US revenue. Of that amount, $687 million came from U.S. taxpayer-funded agencies—an EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT INCREASE year-over-year. Cool. Cool … 1/

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RULE OF 120
Adjusted Operating Margin (Most Recent Quarter)
Q: Business Update
Q1 2026 Highlights
US revenue grew 104% Y/Y and +19% Q/Q to $1.28 billion
US commercial revenue grew +133% Y/Y and +18% Q/Q to $595 million
US government revenue grew +84% Y/Y and +21% Q/Q to $687 million
Revenue grew +85% Y/Y and +16% Q/Q to $1.63 billion
Rule of 40 score of 145%
Closed 206 deals of at least 1 million, 72 deals of at least 5 million, and 47 deals of at least $10 million
Adjusted free cash flow of $925 million; 57% margin
Adjusted operating income of $984 million; 60% margin
US commercial remaining deal value ("RDV") grew +112% YAY and +12% Q/Q to $4.92 billion
US commercial total contract value ("TCV") grew +45% Y/Y to $1.18 billion
Overall TCV grew +61% Y/Y to $2.41 billion
→ Adjusted EPS of $0.33; GAAP EPS of $0.34

I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD

According to chatgpt written in the Avatar movie presentation.