The statement follows a report from The Washington Post that officials suspected a foreign actor was behind the attack, risking insight into lawmakers’ communications with nonpartisan staff.

Threatening to leak sensitive government documents and then blame Chi-ran is a pro gamer move, gotta admit

Buying back your stock with your payment package in an ouroburos of financial fuckery

Just about all we’ve got. Like, three store cops for every one clerk.

Hecate

If we’re bringing in mythical feminine icons, you can’t top the OG Mother-Maiden-Crone.

“What crazy kinda Spanish is this a-rab talkin?”

“Uh, that’s Aramaic, sir.”

“Ara-what-now? Tell’m to speak English, like in the Bible.”

The famously competent Dr. Doom, who put scalding hot metal directly onto his face because he was in such a rush to become a cool mask guy?

The Monarch has more "W"s under his belt than Doc Vic.

she’s basically real

The actress is real and sincere and just about as naive. But she was parodying Hillary Clinton, who was in reality deeply cynical and corrupt and malicious.

One of them came within a hair’s breath of the Presidency and it wasn’t Amy Poehler.

We’ve definitely got cause for hope after this last election cycle.

But given the stubbornness of the Cuomo-crats, we continue to have some cause for alarm.

Which means you’re going to have security guards checking receipts, not unlike at Krogers or Costco.

And I’m sure they’re very aggressive with anyone who looks criminally young or tan.

I mean, I do have to wonder how many people with physical or mental disabilities are effectively just going to be trapped in here.

Also get the sense that they’ll have more and more and more and more and more security in and around the building as younger people start passing around exploits in the security setup.

While I watched some customers struggle with the new technology, my receipt scanned immediately. The glass doors slid open, and I was free. But if, like this person on the San Francisco subreddit recounted, I hadn’t bought anything, my only means of exit would have been to beg the security guard to let me out.

The security guard

“We’re a startup”

“What’s your plan?”

“Giant mirrors in space to control the sunlight that hits the earth’s surface.”

“Wow, sounds incredibly expensive and of dubious technical merit. What are you asking to make this happen?”

“We need whatever money you have in your wallet right now.”

“And the return on investment?”

“Infinity zillion dollars.”

“I guess I’d be a fool not to hand you all my money.”

“Absolutely. Now… that’s a really nice watch. And shoes. We could get you an amazing return if you gave us those, too.”

He’s an edge case. And - don’t get me wrong - if this is a self-reproducing model for future campaigns, awesome!

But Mamdani himself is exceptionally charismatic with good politics to back him up. I wouldn’t even say guys like him don’t exist, they just tend to prefer climbing the escalator of retail politics to the greased pole of democratic socialism.

They’re just gonna lay them off.

And hire other people with the excess budget. Hell, depending on how badly these systems are implemented, you can end up with more staff supporting the testing system than you had doing the testing.

Ugh. QA. Quality Assurance. Reflexively jamming that & because I am a bad AI.

Regardless, digital simulated users are going to be able to test faster, more exhaustively, and with more detailed diagnostics, than manual end users.

I mean, as a branding exercise, every form of sophisticated automation is getting the “AI” label.

Past that, advanced pathing algorithms are what Q&A systems need to validate all possible actions within a space. That’s the bread-and-butter of AI. Its also generally how you’d describe simulated end-users on a test system.

You don’t let AI check your work

From a game dev perspective, user Q&A QA is often annoying and repetitive labor. Endlessly criss-crossing terran hitting different buttons to make sure you don’t snag a corner or click objects in a sequence that triggers a state freeze. Hooking a PS controller to Roomba logic and having a digital tool rapidly rerun routes and explore button combos over and over, looking for failed states, is significantly better for you than hoping an overworked team of dummy players can recreate the failed state by tripping into it manually.

I wouldn’t be shy about getting into Remake or Rebirth now. They both stand up as their own games (concise start/ending, somewhat distinct mechanics, each one is easily 40+ hours of gameplay). And with Part 3 targeted for 2027 release, I suspect this kind of overhaul would be outside their dev cycle to implement.

Part 2 is already using the engine from Part 1 with minor adjustments. I suspect most of Part 3 development is cinematics and world building.

I would initially tap the breaks on this, if for no other reason than “AI doing Q&A” reads more like corporate buzzwords than material policy. Big software developers should already have much of their Q&A automated, at least at the base layer. Further automating Q&A is generally a better business practice, as it helps catch more bugs in the Dev/Test cycle sooner.

Then consider that Q&A work by end users is historically a miserable and soul-sucking job. Converting those roles to debuggers and active devs does a lot for both the business and the workforce. When compared to “AI is doing the art” this is night-and-day, the very definition of the “Getting rid of the jobs people hate so they can do the work they love” that AI was supposed to deliver.

Finally, I’m forced to drag out the old “95% of AI implementations fail” statistic. Far more worried that they’re going to implement a model that costs a fortune and delivers mediocre results than that they’ll implement an AI driven round of end-user testing.

Turning Q&A over to the Roomba AI to find corners of the setting that snag the user would be Gud Aktuly.