mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06tech, gaming and market insights. senior writer at barron’s.
priors: tech columnist at bloomberg opinion, cnbc, buyside.
If I wanted to push the most active power users to post and use a platform less I would effectively ban all intuitive useful third party clients, make it more annoying to read chronological feeds, redesign Tweetdeck to be more glitchy and add low meter limits to DMs and follows.
Oh wait.
The funny thing is I was wondering all day why I was getting a ton of followers all of a sudden. What was special about my toots today? Then I just realized why 🤣 #twittermigration
Hogwarts Legacy is excellent. Has MMO vibes #gaming
Wat. Buick and Chevy are more dependable than Toyota and Honda?
Same folks in media and the tech industry who said Web3/crypto was the next big thing are now all-in on this generative A.I. hyperbolic hype cycle. But it’s time to get real -> “Let’s Stop Pretending—ChatGPT Isn’t That Smart” #tech https://www.barrons.com/articles/chatgpt-ai-human-intelligence-b9f4fa03?mod=hp_LATEST
I expect my rating for the wizards game will be above 1/10 #gaming
Hogwarts Legacy is the new Crysis 🤣 #gaming
It blows my mind how often I choose to purchase the 10-teraflop console version over my 30-teraflop GPU system because of poorly optimized PC ports.
It's really an unacceptable industry-wide problem. Fix your games developers. #gaming
Anyone else notice ChatGPT is A LOT slower since they added this upgrade to the paid plan button on the left side? #tech
"We also see signs of real strength in services spending in January 2023" "Bank of America credit and debit card spending per household rose 5.1% year-over year (YoY) in January, compared to 2.2% YoY in December." #stocks https://business.bofa.com/content/dam/flagship/bank-of-america-institute/economic-insights/consumer-checkpoint-february-2023.pdf
@joergbattermann@hachyderm.io that is reportedly pre-deal not the final agreement.
Off to spend the weekend playing some little known game about a wizard school or something. Hope it’s good. #gaming
Many high-beta, high valuation multiple concept stocks tanking today after CPI numbers revised higher -> "WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - U.S. monthly consumer prices rose in December instead of falling as previously estimated and data for the prior two months was also revised up, which some economists said raised the risk of higher inflation readings in the months ahead." #stocks https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-december-consumer-prices-revised-higher-2023-02-10/
Hogwarts Legacy may turn out to be a better game than Starfield. That would be wild. #gaming