Rob T Firefly

There are still people who will insist it wasn’t a stupid idea to decide meaningless digital points like the ones you get for helping Pac-Man eat dots are real-life money now.

I liked this show back in the day, but can’t enjoy it anymore knowing the creator is a fucking predator.

“Would?” They’re already doing that.

• https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/fcc-foreign-made-router-ban-is-your-tp-link-asus-hardware-safe
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-launches-new-chinese-tech-crackdown-will-ban-some-imports-2026-06-26/
• https://news.northeastern.edu/2026/08/04/us-china-ai-competition/

It would be kind of awesome if the scalpers paid the ridiculous sticker price for these, and then nobody bought them from the scalpers because nobody actually wants the goddamn thing.

That fully tracks for Disney which, long before the GenAI bubble was a glimmer in grifters’ eyes, had already settled into being the place creativity went to die while old shit continues to be rehashed and resold to consumers ad nauseam by corporate drones.

I was working on an abacus-based LLM, but I ran out of beads.