On one hand, Watson isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack. He has noble goals and is understandably frustrated with Japan being allowed to exploit a loophole to protect its whaling industry. But if you’re going to engage in piracy, making TV shows about it isn’t brilliant.

On the other, there’s no excuse for hunting an intelligent, sentient being. There may be no excuse for hunting any animal. Full stop.

Good on Denmark.

Maybe hire better protection partners?

Damage control from the PR team shouldn’t be allowed to fix this. Publicly name the “protection partner,” publicly end their contract, apologize, and develop a transparency plan going forward.

Lesson learned: Never sell any of your company if you want to remain in control of it.

Nintendo’s own-goals are getting embarrassing.

Yes, but he’ll gaslight the rest of us into calling it “bee-GOH” Games.

It’s worth keeping in mind that this wasn’t exclusively a Soviet tactic. But yeah, Putin’s a Soviet through and through — and apparently not the good kind. This was likely foreseeable.

Well, Bibi got The Donald re-elected. Guess he can afford to agree a ceasefire in Lebanon — especially doing it before they and their supporters start hitting back.

Glad I don’t use Strava

What, exactly, will this mean in real terms?

Thanks. Reuters recently announced that they would paywall content, at least in the US.

Paywalled

So, reading between the lines, he didn’t leave Bild on good terms and Springer is trying to torpedo his new job.

Glad I don’t own any D-Link products

Way to go, Wikipedia!

A new strategy for discovering what our governments are up to: Propose a wind farm and see if it gets shot down for secret reasons.

By population. Isn’t the US portion of global GDP around 15%?

Too little, too late. The election is next week

RTO is causing trouble everywhere. Good

The upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard will somewhat surprisingly not use Denuvo at all

There’s the tell. Publishers might start listening to their customers, who generate income, rather than their vendors’ sales personnel, who create expenses. He’s panicked over a potential existential crisis.

If I read a forum where people are known to object to what I do, there’s a fair chance I’ll get my feelings hurt. That’s on me.