SThursday night football, and the Bears just did something that made me sit up. Kyler Gordon, fourth down sack on Drake Maye.
EI saw that post. Except... no. That's not what happened.
SWhat are you talking about? The league account posted it three minutes ago.
EAnd the league account apparently has a highlight-reel intern who's mixing up quarterbacks.
SWait, so Gordon didn't sack Maye?
EGordon's real sacks this season: Spencer Rattler against the Saints, and Kyler Murray. No Drake Maye. No fourth-down heroics tonight. The post is wrong.
SSo the official NFL account just invented a sack?
ELooks like somebody saw a Kyler sack, saw another Kyler, and figured, close enough.
SThat's embarrassing. Your own league account getting the game state wrong on a live broadcast.
EAnd the replies are treating it like gospel. Pro Football Network jumped in: Gordon's already top ten in sacks after his debut.
SWhich is true, by the way. Gordon's been great against the Saints. Just not tonight against the Patriots.
EUnless there's a secret second game happening somewhere.
SThe actual game's on Prime. Bears fans, if you saw that post, don't panic. New England's still in it. Here's one that'll start a fight. Xbox wants you to pay to stream games you already bought.
EOh, I saw this on Hacker News, and I almost threw my phone. Twenty-four to forty cents an hour to stream your own library?
SBut that's not exactly what it is. You're not paying to play your game. You're paying for cloud GPU time.
ENo, no, wait—the marketing says 'play your games anywhere.' So I buy a game, and then I pay rent on it?
SYou're paying for the server. Same as GeForce Now. You want to stream on your own hardware? Free.
EThat's exactly my point! The 'games you bought' framing is nonsense. You bought a license. Now they're selling you a second one just to access it from somewhere else.
SI get the frustration, but the cloud costs money. Nobody's giving you free GPU power because you bought a disk.
EThen don't call it 'your games.' Call it 'rent our hardware.' One is honest, one is a bait line.
SYou want to be mad at someone, be mad at the headline. The actual deal is pretty standard now.
EFine. The pricing's maybe fair. The framing's still gross. We can agree on that.
SWe can agree the Bears' social team should maybe double-check their roster before posting.
EAnd here's something that's actually worth keeping an eye on. There's a paper up on arXiv tonight called 'AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons.'
SThat sounds... ominous.
EThe argument is that AI is doing to science what enclosure did to common land. Private ownership of what used to be shared.
SI hate how much that makes sense. The data, the models, the compute... all of it is locked up in a few companies now.
EAnd the open commons that built the web is getting fenced off, one API key at a time.
SWe already saw what happened with academic publishing. Paywalls everywhere. Now the tools themselves are going private.
ENext thing you know, we'll be paying 24 cents an hour to think.
SDon't give them ideas.