Samuel Stark

PhD student in CompSci researching high performance memory. security

Big ol' KH nerd, maintainer of the yk_gmd_io Blender plugin.

Tweets are my own.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

BBC goes with "both sides" and it's just Israel massacring over a thousand Palestinians they keep in cage.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

20 years ago today, the Blu-Ray format was released worldwide.

What blu-rays do you own?

[IGN @IGN]

We interviewed RGG Studio's head Masayoshi Yokoyama about Stranger Than Heaven using Tupac's likeness, story connections to previous games, and incorporating Japanese history. https://t.co/LWFGKQrOBr

[Game Informer @gameinformer]

We sat down with RGG Studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama to learn more about his thought process on Tupac's controversial inclusion in Stranger Than Heaven https://t.co/dPznhTJXwi

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@Vague_Luminary @SpainYakuza The full article is a good read, it covers that including Tupac was initially proposed by Snoop and that the family was consulted for every step. The "but" is about how they didn't want to show Tupac as he was, but as how he would be now, and the family helped with that too.

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@D3MOCRAC7 @LazySnep @SputzeeD @PinkNews Well, partially. She certainly didn't go looking for the initial harassment, but she did walk up to the instigator to continue arguing, then pulled either a gun (per witnesses) or a knife (by her own account). Seems hard to argue that isn't purposely escalating the confrontation

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@D3MOCRAC7 @LazySnep @SputzeeD @PinkNews Affidavits from a witness (friend of accused) and the alleged victim seem to corroborate that she approached him after the argument began. Not sure how much that matters legally, but it refutes her claim that she "did not go looking for confrontation".

https://t.co/FXrf5cthRT

[Tylor Hepner @TylorHepnerArt]

Sneak Peek at a special new painting of Tifa saving Cloud!✨ #FF7R

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@MarioBrothBlog These look like blendable pose groups! Bowser starts with eye furrowing, then head looks, then golfing with his feet in different orientations (for different terrain slopes?). You can blend these together, e.g. look up and half-left with furrowed eyes on sloped terrain.

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@sundhaug92 @Lina_Hoshino I do wonder if Windows was vulnerable to ATS still, and it's what these FPGAs were doing and what Riot blocked. It would make sense-the cheats seemed to work on IOMMU systems, you need to forge TLPs to do them, and it's something a kernel-mode update could toggle in the RC...

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@Lina_Hoshino Lmaoooo, incredible

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

@Lina_Hoshino There have been a couple of high profile attacks using it, esp over Thunderbolt connectors, and I know Linux started forcing IOMMU=on and ATS=off for Thunderbolt specifically. Windows now lets non-Pro users use IOMMUs ofc, but I haven't seen any info on how/if they restrict ATS.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Samuel Stark @TheTurboTurnip]

I didn't think these trailers could go any harder but the text flicking through different languages before settling on the main title is SO cool. Multiculturalism (focusing on US/JPN ofc, but it'll definitely touch on more) is in this game's bones and manifests in so many ways!

[STRANGER THAN HEAVEN @STH_Game]

MAKOTO DAITO - Portrayed by Yu Shirota
►STRANGER THAN HEAVEN is coming this winter | Wishlist now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PlayStation 5, and Steam.

[Robin @neocruyffista]

As James Gray’s Paper Tiger is currently in premiere at Cannes, here’s a throwback to this legendary clip. It permanently changed my perspective on the movie industry.

[STRANGER THAN HEAVEN @STH_Game]

Watch the new Story & Cast Reveal Trailer
►Song Name: STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | Artists: Snoop Dogg, Satoshi Fujihara, Ado, Tori Kelly
►STRANGER THAN HEAVEN is coming this winter | Wishlist now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PlayStation 5, and Steam (links in comments & bio)

[adolescence of snes @THELONGQUIET]

this part of the trailer got me hook line and sinker icl

[Ado @ado1024imokenp]

龍が如くスタジオの新作 今冬発売予定の
ゲーム『STRANGER THAN HEAVEN』に
キャストとして出演させていただきます。

初めてゲームキャラに声を当てさせていただきました。ギャーでございます。
メインテーマも意味がわからないぐらい豪華コラボレーションとなっております。

楽曲名：STRANGER THAN HEAVEN
アーティスト：Snoop Dogg、藤原聡、Ado、Tori Kelly

1stトレーラー
https://t.co/Z3iHSfQzhQ

公式サイト
https://t.co/jySvjfUSU9

[XBOX @XBOX]

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