Jason Cross
Jason Cross
@jasoncross.org
Nerd stuff and hobbies I’m into: games, guitar, bread, tech. I work at Macworld, but nothing I say or do here is in any way the opinion or endorsement of that brand or our company.
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Replying to @kyledcheney.bsky.social
Here's the excerpt I think @kyledcheney.bsky.social meant to append:
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In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.
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Help get @abdulelsayed elected to the senate! Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy—and Abdul is the one fighting to protect it. Get involved and help at abdulforsenate.com/vote go.abdulforsenate.com #abdulelsayed #democracy #jewish #midterms
Imagine if any other president did this, part 74342 This would be a MASSIVE scandal for anyone else, nonstop front page hysteria. It's pretty shameful how the mainstream press shrugs off this stuff now.
😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
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Just for context, inflation-adjusted console launch prices (US): NES (deluxe set): $564 SMS: $615 SNES: $495 GENESIS: $516 Atari 2600: $1,010 Intellivision: $1,223
'the price of the [Xbox] Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost' -Game Pass planning major overhaul (a la carte) -next-gen handheld by 2027 holidays, console 2028 holidays fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...
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BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
Just another thing for the massive pile of "if any other president did this it would be the end of them" that the mainstream media will ignore. If it's mentioned anywhere they won't have the guts to call it what it is.
Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."
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NEW: Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party. WIRED's tracking his America PAC funding efforts here - read @hugolowell.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social:
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Put Musk and Trump on the ballot. Everywhere. Publicize every candidate getting Musk money. Tie every GOP candidate to Trump. They're both terribly unpopular.
Today's filing: in the last 24 hours, Elon's super PAC added $4,513,280.22 in new spending. Fully $3.94 million of that went to Texas Senate. Musk's super PAC alone has now spent $22,719,081.92 against @jamestalarico.bsky.social
Every accusation is an admission: When Trump complained about democrats "weaponizing the federal government" they were telling us that they intend to do exactly that. And they have. See: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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NYT: Elon Musk has already given far more money, about $366 million, to federal committees during the 2025-26 election cycle than he did during the 2024 election, when he laid out roughly $290 million to help return President Trump and Republicans to power www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
15 minutes after I wrote this I got to the city, which is a neat "big zone with side missions" kind of idea that really works for Gears.
Gears of War: E-Day is great. It's a "back to basics" Gears game, and I mean that in the best way. They didn't try to cram a lot of big ideas in there, with like open world or skill trees or a strategic layer or anything.
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Ew. The new @firefox.com threw a bunch of color gradient bullshit all over the window chrome for no goddamn reason. Why though? It's not supposed to be pretty it's supposed to be INVISIBLE. UGH.
Trump's new America.gov website confirms he lost the 2020 election. Oh, and it calls itself "AI" and not "SI" so I'm sure he's screaming at someone to fix both problems right away.
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