Ryan Pemberton
ryanpemberton.com
Ryan Pemberton
@ryanpemberton.com
It's been 10 years since he said they'd have people on Mars within 10 years.
February 9, 2026 at 6:39 AM
I love living in land of pho and kebabs.
February 4, 2026 at 1:19 AM
How good to finish that game and not have to wait for the sequel!
January 20, 2026 at 11:34 AM
The first statement in this article, "AI is improving exponentially," is extremely contentious. If anything, the big companies are spending more and more for increasingly marginal gains in performance of LLMs.
www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
www.wired.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Damn. Well, keep us updated.
January 19, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Did they say why turned down?
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This rules. I was considering creating the map for my next TTRPG as though a child NPC from the game had drawn it - this is perfect for that.
December 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I like that they still used the normal headline as a subheading.
November 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Love the implication they would all lose touch with friends and family over the summer holidays and not just, y'know, use a different app or text.
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Or you're based in Germany. Unfortunately, it might be a cursed new YouTube feature.
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Did you have a VPN set to Germany?
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I've heard there are lots of functional substitutes.
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's not really him.
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Huh. So dictionary can be wrong, okay.
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hugely deserved! My game of the year.
October 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Yeah, I can imagine Americans using Man-OO-ka to help them get into an exaggerated Aussie accent. ManOOooOoka.
October 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
There's a story that the Queen visited and pronounced it wrong and then everyone copied her, but that's almost certainly apocryphal.
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
MAH-na-ka
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Similar experience. Very satisfying when it clicked.
September 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You were right about it being unpopular.
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I often hear folks, who otherwise agree that Google monopoly = bad, saying that you shouldn't take away their default search engine deals because it would devastate Firefox and Mozilla. What are your thoughts on that?
September 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
September 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This one's for the Aussies in the back.
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Go Godot, go!
August 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It looks like the decision was made prior to her win. Still messed up, of course.
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM