Sajal Choudhary

Gray skies abound.
Yellow trees dot the landscape.
A tram runs through.

Circles in puddles.
Rain drops fall on ground -
like chirping insects.

The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it? by Sean Hollister

Microsoft could do the same with a new, pricier tier of its Xbox Game Pass game subscription service, effectively bundling the games with the console and making you slowly pay for both at the same time. Perhaps you’ll have the option to buy an “unlocked” Xbox for full price, but it won’t be the norm.

I think this is what they will do and not just them, the folks at PlayStation as well. Or, they delay it till the prices become normal again.

Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctoro

I'm talking about fiscal debt: the solar we didn't build, the carbon we emitted instead; the rail we didn't build, the wildly inefficient aviation we substituted; the walkable, livable, transit-oriented cities we didn't build, the car-choked disasters we built instead. Oligarchic opposition to universal healthcare left us sick, with un- or undertreated illnesses and missed opportunities for prevention that left us with overlapping, population-scale health crises. All of this is debt that must be repaid: we can't walk away from it through bankruptcy. We must build the transit, cities, and systems of care – the infrastructure – our species needs to carry on human civilization. We can't keep hitting snooze on this, lest we are finally awoken by seawater lapping at our pillows.

This on a day when I heard Bill Gates on the Decoder podcast talking about AI being the worst weapon we have ever created. And the world is gonna suck so bad.