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This is an undeniable win for the whole economy. The US Chamber of Commerce can go f**k itself. “In the final rule, the Commission has determined that it is an unfair method of competition and therefore a violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act, for employers to enter into noncompetes with workers and to…
ZIRP really created a shitty period of time… but last night I had the visceral feeling that the spell head finally broken. It has been 10 years of mental torture… Tesla’s grip on the EV market is slipping. If Musk can’t articulate a clear and positive vision for Tesla, it could slip even further. https://www.theverge.com/24134781/tesla-q1-2024-earnings-sales-market-share-elon-musk…
Electric cars sales in China are projected to reach 10 million this year, accounting for about 45% of all car sales in the world’s largest automotive market. This is why oil giant Sinopec recently said gasoline demand in the country likely peaked in 2023.
One of the gold plated myths that Muskrats love to trot out is: Starlink will print money. It’s the one fart the desperately huff. Not so much it seems: But according to a damning new report by Bloomberg, Musk may have once again rigged the numbers in his favor by greatly underplaying the costs involved in launching the satellites, when…
… and a lot of us are like: A good friend, who is ex-Apple, suggested that the second to last project he’d want to work on was the AVP… just above the Meta Quest. Google Glass had Scoble in the shower (sorry, sorry)… AVP has Neistat struggling up the steps of a subway station. They’re…
This is pretty much the only thing Winny and I will ever agree on… but I heartily commend him for making this speech. Foreign Minister Winston Peters has delivered a hard-hitting speech to the United Nations about the war in Gaza, calling it “an utter catastrophe” and accusing the Security Council of failing in its responsibility.…
Funny how the people who were sending me Twitter links about kids in ovens aren’t sending me this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMajorityReport/comments/1bz76ci/children_of_gaza/
I suspect GPU intensive compute is going to be one of our nastiest ZIRP hangovers (Elon et al are just gonna be equiv to “walks of shame”). This isn’t zero-marginal-cost tech and it’s under-priced by a factor of at least 10x. Physics: it’s a real thing. Cybernetics: It’s a real thing. …artificial intelligence companies are…
Like all wars, tech gets pushed forward. In Ukraine it has been drones and in Gaza is it is AI/ML systems. If you don’t think the ghouls at Palantir and Anduril aren’t creaming their Elven what-ever-dark-elves-call-pants, you’re dreaming. Their sales hordes are already skittering over the pavements and through the sewers of DC, London, Brussels…
Toluwani’s paintings are created on this textured “skin,” layering empowered portraits and atmospheric scenes over the dark legacy of colonialism and human enslavement. The artist considers both the physical scars of slavery—inflicted by whips and cane lashes—and the trauma it wrought on communities throughout Africa, highlighting a complex history. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/awodiya-toluwani-textured-paintings
…the forces of mediocrity are now microprocessor-powered, heavily funded, and determined to hold on to the middle of the market. More grey, more goo. It’s hard to make a great sequel. Better to spend our time to make a remarkable original.
VC is pattern-matching. Because of this, less competent players fall into the trap of pitching themselves as the X of Y … Tell me you don’t know what you’re doing with out telling me you don’t know what you’re doing.
There has been a spate of “tall poppy” cry-wanks in the NZ entrepreneurial community over the past week. The theme is: I’m a tall poppy and I keep getting knocked down. Turns out that the people getting this coverage are generally: really unpleasant to deal with, they hurt people as their managerial MO, their achievements…
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