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One erstwhile worker told the publication they wouldn’t ride in a Tesla robotaxi “if you f**king paid me.” https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster
“Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…
Here Stephen Miller tries to convince us the paying welfare is somehow making governments broke (obviously ignoring military spending): It turns out that Tony Blair leans on the same shitty neo-lib maths in his latest missive: It is no coincidence that Miller and Blair are trying to convince us to “other” the sick and weak…
Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…
Good riddance… Why would Citizen Thiel abandon the downunder bosom, swap the land of the hobbits for the land of the Pumas? Is he mad about Rod Drury, one of his referees on his application for citizenship, being awarded New Zealander of the Year before he was? Is he mad about the authorities rejecting his bid to…
The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortages at its locations. But according to previous Reuters reporting, the error-prone AI frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, confusing different types of milk and sometimes forgetting to count…
The tech leaders of the 80s were/are problematic (Woz, much less so)… but there was a distinct feeling that improving the human condition was the goal. “You should always try to think different,” he said. “Don’t follow the same steps as a million other people. Think, is there something I can do a little different?”…
Exactly 24 hours after Stephen Colbert signed off from “The Late Show” on CBS for the very last time on May 21, 2026, a small community show episode mysteriously appeared on a Michigan Public-Access station without warning—hosted by none other than Stephen Colbert.
There are many disappointing things about working for an a16z funded start up (which I have done). Near the top of list is the depressing experience of having a breathless all hands just so you get to hear Marc Andreesssen bloviate. Here is a perfect example of his vomitious commitment to his own profundity: Andreessen…
The slow inexorable decline of fossil fuels continues… and remains a sole bright spark. Given that renewable growth greatly exceeded demand, there was nowhere to go for fossil fuels but down. Overall, they saw a drop of about 3 percent year-over-year, with an absolute change similar in magnitude (if not sign) to the growth in…
Muna has been consistently awesome, release after release. Their latest is no exception. https://youtu.be/vT-Nd5I10iE?si=0znBh1KhDhLRgGPV
… Bezos doesn’t understand the most basic facts about taxes, nor did he make any effort to inform himself. He went instead with some numbers he thinks he heard somewhere — numbers that tell a story he wants to hear. As I said, billionaire brain. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-backlash-and-zombies Evidently the man who owns the world’s biggest library…
A charisma-less Vice President JD Vance was met Friday with humiliating silence when he tried to transform a memorial event into a political stump speech. https://newrepublic.com/post/210542/jd-vance-crowd-stays-silent-speech The billionaire class are way over their skis… and it’s starting to show
The team used semiconductor catalysts to turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and ethylene, a hydrocarbon commonly used to produce spacecraft propellants, according to the SCMP. “This technology mimics the natural photosynthesis process of green plants through engineered physical and chemical methods, utilizing carbon dioxide resources in confined spaces or extraterrestrial atmospheres to produce oxygen…
I was taught that here was a “right” way of doing life… I shook some of that off, but the ghosts still haunt me The way we’ve been taught to “do” life is all wrong. “Destinational living”, by which we pursue recognisable outcomes based on the lie that these will guarantee security and happiness, is…
“You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours. No one can take it from you. Compared to some you can already be ahead of the game.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-moment-of-calm These gents aren’t going down in history like Rockerfeller et al. It’s a very different media eco-system capturing their actions. Their stories will…
I’ll admit it, I’m munter-adjacent. There are some things I never really got when I was younger – classical art, classical music and literature. I’m a pop culture kid of the early eighties, stuff like this gets my blood pumping: I think I have finally found my “in” when it comes to classical music… As…
I saw a recommendation for Star Maker pop up on LinkedIn (I think). It was wrapped in a near-religious review of the book. I found the audio book and it became my companion on my gym commute. What can I say? The recommendation was correct. This book is simply amazing. Olaf Stapledon starts on the…
I live and breath the creative process. I despair when tech takes human expression and experience in the direction of slop (looking at you Meta). I get supercharged when I see new forms emerge… forms that make me look at the world in a different way. I was today years old when I discovered Ben…
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