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Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. But now a number of prominent male tech plutocrats who previously opposed the former president have done an about-face: These broligarchs are publicly endorsing and donating to the Republican candidate—and revealing a lot about…
It’s well past time we start thinking of a new next model… An economy or economies based on manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga could set everyone up to live well, within connected communities and planetary boundaries. What if rāhui were respected and our ecosystems were regenerated, or our sense of obligation to each other meant that no…
He’s also not especially worried at the nationwide hostility currently directed towards the use of te reo Māori in everyday life. “I think it’s a dead cat bounce.” In other words, it’s a declining trend that makes a small uptick before it disappears completely. “You look at the young people in this district, you go…
ACT: All edge, no point. Props to Andrea Vance for calling the hypocrites out. The party has re-risen by stoking a culture war, peddling identity policies and putting a tale of Pākehā grievance at the heart of party identity. Part of that was relentless attacks on the character and motives of those with which it…
UPDATE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-market-stock-prices
It’s time for the next thing. I loathe JS in any arena outside of UI programming.
One of the things I battle with constantly is people who get distracted by the new hotness… “We’ve got to be AI enabled!” When told “no” they get their knickers in a knot. Roll forward 6 months and it’s proven that their hyperventilation was a waste of time. Seth Goldin said it best today: The…
Left or right, billionaires are full of shit…
Blake Masters loses again. Thiel really isn’t good at picking winners in this space. Masters last ran (and lost) against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for his senate seat; this cycle he was angling for a House seat in Arizona. The other notable Peter-Thiel-protege-turned-politician is, of course, JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210926/thiel-protege-blake-masters-loses-his-primary-race
This feels like a gigantic deal… not in numbers, but in impact. Uber is teaming up with BYD to bring 100,000 of the Chinese automaker’s electric vehicles to the ridesharing app. The multiyear partnership will roll out in Europe and Latin America first, giving drivers “best-in-class pricing and financing” for BYD vehicles used with Uber. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210369/uber-byd-partnership-ride-hailing-evs That…
Describing someone as weird calls attention to their posturing and affectations that—when unnoticed—give them actual power. “Weird” takes the paper tiger, crumples it up and arcs it, across the classroom, and into the trash. https://newrepublic.com/article/184348/why-calling-trump-weird-works
At school I was taught (by a very forward thinking Religious Education teacher) that Christianity stole a lot of it’s iconography as a way of taking over cultures… the rest of the world is learning that now… :cheffy-kiss:
In short, Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse has so far been an unmitigated disaster — and given his newfound obsession with AI, it just might be an experiment he eventually abandons. https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-vr-department-reality-labs-catastrophe Consumer VR will never be a thing… 16 year old me found that out the disappointing way… 30 years hasn’t changed that.
I think a lot of Pakeha don’t see the emergent power of young Maori. I went to a protest rally earlier this year and a full 50% of the crowd was under 20. This is becoming an inspiring force to be reckon’d with. It is one of the truely hopeful signals in NZ at present.…
A really interesting interview on the Open Research unrestricted cash grants research.
Yesterday’s computer problems mostly consisted of computation – using hardware to build fancier and fancier calculators. Typical uses for computers consisted of moon-shot calculators and military missile ballistics calculators. Today, though, the interesting problems are mostly asynchronous and distributed. For example internet, robotics, gaming, blockchain, GUIs, etc., etc. We need a new workflow which uses new notations…
Shares of Ford Motor Co. fell 11.6% in the extended session Wednesday after the car maker reported quarterly profits well below Wall Street’s expectations and notched another billion-dollar loss on EVs. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ford-saw-a-11-billion-loss-in-its-ev-business-dragging-q2-profit-well-below-wall-street-forecast/ar-BB1qzrGo This is the thing I don’t get, right. EVs are less complex than ICE vehicles… so why aren’t Western auto makers able to…
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