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Tesla mastered to feed the media with sleek side-view PR-shots of its cyber muck, but I encountered this monster on the road, facing the ugliest behind of a vehicle ever. With brutally nailed together sheet metal with finger prints, and hostile edges – potentially deadly in case of collisions – this design proves that lots…
… but Tom Petty is ageless and the anchor. Love is A Long Road actually makes the trailer work properly.
Israeli officials agree in private that, if they had taken the plan seriously, they could have reduced the severity of the death toll or even prevented it altogether, the investigation found. Due in part to the U.S.’s unbending support, Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world. https://truthout.org/articles/report-israeli-officials-knew-of-october-7-attack-a-year-ago-but-didnt-act/ I really fear for…
In Malaysia, Country Garden’s plan was to build an eco-friendly metropolis featuring a golf course, waterpark, offices, bars and restaurants. The company said Forest City would eventually be home to nearly one million people. Eight years on, it stands as a barren reminder that you do not need to be in China to feel the…
Te reo Māori: Govt seeks to halt extra pay for public servants fluent in the language https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504003/te-reo-maori-govt-seeks-to-halt-extra-pay-for-public-servants-fluent-in-the-language I wonder if they are going to cut pay for public servants who are fluent in SQL too. It’s petty and obviously idealogical. A quick reminder of this ironic high-level timeline, which would be a funny skit, if…
Our import Leaf clicked over 200,000km today… still the best car money I’ve ever spent.
An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there’s “no science” behind phasing out fossil fuels to keep global temperatures from creeping above 1.5 degrees Celsius, an internationally agreed-upon climate benchmark. His comment, made during a panel led by former UN special envoy for climate change Mary Robinson, particularly struck a nerve as…
Enter the “Third-Party Nonconsensual Release,” a bizarre and wildly corrupt feature of elite bankruptcy. The Sacklers offered the court a deal: they would take the family business, Purdue Pharma, into bankruptcy, and kick in a few billion out of their collective hoard. In return, the court would settle all claims against both Purdue and the family. The family would not have to go…
Looking Glass is one of my all time fave display technologies. Their new project builds on some amazing work.
In an ongoing mission of seeking alternative materials, YUME YUME introduces a three-piece edit grounded in biofabrication, jointly with Creative Director Xavier Gallego from MycoWorks, the only mycelium biotechnology company rooted in art. The duo celebrates this collaboration with Descent into Fungal — a multi-sensory and interactive exhibition at Berlin’s new art space, Buro Stedelijk. Running until January…
“The universe therefore appears to be expanding faster in our vicinity — that is, up to a distance of around three billion light years — than in its entirety,” explained astrophysicist and University of Bonn professor Pavel Kroupa, coauthor of a new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in the statement. https://futurism.com/the-byte/galaxy-void-cosmos-hubble-constant
A rare form of atmospheric phenomena known as a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) was successfully captured in imagery obtained during a recent experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The observations were made as a part of the Thor-Davis experiment, an effort designed to observe storm phenomena in the upper atmosphere and their relationship to…
From the UAW to the Writers Guild, this year’s biggest contract victories have been won by unions in which members directly elect their leaders. That’s a right denied to most US union members — but it may be the key to unleashing broader labor militancy. https://jacobin.com/2023/12/elections-democracy-union-leadership-militancy/
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government plans to work for Māori and non-Māori alike, and protests are “unfair” for a government that’s only been in power a week. The protests taking place across New Zealand were part of a “National Māori Action Day”, led by Te Pāti Māori and iwi, to challenge the government…
Hassabis was, per the NYT‘s retelling, very skilled at convincing rich men to fund his dream of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI), and his interaction with Musk was no different. During a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters, the South African-born billionaire began bragging about his plans to take humanity to Mars to escape global overpopulation and the…
Stratolaunch yesterday completed the captive carry flight with the first powered Talon-A hypersonic vehicle, or TA-1, over Southern California. This was the twelfth flight for the Roc launch platform and saw the Talon-A filled with live liquid oxygen (LOx) fuel for its rocket engine. The flight lasted three hours and 22 minutes. It was, according…
One idea I’ve been playing with recently is that the current hype around AI doesn’t actually have anything to do with AI. For instance, as I wrote last week, I think Big Tech is actually more jealous that ChatGPT isn’t an advertising business — and that it might destroy online advertising if it really catches on —…
OpenAI may be chasing after enterprise users, but some of its executives warn people not to expect the technology to change their businesses quickly. OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said in an interview with CNBC that one of the more overhyped parts of artificial intelligence is that “in one fell swoop, [it] can deliver substantive business…
Since 1979, when the Voyager probes flew past Jupiter and its system of moons, scientists have speculated about the possibility of life within Europa. Based on planetary modeling, Europa is believed to be differentiated between a rocky and metallic core, an icy crust and mantle, and a warm water ocean up to 100 km (62…
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