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  • Elon Musk and others urging people to have more kids are essentially calling for a Ponzi scheme, experts say

    “Seen this way, pronatalism is a Ponzi scheme,” Merchant and Brown wrote. “It relies on new entrants to produce returns for earlier investors, with the burdens falling most heavily on women, who are responsible for the bulk of childbearing and child-rearing, often without adequate medical care or affordable child care.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-others-urging-people-175223302.html

  • Musk boosts 4chan claim that women are incapable of critical thinking

    Fuck me, that man is dumb… one commenter remarked, “I love how he’s so stupid that he believes saying ‘interesting observation’ gives him some sort of plausible deniability.”

  • Henry Winkler Dramatically Shares the Story Behind Becoming Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli

    The dude is the purest distillation of ‘mensch’

  • Simeon Brown can’t even draft legal laws

    We’ve got a bonkers road side drug testing law going through Parliament at present. It’s the creation of Simeon. ‘Lil Bigot’ Brown. It is so punative and poor drafted that the Attorney General has provided this feedback: The Attorney-General has presented a Section 7 report to the House on this Bill. The Attorney-General’s report noted…

  • Batteries start to rival gas on California’s electricity grid

    Lithium batteries appear to be undercutting the use of fossil fuels. Gas accounts for 40% of California’s grid. However, its use in April registered its lowest proportion in seven years. “The data clearly shows that batteries are displacing natural gas when solar generation is ramping up and down each day in CAISO,” notes an analysis by Grid…

  • Silicon Valley has been huffing it’s own farts for way too long

    The result of these three features is an insular intellectual community, talking increasingly only to itself, and increasingly cut off from the kinds of conversations that would correct its excesses, or, at the very least, give it a more accurate perspective on what the world outside its bubble looks like. Hence their surprise, for example,…

  • I just wasn’t enough of a psychopath – Ambition vs Satisfaction

    These two videos turned up in my RSS feeds this week: and (podcast links – highly recommended)… Both go to the core of my experience with starting, managing and working in tech start ups. I’ve have spent my entire career in tech. The first 16 years were devoted to getting to Silicon Valley. I got…

  • Apple’s best days are behind it… OpenAI edition

    It’s a bit surprising to see that relationship strengthening given the ongoing controversy around OpenAI, but what it shows most clearly is how little vision CEO Tim Cook has for Apple and his need to chase short-term hype because of the lack of long-term vision at the company under his leadership.  https://disconnect.blog/roundup-what-the-openai-funding-round-reveals-about-tech/ This backs up my observation from a…

  • Why David Seymour’s Treaty debate is not an honest conversation

    He wants to undo the Treaty. To reshape it by altering the essence of the principles. To strip away enshrined rights, while pretending they never existed. But he doesn’t want to say that, because to most voters, that’s unpalatable. And that’s the big lie. This is not an honest conversation. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350397764/why-david-seymours-treaty-debate-not-honest-conversation David Seymour is an Atlas Network…

  • South Australia will enshrine 100% net renewables by 2027 target into law

    Home to the city of Adelaide, South Australia has already more than halved its emissions since 2005 thanks to a rapid shift to wind, solar, and battery technologies, which now meet around 70% of its annual power needs. By 2027, it must reach 100% net renewable electricity, though it’ll keep gas power plants on standby…