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  • Uber deal could add 100,000 ridehailing EVs to roads

    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…

  • Why Calling Trump and Vance “Weird” Works

    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

  • You learn that Christianity stole it’s iconography

    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:

  • Surprise! Facebook’s VR work is a disaster

    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.

  • The kids are all right

    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.…

  • Luxo’s Legacy

    Luxo likes to shit on New Zealand. We’re whiny and lack ambition. Well Luxo is a free-rider who doesn’t give anything back. He just extracts. Greg Foran inherited a company that was driven for share price, Luxon inherited a company that was driven for values. Foran has responsibility, but he is now reaping the rewards…

  • What Does $1,000 a Month Do?

    A really interesting interview on the Open Research unrestricted cash grants research.

  • 2024-07-19-Why Do We Need Operating Systems?

    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…

  • No more billionaires, none

  • Ford saw a $1.1 billion loss in its EV business, dragging Q2 profit well below Wall Street forecast

    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…