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  • It was only ever spicy auto-complete

    It was never civilization destroying… and they knew it. They pumped that angle because regulatory capture was the only moat they could really create. When asked if generative AI would usher in revolutionary economic changes, Acemoglu had a straightforward answer. “No. No. Definitely not,” Acemoglu told NPR. “I mean, unless you count a lot of companies…

  • More than half of all cars sold in China in July were electric

    While sales of petrol- and diesel-powered cars slumped in July, sales of fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were up 37% compared to a year before. As a result, new-energy vehicles comprised 51% of total sales, according to the CPCA. For context, the International Energy Agency projects that electric models will account for one in…

  • Anand Giridharadas on Morning Joe: “[Walz] is a PSA for white folks, older folks, men, rural dwellers, and others: You don’t need to be afraid of the future.”

    Permission structures and vibes… Some super insightful comments here.

  • Rails 7.2 ships with per action rate limiting…

    Rails 7.2 introduced a new rate limit feature that uses the Rails cache for preventing abuse of routes in your applications. https://gorails.com/episodes/rate-limit-requests-rails-7-2

  • Why Are the British Race Riots Happening?

    When I was young I said to my father that I didn’t see a lot of racism. He, a child of the Great Depression, replied, “wait till times are bad.” The “other”, the immigrant, is always an easy target. The actual villains are the UK’s ruling class and if violence is the method then the…

  • China Is Done With Global Carmakers: “Thanks For Coming”

    The Chinese have executed the low-end disruption playbook to perfection… cars is just *one* of the markets. This story is going to play out again and again. Driving China’s ascendancy is a massive and abrupt shift to electric vehicles. The EV share of total car sales will jump to almost 50% this year, up from…

  • Misunderstanding bigness

    In the short run, enforced dominance can offer rewards, both financial and related to ego, mostly to senior management. But the short run is fairly short, and the resilience, productivity and utility that come from agility and serving customers and employees more effectively is worth the transition. The very thing that enabled these companies to…

  • Teenage Engineering EP-1320: medieval beat machine

    hurdy gurdys, lutes, gregorian chants, thundering drums and punishing percussive foley fx. the ep-1320 is the first of its kind:featuring a large library of phrases, play ready instruments and one-shot samples from an age where darkness reigned supreme,the instrumentalis electronicum is the ultimate,and only, medieval beat machine. https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320 Teenage Engineering is the most exciting tech…

  • How Chile engineered the developing world’s fastest coal phaseout

    Chile is phasing out coal faster than any other developing nation thanks in part to regulations that bolstered environmental standards and gave investors the right signals, says former environment minister Marcelo Mena-Carrasco. In the first half of 2024, coal accounted for just 17.5% of Chile’s electricity output, data collated by research group Ember shows. That’s…

  • There is no such thing as ‘politics of envy’

    Every time the rich are criticised they run to the usual defence of “it’s the politics of envy”… … there is no such thing. It’s the politics of power. The rich have taken too much power and the working and middle class want it back.