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  • David Tennant: ‘F**k off and let people be’

    “When I was a teenager, I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly and nasty. We look back on that, 30 years later, and those people are clearly on the wrong side of history,” [David Tennant] said. “Now, there is a similar weaponisation of these topics being taken by mostly the right…

  • Why Technocratic Elites Aren’t Trusted (Sam Altman Edition)

    None of this is to say that technology hasn’t had vast benefits, but we’re using it also to reduce our option space: to damage the carrying capacity of the Earth in ways which will take tens of thousand of years to recover from, as a best case estimate (millions for some of the issues.) The…

  • Why you shouldn’t believe the AI extinction lie

  • Musk is Twittering Tesla

    He’s turning it into the same organizational trash fire that he created at Twitter… Firstly, Tesla states that it is “attempting” to connect with suppliers and that it may have sent multiple emails to some of them. This suggests that Tesla doesn’t have an established method of contact for all of its suppliers – either it…

  • Competition for Thee, But not for Me – Steven Joyce Edition

    The chutzpah… one day get pinged by the auditor general for a shonky no-bid $1M contract and then the next day lecturer us on how we’re not doing competition right.

  • We need to talk about the Rabbit’s name.

    From the “dammit! i should’ve made that connection” file: News flash: there’s already a gadget named the Rabbit and it is very well reviewed. If there were ever a case for diversifying leadership in the tech world, this is it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24148260/we-need-to-talk-about-the-rabbits-name

  • Ayn Rand was the mirror universe Ursula Le Guin

  • An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021

    New “idiot test”… if you still cling to the idea that govt spend drives inflation in Western economies you’re either an ideologue with an agenda or you’re ignorant… either way you’re an idiot in this context. The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing…

  • I loathe JS as a server language…

    … and here is a good explanation of why: In EVERY Node/TS app I’ve worked on… you spend a lot of your time battling over framework shit – not shipping your product. In Rails, you pick up the defaults and forget about the framework and get on solving your problem.

  • Elon Musk is abandoning EVs

    This tracks. Tesla has behaved like a company (in the past 12 months) that knows it can’t compete… Elon Musk just fired the entire Tesla Supercharger team. Why? It’s not about cutting costs or streamlining operations. It’s a signal. A signal that Tesla is pivoting away from being an electric vehicle company. https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-is-abandoning-evs