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  • But, but Starlink!

    One of the gold plated myths that Muskrats love to trot out is: Starlink will print money. It’s the one fart the desperately huff. Not so much it seems: But according to a damning new report by Bloomberg, Musk may have once again rigged the numbers in his favor by greatly underplaying the costs involved in launching the satellites, when…

  • It’s been 90 days since the Apple Vision Pro was released…

    … and a lot of us are like: A good friend, who is ex-Apple, suggested that the second to last project he’d want to work on was the AVP… just above the Meta Quest. Google Glass had Scoble in the shower (sorry, sorry)… AVP has Neistat struggling up the steps of a subway station. They’re…

  • Tesla settles with Apple engineer’s family who said Autopilot caused his fatal crash

    I suspect Apple told them to fuck off when Tesla tried to rope them into this law suit. Although Huang’s family acknowledges he was distracted while the car was driving, they argued Tesla is at fault because it falsely marketed Autopilot as self-driving software. They alleged Tesla knew that Autopilot was not ready for prime…

  • Gaza: “an utter catastrophe”

    This is pretty much the only thing Winny and I will ever agree on… but I heartily commend him for making this speech. Foreign Minister Winston Peters has delivered a hard-hitting speech to the United Nations about the war in Gaza, calling it “an utter catastrophe” and accusing the Security Council of failing in its responsibility.…

  • Children of Gaza

    Funny how the people who were sending me Twitter links about kids in ovens aren’t sending me this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMajorityReport/comments/1bz76ci/children_of_gaza/

  • There 👏 are 👏 real 👏 fucking 👏 limits.

    I suspect GPU intensive compute is going to be one of our nastiest ZIRP hangovers (Elon et al are just gonna be equiv to “walks of shame”). This isn’t zero-marginal-cost tech and it’s under-priced by a factor of at least 10x. Physics: it’s a real thing. Cybernetics: It’s a real thing. …artificial intelligence companies are…

  • Musical Interlude: Thinking of Nina – Marlon Williams

    Deep Roxy Music vibes…

  • The Gazans today, who in 5 years?

    Like all wars, tech gets pushed forward. In Ukraine it has been drones and in Gaza is it is AI/ML systems. If you don’t think the ghouls at Palantir and Anduril aren’t creaming their Elven what-ever-dark-elves-call-pants, you’re dreaming. Their sales hordes are already skittering over the pavements and through the sewers of DC, London, Brussels…

  • From the “Not saying it’s not fraud” file… background watching for the Tesla 8/8 autonomy event

    Update: 16 Apr: Does Tesla actually have a plan to launch a “robotaxi” in less than four months — or is it yet another blatant attempt by Musk to raise morale among Tesla investors? https://futurism.com/tesla-robotaxi-announcement-regulator-permits Update: 19 Apr: (Reuters) – Tesla shares fell to their lowest in more than a year on Thursday after Deutsche…

  • Stunning Portraits and Landscapes Emerge from ‘Scarred’ Canvases in Awodiya Toluwani’s Paintings

    Toluwani’s paintings are created on this textured “skin,” layering empowered portraits and atmospheric scenes over the dark legacy of colonialism and human enslavement. The artist considers both the physical scars of slavery—inflicted by whips and cane lashes—and the trauma it wrought on communities throughout Africa, highlighting a complex history. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/awodiya-toluwani-textured-paintings