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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

    Most interesting are owners’ debates over what, exactly, they just purchased. Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really. Rather than settling into a new routine, or building a workflow around their new computers, users spend a lot of time talking in the future tense, about what this thing…

  • Disney’s $1.5 billion bet on gaming risks cultural homogeneity.

    This type of cultural creep from major corporations is nothing new, but Disney has a particularly disturbing history of accelerated, amplified control across the mediums they enter. Each new property they acquire seems to permeate culture instantly, from stores to amusement parks to screens around the world. Even for non-Disney fans, escaping exposure has become…

  • Apple’s Vision Pro lacks any real vision

    The AVP feels like Apple cargo-culting itself The truth is that there’s very little true vision behind the Vision Pro. The headset is not the product of revolutionary work being done in the bowels of its donut-shaped headquarters. It exists to prove to investors and critics of Tim Cook’s leadership that the company isn’t just…

  • The Nationalization of Boeing Begins

    Financialization is economic heroine…. awesome and then you’re dead or shitting the bed.  “The engineers and workers at Boeing, in other words, really want to build quality aircraft, but are prevented from doing so by the suits. This is consistent with what I’ve heard from labor negotiators who dealt with Boeing in the early 2000s;…

  • Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour

    Infrastructure improvements may seem unsexy and unheroic, but to my mind, tech-utopian hero worship is one of the social scourges of our time. A reinvigoration of collective solidarity and a commitment to making major infrastructural improvements seems much more likely to lead us to a better future.