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  • The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster

    I don’t mean to malign the entire U.S. press for its SpaceX IPO coverage. The Verge had the courage to publish a story openly (and correctly) calling Musk a killer. Smaller independent outlets generally did all of the heavy lifting when it comes to, you know, telling people the truth. The whole purpose of journalism. But pretty broadly the U.S. establishment press…

  • Dose of Schadenfreude… Price dropping cybertrucks

    The $150K Stupidwagon destined for a $15-20K price point

  • Libertarian Disneyland Can’t Pay It’s Way…

    … huh, how ’bout that? You pimp individuality over collective responsibility, allow for aggressive gentrification and the rich people will come in, enjoy it and leave nothing behind. It’s almost like removing any chance of long term sustainability removes your ability to weather shock events. https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/30/burning-man-is-desperate-for-cash/

  • I wonder if this is the tech that is generating 25% of the new code at Google

    On the tail of a the preposterous claim by Pichai yesterday: As The New York Times first reported, the family of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III filed a lawsuit against Character.AI last week alleging that the platform is pushing “dangerous and untested” technology. Google, which earlier this year inked a deal to the tune of $2.7 billion to license Character.AI’s…

  • Cory Doctorow: Marshmallow Longtermism

    … the “patient” kids weren’t demonstrat­ing “self-control” – rather, their willingness to wait for a second marshmallow reflected a charmed life in which adults came through with the goodies they promised. That same charmed life saw those subjects enrolled in the best schools, backstopped by tutors and college application consultants, significant parental financial contributions to…

  • Silicon Valley has been huffing it’s own farts for way too long

    The result of these three features is an insular intellectual community, talking increasingly only to itself, and increasingly cut off from the kinds of conversations that would correct its excesses, or, at the very least, give it a more accurate perspective on what the world outside its bubble looks like. Hence their surprise, for example,…

  • I just wasn’t enough of a psychopath – Ambition vs Satisfaction

    These two videos turned up in my RSS feeds this week: and (podcast links – highly recommended)… Both go to the core of my experience with starting, managing and working in tech start ups. I’ve have spent my entire career in tech. The first 16 years were devoted to getting to Silicon Valley. I got…

  • Not the Onion: Telsa FSD doesn’t even work in a tunnel

    Even more… it doesn’t even work in a tunnel that Telsa has full environmental control of. Forget open roads. Tesla still hasn’t figured out how to get its vehicles to autonomously drive through Elon Musk’s tunneling venture The Boring Company’s single-lane tunnel. https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-full-self-driving-doesnt-work-tunnel So explain to me why this fucker is allowed to put this…

  • Somewhere, someone inside of Apple thought this was a good idea…

    It has been a long time since I’ve seen a company shit all over their core brand proposition so utterly. It’s like Tim Cook is pissing on the street sign at the corner of Liberal Arts and Technology… What. The. Actual. Fuck. Apple? It, honestly, hurts to watch that “Crush!” video… For the last year…

  • You are not a commodity.

    Resist the urge to self-commodify. Embrace what makes you different, not what makes you blend in. Focus on the process, not just the outcome. Pour yourself into your craft and trust that your tribe will find you. The internet is becoming a sea of sameness. But what we crave most is something genuine-something real-not a…