"Soft power, in simple terms, is the power of attraction. And in this day and age, most people aren’t buying what America is selling, culturally speaking. But in this petrol-fueled corner of Swiss Americana, America was still cool." alloymag.com/swissamerica...

There should just be a setting where all phone numbers outside of your contacts cannot call you.

Since a lot of people are asking, I did NOT own this motorcycle. It was someone else who they apparently also call the “King of Cool.”

I am kind of getting there on these

My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

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Incredible

Glen Perkins is a real one.

Chinese cars will absolutely be sold in America.

“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”

This would be a really good daily for me losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ctd/d/no...

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

My ability to visually identify fastener sizes had returned to pre-2019 levels. I can’t remember the last time I grabbed a 17 when I needed a 19.

Detroit is such a wonderful place to live but the idea of living in the Detroit suburbs is unfathomable to me

🔮The day of the ironic phone belt holster draws near🔮

I would watch a movie where it’s just ancient armies throughout history being confronted with helicopters. These guys, confederate soldiers, mongols, etc.

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

No way

wow, to think, if you spend dozens of billions of dollars and evaporate a watershed, you too can have a search engine that requires 1400 words of prelude and warning before you can trust it to answer the question "when will The Odyssey be available for streaming"

He’s killing evs to focus on robots and cancelled mars in favor of the moon, Ezra

Someone should just buy this design and put a Subaru motor under the rear floor.

Would have been fun. Canoo.

SHAFT

Please reach out to me on signal at ezitron.76 if you are willing to share the contractual terms under which you pay for GPU compute - number of GPUs, how many years, and how much per gpu or per KW/MW. Similarly, how much you pay Anthropic or OpenAI as a business. Thanks! Even if it’s in the past.

Imagine this in your garage. You can just drive it around. Drive out to Utah. You can roll down the windows at 80 miles an hour at night.

I bet "the Detroit CEOs should have simply pivoted to Chinese-style EVs" goes crazy hard if you've never watched Wall Street analysts roll their eyes at the latest automaker effort to build new businesses because it's easier on them if legacy businesses don't even pretend they will ever change

45 mins ride from Hangzhou city centre and its god tier scenary

Ever see an advertisement that makes you wonder if you’ve had a stroke

Example

There’s a class of cars that isn’t desirable or rare or interesting or good to drive but is inarguably fun to own.

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Kevin is and has been right about this for a long time and gets a lot of pushback from people who are either racist or ideologically motivated or both. If you’re an American journalist who wants to know what’s happening in the Chinese car business, call him.

Tech culture is for old people. The biggest boosters are always Gen Xers and boomers who reflexively embrace every sham because their big reference point is the birth of the internet and they don’t want to get “left behind.” There’s nothing hopeful or inspiring in companies that do/make nothing.

This didn’t happen

Really getting close to a unified theory of Rory behaviors where it’s either “turn off brain” or “assert control wherever possible” or some combination of these two. Haha.

This is so cool: gizmodo.com/new-digital-...

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

I want to write about this, but probably won't have time: One of the best things I've found as far as fending off the dread/despair is learning how to do things. I don't know if it will ever matter, but building and fixing and making at least feel like gaining a measure of control over your world.

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If I won a Razzie I’d show up for the ceremony but I wouldn’t be a good sport about it, I’d tell them that it’s hard to make movies and call them a brood of vipers

"Jennifer Kamrass confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem... 2 years later, a transcript of every word Kamrass had typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer." 🤬

My friend’s Dad started painting this imaginary map one little painting at a time in 1963. With the exception of one break, he’s done one a day and it’s 4100 paintings now.

This is the cheapest way to get an Alloy sub because I had a ton going on and didn’t think it through.

"unless OpenAI can somehow pull a Tesla" is an important warning here, I'm constantly telling the AI bubble Cassandras that it's super possible to be 100% right about the core business and 100% wrong on valuation because everyone else wants the valuation story to be true in spite of the facts

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1992 Mercury Sable LS Wagon at No Reserve

Two years, max: gizmodo.com/openai-revol...

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