Someone who is tired of your bullshit, that’s who.

“Cheap place to live” is just another way of saying “I figured out how to pass my costs on to others.”

I feel this so hard, and it extends to people who still support him (which is thankfully very few in my day to day life.)

Sounds like the beginning of the Cory Doctorow novella “Unauthorized Bread.” Cloud service goes down and the main character’s toaster won’t work without them.

Yeah, nobody “broke” signal to make this happen. What they did was the equivalent of grabbing a random person from a White House tour group and bringing them into a SCIF, then discussing classified information.

“Hold on, who’s this ‘Tulsi Gabbard’ person who just added me?”

It’s not even that. Unused land has been taken by the government under eminent domain, and white supremacists have claimed that these actions have “stolen” land from white farmers. In reality, white landowners have been subject to eminent domain seizures at no higher a rate than black landowners.

Real hardball would be going after major stockholders in CC and GEO Group.

True, I can’t imagine buying a used Tesla knowing that I’d still have to make monthly payments to keep some features.

I’m honestly surprised there isn’t a jailbreak community that completely replaces the Tesla OS with something else.

The article should just be “This Guy” followed by photos of Elon doing his thing for the last year or so.

It’s all about financialization. Money people don’t care about product fundamentals anymore, they care about line go up.

Craft beer looked like a perfect investment because it was already a premium product with social caché (that incidentally was also addictive). But as the above comment notes, there isn’t an endless appetite for overpriced beer, especially when the market is flooded with shitty imitations from mass market beer companies.

The way to disincentivize it would be to let interest rates skyrocket (financialization only works if the cost of borrowing is effectively zero) but that would hurt regular people first and worst.

We could also vote in a socialist government who was willing to do things like seize corporate-owned housing and piss on the corpse of companies like Blackrock as their portfolios lose a significant percentage of their value but that seems remarkably unlikely.

Time to push pearled barley in soups and stews, I guess!

Not just Evans, but Mia, Gar (sp?), James, and their other contributors.

Behind the Bastards

BtB’s counterpart, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

If Books Could Kill

You’re Wrong About

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

The Dollop

Depresh Mod

The Daily Zeitgeist

Yeah, he has the ability to articulate what I was already thinking about LLMs and bring in hard data to back up his thesis that it’s all bullshit. Dangerous and expensive bullshit, but bullshit nonetheless.

It’s really sad that his willingness to say the tech industry is full of shit is such an unusual attribute in the tech journalism world.

It’s…not shocking exactly, but a little surprising and a lot disappointing that so much of finance is now targeted at “let’s make a thing that we read about in sci fi novels we read as kids.”

Focusing on STEM and not the humanities means we have a bunch of engineers who think “book thing cool” and have zero understanding of how allegory works.

When I was a kid public and semi-public pools would have signs that said “welcome to our ool. Notice there is no P in it. Please keep it that way.”

Years later it occurred to me it might make more sense to have a sign that said “welcome to our L. Notice there is no poo in it.” And so on.

If I specifically don’t want touch screens, what then?