How long until #Tesla's stock market valuation is seen as ZIRP?
a) Self-Driving "dead" or far away (as far as AGI?)
b) competition has overtaken (BYD in China, VW Group in EU)
c) "Supercharger" no moat, but a gas station equivalent
d) Solar City irrelevant
e) "one car fits all"/ "smartphone effect" not happening, slots for other #EV model types (urban, van, pick-up...) taken by competition
Finished True Detective season 4. Overall I enjoyed the dark and moody atmosphere and the performances, particularly by Jodie Foster, Kali Reis and Finn Bennett, but I thought the momentum caved in (pun intended, for those who've seen it 😉) at the end. The revelations in the final episodes felt rushed and unnecessarily far-fetched.
«The religion of techno-optimism:
Tech billionaires are using faith to solidify their power»
– by @parismarx
This is also the reason why many people fall for it blindly and also why it is a secure income for those who sell it but are not necessarily sure what they are selling.
IEEE Spectrum opinion: Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability A 2024 plea for lean software
"The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected. Because of this, there is a huge attack surface full of mediocre code."
Special counsel Robert Hur's report on the investigation into the mishandling of Obama-era #ClassifiedDocuments at 2 locations
connected to President Joe #Biden has been delivered to #Congress.
The report is expected to go into significant detail about what the special counsel's office found in its investigation.
Hur's team is not planning to bring criminal charges, but the report could provide fodder for Biden's #political opponents.
"Multiplanetary" and settlements on #Mars is as good an idea in the 21st century as "multicontinental" with settlements on Antarctica would have been in the 16th century.
“Son una tropa de jovencitos arrogantes, nacidos en familias bien, que nunca les ha faltado nada, que nunca han hecho nada y que de repente sintieron que eran revolucionarios”
Yo creo que las palabras de Matthei hablan más de su propio clasismo y prejuicios que del gobierno, porque está criticando formas más que fondo y usa la expresión "familias bien" que solo usan el cuiquerío mas recalcitrante y clasista de este país.
Olvida que ella también puede ser catalogada como "hija de" y además viene de una elite política, social y económica que obtuvo poder desproporcionado gracias a sus vínculos con la dictadura sin hacer mérito alguno.
#opinion [Amal Oraby (أمل عرابي)] / 3 Reasons to be Optimistic About the #ICJ preliminary Ruling
1 / by accepting the case and hearing South Africa's arguments that Israel is violating international law, the Court shattered #Netanyahu's project to deny Palestinian nationhood. The Court affirmed there is a Palestinian people with equal rights.
2 / the Court's decision provides legal ammunition for demanding a #ceasefire. This is now not just an unrealistic moral demand but follows international legal norms to minimize suffering.
3 / #Israel is now under increased global scrutiny that exposes the less flattering realities of decades of #occupation and siege policies. Israel will have to reckon with the past, present and future consequences of its actions.
This shifts the calculus for other post-colonial peoples to demand justice for Palestinians as connected to their own struggles. A new political project is needed in Israel to change realities rather than deny them.
“Confidentiality of communications essential to fundamental rights” - writes @EDPS_supervisor in #Opinion on Regulation to extend temporary derogation from certain provisions of ePrivacy directive to fight child sexual abuse online.
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
"The 118th Congress just did what it does best: nothing. Once again, it waited until the last minute to avoid a government shutdown, and instead of passing a funding bill, it kicked the can down the road and left town...
Their failure to act was a gift to Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Hamas, and a warning to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel that America can be an unreliable ally."
"In 2022, days after Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by an Israeli sniper, Ruth Anderson wrote an article on Index on Censorhip’s website about the matter. Neither Israel nor the Israeli army were mentioned."