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*that tried to lynch VP, Congress via tweets

bobsil1on Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team

*These companies can ban a terrorist from abusing their platforms as a terrorist control channel, banning him years too late due to their corrupt incentives.

bobsil1on KittyHawk air taxi startup is winding down

At least one fits in 3 parking stalls. Renting them like Electrify America.

bobsil1on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All

Carriers did that to themselves.

bobsil1on TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

They probably said this about paperbacks.

bobsil1on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

Having driven Tesla's value down (below the market decline) by nonstop trolling, …

bobsil1on Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

Bad latitude for climate change too

bobsil1on Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic

Genesis GV6, Audi Etron GT, Porsche Taycan also use 800-900V architecture, though pricier

bobsil1on Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board

Real-time infovores, high-value segment

bobsil1on Impressions from a first-time Mac user

Hmm, I was using my ThinkPad with the wrong body part

bobsil1on Impressions from a first-time Mac user

⌘ + drag moves the item

bobsil1on Success and Failure at Pebble

Badly want a Pro mini, not a 13 mini. With zoom lens, ProMotion. Some battery tradeoff is fine.

bobsil1on Apple M1 Ultra

M1 Plaid

bobsil1on Amazon to close all of its physical bookstores and '4-star' shops

This is like when young Google bragged their receptionists had PhDs.

bobsil1on Do things, tell people (2012)

VCs know it’s BS, but also that they can flip it to a mark.

bobsil1on The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae

All culture is mongrel.

bobsil1on The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them (2016)

Yup, Nietzsche’s Übermensch was enthusiastically adopted by the Nazis.

bobsil1on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

It was a deal sweetener. The federation flourished, renegotiate the terrible deal. States are artificial units. One person, one vote.

The intent of a bunch of folks who kept people chained up in barns is irrelevant, the intent of the 1700s circumstances is irrelevant. We're heading to 30% of Americans controlling 68% of Senate in '40, minority rule by rural white folks. This veneration of the parchment as a religious text is just an excuse to not use our brains to solve present-day problems.

bobsil1on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

Then we should rebrand away from the slaver-drafted constitution to the Free States of America, a fourth founding after the original, post-Civil War and Civil Rights Movement. That would match what we actually have, a multiethnic democracy welcoming global talent.

Giving residents of Wyoming 70× the Senate voting power of any Californian is a joke.

bobsil1on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

DC residents should get one-person-one-vote, like most things. We should get rid of 1700s planter superuser backdoors like the disproportional Senate and electoral college.

bobsil1on Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay

Lowrise with mountains and surf breaks is actually pretty nice.

bobsil1on Technology Behind the Lilium Jet

>To move something in the air inherently uses more energy than any sort of ground transport

… if the object is heavy. Bats hit 99.5 mph in level flight: https://www.audubon.org/news/the-common-swift-no-longer-fast...

bobsil1on Reddit files to go public

Redesign also loses your place when you tap back. Unusable.

bobsil1on Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf]

737 Apache

bobsil1on When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost

Quite the opposite: TV Foundation’s terrorists are brown; Villeneuve’s Dune turns Muhammad into a white guy and defends oil/spice colonialism.

bobsil1on Leaving Google