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Starship is a joke…

at the expense of progress and the American tax payer. I feel I need to put that figure into perspective. If we accept these calculations, then a Starship lunar mission will require at least 69 launches (68 tanker missions plus one outgoing Starship) to carry 50 tons of payload to the Moon. Now, I [ ]

XAI and Grok is a CSAM factory…

and the factory owner is fighting to keep it open.

The BS Obfuscation Being Applied to Taxing the Rich

Make Pervert Product, Get Pervert Problems

Meta is culturally broken and utterly incapable of shipping an original product that we can trust. I would ask what did they think would happen? but their DNA only deals with the problem when it impacts the bottom line. The conversation between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg is still as relevant as ever — Kara [ ]

The reason they call me a Nazi…

is because you behave, talk, post, dress and proudly cut your hair like one. So man, if a duck quacks, walks and preens like a duck probably a duck.

Nazis, you’re literally talking about Nazis

Great kiwi, Peter Thiel expressing his sadness about Argentina (his new home) losing the World Cup:

One of the biggest reasons i hate being an engineering manager…

the BS metrics

Always take the chance to bump the lamp…

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, to this day, is still one of the standout examples of the value of art in tech IMO. You can see how even janky tech can come together with amazing art to weave an illusion that still stands up.

tech − art == banal

A friend sent me a story this morning and we had the same reaction at the same time: this is a Bond villain plot. Not reminiscent of a Bond villain plot. Not vaguely evocative of . It is one. A startup called Reflect Orbital has just received FCC clearance to launch a giant mirror into orbit [ ]

Not only is Grok shit, they’re also incompetent

Cereblab found that when Grok Build reads or processes a file, the contents of that file are transmitted without redaction to a Google Cloud Storage bucket used by SpaceXAI. Further, they claimed that Grok Build packages entire repos and uploads them as Git bundles, instead of just uploading the files required to answer a user s [ ]