Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?

Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels

Let’s delve into the issue

This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”

And you still act like you’re in freshman year

Close: you do get banned from their supercharger network if you try to repair your own car

“[Generative AI] is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.”

I love Ed so much.

Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way

Talk about hidden figures…

That’s mistaking a structural problem for a personal one. Zeynep Tufekci has a great argument about why that wouldn’t work:

It’s reasonable, for example, for a corporation to ponder who would be the best CEO or COO, but it’s not reasonable for us to expect that we could take any one of those actors and replace them with another person and get dramatically different results without changing the structures, incentives and forces that shape how they and their companies act in this world.

Journalistic malpractice to repeat their “accidentally” claim without attribution or quotes

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Bostrom…possessed one of those elusive, rather abstract personalities that perhaps lend credence to the simulation theory.

What a sick, understated burn