🔗 Our Crazy Unhinged Now ~ On my Om
Sixteen billion smackeroos is a gigantic amount of money. If you were to stack that much money in $100 bills vertically, you would be well past the cruising altitude of commercial airplanes. Roughly 11 miles.
and yet
Waymo was the secondary story of the day.
🔗 Trumpland Ramps Up Attacks On Netflix Warner Brothers Merger To Help Larry Ellison | Techdirt
After Warner Brothers balked at Larry’s competing bid and a hostile takeover attempt, Larry tried to sue Warner Brothers. With that not going anywhere, Larry and MAGA have since joined forces to try and attack the Netflix merger across right wing media, falsely claiming that “woke” Netflix is attempting a “cultural takeover” that must be stopped for the good of humanity.
As you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get fewer and farther between.
The Full Quote
As you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get fewer and farther between. Everyone has something to say about nature. But to remain relevant in the higher and more turbulent layers you must update rapidly, and be correct more often than not. Few people are worth listening to about commerce or fashion. Most people’s ideas are simply out of date. At a certain point you reach the edge of what is known or talked about at all, and there are only a few people left. I will find you there, among the researchers, the reporters, the shamans and the spies.
💬 ‘Deepfates’
I was referencing 🖇️🔎Pace Layers a few times through 2024 - and it very much ties to some of my recent thinking. More to come as I fold it all together.
🔗 Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats
I still don’t get why he just doesn’t close it?
🔗 News Sites Are Bringing Comments Sections Back as a Paid Feature
… an idea lifted directly from Substack?
In that late 80s period Terence is writing about - I was part of Oracle and had email on my DEC terminal for communicating with others in the company around the world. Just gnashing my teeth over why people outside the company couldn’t see the benefit.
Probably because they understood that …
a single computer terminal was likely to set you back around £3,000 - and that’s before you take into account message transmission costs.
… better than I did
When Oracle moved me to California - I even had one of those terminals at home.
Of course - come the PC and laptop revolution they were so slow in adoption it was hard to understand that it was the same company.
It was kind of like how use of mobiles in geographies with bad landline coverage resulted in exponentially faster adoption
🔗 Ranked: The Most Valuable Sports Teams in 2026
Is it wrong of me to suggest that it speaks volumes about America’s challenges when you learn that not only are 19 of the most valuable sports teams in the world American - but that 13 of them are NFL teams.