💬 Quotes
‘Content’ is homogenous undifferentiated fodder that is poured into silos with pricing you would expect from any interchangeable commodity .. if that describes your writing, it might explain why nobody values it.
💬 ME
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
💬 Marcellus (via Billy Wagglestick)
… and America it would seem.
🔗 Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas
The Tesla playbook is the Amazon playbook … pitch as many states as you can against each other … the ongoing nail in the coffin of the UNITED States.
Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites “across multiple U.S. states.” The factory would create about 9,700 full-time jobs, Tesla said.
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Without incentives, Tesla’s accountants estimated that the property tax liability for the project would be about $1.1 billion over 37 years.
That’s roughly $30 million per year folks … heaven knows that Tesla and the Muskrat need all the help they can get … I mean just to employ 9,700 people at minimum wage is going to cost them an order of magnitude more than that .. and its not as if they have access to an army of robots capable of doing that work.
💬 There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
💬 In recent years, businesses have become so preoccupied with profit, growth, and scale, they have forgotten that people come first.
🔗 Daring Fireball: A Retraction - the first in 24 years apparently - and very well done IMHO.
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app. I showed him a draft of my post before publication, to make sure I had the story straight, and he offered not a word of caution.
💬 John Gruber
🔗 ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG…) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart. The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.
💬 John Gruber
The Apple Vision Pro is a failed dead/dud product
💬 Too many people - who should know better.
🖇️ Such as Wired back in 2023 - which I always rail against if I have a spare moment.
This is why …
💬 Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without.
💬 the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.
Headline: ‘Appears to Blast Trump on Epstein Files’
The Reacher and War Machine action star seemingly blasted President Trump over the Epstein files during an eye-opening f-bomb filled rant …
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“I think people are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, ‘He’s a loose cannon,’ and I’m not," Ritchson began, a bit ironically. “I’m just saying the shit that everybody should say if they give a shit about humanity. Everybody else should feel like I feel”
💬 James Hibberd - The Hollywood Reporter
So no … not at all would be my take.