Palantir invested $25 million in Faraday.
Buy a new electric car from Faraday and Palantir provides the software that powers it.
Gold Bars and SPAC stocks are two more kinds of investments that the Thiel company invests in.
Meanwhile (2017) - Palantir and the ‘spy’ agencies.
South Dakota Attorney General who killed pedestrian won’t serve jail time
- He was reading his phone when driving.
- He hit someone and killed them.
- He left the scene of the crime and came back the next day.
Result? A $5,000 fine!
Moore’s Law of Politics - Facing the Future
Generational Delay. More interesting words, ideas and thoughts from the inimitable Dana Blankenhorn.
”To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.”
💬 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I had an unused domain, so thought that I would try out Apple’s Beta on Custom EMail - and FAIL!
Anyone else tried it? Does it work for you?
Asking before I spend too much time down the rabbit hole.
“Cocoon remains independent and not be part of Substack. Design and engineering talent will be joining team to contribute their skills, creativity, and vision to strengthening Substack’s community.
(Quote edited to fit space)
What exactly is Substack announcing? Confused.
Originally aimed at the U.S.A. .. this seems to be the N.Z. Strategy … let’s see if it works.
Of course the US tends to think that if if it’s alright - then so is the world.
Down here in N.Z. we know we also have to think of borders.
Only 8 months later! Here we are in August, introducing you to Robin Rendle’s Essay on Newsletters from January 1st!
Nicely summarized. Nicely laid out.
In fact it has given me a idea for spinning out something I have been writing behind the scenes.
Tim Cook’s Apple, ten years later.
“Apple now makes an average of $10,000 every second, $3,600 of which is pure profit. How long ago did you start reading this story? Chances are Apple grossed half a million dollars by the time you finish this sentence.”
Yikes
The old cattle market that used to sit outside half of York’s walls every Tuesday and Thursday ( if memory serves). Not sure of the date of this photo - but when I first lived in York - this was just round the corner from one of my bus stops.
More to come on this and it might yet change, but beginning to figure out how all these apps work together and what they mean to me.
Probably time for a second vault!
Ooh ‘.txt as .md’ obsidian plug in … very nice
Netflix should change its name to ‘Netshows’ … the ‘flicks’ part is close to non existent.
Who Owns The Moon (Castro Podcast)
Sad that this is even a discussion - but arguably it has moved well beyond ‘discussion’ … people have been able to buy chunks of all the planets in the Solar System for 40 years.
I watched the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders a while back, Finally got round to Seasons 3 to 5 - not disappointed.
After such a binge - time to switch to something completely different.
Jack Irish!
“I thought you finished watching Peaky came the voice from the kitchen.”
I had - the two shows happened to choose the same Nick Cave song as it’s theme.
Elon Musk Unveils Humanoid Robot to Take Over ‘Boring’ Work … an Apple News link.
Working my way through Better Than Us - a Russian Language (Dubbed) Netflix series where a company is attempting to introduce humanoid bots to ‘do all the boring work’.
‘Life’ imitating ‘Art’?
On Finding The Miraculous In The Mechanical
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
via the inimitable Maria Popova