Me: *wants to sell my Ai Pin to a friend*
Humane: NO! ๐ก
(It's locked out on the software level. There is no way to erase your account and transfer it to another user.)
Nadine Dorries, "Keir Starmer is no Tony Blair.. It is a disaster for us"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "The rot started with Boris Johnson"
Nadine Dorries, "Not one voter group blames Boris Johnson for what happened to the Conservative party"
Alastair Campbell, "Honestly Nadine, you've got to get over Boris Johnson"
Nadine Dorries, "I find that a sexist comment"
Alastair Campbell, "It's not"
Nadine Dorries, "I think it is"
Alastair Campbell, "Sunak rolling out Johnson"
Kwasi Kwarteng, "Can we move on from Boris"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Do you really want to talk about Liz Truss"
Kwasi Kwarteng, "No"
@Carnage4Life "There's more guys named Brian in this crowd than women" was true pretty much at every conference I was at until 2015, and I am glad we've addressed that, even a bit.
If that makes me "woke", so be it, but it's demonstrably better than what was there before.
50 years ago, Martin Newell used only 3 bezier curves (32) to create a perfect, smooth 3D model of a teapot. rendered with only 4060 tris.
After half a century, Autodesk unveils the Shitpotยฎ. The non-manifold Shitpot with a polycount so high you can't see the fucking thing
@dingleval @eatenjaguar @VoicesByZane How does it make it worse? Flat earthers still exist today and we donโt even have a nuclear apocalypse to blame for them. Some people donโt want the truth they just want to believe what they believe.
I don't want a high-budget Amazon Disco Elysium show where everything uncomfortable is polished away by market research.
I want them to find the most fucked up failed film grad in Eastern Europe, give them full authority, and double down on every questionable decision they make.
Brian gets at something we discussed in our pod chat:
"Mainstream journalists who drape themselves in high-minded abstractions about the pressโs role in creating an informed citizenry will simultaneously disclaim all responsibility for the up-is-down state of public opinion."
for classically cut suits and sports coats, your trousers should have some relationship to your jacket so there is a coherent silhouette. here is what i mean
If I worked for the White House you would (rightly) not pay attention to anything I said about this because youโd assume I was โjust doing my jobโ instead of โmaking my Saturday worse for no reason other than I couldnโt shut up.โ
woah. stop what you're doing and read this. there is no tl;dr, it's that good and a perfect pre-read to whatever Judge Mehta plans to rule on at 3pm today in the US v Google trial which is underneath the piece you need to read. Now go. https://t.co/Bji3dGmDhO
Anyone who thinks I'm "center-right" is straight-up delusional. I'm a bleeding-heart progressive who understands that complicated problems need to be broken down piece by piece and can't be solved in one fell swoop with the power of belief
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
https://t.co/BlUwkcW1ex
the fact that this project was conceived of and broke ground in just a few years should be deeply embarrassing for everyone involved in California High Speed Rail