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I don't see where it says who's paying whom. Maybe the deal is that Palantir gets more personal data to throw in a national profile database.

You will never find anyone who is against these cameras saying that they don’t reduce crime. Of course they do. Debatable. This is the first data I’ve seen that wasn’t paid for by …

It’s currently the case in many US states: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-...

You mean, unpaid labor! I did the books for my mom's business through high school, which prevented me from being a complete disaster as an adult.

Not super low. It starts to make sense around 1000 units. I’ve gotten runs of 2500 done domestically. But it is pretty hard to find domestic injection molders for consumer work - t…

Anything can be a monopoly or not, depending on how you define the market.

Yes. Someone's gotta create new grist for the LLMs so they don't Habsburg themselves.

Now, I thought that going to a subscription model would give them the resources/motivation they needed to improve things regularly, and let us customers pay for just what we need. …

When you say "everything's working", have you updated since Canva took over? I haven't, after happily paying for the whole suite every time they gave me a chance. Just wary. At som…

If it bleeds, it leads. That is, our media has hyped up violence in society as it’s become more rare, and politicians use it to scare people into thinking we need to go back to the…

Like Europe, the US has a pastiche of laws across states and municipalities, and varying levels of enforcement. My state has laws protecting free-range children. You’re probably ri…

I don’t think you can profile this as American. Are they conservative suburbanites? My kid walks to/from school longer than that. Many kids take public transit in big cities. Rural…

My new venture-backed social network is called Wormtongue, no reason.

Not too shocking. Many people’s jobs here require that they pretend that they’re not coding for fascism.

And of course, it's compounded by being pooled. Like RealPage, ALPR services like Flock, Axon Fleet Hub, and Motorola Vigilant VehicleManager offer data laundering so that organiza…

The Bezos investment gives me pause too. But the claim that there’s no telemetry is exciting: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric...

New privacy legislation is about 20 years overdue. Between age verification, privately owned national camera networks, and above all else, data brokers, citizens need to reassert t…

I guess, but I’d just say it’s moved to other distribution models because who reads newspapers now? Mostly people who want to read Family Circus reruns (okay, that’s uncharitable).…

Don't forget that Tesla bought SolarCity to bail out Musk's cousins. I need a chart of all his mergers.

Dumb objects are not totally niche. No one actually likes smarts that impede the core function. The Slate truck strips a lot of this out. The trick with phones, since the smarts ar…

I don’t want the rat race of modern smartphones. I want an appliance.

And you could do a lot in it with Python. I wrote scripts to talk with Bluetooth gadgets I built.

Tell you what though, I would jump on a modern N95. I only really want a basic phone with a good camera, and sure, Python. Only need LTE and a thinner form factor.

I'm thankful I live in one of the several states with "free range" laws to protect parents from this. https://letgrow.org/states/

The valuation is actually mostly about AI. Satellites, like electric cars, don’t have quite the growth story (and I do mean “story”). https://bsky.app/profile/patigallardo.bsky.soc…