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I’m not sure it “works”. I would still drastically prefer if Tesla had CarPlay.

Do you have a mailing list?

Sure, those headlines are misleading. But all of those other headlines are wrong and misleading as well, in their own way. The "court"(s) cannot "block" Trump from doing anything. …

It is not just a login wall, they have restricted access even for logged in users, presumably to only the uploaders. A magnet would be nice.

One obvious benefit of this link and the bsky ones is that it is actually possible to read the comments on them, unlike the last one.

True! There might be other solutions, like having management treat people as they themselves would want to be treated. That kind of thing just sounds fairly unrealistic.

(presumably Geis’s comment was sarcasm?)

No, of course it’s not easy to quit. But perhaps it’s wrong to even offer these terrible jobs as an “opportunity” to people who have so little choice.

I hope courts worldwide continue to punish Amazon for these kinds of things. They need to change the calculus — to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do the…

Yep. Switched to Apple Maps and (as backup) Organic Maps recently.

Purpose is a really helpful way of organizing thought about the world. But “purposeful” does not mean “having to do with the concept of purpose”, so “teleological” ends up being a …

A large helium balloon with an open lip perhaps?

This has been available for a while but it's great to see some acknowledgement especially since the most recent data set was stuck in 2019 for a while. Here are the datasets: http:…

Looks like these were cancelled -- https://www.china-airlines.com/us/en/fly/on-board/fleet/fami...

I see the number of children a couple has as a vote on how many people should exist on earth. If you have 0 or 1 child as a couple, you are voting that there should be fewer people…

Clearly they just always write everything that needs to be said on a topic!

> Facebook's "data privacy" problem is not fixable if they have to ultimately run valuable ads against that data. Do you have a citation for this? I've been trying to clarify the a…

It's Hard to connect with someone if they're dead.

I liked "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture" which sounds related... I hadn't heard about PLATO before, and the book was st…

One value of an unordered unannotated book list is in reinforcing books you've already read, and providing a little extra push towards the action potential on the ones you haven't.…

1. To be able to live well and pursue my hobbies without a partner or cohabitant. 2. To travel comfortably. More generally, to be able to seek out distant experiences without fear.…

If "profit" is defined as: "generating more value than is consumed in the production process"... Then yes, we damn well better demand that profit be the correct goal for every acti…