Espresso for life, sorry not sorry
06.03.2026 15:31
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Espresso for life, sorry not sorry
I love a good post that calls out when CEOs lie, with receipts: techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...
Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan
Only interacted with him once. Boring loudmouth. Intelligent but not outlier. Social media brained, media obsessed. Dime a dozen. (Would contrast with Thiel who seemed like a true weirdly brilliant original. Musk always seemed attention/approval-desperate but also had a sense of humor.)
The only reason my town knows that an ICE office is coming to our area is Wired’s investigative journalism. The billionaires want to kill all investigative journalism and turn it all into opinion slop.
Catch and kill. If it's sold, Wired folks should prep to quit en masse and start a new outlet.
The VC community though it could do a better version of Wired/the tech press. It was called Future, founded by a16z. It was boring, impenetrable bullshit that nobody read and was soon shut down. www.businessinsider.com/a16z-future-...
(Reality is never this neat. But it’s clear the energy industry is focused on spurring the kind of economic growth that benefits them most because of course they are because business.)
But why? What would they do?
Have you heard of bitcoin?
It’s almost like a movie plot. The developed world - responsible for vast majority of fossil fuel usage - is shifting to renewables abd EVs as they’re cheaper and more convenient. What can we do?
Let’s build warehouses all over the world and fill them with increasingly energy-hungry computers?
“Without it, the industry would be reducing energy usage.”
The energy industry has strong incentives to keep this particular craze alive for as long as possible through media, political, and financial influence. They were heavily involved in crypto, after all.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
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“Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra
A man with the government has been at the last two hearings relating to the contempt claim. Both times, he sat in the section of the courtroom open only to parties and counsel. Although not at counsel’s table, Littman and Jean Lin, the other Justice Department lawyer present at both hearings, has repeatedly consulted with him during both hearings. After today’s hearing — and after not being able to figure out for myself who he was after the last hearing — I asked him who he was. I had my press pass visibly displayed and identified myself as a reporter. He said he didn’t want to do that. I suggested that he must be a government official or employee, sitting where he was, and, if so, I asked incredulously if he really was not going to tell a reporter at a hearing who he was. He said no. Then, the people leaving — myself included — got to the elevator. Littman, Lin, mystery man, and two other people sitting with mystery man on the government side of the courtroom during the hearing on Wednesday were getting into the elevator. Some of them were already in the elevator. When I stepped in, mystery man said he would wait for the next elevator. Everyone else then got out of the elevator. Left in the elevator alone, I looked at these five adults — all of whom I believe have to be government employees, hence, paid by the public and allegedly working for the public — and was some combination of bemused and appalled. “You are all ridiculous,” I simply said. The door closed.
And, the story of the mystery man.
www.lawdork.com/p/lamberth-c...
I thought Epic EHR was very closed and they only built in-house? @acquiredfm.bsky.social
I highly recommend Jesse Barron's "Transference in the Afternoon" ... you can find it in the new Granta
granta.com/transference...
Come for the terrible shopping experience, stay for the misguided rightward political pivot!
I recall the time Ballmer called out a financial analyst using a Mac at the FAM one year.
This maps to a lot of what I'm hearing in the industry. Applies to mainstream sites like WaPo and Business Insider, too. (Reg was actually up during this period, albeit from a smaller base; different and more specialized audience too) growtika.com/blog/tech-me...
Nothing will stop him but the big money. When he pisses off Blackstone, then this dark chaos will end. That may take a private credit meltdown. It is what it is.
You can just say things.
The inability of the tech press to see through absolute disingenuous bullshit, even now, at this late date, is depressing. Guys. They all lie. All the time. For their own benefit. About everything. With no consequences.
Sam Altman just said he has tweaked his deal with the Pentagon and wrote a list of things he says are part of it, and he chose to include this really great line:
"One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday."
funny memory about this story: Balaji reached out privately to say how much the boys at a16z loved it, after which they all spent the next few years letting Twitter drive them completely insane www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/m...
Maybe they’re borh cynical opportunists, but Altman is just more desperate for money.
(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...
Remember that whole AI thing?
Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.
It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.
