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@siracusa curious if you’ve seen this thing. Not much to say except it’s a thing. https://www.thedrive.com/news/theres-a-137-inch-bugatti-tv-now-and-it-folds
There's a 137-Inch Bugatti TV Now, and It Folds

When stowed away, it becomes "an architectural statement" to complement any home or garage housing a Tourbillon.

The Drive
Wanton Destruction of CBS Property

Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKWKu2Rqxc

Daring Fireball
World premiere of the ID.3 Neo: new name, new design, new interior and new technologies

Everything is new in the ID.3 Neo! The successor to the ID.3 is celebrating its world premiere with a new name and has been extensively enhanced and upgraded. The exterior features include a new vehicle front design based on Volkswagen’s “Pure Positive” design language and a new light design. The interior impresses with a redesigned cockpit landscape with intuitive controls, embedded in interior materials at the level of the next-higher class. The new efficient drive system of the ID.3 Neo – combined with the largest of the three available batteries – additionally enables ranges of up to 630 km (WLTP (Range determined on the rolling road test bed in accordance with the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) in the most range-favourable equipment variant. The actual WLTP range values may differ depending on the equipment. The actual range achieved under real conditions varies depending on the driving style, speed, use of comfort features or auxiliary equipment, outside temperature, number of passengers/load and topography.) ). Pre-sales of the electric compact model will start in Germany and many European markets tomorrow, Thursday, 16 April 2026.

Volkswagen Newsroom

Huh, archive.ph is now dependent on Javascript from mail.ru.

I do appreciate browsing the web with JS off by default.

This makes Microsoft Office Updater run monthly:
sudo plutil -replace StartInterval -integer 2592000 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist

Note, Microsoft thinks it should run every 7200 seconds and will "fix" it sometimes.

I'm old enough to remember when Americans agreed that no person could be seized without a warrant being issued.

"Federal agents arrest former CNN anchor Don Lemon

Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, his lawyer said on Friday, days after a magistrate judge refused to approve charges against him for documenting a protest at a church in Minnesota."

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

Billboard

If I understand this morning's news properly, we're invading Venezuela because they nationalized some American oil company's assets and gave it to Venezuelan companies. In unrelated news, America has nationalized TikTok and given it to American companies.

https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/venezuela-oil-trump-chevron-seized-assets-blockade/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgexp1q8wn1o.amp

‘They took all of our oil not that long ago. And we want it back’: Trump demands Venezuela return seized assets

U.S. oil companies dominated Venezuela's petroleum industry until the the 1970s and then under Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

Fortune
So that was Patrick Fabian doing the “Others” outgoing voicemail? Right? #pluribus #appletv