As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to remember that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built.

Elon Musk’s goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail from reaching North America. Sadly, he succeeded — and we all lost as a result. While the rest of the world moved forward, the US remains stuck in the past.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam

#tech #transport #transportation #train #hyperloop #elonmusk

“Ukraine…attacked the tax system of Russia and managed to destroy the entire database and its backup copies. Russia will not be able to resuscitate its tax system fully. Defence Intelligence of Ukraine [said], ‘During the special operation, military spies managed to break into one of the well-protected key central servers of the Federal Taxation Service and then into more than 2,300 of its regional servers throughout Russia.’”

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/12/12/7432737/

https://therecord.media/ukraine-intelligence-claims-attack-on-russia-tax-service

The view from the surface of a Comet, an alien landscape captured by the Rosetta spacecraft during its visit to Comet 67P.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/ @Landru79
Further reading: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180426.html

Important warning about prostate cancer screenings by my beloved dad, who is in hospice with stage 4.

https://www.vnews.com/Column-Do-risk-of-PSA-test-outweigh-risk-of-prostate-cancer-53038750

I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/