Peter Rojas

@PeterR
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Now: Making new things. Before: Partner at Betaworks Ventures, Founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, RCRD LBL, gdgt.
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Woken up at 5:52am for a tornado warning in San Francisco (or at least my part of SF?).

It used to be that your kid lost their best friend because they moved away, but now it's because the company that made their emotional support robot ran out of money.

https://www.wired.com/story/embodied-will-brick-moxie-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/

Startup Embodied Will Brick $800 Moxie Emotional Support Robot for Kids—Without Refunds

Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases of its Moxie robot but makes no promises.

WIRED
This is not the winning fundraising strategy this founder thinks it is.
this is the wildest sign I've ever seen posted in a restaurant bathroom
Rings new undefined plan sounds very enticing.

I completely forgot that in 2006 Rolling Stone ran a piece by RFK Jr. arguing that Bush stole the 2004 election

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/was-the-2004-election-stolen-45630/

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

The Charts

Rolling Stone

This guy has no idea what he is talking about.

What we consider to be science or scientific knowledge is political.

Who gets to practice science is political.

What we do with scientific knowledge is political.

You can never get politics out of science.

Me playing the new season of Fortnite:
Very reassuring when your fancy internet-connected water dispenser has a "potentially dangerous" superuser mode.
I get it, I also blame my family's pain on my SuperPAC.