“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”

Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.

This is the future.

China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Anyway, setting aside the ethical concerns, it seems perfectly clear that "setting aside the ethical concerns" is *precisely* the problem.

It is what got us in to this nightmare, and it is what is keeping us in this nightmare.

Please stop pretending that "setting aside the ethical concerns" is anything but a verbal signal indicating one's unwillingness to take personal responsibility for one's actions.

Left-wing playwright, actor, and @DemSocialists member Wallace Shawn talks to Jacobin about his plays “The Fever” and “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” and his long road to becoming a socialist.

📰: http://jacobin.com/2026/04/wallace-shawn-socialism-theater-class

Spread this #Typography masterpiece

by Barbara Galińska

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

"the decision to reinvest in physical textbooks and reduce the emphasis on digital devices was prompted by several factors, including questions around whether the digitalization of classrooms had been evidence-based. There was also a broader cultural reassessment. Sweden had positioned itself as a frontrunner in digital education, but over time concerns emerged about screen time, distraction, reduced deep reading, and the erosion of foundational skills such as sustained attention and handwriting.”"

https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.

But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.

#LLM #AI #ClaudeCode #vibecoding