@jarlok

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“Palihapitiya was more colloquial, calling Trump “a complete piece-of-shit fucking scumbag.” These might seem like tricky positions to climb down from—but the path that leads from scathing denunciation through gradual accommodation to sycophantic embrace of Trump is a well-worn pilgrimage trail.”
The Venture-Capital Populist

How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington

The Atlantic

Whatever your position is AI on , it’s about to cost users a whole lot more…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/locked_stocked_and_losing_budget/

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Opinion: Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating

The Register

High petrol prices are fuelling interest in EVs. Here’s how this could bring down electricity bills in the UK.

With oil prices skyrocketing following the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, motorists around the world look for ways to save money.

Improvements in EV technology, combined with high oil prices, mean that the tipping point at which most consumers start ditching their petrol cars for electric ones may well have been reached.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260424-high-petrol-prices-are-fuelling-interest-in-evs-heres-how-this-could-bring-down-electricity-bills-in-the-uk?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#EV #UK #Fuel #RenewableEnergy

High petrol prices are fuelling interest in EVs. Here’s how this could bring down electricity bills in the UK.

With oil prices skyrocketing following the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, motorists around the world look for ways to save money. Improvements in EV technology, combined with high oil …

The Conversation UK
What it's like to drive Route 66 in an EV

As Route 66 turns 100, a growing charger network is making the Mother Road drivable by EV. But does the classic American road trip still feel the same without petrol?

BBC

Interesting piece on how the free and open web may actually experience a resurgence due to … AI. A silver lining to the whole AI craze

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…

Techdirt
Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

@kibcol1049

How many fines is Meta going to receive before countries decide to ban it outright?

Meta has already been implicated in election manipulation, data harvesting, micro-targetting, surveillance and the theft of intellectual property.

Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

"human.json is a protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites." I've added it to my website! https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
human.json

A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others.

Codeberg.org