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Steve Geee 🤘Oct 6, 2023

My YES Vote is on its way back home to be recorded. #Yes23 #VoteYesAustralia #VoteYes

Steve Geee 🤘Aug 13, 2023

I'm not even through the first chapter and this book is fantastic! It's a really fun and interesting read, epsecially for the subject matter. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", by Yuval Noah Harari.
#sapiensbook #greatreads

Steve Geee 🤘Jul 27, 2023

Karl Bode Jul 27, 2023

this story is wild. Tesla misrepresented the range of their cars for decades, then created a team specifically dedicated to undermining customer efforts to schedule appointments and get help

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

Reuters

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Steve Geee 🤘Jul 27, 2023

@GottaLaff well, darn.

Steve Geee 🤘Jul 26, 2023

Anirvan Chatterjee Jul 26, 2023

via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

Whatever

Steve Geee 🤘May 5, 2023

https://www.wired.com/story/land-ownership-morality-economics-georgism/

Land Ownership Makes No Sense

The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.

WIRED

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 25, 2023

Robert Reich Apr 25, 2023

Jeff Bezos reportedly purchased a $75 million "support yacht" with a helipad to trail his $500 million superyacht.

Meanwhile, Amazon doesn't want workers to organize for better pay and safer working conditions.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 23, 2023

It's a really bummer than a lot of people see a move to Mastodon as being difficult (it's not). By the time Twitter fully implodes I'm thinking Bluesky will draw many of them.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmarks-verification-lebron-james.html

Elon Musk’s Weekend-Long Masterclass in Business Failure

No one wants to pay for Twitter’s checkmark. It’s no mystery why.

Slate

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 23, 2023

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-blue-28-signups

Elon Musk's Twitter Blue sees a modest 28 new signups within a day of legacy checkmark purge

The removal of legacy checkmarks has been a spectacle to watch.

Mashable

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 13, 2023

Great article about the practicalities of Twitter vs. Elon's expectations and/or intentions.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-substack-free-speech.html

It Has Finally Become Clear What Elon Musk Wants Twitter to Be

Something it has never been before.

Slate

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