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Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year

annual profit down 46%

Lost crown as world's leading EV seller

Consumers cite Elon Musk as a major factor in not buying now

Elon given first trillion dollar remuneration package by Tesla board because nobody there gives a fuck

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/28/elon-musk-tesla-politics/

ambivalent; adjektiv

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Følelsen man får af at gå ind i et lille rum hvor personen, der lige er gået ud, havde en utroligt velduftende parfume på. Men rummet er et toilet og personen lavede lort.

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Meme lf skeleton pushing weights. Te text reads: mi body is a machine that turns one hundred arrow up key presses into ls - la

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, _Dune_

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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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I live in a small town in Sweden. This morning I went out to my car (realising that I'd once again forgotten to lock the front door last night), drove along empty, wide roads to the nearest largeish town and parked in the brand new multistorey carpark by the railway station, where the first two hours' parking is free and the remainder of the time is very cheap.

I got out of the car without checking my surroundings, and as I leaned back in to get my bag out, I thought "In large parts of the world, I'd be asking to get mugged, or worse".

Then I walked along the clean, well-kept streets to the hospital, where I waited for less than 2 minutes for my mammography, which was completely free of charge.

This is Sweden. This is Europe. Why the FUCK are we trying to emulate, listening to, investing in or in any way having anything whatsoever to do with the utter insanity coming out of the USA?

And I don't just mean under the current, obviously barking, incumbent. I mean ever? They don't do things like we do. They don't believe in the same things that we do. This really is an us and a them situation, and we've been kidding ourselves for the last 80 years that they're like us.

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Bitwarden will be undergoing server and web maintenance tomorrow Jan. 20th, from 9-11 PM ET/2-4 AM UTC.

More information on the Bitwarden Status page: https://status.bitwarden.com/issues/696ea97010bdfb715d5db218

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@rysiek You see, a huge amount of wool that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be used in sweaters that have also not been produced in order to place them in stores that have not yet been built, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

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Can someone explain to me why people keep talking about male sheep from Eastern Germany?

Apparently everyone wants them and there's not enough to go around?

This is so weirdly specific. Why is a DDR ram is so distinctly desirable suddenly?

@nieldk Nice catch. It might be.

Anyone else getting an large number of strange emails from Zendesk (and their customers) these days?

I’m thinking there’s an ongoing compromise…

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#FreeDumb

Picture of the President of the NRA holding a rifle. Text:

NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government

An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

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Everyone’s looking for the perfect app to keep their kids safe online. The answer is a desktop computer in the living room and we need to bring this shit back.

@ovelarsen Ja, verden er blevet en misogyn Trump-supporter mindre.

Som min gamle videnskabshistorieprofessor sagde: “Overbevisninger dør ikke fordi bedre ideer overbeviser individder. Overbevisninger dør med de individder, der holdt dem.”

Så lige her græder jeg ikke.

Prompt engineer or Sloperator?

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“The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.

… it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.””

#MustRead #UN #NATO #Canada #Allies

https://open.substack.com/pub/theline/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.

This wasn’t the only such moment at the forum this year, but it was, to me, the most interesting. And it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.”

If there’s one thing I think people should take from my visit to Halifax, it’s that. America’s former role is gone. And I think that Americans themselves are having the hardest time of all coming to terms with what that might actually mean in the long run.

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Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

"It's funny," I told Flewin. "We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She's weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem."

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

"Oh, my!"

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New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons. With 109 illustrations! https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

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One thing I realized years ago that the fundamental cost to do anything in the world is the price of energy. The only way we can make things free/cheap (aka abundance) is by driving the cost of energy to zero.

The problem is the rich people know this and they make money off energy, so they have incentives to keep energy costing as much as possible. Part of the reason there is so much fight against renewables.

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