Stochastic terrorism.

It is an absurd statement to argue that the average cyclist on the average bike can sprint to over 30mph "without much trouble." Maybe with a tailwind going downhill, and even that is, ahem, dangerous.

Because Elon Musk is just Donald Trump with business sense. I get roasted every time I say this, but I've never been more sure of anything in my life.

This is the company that the press unanimously decided everyone needed to hear about in 2019, and you couldn't avoid mentions of it. Good riddance.

I’ve never missed my Apollo filters more than when I see all these Elon Musk/Twitter/X ragebait posts.

“And if the guy who had the x handle complains, he’s a pedo guy.”

Good. A Microsoft victory here will severely damage prospects for other antitrust actions and have a chilling effect on government oversight of mergers, which is already pretty thin.

Right-handed, right pocket. I'm surprised to see so many people saying they use their off hand to hold their phone.

I'd rather have a moderated site replace Twitter at this point, even if it's run by Meta. My first choice is for an intuitive non-Meta alternative to rise to prominence, ideally in the fediverse, but I think Mastodon had its chance and its unintuitive nature was too challenging for a critical mass of lay people. It needs to be: sign up, start posting. Instead it's: sign up, choose your server. Huh? You're already losing people.

All this has already been covered but it has to be simple and intuitive and that's what Threads is offering and Mastodon isn't.

We need to transition from a culture that implicitly believes that infinite waste is not a problem. According to a story I read in the NYT this morning, more than 10 million tons of office furniture in the United States end up in a landfill every year. Ten million tons! And it's all just handled by people doing their jobs, nobody able to stop the cogs and ask if we've lost our minds.

The guy who invented Keurig, with its disposable plastic pods, later said that he regretted it after seeing how much waste it created. I think if we had a healthy culture, Keurig couldn't have been invented as it was because the inventor would've foreseen the waste and found it totally a nonstarter.

Plus the GOP has a lot of people on social media talking about how terrible both sides are and how they’ll just stay home, which is squarely aimed at depressing Democratic turnout.

They did it so silently that it’s not even real.