"To the extent my rhetoric has been imperfect, that's on me."

I have a french colleague who loves making this point

I have not heard that song since childhood

Somebody does not appreciate a graveyard smash.

lol

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

Why do people think this is some sort of mortgage tax?

You're a regular John Madden.

(This is also why some of his most effective recent moments have been leaning into sincerity and *away* from the bro-asshole persona which is beloved online and uh not really elsewhere)

my hot take on AES is that an underrated reason for his struggles has been that his public persona is pretty clearly and deliberately 'kind of an asshole', which plays extremely well with people who already like him and fairly poorly with everyone else

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

The answer IMO isn’t to clutch pearls at the (long-delayed) realization that many if not most data centers _are_ legitimate targets. It’s to do the work of _not building military applications into civilian infra._ And now they (and we) will have to pay more to do it credibly.

theravada buddhism, jainism, hinduism, hellenic polytheism, infamously cool about women

elon hates it when people overstate claims about their product

You will not be able to ask your Roadster to do those tricks, they do not plan to sell a Roadster with air jets (or other modifications that made the tricks possible). But, the Hot Wheels reference is revealing. This is a car designed only for very controlled conditions on demonstration courses.

I am willing to bet that there is such a person who thinks Trump and the Democrats are basically the same only the Democrats are worse.

Slightly bemused by "Elizabeth Holmes shouldn't be in prison, she did nothing wrong, it was all the evil men" takes. She is a fraudster. You are a mark.

What a historical year!

Next year, young one.