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On the higher purchase price of an #EV, but lower running costs: “It’s very difficult for people to wrap their head around, ‘Hey, if I spend this $55,000, I might over time save’,” said Drury. “It requires a bit more math than most people want to go through.”

Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers
High gas prices are driving EV growth in other parts of the world — but American drivers are favoring hybrids.

Tulsi Gabbard had promised for months that she would be declassifying damning documents on COVID origins.
Last Friday, under a banner headline insisting
“Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID”,
and promising,
“New Evidence Fauci Manipulated Intelligence and Lied to Congress”, she put out a press release and a stack of documents alluding to
“President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate”.
If this is her version of transparency, be sure not …

Redacting Reality
The COVID origins story gets the Epstein treatment

8 months ago I paid $140 for a (refurbished) 14TB enterprise SATA hard drive.
Now if I paid that same price, I'd get a 6TB drive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/178226092992
Fuck all the AI companies.

I hope Andy Burn 'em has some advisor who actually reads Environmental Research Letters. The review essay by Emily Grubert, summarizing a frustrating 25 years of research with no apparent effect on climate overheating, is blunt.
" For people and places that rely on fossil fuel production and face major transition challenges (Xenarios et al 2026), failing to be explicit about the degree to which transition must proceed, or the extent to which alternatives might actually be ava…

“I’m so sorry—I honestly thought you already knew,” said Mayor Wilson. “If I had known you had no idea the city that elected me mayor hates bad coffee, union-busting, people who sell their basketball team to Oklahoma City, replaces workers with AI, and resists fair taxation at every turn, I wouldn’t have been as publicly flippant about it. ...t and I’m sorry.”
I only drink real Italian espresso!

Yesterday, I ordered a new pair of hemp shoes from 8000kicks.
UPS says they had in in Leiria, Portugal 2 hours ago - and plan to deliver it to me BY END OF DAY. That's about 2000km in less than 12 hours.
I'm not sure if that means I have to clear the field outside our house for landing of a freight plane or a helicopter - or if I just should expect a giant crater.

The Butlerian Jihad famously includes the phrase
"Thou shalt not make machines in the likeness of a human mind"
But if I were starting off today, I would say "thou shalt not force the human mind into the likeness of a machine"
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1165

RE: #Boycott or economic blackout, #GeneralStrike, and #TaxStrike are escalations. Get in the streets and stay there. This is like a bouncer putting someone's arm behind their back and moving them.
Sometimes people try to slip out of that and fight back. Imagine if a bouncer just let themself get pummeled because they weren't ready, even after the belligerent asshole telegraphed it. A lot of bouncers take martial arts, not because they use it as a first response but because they want to be ready for those edge cases.
Armed revolution is like a bouncer getting down to brawl and calling in their buddy with the zip ties and bear mace. It's not something anyone starts with, or anyone wants to escalate to, but some people can't take a hint and are incapable of doing what's best for everyone.
Always know your next step (even if you hope you don't have to take it).
Imagine if a bouncer was just like, "oh, I asked him nicely but he told me to fuck off. I guess the creep who's punching random people and pissing in the corner runs the bar now."

Well, got my little AI Harness to a releasable state, still early days but ready for some feedback.
https://choria-io.github.io/fisk-ai/

S&P 500 already made big call on SpaceX stock.
Index investors need to know it
SpaceX was valued at $1.77 trillion valuation in the IPO,
but it remains a high-risk investment with a net loss in the latest quarter of $4.28 billion.
OpenAI and Anthropic are burning through cash at a significant rate and racking up losses while generating a substantial amount of revenue.
They can be expected to face the same scrutiny from the S&P 500 that SpaceX just did.

S&P 500 already made big call on SpaceX stock. Index investors need to know it — CNBC
The S&P 500 index, where trillions in retirement savings are invested, said no to the SpaceX IPO, the biggest in history. Here's what that means for portfolios.