Technology Connections

It took this guy 5 years to figure out where the heat comes from but now he's up to speed and on it.

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

keeping a tab open watching tesla stock and it might be the best mood enhancer i've ever experienced

Am I depressed because of what's happening or am I depressed because of the people who somehow didn't see it coming?

Both. It's both.

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

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The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target.

This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.

This is one hundred percent a case of a man completely obsessed with the idea of tariffs being told "no, bad" by every single smart person around him, and the flip to "it's gonna cause some pain" rhetoric was when they finally got through to him.

But his stupid stubborn ego won't let him back down.

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there.

If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it.

Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

What's it gonna take for everyone to realize the occupant of the white house is fundamentally anti-American?

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

Trump thinks anyone protesting must be from another country when the right and will to protest our own government is a foundational American value.

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.

I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.

And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

I've been trying to understand why I feel the particular flavor of distressed that I do right now. I think it's because we can no longer discuss the lessons we should be learning from any kind of disaster without the worst chucklefucks coming out of the woodwork to wreck everything.

boosting because good and we need more good

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

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I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

I, for one, am pretty fond of Canada.

I would just like to go on record as saying:

the fuck

I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society).

We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.

This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.

just start saying this plainly to more people

i'm serious.

Not to get all political on you but actually I do think you should be talking to people you know about this

If I were a dem politician looking to betray some donors, I'd at the very least betray the corporate ones first.

Just sayin'

Nazis are bad. I think we should make that clear.

One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells*

They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic.

A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.

By the way - just to make clear for those who may not quite understand my history and feelings on the matter, my enthusiasm for electric vehicles does not extend to Those Ones.

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.

There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.