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by rmason 3mo ago
I got my amateur radio license in the sixties. There was an old timer on 80 meters who was the leader of a chat group that met daily. Any ham could join the conversation with one exception. He had a phrase: "no kids, lids or space c
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Boris Cherny on AI Archetypes(twitter.com)
2 points by rmason 3mo ago|0 comments
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Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online(act.eff.org)
74 points by rmason 3mo ago|3 comments
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by rmason 3mo ago
Caught my attention for a different reason and that's the name - REO Motors. I live in the Lansing area and until entering college there were two companies building vehicles here, GM (Oldsmobile) and REO. Ransom Eli Olds created the O
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Startup Wants to Sell a U.S.-Built Tiny Truck for $21,500(roadandtrack.com)
4 points by rmason 3mo ago|1 comments
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by rmason 3mo ago
Actually in the latest J.D. Power initial quality ratings they took a big step up in quality. I think it was the first time in 15-20 years that they were on the list of recommended major brands. https://archive.is/VcL8c
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by rmason 3mo ago
I am a lifelong resident of Michigan and sadly the state keeps doubling down on what isn't working. Politicians like to think they're smart enough to pick winners and they're horrible at it. When Governor Jennifer Granholm
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by rmason 3mo ago
Back in the nineties Ford ran a lot of ads about how quality was job one. But in the last twenty years their quality declined by a large amount at the same time other brands were getting better. I say that as a lifelong fan of Ford, quali
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An argument with Om about Wired spawned this newsletter. RIP brother(crazystupidtech.com)
2 points by rmason 3mo ago|0 comments
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Dan Primack – Remembering Om Malik(axios.com)
3 points by rmason 3mo ago|1 comments
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Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016)(newyorker.com)
27 points by rmason 3mo ago|14 comments
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by rmason 3mo ago
I started out as journalist so I always appreciated great writing when I reinvented myself as a tech entrepreneur. There were three writers beginning in the nineties who were my tech troika: Kevin Kelly, George Gilder and Om Malik. Sadly
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My Pele Agent Trading the World Cup Prediction Markets with AI and Crypto(avc.xyz)
3 points by rmason 3mo ago|0 comments
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by rmason 4mo ago
For those lacking a subscription: https://archive.is/GoDZ9#selection-679.0-679.64
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The Science That Turned Lizard Venom into GLP-1s Is Under Attack(nytimes.com)
8 points by rmason 4mo ago|2 comments
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Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It (crypto thriller)(feld.com)
3 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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Delete Doesn't Mean Deleted. Just Ask OpenAI(lindsaygross1.substack.com)
10 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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OpenMontage the first open-source, agentic video production system(github.com)
2 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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The smartphone's days are numbered. Meet the device that could come next(fortune.com)
3 points by rmason 4mo ago|2 comments
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Ben Forta - The UK's Social Media Ban: Necessary, and Bound to Fail(forta.com)
2 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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AI Image Generation from CFML in One Function Call(blog.kukiel.dev)
2 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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TransAstra aims to move 100-ton asteroid to stable orbit for processing (3/26)(spacenews.com)
3 points by rmason 4mo ago|1 comments
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Brad Feld – Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware?(feld.com)
11 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rmason 4mo ago
This is unenforceable and imho ridiculous. Canadians are now going to be able to buy Chinese vehicles under a agreement just signed between those two countries. So we are going to arrest them when they try to cross the border in Detroit t
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GenZ fled SF for TX and FL turning 'welcomer cities' into next big tech towns(fortune.com)
3 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rmason 4mo ago
Mu sister and I gave my late parents sizeable library to the East Lansing public library, a place the entire family adored. They gave us a document that detailed that most of the books would be sold and the money would be used to support
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Tim O'Reilly – Look at the rate of change, not the volume(twitter.com)
4 points by rmason 4mo ago|0 comments
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Woman Gets on Route 66. Then She Starts Hearing Music Coming from Her Tires(motor1.com)
19 points by rmason 4mo ago|17 comments
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by rmason 4mo ago
In Detroit copper theft was an epidemic a few years back. Once the easy stuff in abandoned houses was gone thieves went further afield. . A few brave thieves went after power substations. For some thieves a lack of knowledge was fatal.
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by rmason 4mo ago
Before becoming a ham I was an avid shortwave listener, both of radio and TV. You could learn so many things about the different countries by listening to their shortwave stations. Even get a little Communist propaganda from Radio Moscow ;

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