64 posts tagged with "icymi"

Some suppliers will have a part in an aircraft they certified in like 1990 and they’re not going to touch it, because why would they? No one’s going to compete,” Mali said. “The aircraft is in service for 30 to 50 years, so they’re just bringing in money every year, making the same thing.

Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested.

the board has struggled to establish its relevance. It remains unknown to the vast majority of Facebook and Instagram users; it hears only a small number of cases each year; it takes hundreds of days for cases to be heard and its decisions to be implemented; and when presented with the biggest case it ever got — whether Donald Trump’s accounts should be restored after he led an insurrection against his government — the Oversight Board punted.

The Oversight Board gets a lifeline

Getting Musk to join Trump on stage is a big coup for the Republicans, though, not just because the two men actually seem to hate each other personally. Musk, after shattering his reputation as the benevolent “I fucking love science” guy, is, ostensibly, just an influencer now, arguably the biggest right-wing influencer in the world. And so, he’s doing exactly what an influencer would do, and is now running a scammy payola scheme to pay people to register to vote in swing states.

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I'm somewhat sympathetic to the "man I need the job" line but this "well a manager lied to me first?" thing – just play the fucking tape forward. Just put your anti-capitalist self-righteousness on hold for one goddamned second and think. If your model is "it's okay to lie if I've been lied to" then we're all knee deep in bullshit forever and can never escape Transaction Cost Hell.

Don't lie in interviews