2025-02-26
Charlie Monroe: āA Few Words About Indie App Businessā
Charlie Monroe, developer of excellent apps such as Downie and Permute: But also donāt do this alone. I work 365 days a year. Last year, I worked 366 days (2024...
Is Biometric Voter Registration a Good Idea?
Biometric registration uses data like fingerprints or face scans to register and later identify voters. This can reduce voter fraud risk, facilitate an easier election process, and encourage higher voter...
There's Something Very Sketchy Going on With the Government Trying to Buy $400 Million in Armored Teslas
Last month, news emerged that the US State Department was planning to spend $400 million on "Armored Tesla" vehicles according to a December version of its procurement forecast. The optics...
A long but very interesting thread about how Trump & Russell Vought...
A long but very interesting thread about how Trump & Russell Vought have started weaponizing the OMB to illegally impound funding appropriated by Congress (like he did in 2019, leading...
Cables Finance At Consensus Hong Kong: Big Ideas, Bigger Opportunities
Cables traveled to Hong Kong for Consensus 2025. The biggest takeaway was clear: crypto is maturing, and the appetite for real financial infrastructure has never been stronger.
Plan To Be More Positive Off To Shitty Fucking Start. āWell, Iām...
Plan To Be More Positive Off To Shitty Fucking Start. āWell, Iām not even three days into giving optimism a shot, and it already sucks.ā šš« š
Elon Musk Has Sucked Up $38 Billion in Aid From the Federal Government, and Now He's Slashing That Help for Others
While his so-called Department of Government Efficiency is laying waste to the federal government, unelected White House advisor Elon Musk has massively benefited from government contracts propping up his business...
An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak. And before...
An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak. And before that, there had been only 2 measles deaths in the past 22 years: one in 2015 and one...
xAIās Grok-3 Jumps to the Top of AI Leaderboards
Alex Heath, writing for The Verge: Just a few weeks after everyone freaked out about DeepSeek, Elon Muskās Grok-3 has again shaken up the fast-moving AI race. The new model...
Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him "Number 17"
Scientific Management, sometimes called "Taylorism" after its chief engineer, Frederick W. Taylor, is a practice that assumes human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory...
iOS Voice Dictation Bug (?) Briefly Flashes the Word āTrumpā When You Say āRacistā
Chris Welch, writing at The Verge: Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhoneās dictation feature that briefly displays āTrumpā when someone says the word āracist.ā The Verge has...
What Separates Winning Fintech Pitches from the Rest?
Fintech is one of the most competitive spaces out there. Less than one percent of startups get venture capital funding. Successful businesses are focused on a clear story, have real...
We're So Screwed, Even That "City Killer" Asteroid Doesn't Want to Destroy Earth Anymore
Earlier this year, a roughly 200-foot near-Earth asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, made major headlines, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab warning that there was a small chance it could impact our...
Flock Threatens Open Source Developer Mapping Its Surveillance Cameras
The surveillance camera company Flock sent DeFlock a cease-and-desist. DeFlock is fighting back.
Man's Entire Life Destroyed After Downloading AI Software
Last February, Disney employee Matthew Van Andel downloaded what seemed like a helpful AI tool from the developer platform GitHub. Little did he know that the decision would totally upend...
Jony Ive on āDesert Island Discsā
Desert Island Discs is a remarkably long-running BBC Radio interview program now hosted (or presented, if you will) by Lauren Laverne. The gimmick is that guests are asked to name...
Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material'
Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's richest man.
Apple Shareholders Resoundingly Reject Proposal to Ditch the Companyās āInclusion and Diversityā Policies; Trump Responds With His Usual Equanimity
Michael Liedtke, reporting for the AP: Apple shareholders rebuffed an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into joining President Donald Trumpās push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its...
Now That Trump Has Banished the Woke From Science, This Truth-Telling New Scientific Paper Reveals What COVID Vaccines Actually Do to Children
Now that the Trump administration has hailed a victory over "woke" science and installed a prominent vaccine skeptic as the new leader of the Department of Health and Human Services,...
Appleās Silent UK Move Just Made iPhones Less PrivateāāāHereās Why It Matters
Apple is no longer the privacy god it once was.Continue reading on The Startup Ā»
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