Monday, March 1, 2021

We have reached the point where stating the obvious is an act of courage

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...particularly for a female journalist . The Atlantic's Shannon Stirone is catching tremendous hell for pointing out that Mars is not ...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Video Obscura alert: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (because the Amazon Prime recommendation engine sucks)

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... and HBOmax is worse. Don't get me wrong Amazon's catalog is good and HBOmax's is great but I don't recall ever actu...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Controlling the boards of both companies may have helped with the negotiations

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 One of the essential texts for understanding how Musk became the world's richest man is this long-form expose by Bethany McLean (best ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Covid-19 updates

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This is Joseph I wanted to highlight two recent covid-19 articles. The first is about vaccine gloom and doom . There are many dangerous infe...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

"Musk is not in it for the money."

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I need to come back to this article because there's a lot of wrong packed in here but this one brief section needs to be singled out bec...
Monday, February 22, 2021

FT Alphaville: "We kind of have the feeling that Mirabaud has someone in mind, but we can’t for the life of us think of a large listed company that ticks these boxes. We are stumped."

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I've linked to this article before but only in a brief post. It needs to be read in full (in part to appreciate the level of snark in th...
Friday, February 19, 2021

"7 minutes of terror"

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There's a huge disconnect in our discussion of manned space travel. We've grown accustomed to vague promises about Marti...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

I could put a positive spin by saying that I agree with Musk that we should be pursuing better tech than SpaceX rockets

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While the event itself was trivial, this provides a useful example of how journalists continue not only to repeat but to add to the mountai...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Matthew Yglesias -- "Approve the AstraZeneca vaccine! Yes, their trial was messed up. But it clearly works."

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 We will need to more about this . Meanwhile, there is a plant up and running in Baltimore manufacturing a vaccine that was developed by an...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The one Tesla metric that feels the most Ponzi adjacent

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Tesla is making a $1.5-billion investment in Bitcoin. That's more than Tesla has spent on R&D in any of the last three years. From c...
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Monday, February 15, 2021

Ramping up for some Tesla posts

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Musk and the Musk adjacent stories have started to appear on the horizon so I thought I'd open the week with some appropriate tweets. u...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Terror attacks

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 This is Joseph. Spoilers for the Expanse below.  There was a good article on the Expanse from LGM : Rather, the impression formed is that t...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Something new in marketing

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One of my favorite advertising genres is the "We don't suck anymore" campaign. Though I can't find any examples online, so...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

"You knew this day was coming"

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The already complicated accounting and business logic of Tesla is about to get even weirder. Tesla? TESLA? BITCOIN!!!! Let's face it: ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

HODLing with diamond hands

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We've previously discussed how many of the Davids in the GameStop saga were crushed as badly as the Goliath was because they seemingly d...