Four Years After January 6th: Did We Learn A Damn Thing?
Last night, a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend kind of thing posted on Facebook about
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The Weird New Political Age
Donald Trump has not yet re-taken the office of the presidency, and there are already fractures between him and co-president Elon Musk.
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Line Go Up: Book Review of “The Cold Start Problem,” by Andrew Chen
I was recently hanging out with a buddy who, responding to my standby joke about how we must all be
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Court on Elon Musk’s Compensation Package: “Yeah, No.”
Is it fair to pay the CEO $50 billion? One investor thought not, and one of the most important judges in the country in the realm of corporate law agreed.
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World War X: Elon Musk, Twitter, and the Peculiar 24th Letter
Is it that big a deal to rename a multi-billion dollar brand? Most experts say yes. Why’s he doing it, then? It probably goes beyond a brief history of the use of the letter ‘x’ in brand development. But why not learn about this weird letter?
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Yes, We Still Have To Talk About Elon Musk’s Media Relations Response.
Twitter’s media relations team has been dissolved and replaced by a bot that sends out a poop emoji to inquiring journalists.
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Christmas 2022: Handbuilt City’s Naughty or Nice List
It’s time for the annual tradition of pointing out the winners and losers of the year in terms of who’s
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Terrorists Blew Up Power Infrastructure This Weekend. The Media Barely Noticed.
To be fair, there’s a lot of weird stuff going on these days. The wealthiest man in the world, with
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Infrastructure: Think Outside The Smartphone-Driven Profit Motive
One of Michigan’s most visible mobility spokespeople recently said in a webinar that smartphone ownership and profitable markets were the two hindrances to developing sustainable mobility solutions in the state. It’s a politically horrific, functionally dubious, but baffling thing to say.
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But Weight, There’s More: The Achilles Heel of Electric Vehicles
Electric cars are generally far more efficient than gas-powered ones, as a matter of thermodynamics. But a new article looks at one huge problem with electric cars, and one that is often entirely disregarded in policy, regulation, and consumer economics, and that’s the factor of how much they weigh.
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