The Perfume of the Abyss, 1928 #magritte #belgianart
Portrait of E.L.T. Mesens, 1930 #renemagritte #magritte
Electrek
• Jameson Dow
Tesla and SpaceX take first step towards merger, would dilute all shareholders
Tesla and SpaceX have both formed special committees within their corporate boards to explore the possibility of merging the two companies according to Elon Musk, who is CEO of both companies.
The merger could have big consequences not just for Tesla and SpaceX shareholders, but could dilute the retirement savings of everyone with exposure to major stock indices.
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Techdirt
• Cathy Gellis
Stormy Vetter, And Yet More Ways The Supreme Court Is Selling Us Out
Court reform cannot come soon enough, because unless and until it does we cannot count on the Supreme Court to dispense justice. For many reasons, but this week brought the focus to one in particular, one we’ve long known was a problem, because we’ve seen it be once before: the Court fails to take up […]
Portrait and a Dream, 1953 #americanart #abstractexpressionism
NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view.
The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-venezuela-oil-agreement-terms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Venezuela #Oil #Gas #Economy #Politics #Geopolitics #Business
WordPress.com Blog
• Wes Theron
How to Build a Portfolio Website That Gets You Hired
Build along with our portrait photography tutorial, from choosing a domain name to showcasing your strongest work and helping clients get in touch.
Attention, Ohio voters: Yes, the Community Note is correct. We just fact-checked it.
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Joel Kaplan leaves Meta
Long a voice for Republicans inside the company, he played a leading role in pushing Meta to the right
Ars Technica
• Dan Goodin
PHP maintainers tell Web devs to prepare themselves for critical security patches
Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.
The San Francisco Standard
• Garrett Leahy
PG&E outlined its $22.5B price tag for a public power takeover
The utility giant appraised its assets and revenue amid calls for the forced liquidation of its San Francisco business.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Steve Greenberg
Punchless Punching Bag
EV Grieve
• Unknown
Tuesday's parting shot (aka today in vanity plates)
Photo by Robert Miner
As seen on Houston just east of Second Avenue...
Landscape with Figures, 1913 #postimpressionism #mauriceprendergast
Peasant Woman, Planting Beets, 1885 #realism #vangogh
The Only Conscious Caretaker
TL;DR: Dropping razor blades down a wall cavity and letting autonomous agents merge uninspected code share the same fantasy: that unobserved spaces have no consequences. Adulthood is realizing caretaking is still on you.
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash
Hamme...
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• Dave Winer
FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own.
History Facts
• Kristina Wright
Why Were People Tied to Train Tracks in Old Movies?
It’s one of the most recognizable images in movie history: a villain in a black coat and a top hat, a helpless victim bound to railroad tracks, and a locomotive bearing down as a hero races in for a last-second rescue. In the early days of cinema, trains were a popular...
History Facts
• Michael Nordine
Warplanes timed their machine guns to fire directly through propeller blades.
There’s no slow motion in real life, but World War I engineers managed the next best thing. Known as synchronization gear, the technology allowed warplanes to fire machine guns through their own propeller blades without hitting them. This innovation, also known as interrupte...
History Facts
• Michael Nordine
Greenland got its flattering name as a recruiting pitch.
Greenland is icy and Iceland is green, as the saying goes, and for the most part it’s true. Nearly 80% of Greenland’s surface area is covered in glaciers, compared to just 10% to 14% of Iceland’s, which has led many to observe that the two remote islands should probably swit...