links, etc “No matter how you cut it, you’ve got to own Cisco” (2000) - The Big Picture there’s so much to love, learn, laugh, and cry at, in this article (my attempt at a riff on the old cisco, “changing the way the world lives, learns, works and plays” tagline). i joined cisco in late 2000 and never saw those initial options issued to me upon signing up become worth anything....
links, etc Crypto Winter 2022 Cost Bitcoin ($BTC) Holders More Than Cash archive.is link at its most basic, crypto does resemble a cult. i supposed that at this point in the arc of capitalism it shouldn’t be surprising to me that we have a financialization cults. i don’t know if this has ever really been a thing before. i suspect the evangelical prosperity gospel comes reasonably close here. either way, this bit was particularly on point:...
links, etc New York’s Most Inventive Pizzas Are Cooked Up at Pop-Ups - The New York Times these folks are living the dream. the pizza pop ups dream to be specific. but what i really want to know is … where’s the roccbox? i mean i see the greatest pizza peel in the pictures, but no love for the roccbox or the dome? i mean the roccbox got the whole portable pizza oven party started....
links, etc Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change - Scientific American i was expecting sciam to take a more technocratic approach to this topic. but the article hits on a number of salient bits. the energy requirements associated with the need to transition the US auto fleet. the stigmatization of the bus being for the poor, in the US. the fact that other countries treat buses and public transit as critical infrastructure....
links, etc Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” the leaked document. this is a lot more interesting than i thought it was going to be. (5) The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT oh shit. this stuff is moving really fast.