Texas Proves Its Commitment To Freedom By Legalizing Kei Trucks jalopnik.com/texas-proves-i…

Imagine if Jobs had instead recited a list of corpo talking points drafted by a committee

This is incredible. If only DraftKings had existed.

Fun bit of history: 14 years ago BNEF published its first US EV adoption forecast. This was 2010, before any EVs like the Leaf or Bolt had launched.

Under the high electricity price scenario, adoption was expected at about 10% of sales in 2023, ie: about right.

Materials can be beautiful, y’all

Really important contribution to an exciting (I'm biased, but whatever) project. Thanks to U.S. Department of Energy for recognizing the important role rare earth magnets represent in the electrification supply chain by making them a Phase I priority!

How the media uses identical facts to tell different stories:

By changing the framing, a given set of facts can be presented in totally different ways.

Look at the contrast between these descriptions of the SpaceX flight.

(As a rule, you can tell what someone really wants you…

'I'd wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering'

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“We're sad that it's come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired—someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him.”

13 bipartisan cosponsors for the House bill and counting + a Senate bipartisan companion bill.

Thanks to Bipartisan Policy Center Action for its endorsement!

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Biden Is Looking Beyond Tariffs to Keep Chinese ‘Smart Cars’ Out of the US
US considers restrictions to address data security concerns
White House worries about Chinese EVs shipped through Mexico
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A day after getting body slammed by Congress, too

35-year-old Elkana Vizel, a married father of four, was one of the 21 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza yesterday.

He left his family a letter. It reads as follows:

If you are reading these words, something must have happened to me.

First, in the event that I have been taken…

Deep thoughts:

1. The USA is the largest producer of oil and gas in the world, by a wide margin.

2. The USA is the largest exporter of LNG, and the margin is growing rapidly.

3. The Red Sea conflict does not make an enormous impact on energy trade yet, but if it moves to the…

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'As we work to achieve our mission we reaffirm our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).'

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Rad consumer-type marketing for defense tech

$MP Q3 earnings highlights:

🇺🇸 Commenced shipments & ramping production of NdPr oxide

📈 Announcing “Upstream 60K” strategy targeting ~50% expansion of REO output at Mountain Pass

🧲 Trial production of NdPr metal underway

✔️ Solid operational performance against a weak…