Here I explain why the idea that we are going to suddenly make iPhones in the U.S. is pure fantasy and if Apple WERE to do that it would come after several years of deep pain. The iPhone is perhaps the most global product that has ever existed:
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A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
DOGE "saves" a million dollars by taking critical government archives off of best-in-class, durable tape archives and putting them on hard drives
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Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.
Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptops
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Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs
The manufacturer says it would now have to sell its laptops at a loss.
The most powerful people and companies in the world have successfully orchestrated one of the most damaging and stupid self owns imaginable:
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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 calibe...
NEW: Yesterday, a T-Mobile tracking app for children began showing parents the exact real-time locations and images of random kids, and showed the locations of their own kids to other random adults:
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T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare
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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no wa...
New: Facial rec company Clearview spent $1 mil trying to buy a database of 390 million mugshots, SSNs, and arrest records. It seemingly got scammed, is now trying to get its money back. Great to have @npub1fjc4...8cx9 on 404 Media:
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase β€œ690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states,...
We are testing Ghost's ActivityPub beta integration for 404 Media! We're really excited about the future of the decentralized internet, we're stoked that Ghost is leading the way, and we're proud to be one of its first adopters. You can follow us [@index](
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 ) Right now things seem pretty buggy but it's obviously very early. Looking forward to messing around with it and making the product better
Tucker Carlson and others alleging new Deep State conspiracy about JFK records. Someone at National Archives with knowledge of the situation, meanwhile, tells me that thousands of pages of 60-year-old documents don't just magically digitize themselves
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Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Haven’t Been Released Yet
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just v...
My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.