Ken Tindell
Automotive in-vehicle networking, CTO of a chip startup.
- Final straw. Cancelled Amazon Prime tonight. Been a subscriber since the beginning (more than two decades).
- My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Same energy.
- A reminder: the GOV.UK One system is both mandatory to use (and shortly a criminal offence for directors not to register with it) *and* "Beta" (Musk-speak for "broken shit").
- "We're in the habit of exporting public money out of Europe, and importing dependencies" It's time Europe invested in itself in preference to the US. The firehose of money that European governments spray into US tech companies should be redirected into Europe.
- “We are going to have to start thinking about other international groupings to protect our interests in Europe, with the EU, with the coalition of the willing in Ukraine – what Mark Carney was talking about, the sort of middle-sized countries, forging different groupings for different subjects”
- Pay it forward.
- I note that the mayor saying “fuck” caused much Republican pearl clutching but their party’s paramilitary saying “fuck” almost continuously results in no pearls being clutched.
- May I introduce everyone to Apple AirTags for keys, backpack, car, etc. and this ultrathin card for passport or wallet. I'm now looking for a tiny Find My compatible tracker to clip on to glasses (no, not the case: if I were that organised I'd not lose them in the first place).
- Guy sets up a fake ICE tip line, and records evil people. This one is a kindergarten teacher trying to get a 6 year old kid's parents deported. The Banality of Evil.
- Those in the UK can see this in action in Nazi Germany (watch from 28m). They interview one of the informants to the Gestapo of someone who "didn't fit in" and disappeared.
- That old question "What would you have done when the Nazis came to power?" is being answered.
- “The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
