Overall seems like a pretty balanced board. Al Shafei and Bezuidenhout have backgrounds aligned with the type of Mastodon I want to see. The lawyer guy dabbles in crypto law, but also did tons of pro bono work for Mastodon. Seems to me like he’s just passionate about emerging tech. Biz Stone is also an interesting inclusion. He’s obviously well connected to the VC space but has been pretty critical of Elon Twitter.

If the shoe were on the other foot you know exactly what the GOP would do.

Relatively small shifts on the margins can have huge consequences in the electoral college.

Our governor is generally sane, I’d be surprised if he supports this. Our state legislature on the other hand is exactly this stupid.

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I heard about a year ago that a second season was in the works but I haven’t heard any rumblings since. Hopefully they haven’t canned it!

Honest question here, would you purchase your Tesla again? I’m in the market for a new car and am really considering an EV. The problem is, I need something with some utility, such as a Model Y, a Rivian, or an F150 Lightning.

The Rivian and the Lightning are out of my price range. The Model Y is more affordable. But I have reservations about Tesla both from a quality control standpoint and from a social standpoint (it being a Musk company).

I’m no industry expert, but I’d assume there’s also a shortage of other things necessary for a chip fab as well. Machining, component parts, etc. It’s not just the chip fab but also the local supply lines and economic infrastructure. That all has to be established from the ground up in AZ whereas it already exists in Asian locales like Taiwan, Korea, and China. Economist Noah Smith has been hammering about this for a while - he calls these network effects “agglomeration”

I get why that matters for big accounts. I will never understand why normal people prefer that, though. I much prefer engagement with people over consumption of content produced by popular influencers