Tag: Elon Musk

• Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack (kottke.org)
• An audio recording of the audience’s reaction to Star Wars in 1977 (kottke.org)
• “The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified” (kottke.org)
• Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger (kottke.org)
• Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips (kottke.org)
• My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition (kottke.org)
• Don’t Believe Him (YouTube / The Ezra Klein Show)
• 3 Ways to Fix Hydration Error in Next.js 15 (YouTube / Programming with Umair)
• GitHub Copilot: the agent awakens (YouTube / GitHub)
• I’m Finally Moving On (I have a new browser) (YouTube / Theo – t3․gg)
• Music Questions Challenge (Robb Knight)
• Loading Pixelfed Photos with Eleventy (Robb Knight)
• My First Digital Photo (Robb Knight)
• Lihit Labs Compact Pen Case Review (Robb Knight)
• Notes on the Code Editors with AI Landscape (Frontend Masters Boost)
• Cool People Link to Text Fragments (Frontend Masters Boost)
• A Sneak Peek of the New DanMall.com (Dan Mall)
• Content Strategy For a 200-Page Personal Website (Dan Mall)
• Just a big ol’ markdown file (Andy Bell)
• Love newsletters? You’re gonna love RSS (Andy Bell)
• 11ty Meetup – How I built my Books page (Bob Monsour)
• ‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’ (Daring Fireball) — 🏴‍☠️
• Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change (Daring Fireball)
• Apple Support: ‘About Migrating Apple Account Purchases Between Accounts’ (Daring Fireball)
• Unpaid ‘Special Factory Employee’ (Daring Fireball)
• Weeknotes 25:06 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Make Any File A Template Using This Hidden MacOS Tool (CSS-Tricks)
• Studio Notes #19 (SimpleBits)
• Less Precious (Naz Hamid)

News

• Punch Out speedrunner first ever to beat Mike Tyson in under 2 minutes
• QMJHL names its rookie of the year trophy after Sidney Crosby
• A 3D-printed VHS cleaner is saving memories from mold
• Amazon’s shopping app will start listing items it doesn’t sell
• Avowed review: it makes the wait for the next Elder Scrolls much easier
• Honda and Nissan cancel their proposed $60 billion merger
• The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us
• Astro Bot getting five new levels for free, starting now
• TikTok is back in the App Store

4 Nations Face-Off

The 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament has been fun to watch this week.

• Mitch Marner’s OT goal leads Canada past Sweden in 4 Nations opener
• Sidney Crosby scores 3 assists in Team Canada’s 4-3 win in 4 Nations opener
• Mario Lemieux returns to Montreal for special 4 Nations Face-Off welcome
• Mario Lemieux gets standing ovation in return to Montreal at 4 Nations opening game
• U.S. anthem booed by fans in Montreal at 4 Nations Face-Off
• Tkachuk brothers each score twice as U.S. routs Finland in 4 Nations Face-Off
• Granlund lifts Finland past Sweden at 4 Nations Face-Off
• 3 fights headline 1st period as United States tops Canada
• U.S. outlasts Canada, earns berth in 4 Nations title game

Politics

• Elon Musk’s DOGE activities trigger protests, vandalism for Tesla
• Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
• OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously rejects’ Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company
• Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’ and Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America — 🥴
• Donald Trump reignites the lightbulb wars — Ugh
• Trump administration illegally allowed DOGE to access workers’ data, lawsuit alleges
• FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs
• The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order
• Donald Trump’s January 6th Twitter lawsuit settled for ‘about $10 million’
• Apple has started advertising on X again
• Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook
• State Dept.’s plan to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas hastily changed to ‘armored EVs’
• FCC chair Brendan Carr is a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech
• RFK Jr., an anti-vax activist, will lead Health and Human Services following Senate confirmation — 🤦‍♂️
• Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it
• The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
• Treasury inspector general will investigate DOGE payments access
• Senate Republicans introduce bills to make EVs more expensive