{"id":10353,"date":"2022-05-08T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2022-05-08T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T11:54:10","slug":"5-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10353","title":{"rendered":"5.8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Steamboat <a href=\"https:\/\/technicshistory.com\/2022\/03\/18\/the-steamboat-inventors-the-first-generation\/\">Inventors<\/a>: The First Generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If countless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-i-use-targeted-ads\/\">companies<\/a> are going to benefit from tracking my internet activity, why shouldn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much ado has been made about the legality of Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022C\/4\/\">Senate Bill 4C<\/a> purporting to dissolve Disney\u2019s Reedy Creek Improvement District: whether it was retaliation prohibited by the First Amendment, whether it was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/tax-insights-and-commentary\/the-contractual-impossibility-of-unwinding-disneys-reedy-creek\">passed<\/a> with sufficient formality, and so on. But there\u2019s a much more basic reason Florida can\u2019t dissolve Reedy Creek\u2014it promised bond purchasers that it wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have different feelings. This order for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Airbus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Airbus<\/a> A35K, A321XLR, A220 is great for Airbus. But it is so sad to see how far <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boeing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Boeing<\/a> has fallen. MAX, 777X don&#8217;t stack up. No serious answer to A220. Boeing product strategy is in tatters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Hamilton (@LeehamNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeehamNews\/status\/1520931371987857408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/2022\/05\/02\/why-military-spending-watchdogs-fail-and-how-they-can-win\/\">obvious from this year\u2019s congressional hearings on the defense budget<\/a> that challenging the Pentagon on core national security issues is a thing of the past. Instead, boosterism is rampant at all levels of seniority, ideologies and parties.  This mentality was on display when the Senate Armed Services Committee held its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/to-receive-testimony-on-the-department-of-defense-budget-posture-in-review-of-the-defense-authorization-request-for-fiscal-year-2023-and-the-future-years-defense-program\">review of President Biden\u2019s budget request<\/a>. In response to Biden\u2019s budget of $827 billion for total national defense spending, a new post-World War II high, a conservative Republican from North Dakota named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Cramer\">Kevin Cramer<\/a> echoed the senior Members when he told Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley that \u201cwe hope we can give you a lot more than you asked for.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Build the <a href=\"https:\/\/balajis.com\/elondrop\/\">political support necessary<\/a> to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know who would <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.kemitchell.com\/2022\/04\/30\/Zelensky-Compound-NDA\">enforce<\/a> the NDAs for Zelensky\u2019s bunker, should loose or treasonous lips give him away. Any perpetrator may well pass with their comrades, under the same fateful bomb, eating the same fateful salo. Presumably, no one without credibility even gets as far as the NDA. But I understand its purpose. It\u2019s beyond my jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Met Gala is <a href=\"https:\/\/theankler.com\/p\/the-dumpster-fire-of-the-vanities?s=r&amp;utm_medium=email\">metaphor<\/a> for all out-of-touch entertainment\/media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next: We\u2019ll dig into the <a href=\"https:\/\/johnrobb.substack.com\/p\/the-escalatory-spiral\">origins<\/a> of the (dangerous) moral framework used by the swarm and how this swarm might collapse in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The list of equity investors alongside Elon is pretty interesting;<br \/>a16z ($400m), binance ($500m), DFJ ($100m), Larry Ellison ($1B), Qatar ($375m), Sequoia ($800m), Vy ($700m)<\/p>\n<p>At $44B now, what do you think the upside is from here? What do you think it\u2019ll be worth in 3 yrs? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UDITLxTDrW\">pic.twitter.com\/UDITLxTDrW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pitdesi\/status\/1522222513404534788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>ISPs are quietly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/jg84yy\/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru\">distributing<\/a> &#8220;netflow&#8221; data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf one party <a href=\"https:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/when-negotiating-a-price-never-bid-with-a-round-number\">gives a round number<\/a>, it gives the signal that the party doesn\u2019t really know what it\u2019s doing,\u201d Keloharju says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-moved-nrol-85-from-the-cape-to-vandenberg-at-no-extra-cost-in-exchange-for-reusing-booster\/\">using<\/a> a reused booster, we were able to move coasts, and we didn\u2019t have to spend a dollar to do it,\u201d he said. Under most circumstances, the government would have had to pay the contractor for the integration work that had already been done, he added. \u201cSo I think that when we talk about benefits of a reused booster, we\u2019re talking about taxpayer savings on one end but specifically on this mission, we were able to get a priority of the director of the NRO done while spending zero taxpayer dollars to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple, Google and Microsoft are some of the more active <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2022\/05\/your-phone-may-soon-replace-many-of-your-passwords\/\">contributors<\/a> to a passwordless sign-in standard crafted by the FIDO (\u201cFast Identity Online\u201d) Alliance and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Wide_Web_Consortium\" target=\"_blank\">World Wide Web Consortium<\/a> (W3C), groups that have been working with hundreds of tech companies over the past decade to develop a new login standard that works the same way across multiple browsers and operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steamboat Inventors: The First Generation If countless companies are going to benefit from tracking my internet activity, why shouldn&#8217;t I? 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