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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · Dec 9

I hung out in Elon Musk’s company town. Its playground is always broken. The school is accepting just a fraction of the students it was supposed to because they didn’t build a big enough well. And you can buy any canned beverage imaginable but can’t recycle them. sherwood.news/power/the-re...

The revenge of the company town: Elon Musk, the new Baron of Bastrop

The billionaire is using the sheer force of his will and wealth to reshape an area in the Lone Star State — whether the locals like it or not....

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 59m

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 2d

1Password should be called 1Password 1Billion Times

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The future of Tesla is really hard to build and increasingly expensive sherwood.news/tech/the-fut...

The future of Tesla is really hard to build and increasingly expensive

The utopian future Elon Musk describes is awe-inspiring. But as Tesla tries to make it happen, struggles are emerging and costs are climbing...

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 3d

Musk says Tesla will have no safety drivers in “parts of Austin” this year

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 3d

Just 12% of Teslas pay for FSD

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 3d

You can now look at xAI’s “MACROHARD” logo from space thanks to @jonkeegan.com sherwood.news/tech/elon-mu...

Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center is MACROHARD

Satellite photos of the roof of xAI’s new Colossus 2 data center shout a message to the world that it aims to take on Microsoft....

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 9d

RIP half of Sora’s content techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/o...

OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. | TechCrunch

OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 9d

We tried the new Live Translation feature that Apple has heavily marketed. It turns out to be optimized for Spanish as spoken in Spain (pop. 49 million) as opposed to Latin America or the Caribbean (663 million), which makes it kind of a disaster to use in the U.S. And that's just one problem. Alas.

Lost in AirPod Translation

Apple promises to put an AI interpreter in everyone’s ears. It couldn’t even help me order tamales.

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WIRED @wired.com · 10d

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes I feel like I’m from a different planet sherwood.news/business/pop...

Pop-Tarts, Doritos, and Uncrustables have joined the protein craze taking over America's snack aisle

Food giants are catching up with the latest diet obsession....

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 12d

Tell me the job market is terrible without telling me the job market is terrible: Facebook brings back job listings about.fb.com/news/2025/10...

Introducing Local Jobs on Facebook

Starting today, we’re bringing jobs on Facebook back, making it easier for people in the US to find and inquire about local jobs.

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 12d

Good time for Google to try and fix search... www.theverge.com/tech/798901/...

Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them

At least you can collapse them now.

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