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Notices by Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 22:42:09 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    What if there were a way to eliminate China's rare earths leverage over the rest of the world -- which allows it to handicap everything from EV to defense production -- by making a new kind of cheap motor that simply doesn't need those elements?

    It's happening.

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/these-electric-motors-could-help-break-the-worlds-dependence-on-china-3fa07b0b

    In conversation about 19 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 23:41:31 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Thanks to Steve Jobs and Gorilla Glass, factories in America are now ramping up to make affordable windows, made from panes thinner than a credit card, that can:

    * save Americans $25 billion / year

    * withstand a 2x4 shot out of a cannon

    (gift link)

    https://www.wsj.com/business/corning-window-gorilla-glass-4f443b07?st=UPDbcE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 00:13:00 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims
    • dogzilla

    "Up to 70% of residents between North Carolina and Florida, and a trillion dollars in property, could be impacted by the end of the century with just over three feet of sea rise," thanks to the "hidden threat" of climate change -- rising *groundwater*

    via @dogzilla

    https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2024-11-27/climate-change-rising-groundwater-study

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      The trillion-dollar hidden threat from climate change: rising groundwater
      from https://www.wlrn.org/people/jenny-staletovich
      For the first time, a federal study calculated the risk from rising groundwater on a warming planet. South Florida represents the vast majority of that risk, with about 7.5 million people and $750 billion dollars in property under threat.
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:40:22 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents among all car brands, report shows

    * Fatal accidents per billion miles driven by all vehicles was 2.8 -- Teslas had a rate of 5.6

    * Unclear why the disconnect with high vehicle safety ratings, but issue could be autopilot

    https://sherwood.news/business/tesla-has-the-highest-rate-of-fatal-accidents-among-all-car-brands-report/

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 01:27:54 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Today something launched I've worked long and hard on -- a new podcast series for the WSJ.

    It's free!

    We're asking hard questions of the people who aren't just making the news - they *are* the news.

    First up, the Tesla refugee trying to beat Musk at his own game.

    https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/bold-names-why-this-tesla-pioneer-says-the-cheap-ev-market-ucks/f5db039b-b775-4aee-8114-89ce5be34c4f

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 00:47:49 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    really heartening to see that everyone who was so confident Harris would win is absolutely sure they know why she lost

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 21:59:43 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Please sign my petition to “fall back” one hour every month, so that we all gain an extra hour of sleep every ~4 weeks.

    (bonus: full day/night reversal on odd-numbered years)

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 06:20:17 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Here's one Texas voter who has been disenfranchised:

    Mom, who lives north of Austin, can't physically go to a polling place, so she requested a ballot by mail weeks ago.

    Never got it. Monday she managed to talk to an actual person to ask where it was. They said it hadn't been sent yet.

    Today she checked the VoteTexas site and she's been marked as having never requested one in the first place.

    Probably the last election she'll be able to vote in, and she's been denied that right.

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 21:58:12 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Cybertruck driver is upset that people are laughing derisively at him; other drivers advise getting an extra-dark tint on the windows or else just shrugging it off:

    "I sleep and drive soundly knowing my Cybertruck existing in the world is itself a giant self driving stainless steel middle finger to all the snowflakes and communists out there."

    https://www.torquenews.com/11826/i-dont-know-why-women-keep-laughing-me-when-im-out-driving-my-tesla-cybertruck/amp

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck
      from Tinsae Aregay
      A Tesla Cybertruck owner says there is a concerted effort to publicly shame people who drive the all-electric truck. He recounts several instances where people pointed and laughed at him while driving his Cybertruck.
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 22:38:16 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Electric motors might be on the cusp of a transformation on par with the invention of the lithium ion battery, thanks to the pioneering work of Ben Franklin. (really)

    1/🧵

    https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-motors-are-about-to-get-a-major-upgrade-thanks-to-benjamin-franklin-e96f339d

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 23:22:06 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Gamers, accessibility nerds, please help me:

    I need a video game controller for a person with good fine motor skills but extremely diminished gross motor skills (can't lift arms, etc.) so they can control an iPad and therefore a bunch of accessibility apps on it (including critical communication ones)

    should be small-ish

    thanks!

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 02:07:04 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    It's funny, CEOs like to talk about the (potential) benefits to team communication of in-person work, but they never talk about the (very real) detriments to individual productivity. 🤔

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 01:51:27 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    U.S. citizens are far more likely to commit pretty much every type of crime than either legal or undocumented immigrants

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 01:49:35 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Redditors have found it, the worst cybertruck wrap

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f5un8h/i_wish_hulk_would_smash_this/

    In conversation about 9 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 05:25:22 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    SEC notifies NFT marketplace, OpenSea, of likely lawsuit

    Seems a little like beating a dead horse, no?

    https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/sec-nft-opensea-lawsuit-wells-notice

    In conversation about 9 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 21:21:40 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis

    Loans of around $13 billion have remained ‘hung’ for nearly two years, weighing on banks’ balance sheets

    * The resulting write-downs have hobbled the banks’ loan books

    * "Twitter isn’t only the biggest hung deal by dollar amount since the 2008 financial crisis but one of the biggest of all time"

    (gift link)

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-is-now-the-worst-buyout-for-banks-since-the-financial-crisis-3f4272cb?st=c98dc9gatf4xozt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    In conversation about 9 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:19:48 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    Edith Clarke was the first woman in the U.S. to be an electrical engineer, played an essential role in the build-out of our modern electrical grid, invented a widely-used calculator, graduated MIT in 1919, and designed the turbine system inside the Hoover Dam

    We should thank her every time we flip on a light switch

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/edith-clarke-modern-power-distribution

    In conversation about 10 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 02:05:30 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

    I'm a reporter looking to interview freelancers who have seen demand for their work go down -- or shift -- in the wake of ChatGPT and all the AI image generators.

    This is for a story about how freelancers, specifically, have seen demand for their labor change as use of AI has spread.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 23:01:36 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims
    in reply to

    5/🧵

    To sum up, doing a complete modernization of an existing intersection can cost a quarter of a million dollars.

    Re-timing existing traffic signals using existing crews, and newly-available data and insights, actually saves cities money, while cutting down pollution.

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-green-light-traffic-light-optimization-992e4252?st=cnhqh4khkgroesu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 23:01:20 JST Christopher Mims Christopher Mims
    in reply to

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    🚦 A major source of congestion in cities is poorly-timed traffic lights.
    (Yes, I know, we should just have fewer cars.)

    🚗💨 They're also a *huge* source of lung-killing pollution. It's 29x worse at intersections, because of those stops and starts.
    You might say "oh, how foolish, surely there is a 'smart' traffic light option?"

    💰 And there is. But it's expensive. Good luck paying for it at all 300,000+ of America's traffic signals, much less the billions worldwide.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink
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