Michael Bernstein

@doctorow Since you aren't coming down to Austin, is there anywhere I can purchase a signed copy of ENSHITTIFICATION?

I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*! My last two events are CCC in Hamburg, Dec 27-30: events.ccc.de/congress/2025/… and the Tattered Cover in Denver, Jan 22: eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctoro… I hope you can make it! eof/

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/not… #Pluralistic 1/

Anyone have a list of companies that are planning, or have made the move, from Delaware to either Texas or Nevada? Right now I have: -Texas: Tesla, SpaceX, ... -Nevada: Dropbox, Neuralink, TripAdvisor, Pershing Square, TradeDesk, ...

@joelgrus Have you tried PopOS? I generally prefer Ubuntu, but PopOS (ubuntu based) has worked a lot better out of the box driver wise (specifically nvidia/cuda, but wifi/etc work well).

in the year of Our Lord 2024 how on earth can the wifi support in Ubuntu still be so flaky

I really gave Windows 11 a go for about 18 months, but I think tomorrow (or whenever Ubuntu 24.04 is released) I'm switching back 2024 will be the year of linux on the desktop!

@YETICoolers Hi - I have two of the large coffee tumblers in white where the paint is chipping off with regular usage. Is that normal? I have a teal one that hasn't had that issue and the 20oz tumblers (we have like 8) don't seem to have the same issue.

@robert_zubrin UPenn is private iirc, with Penn St being the public flagship.

Proof that state universities have higher standards than Harvard.

@shanselman @__picaro8 Maybe she swipes down and uses search each time. I do that for a lot of apps similarly to how I use Alfred, spotlight, etc as a launcher. I still organize my home screen but I use the search to launch a ton of apps.

@__picaro8 she's the CEO of a company that wants our attention on mobile devices, she might want to take 10 min and learn how to do that, now?

Settings in the Dock tho?

Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy. They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear industry to get it done. Why? Lack of stable long-term power, whether clean or dirty, is constraining Microsoft's growth. They need to build big data centers that consume electricity all the time and the old assumption that somebody else's reliable plants will always be around to firm up your wind and solar is falling apart. It certainly helps that founder Bill Gates was one of the earliest big business converts to nuclear energy, investing his own money to develop new reactors. But Microsoft, like many companies, was held back by what we might consider "Enron-ism" infecting its energy thinking: renewable energy credits plus markets plus cute little lies to the public about how electricity works. Greenwashed fossil/hydro/nuclear with the ESG stamp of approval. The problem? Eventually you run out of other people's cheap firm power. So Microsoft has recently become a leader in openly asserting that nuclear energy counts as clean energy, as opposed to the ongoing cowardice we see from the other big tech companies who lie to the public about being "100% renewable powered." Sure, the lawyers said it was okay to lie, but the lie doesn't give you a permanent supply of cheap reliable energy. That comes from nuclear. A world is coming where only the tech companies willing to become nuclear power developers may get to keep expanding their cloud businesses, and only countries open to new reactors get to host this expansion. A world where tech companies with 50% margins become the only survival hope for traditional industrial concerns with 5% margins who need someone else to bootstrap a proper electricity supply. Where diesel backup generators are replaced with microreactors reliable enough to be trusted to keep a cluster of facilities secure in the case of public grid failure. The race is on.

@yudapearl Speaking of books - I was curious how I would go about acquiring a signed one of yours (if possible - if not, I understand).

The road from data analysis to #DataScience goes through the Ladder of Causation.

@merket Any recommendations on portable units? Thinking about getting one just in case one of my a/c unit dies...Separately, I have a 24kwh generator and am thinking of getting solar due to power issues. Oh, and a cistern for rainwater collection so when water I have a backup #texas

@nope_its_lily Okay, I'll give it a shot then! So much to love - pasta and chickpeas. Could only be improved if it was hummus pasta.

@nope_its_lily It doesn't just fall apart like most other dry pasta alternatives I've tried?

@ylecun @elonmusk It's refreshing to see another company that has crafted an audacious long term strategy they believe in and aren't afraid to pursue it in the face of detractors. Tired of short-termism.

@elonmusk Wait a bit and buy a Quest3 😉 The Metaverse is the next internet.

Pretty funny how financial types don't understand the concept of long-term R&D investment. To them, R&D investment is "lost money". It only becomes "lost" if/when you give up on the whole product concept. But that has not happened.

@Tailscale Great update - I like how easy it is to choose an exit node (and turn it on and off).

This release of Tailscale for iOS reflects a major update, both in design and engineering. Update or install from the App Store today. Read more: tailscale.com/blog/reimagini…

@benedictevans Slack is still way, way better than teams for text (Microsoft should just copy their interface) - but I've been using teams for ~2.5 years for work calls and it's been rock solid (on MacOS, but works on any browser now).

@DanielleFong That ladder...

this is a pretty good litmus test for politics. do you regard these folks with respect and/or disgust

@joelgrus I have to kill Chrome on my MacOS laptop, and Windows/Linux desktops regularly if I leave single page apps open. Leaks memory like a sieve everywhere.

I switched to a windows laptop a couple months ago, and it's been mostly ok, but the one real pain is that Chrome leaks memory like a sieve and has to be killed and restarted every few days so if you were thinking that maybe 2023 is the year of windows on the desktop, not yet

@bdainton Would love one

Man, do I love writing with lex.page. Clean. Lightweight. Just the right amount of easily-accessible magic. Anyone need an invite? I've got a handful to pass out.

@film_girl As someone who just got back from Disney World and was completely saddened by the direction they've gone with lightning lanes (instead of fast passes) and how much less enjoyable it has been, I welcome the news. Hopefully they can save Disney+ as well.

My parents do not appreciate the significance of this Disney news and are just nodding politely as their daughter who studied business and entertainment in college excitedly talks about how significant this is. I adore them.

@savagejen I've been sick with an awful cold since the start of the week. I have a runny nose so I assumed it's not covid - but the cough is destroying me.

@savagejen It took me a PCR test when I was sick with covid. I'd recommend going and getting tested at a cvs drive through Every home test for me was negative. Hope y'all feel better!