Billy MacLeod

A Dallas mural, known as the “Whaling Wall 82” and created by artist Robert Wyland, was painted over ahead of the World Cup. Wyland has filed a $25 million lawsuit against FIFA and others. wapo.st/4xgyvWY

Commissioners voted 4-1 on proposals to grant SpaceX a reinvestment zone and tax breaks for the plant that could create 2,000 jobs. statesman.com/business/artic…

"SpaceX AI is doing something that Anthropic and Open AI both didn't and couldn't do... what is xAI doing? xAI is building data centers, right now on Earth, that are larger, more productive, and they're built faster and at lower cost than any other data centers in the world... so when you look at that and you actually plot that out, 1.8 trillion may be low." @TeslaLarry

.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via @HooverInst