Mercedes has been teasing the 2025 EQG for a minute but Motortrend got to take a ride in a prototype last week, complete with overheated lines like “it is the most complex EV in the world in terms of the code controlling the drivetrain,” which, sure. But also: spinny!
Twitter is an important company with a wildly important app on Apple’s platform — it is a dead certainty that the two companies had a relationship prior to Elon’s arrival. I know this because I’ve asked Twitter’s former head of product about it on Decoder, and he told me they weren’t in the business of skirting platform rules. Whatever communication Elon is claiming Apple sent about Twitter on the App Store was probably part of the regular flow... but Elon fired everyone who knows that. Whoops.
This Elon tweet feels like the run-up to a bigger App Store fight with Apple, but let’s first marvel at how silly it is.
See, it turns out that the online advertising market is reasonably competitive, unlike the market for “EVs with a good charging network” and “US-based rocket launches.” And when markets are competitive, customers like Apple can easily vote with their dollars to signal that brand safety is important to them.
Welcome to hell, my guy.
Taboola is best known as one of the two main companies that power the ever-present clickbait chumbox at the bottom of pages all over the web. (The other is Outbrain. Yes, they tried to merge, but the deal fell apart.) Yahoo is best known as Exhibit A in Why Mergers Are Bad. Together, they will confuse and annoy a rapidly-aging audience as part of a 30-year ads deal which, god bless them for assuming anything will last that long.
Rest of World has an excellent feature on the impact giant Chinese nickel operations have had in Indonesia, where the locals have seen a surge in respiratory infections and their villages overrun by conveyor belts for the coal power plants that run the mines.
As we got closer to Lelilef, gigantic trees that loomed dramatically over the road slowly turned brown and dusty, until eventually, the land opened up and became cracked, reddish soil under the burning sun. The land was littered with dead mangroves, and every surface was covered in dust.
I don’t think the Flopico ever shipped but my god. We used to be civilized.
Real ones know — I used to leave iTunes playlists with my favorite artists on loop when I went to class in college to make sure the “right” music got scrobbled.
Musk posted an image from his late-night Twitter “code review” and… well, at least we got this very funny Reddit thread out of it.
I said Bruno Mars mixes every album in an old Cadillac Escalade; it is actually a 2010 Cadillac CTS. Per Rolling Stone:
There’s a decade-plus-old Cadillac CTS parked in an alley next to the studio. “I got it washed four days ago,” Mars says proudly. In a way, it’s become one of his closest musical confidants — he’s mixed every album he’s put out since 2010’s Doo-Wops & Hooligans by listening to it inside the Caddy, getting a sense for it in the sort of real-world scenario he deems optimal: A pimped-out American luxury sedan so old it has a CD player.
Now, does anyone know what Taylor Swift’s go-to headphones are?
A lot of readers told us they wanted a list of big stories right at the top, so we moved the “Must Reads” box to the top of the page and renamed it “Top Stories” to be clearer. The Storystream feed is now all in one place just below — and we’ll be adding comments to posts like this very soon, which is exciting. More to come!