Nilay Patel

The Starlink subreddit (one of my favorite communities on the whole internet) is having a field day with the new data caps.

Over content moderation concerns, of course. They follow GM and giant ad agency conglomerate IPG, which also put their Twitter ad budgets on hold. Being associated with the heartless mass layoffs probably isn’t helping either.

Borla, which makes loud performance exhaust systems for cars, has a new “exhaust system” for the Mustang Mach-E... which is just speakers playing preloaded engine sounds that can be controlled by an app. This is silly, but not as silly as Dodge pretending its fake EV exhaust system is not just speakers.

The company, which sold wireless home broadband to apartment residents using neat little mmWave antennas, recently laid off half its employees. Now it’s looking to sell itself. Turns out competing with America’s entrenched, monopolistic ISPs is incredibly difficult. :(

to “Hell.” Welcome, my man.

If $8/month gives everyone priority on the platform, does anyone have priority?

And Amazon Music is a “distant third.” That’s according to Amazon Music VP Steve Boom, who explained how the modern steaming business works and why Prime Music now includes 100m tracks (in shuffle mode) for free on this week’s Decoder podcast.