We've seen so many great tributes to Ken Block this week; abundant evidence he'll be remembered well. To even better appreciate his rise and role in car culture, let's look back at the scene circa 2008. Step into the world that Block blew up in: thedrive.com/news/how-ken-b… The Drive

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An Introduction to the World-Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid, "the Queen of the Curve". If you don't know much about Hadid and her work, now's your chance to catch up. openculture.com/2023/02/an-int…

Reading a fascinating paper on the rise and stall of world electricity efficiency when I encountered the terms "LTH" and "HTH". Try asking both Google and ChatGPT the following: What does LTH and HTH mean in an industrial context?

I just replied to someone who quoted Ayn Rand, and now I wait in anticipation of the frothing onslaught of replies from twenty-something incels and middle-aged PHI101 dropouts who never came to grips with the nuances of the political-ideological spectrum out in the real world.

Twitter! Help me come up with a team name for an upcoming Rally event in the McLaren!! HALP!!

Brad Landers Eve Hewitt Ryan Dalziel WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Dwight Merriman Intense like "ugh, Sebring didn't have these hills 😫" 😝

Looooota uncanny valley in the Vision Pro reveal. Big yikes 😬

So mixed in with the Vision Pro announcement yesterday, Apple casually dropped that they have some kind of RTOS implementation as part of their OS stack now. I'm sure it's more smoke than fire, but there are significant automotive applications for RTOSs. 🤔

The explanation for this braindead take is, “lying with graphs 101”. Have a look at the y-axis values. The entire height of the graph spans only a fraction of the data range, greatly exaggerating the record turnout in 2020.

It’s going to take time to sort through what happened Tuesday. But I've read a lot of takes the past few days (some good, many bad), and I've had a lot of people ask how I won one of the toughest districts in the country by over 13%. Here are some thoughts: 🧵