jonhendry

u/jonhendry@awful.systems
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"Why… why do they need a racing team? Why does the racing team need a lego set? Who is buying it for 27 dollars? (Well apparently the answer to that last question is nobody)."

Apparently NEOM is sponsoring some McLaren Formula E teams. (Formula E being electric). Google Pixel, Tumi luggage, and the UK Ministry of Defence are other sponsors, but NEOM seems to be the major sponsor.

I assume the market for these is not so much NEOM fans but rather McLaren fans.

As to why NEOM is sponsoring it, I think it's a bit of Saudi boosterism or techwashing to help MBS move past the whole bone saw thing.

"“What’s mine is mine, right?” reads the headline of an advertising graphic designed by Tlon employee Romina Malta, whose aesthetic direction has shaped Urbit’s brand identity. "

Malta's commission work is pretty much what my friend PK was doing in Chicago in the 90s. Not saying she's copying, just that it's not terribly fresh.

https://chicagographicdesign.club/articles/the-world-of-chicago-typographer-patric-king/

oh no

He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.

My vision is to build realistic (non-nanotech) self-replicating robots to brute-force the problem of inadequate science funding

Guillotines ought to be sufficient.