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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1h

But there can’t be any more models because they have the S3XY quad that Elon always wanted to make

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Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 1h

Still can't quite get past this juxtaposition: Tesla is the innovator... its main sales are two models over a decade old. WHAT ABOUT THE NEW MODELS, EH? Oh, we don't talk about that innovation because

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Tesla was long regarded as the innovator, while BYD was often cast as the imitator. But now, such comparisons are becoming unavoidable.

Last year, more than 95 per cent of Tesla’s global deliveries came from the Model 3 and Model Y. These two models have driven the company’s growth for nearly a decade. Yet the market is changing. Demand growth is slowing, competitors are catching up and Tesla’s response has been to cut prices aggressively, in the hope that volume can offset margin.

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 15h

If you could summarise all classical historical scholarship from the last 30 years, that would be super helpful thanks 👍

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 16h

You can't come in if you don't have a working critical knowledge of the Great Gatsby

Actually, that's not a bad idea - and, as ever, for people here already

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 16h

It’s the sort of idea you’d come up with if you played too much Civilization and thought you could terraform your way to libertarian nirvana (pending moving to Mars).

Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 16h

If, like me, you are fascinated by the weird ideas that inhabit the increasingly global right, then Gabriel Gatehouse’s Coming Storm on BBC Sounds is a great listen.

One of my obsessions is Praxis, a Thiel-backed project to set up a libertarian city state. Here’s an episode about it

The Coming Storm - S2: 5. The Photocopier - BBC Sounds

Crypto cowboys plan a meme nation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 18h

Ah but have you thought about chapters that are just one long paragraph?

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 19h

That relies on the guard walking the train

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 21h

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

Plus America-brain, where anything you don’t like is socialist

Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

Not least because the market just moved up, with the top catering for the international market

Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

Can you summarise that in a noise?

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

Not unhinged at all

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

A million times this. Exclusivity and protection from the riff raff.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Final point. People have tried to sell "low cost, high quality" private education in London. It has never taken off. Because what the addressable market actually wants to buy is secure upper-middle-class status. The posh blazers and the fives courts are the product. Not the actual education.

Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who studied classical history as an undergraduate in the 90s, this list is excessively exciting.

What do you mean we’ve redefined our understanding of hoplite warfare?!

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

And I’m enjoying the Lib Dem love for John Major vs the Tory opinion

Though both crackers if they think Cameron is better…surely a candidate for worst PM of recent times given the mess he created

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

Off topic, I know, but I admired Bernard Jenkins on R4 last night, absolutely committing to referring to him as 'Pole' like his pretentious brother

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1d

Knowing mesothelioma, knowing you

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 1d

I swear like 30% of the people moving around central London, be it pedestrian, cyclist or motorist seemingly have some sort of death drive.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2d

What next? Graphite production so that kids know where their pencils come from?

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2d

Man who does thing says people should value his thing more

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

www.thetimes.com

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2d

But because society completes its drift into full-scale adolescence, and we become incapable of having adult relationships.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2d

Pondering Children of Men as a weirdly prescient piece of prophecy, you run into the specific challenge of its core conceit - that society lost hope bc it became incapable of having children

And then today had the sinking feeling that we could get there, not bc of some mysterious force…. /1

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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2d

Society has basically become mass scale adolescence, evidence point #628476

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