Surely there's a well trod progression, no? Something like military, space, drones, aircraft, IoT, consumer (phones, watches), vehicle, residential, grid?

> hype department

Yes but:

It's signal that battery tech will maintain its cost-learning-curve for some time to come.

It'll be noteworthy, to me, once these announcements start to trail off.

all matter in the universe carries a charge, so the list of potential battery materials candidates, is everything. also, everything that isnt something has energy passing through it, so even nothing, is usefull.

> "privacy" has become the most abused word in tech

Ideally, an argument about privacy would start with its notion of privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy#Conceptions_of_privacy

What's your definition of privacy?

Thanks for explaining. This is a great win.

Noob me hoped "wall-to-wall" meant something like "everyone in the building".

Reasoning that once the whole of a company is unionized, it's a short hop to worker directed social enterprise (a co-op, more or less).

My search for thrift stores did not include Goodwill. Had to search for Goodwill explicitly.

Clever.

Yes and:

Recent Volts episode has great overview of China's electro-tech build out, world is at or near peak fossil fuel across all sectors and countries (with 1 notable exception), etc.

Clean electrification is inevitable - A conversation with Kingsmill Bond of Ember Energy. [2025/11/21]

https://www.volts.wtf/p/clean-electrification-is-inevitable

Cite cliché about the only intuitive user interface is the nipple; everything else is learned.

Having done my share of UI work, my value system transitioned from esthetics to practicalities. Such as "can you describe it?" Because siloed UI, independent of docs, training and tech supp, is awful.

All validated by usability testing, natch. It's hard to maintain strong opinions UI after users shred your best efforts. Humilitating.

Having said all that... If stock icons work (with target user base), I'm all for using them.

PS I do have one strong opinion: less is more.

u/nradov meant a functioning govt is a disaster for vulture capitalists.

Yes but: Privatization is an effective way to negate the public's right know.

eg Some companies have claimed trade secret protections to prevent public access. Infamously, election administration vendors like Diebold.

I imagine anyone trying to investigate govt activities conducted by Palantir (for example) will run into similar stonewalling. Even getting the fulltext of contracts can be challenging.

Not automatically. There's aleeady case law(0x1) that ruled that images captured by Flock ALPR cameras are public records, even though the data are stored by Flock (a private vendor), not directly by the city.

The court rejected the notion that “because the data sits on a private server, it’s not a public record.” Instead, it said that since the surveillance is paid for by the public (taxpayers) and used by a public agency, the data must comply with the state’s public-records law.

This shows that — in at least one jurisdiction — using a private company to run ALPRs doesn’t shield the data from public-records requests.

(0x1) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules...

Thanks for followup and link. Interesting.

IANAL: That court's decision was based on the contract w/ Flock. It does not move the needle wrt public records.

I may read the decision, testimony, and any amicus briefs. During the 00's, Wash Citizen's for Open Govt had a prominent blindspot wrt tension between privatization and public records (in the shape of Tony Nixon). I'm curious if they were involved with this case, and if their positions have matured.