<p>The Ford Edsel was introduced by the Ford Motor Company in 1957 as an ambitious entry into the medium-price automobile market. Developed after extensive research, it aimed to capture the affluent, upwardly mobile consumer. Despite initial sales enthusiasm, the Edsel quickly became a symbol of ...
Fact of the day: the Ford Edsel ("a 1950s flop so notorious that it’s taught in business schools to this day") outsold the Cybertruck 2:1, "in a country with half the population."
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/ford-introduces-edsel
(h/t Luke Savage in the American Prospect, https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/)
Queen guitarist says ‘everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment’ when asked about touring plans
There comes a time in every project's life where you have to kick it out of home. You know you're going to be supporting it and helping it out for some time to come, but it's time for it to leave so y...
SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT!
SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.
#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
https://funtimeelectrics.itch.io/second-hand-computer/devlog/1335775/second-hand-computer-is-out
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
Grim detail of anthropogenic #climatebreakdown:
“We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world with devastating consequences for people and nature,” says British global-systems researcher Tim Lenton... hopes currently being expressed of a temperature reset by reducing emissions after overshoot may be fanciful" #journalism #SciComm
The incomparable #FredPearce at
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points
On The Vergecast: Minneapolis, Melania, and foldable phones.
turns out all that sinophobic scaremongering was just projection.
“Americans are baffled to discover TikTok is more censored under US ownership than it ever was under China”
by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack
“turns out all that sinophobic scaremongering was just projection”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/americans-are-baffled-to-discover
#Press #US #TikTok #Censorship #China #Ellison #Oracle #DataHarvesting #Zionism #Genocide #ProtectedStatus
A quick introduction to the concept of indie link dumps, plus a list of sites that publish link dumps.
One awesome thing that I see a lot on #IndieWeb sites is "link dumps". We browse the web, find cool stuff and then publish something linking to all that cool stuff.
https://shellsharks.com/link-dumps
Shoutout to everyone below for having cool indie sites where you do your own link-dumpin’ / link roundups!
@sophie @joel @axxuy @Kaiern @felixthehat @eclecticpassions @steven @thej @jochen @mkj @latte @dominik @tracy @lmorchard @eli_oat @geekyaubergine @abnv @lazcorp @liztai @82mhz https://indieweb.social/@fyr
Microsoft wants feedback on its dock proposal
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