Christopher Mims

Christopher Mims

@mims.bsky.social

WSJ tech columnist. Author of How to AI, a bullshit-free guide to how to get actual utility from AI, aimed at the skeptics who are tired of the hype surrounding it.

36,363 Followers 5,068 Following 4,248 Posts Joined Apr 2023
2 hours ago

oh interesting... do you have a link to one? how can I find them?

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3 hours ago

used teslas are VERY popular here in Baltimore, I don't think people are vandalizing them

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4 hours ago

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

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5 hours ago

we recently made the switch to electric (finally) ourselves and I absolutely adore the Ioniq EV9. It's also true for road trips (youth basketball tournaments in central PA) it takes a bit more thinking/planning. But, after a few of those you get completely used to it and it's smooth sailing.

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3 hours ago

thanks! It's a newsroom-wide effort, and our EIC deserves the credit for pushing us all to do this more. The producer on this video was amazing, she's new but I hope to do many more with her

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3 hours ago

I mean this is, honestly, I think about my insurer as much as anything (I'm switching) but it's certainly not unheard of (check the expert source in my article)

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3 hours ago

actually it's because the price of new ones has fallen so quickly of late

high depreciation unlikely on current models, going forward

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3 hours ago

shhhh, not ready to hard launch this relationship yet

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3 hours ago

excellent value car

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3 hours ago

have you tried ABRP?

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3 hours ago

I think that's been the case for awhile but I do wonder if the pace of change will slow starting about ... now

new Ioniq 5's are 10k cheaper and same set of features, not sure how you improve on 800 volt system and current batteries aren't gonna get that much better

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3 hours ago
reddit post of a Star Destroyer under the headline "Exposed bridges are stupid" with a red circle around the bridge atop the spacecraft, and WHY? scrawled below it

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3 hours ago

this is the thing, this vehicle is so good at road trips it's the only one we want to take on them and that mileage cap is a draaag

we'll probably do what you did - but in 2 years when our lease is up

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3 hours ago

yeah :(

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3 hours ago

I spent a couple years being car-free in a place that *did not* have good public transit so I agree. BUT: I would literally die if I tried to e-bike into the city on the (insanely busy, insanely fast) street that goes from my little mill town into Baltimore proper

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3 hours ago

everyone says this! I guess if we're committing to this lifestyle I should do it...

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5 hours ago
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1. If oil prices have you thinking "should I finally switch to an electric vehicle" my advice is, yeah! Lots of good low mileage used ones to be had.

2. It's not without its hiccups. Here's what I learned after a year of driving an one.

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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5 hours ago

lol ... perfect

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5 hours ago

I agree with that piece but primarily because the price of the Rivian seems awfully high given the price of competitors' vehicles

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5 hours ago

just need to get "some people" to say that :)

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5 hours ago

I mean I am anticipating having to shut down comments on this thread any second now

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5 hours ago

not saying this is deliberate, lol

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5 hours ago

ah... clever!

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5 hours ago
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Trump suggests high oil prices are a positive after bragging about low gas prices last month The about-face comes as Trump's team has struggled to offer a clear plan for opening up the critical Strait of Hormuz so that tankers full of oil and natural gas are no longer stranded.

the U.S. being a net petroleum exporter sure changes the calculus on oil prices

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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6 hours ago

What if, hear me out here, Trump unintentionally inspires the next big phase of a necessary, overdue energy transition?

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6 hours ago

It is pretty wild to realize that Trump is doing to gas prices what climate-focused progressives have always said we should do to gas prices

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6 hours ago
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A genetic trick helps this all-female fish species escape evolutionary doom The Amazon molly, which reproduces asexually, has survived—and thrived—at least 10 times longer than predicted by evolutionary theory

non-technical writeup here: www.science.org/content/arti...

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6 hours ago
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Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species - Nature Analysis of the asexually reproducing Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its sexually reproducing progenitors Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia latipinna reveals that it maintains a divergent mutational l...

A 100,000-year-old type of fish has unlocked the secret to creating a females-only species that only gives birth to daughters that are clones of the mother -- upending the notion that sexual reproduction is key to avoiding harmful mutations

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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23 hours ago

beginning to suspect we could run this headline every day for the foreseeable future

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23 hours ago

I can’t remember but one of the many lists I’m on wrote it up.. Nvidia spox was shameless, “this is really good for us because moar chips…”

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