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A local auction house is offering detailed #Boeing-built scale #models of the Delta 4 and Delta 4 Heavy #rockets.

> cyberauctions.com/ItemShow.php

> cyberauctions.com/ItemShow.php

I'm curious what these will go for! I won't be bidding myself. I mean, yeah I want them – but honestly, where would I put them? These things are huge!

"Of all the trends at the fall runway shows, including the uptick in fur (or fur-alike) clothing, the rise of clothing with built-in power curves and the preponderance of black leather, the single most ubiquitous one was the worst: the erosion of size inclusivity.

Ironically, as fashion embraces (and creates) faux womanly figures by design, the actual bodies inside the clothes are shrinking."

🎁: nytimes.com/2025/03/20/style/u

Not only are there fewer curve models on the runway, the thin models appear to be getting thinner.
The New York Times · Models in the Era of Ozempic: Why Ultrathin Is Still inBy Vanessa Friedman

“Elon Musk said on Friday (Saturday AEDT) that his #xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as #Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $US45 billion ($71.5 billion), including debt.

xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the #data, #models, #compute, #distribution and #talent,” #Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $US80 billion.”

#business / #acquisitions / #CreativeAccounting <archive.md/in6TN> / <afr.com/technology/musk-s-xai-> (paywall)

"Neue Enthüllungen zeigen .. düsteres Bild hinter .. Fassade von Tesla. .. Buch deckt gefährliche Technik und einen cholerischen Chef auf."

"Besonders eindrücklich ist der Fall des Schweizers Thomas Karl. Sein Model S führte auf der Autobahn grundlos Vollbremsungen durch.

In den USA gab es bereits über ein Dutzend Todesfälle durch die fehlerhafte Software."

nau.ch/news/amerika/tesla-file

23.3.2025