circuitfarmer

One of the most interesting features is the 4.2-inch reflective liquid crystal display (RLCD), which offers a 300×400 resolution in black and white. Unlike traditional LCDs, the RLCD uses ambient light instead of a backlight, resulting in an ePaper-like reading experience with very low power consumption and fast refresh times.

I’m legitimately excited just at these RLCDs. Devices with actual e-ink displays tend to be pricey, especially in larger sizes, for a few reasons. For one, it’s a niche market. For two, there is little competition in the space. Not technically monopolized, but close.

I really want to be able to play with devices using something like e-ink for the power savings. Not sure if RLCD has the same capabilities (some of which are limitations I guess, but they are capabilities for power saving), though the article does mention low power draw.

Despite the world going to shit quicker than anyone can keep up, the space geek in me is very thankful I get to see a moon mission like this in my lifetime.

Sadly, this is exactly the kind of topic where knowing about shit would be more helpful

Ron Howard voice: “But it was like that”.

I always think about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 2010. That decision effectively removed restrictions on corporate donations to politicians, finding that those donations counted as speech, and (oddly) affirming the concept of corporate personhood in the US.

But obviously, corporations will always have resources that are orders of magnitude greater than a person, which makes equating them absurd. In effect, it allows corporations to own whatever politicians they want, and because it’s the rich who also own the corporations, they just end up with vastly more representation.

It’s barely been 16 years, and here we are.