A Utah newstation interviewed the men claiming responsibility for removing the original monolith in Utah, who reveal where, why, and how they took it:

Homer Manson described how they brought tools, but in the end they were able to simply push the monolith over and it fell on the ground… “We actually passed another crew on the way out, they were going in to destroy it,” Any Lewis recounted…

“That’s exactly what we didn’t want to happen, is somebody of that mentality to get a hold of it and completely lose the message behind it,” Sylvan Christensen relayed.

The monolith was in pieces, but the three men talked about how they rebuilt it. They described how it took a few weeks between consulting with lawyers and speaking with the BLM [America’s federal-lands administrating Bureau of Land Management], to bring the monument back to the agency. Lewis posted a video on his Instagram, showing the monolith standing tall in a yard. Just this last Friday [the 18th], they said they drove the monument on a trailer with a tarp to conceal it to deliver it to the BLM.

Lewis explained that they donated it back to the BLM in good faith, to help with the investigation. It’s their understanding, they indicated, that the monolith will end up on display again. “That’s kind of the discussion,” Christensen said. “It’s ultimately up to the BLM as to where they put it, but that was kind of the gentleman’s agreement is that it would get put at Red Butte Garden.” If and when this international monolith of mystery ends up back in the public eye — perhaps, according to the guys, at Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City — they explained how they want it to spark discussion about art on public lands, and responsible land use. Lewis said he wants to use this as a “togetherness moment,” where people can come together to make a proposal to the BLM and have a public decision on if there should be a place where people can place art on public lands, and figure out if that’s a proper use of art space. He said it would be nice to use the Utah Monolith to present this as a positive story, and show people how to display this art…

The BLM said it is still investigating the illegal installation along with the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office.

The BLM “doesn’t want to set a precedent that people can just go out onto public lands and take things away,” according to a report from Outside magazine.

But Sylvan Christensen points out to the magazine that “We didn’t destroy the art. We kind of changed its direction and made it a bigger thing that surrounds environmental awareness and ethical land recreation.”

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Source: Slashdot – The Further Adventures of that Monolith Stolen in Utah

FrankOVD shares this report from CNET:

The people were really into the GMC Hummer EV when the brand finally ripped the cloak off the electric pickup truck earlier this year. So much so that the Hummer EV Edition 1 trim sold out in 10 minutes. Now, GMC is reportedly thinking about building more of them due to overwhelming response. According to dealer sources that spoke to the Detroit Free Press in a report last Tuesday, the brand told its dealer body it could make more of the Edition 1 trucks available…

Prices for the Edition 1 trim start at a whopping $112,595 including destination, which makes it the most expensive GM vehicle the automaker sells. Going down the trim lineup, the EV3X [in 2022] will start at $99,995, the EV2X [in 2023] will ring in at $89,995 and the base model [in 2024] will launch with a $79,995 price tag. Performance and capability notch a rung down with each trim, but that’s to be expected. Those that pony up six figures for the Edition 1 will be the owners of a 1,000-horsepower supertruck of sorts with an estimated range of 350 miles to a single charge.

The Detroit Free Press notes the Hummer 1 “already has 10,000 pre-orders” — and that GMC “promises to have more EVs in the lineup beyond the Hummer pickup, including a Hummer SUV version that GM will officially reveal early next year…”

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Source: Slashdot – Due to Popular Demand, GM May Build More of Its ‘Hummer EV’ Electric Pickups

Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails) announced on Twitter this week that “all the tricks and tooling we used to build the front-end for Hey.com” have now been released as Hotwire (also known as New Magic), “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.”

This includes our brand-new Turbo framework…a set of complimentary techniques for speeding up page changes and form submissions, dividing complex pages into components, and stream partial page updates over WebSocket. All without writing any JavaScript at all…

Hotwire’s web page argues HTML over the wire “makes for fast first-load pages, keeps template rendering on the server, and allows for a simpler, more productive development experience in any programming language, without sacrificing any of the speed or responsiveness associated with a traditional single-page application.” On Twitter, Hansson called it “a refinement of years of research, experimentation, and SHIPPING HTML AT THE CENTER. It’s been a revelation for us. Both for the web, and for our native apps.” He shared a 13-minute video demonstration — then added a thoughtful comment about the state of web development today.

“Really curious to continue pushing the ECMAScript 6 + ES Modules approach in the browser. This isn’t strictly related to Hotwire, but it’s part of deconstructing the overly complicated mess we’ve all made of frontend development. One brick at the time!”

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Source: Slashdot – Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using ‘HTML Over the Wire’