CFerrari is officially Dutch.
MCome again?
CMaarten ter Mors posted the corporate address. Ferrari N.V. is registered in Amsterdam.
MSo all those Italian flags at Maranello... legally speaking?
CThe corporate seat is Dutch. The soul is still very much in Italy, they build everything there.
MThis is what happens when you chase tax advantages and shareholder structures. Ferrari's been doing it for years.
CBut here's the kicker: if that's true, the most Italian car in the world files its holding company taxes in the Netherlands. Blocks of cheese with flag holes at the next launch, apparently.
MThat's the real story. The cheese course.
CI'd still take the car. But the legal paperwork does make it funnier when you see Dutch watermarks on the filings.
MAll right, different world entirely. A Bluesky post from John Gilda is absolutely furious.
MHe quotes what he says is Forbes: Ben Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has teamed up with Palmer Luckey's Anduril to create a dog that's optimized for military use.
COptimized for military use. Well, that's a sentence I did not expect to hear before lunch.
MHis words are 'rage bait,' 'shame on Forbes genuflection,' and 'freaks.'
COkay, but hold on. Colossal is the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. Anduril makes drones and autonomous defense systems. So this isn't some random pairing.
MThat's the part I want to see verified. There have been reports of Colossal and Anduril collaborating on what people are calling 'cyber dogs,' but I could not confirm the exact Forbes quote in that post.
CCyber dogs. That sounds like a terrible 90s cartoon.
MThe point is: if they're taking genetics work and packing it into a military robotics frame, that's a big ethical jump from bringing back extinct species.
CI get why he's angry, but let me push back. The military already uses dogs in combat. A synthetic one that can run with autonomous systems and not die in a firefight? That could save lives.
MOh, come on. That's not what Colossal is supposed to be. You take a species-extinction company and hook it to defense robotics, you're not making a better dog, you're building a weapon that looks like man's best friend.
CBut that's exactly my point! If you can put the loyalty, the scent detection, the physicality of a dog into a body that doesn't bleed out on the field, that's a better tool.
MA tool. You said it. Not a dog. And the minute you take the soul out, you're just building another autonomous weapons platform and calling it cute.
CI never called it cute. But I'm serious: real shepherds die in combat. If a synthetic one can take that role, I'm not going to tear the idea down before we even know what it does.
MI want full transparency on what those creatures actually are. Otherwise you're selling a nightmare with a Forbes headline.
CSpeaking of corporate moves. Ford might be bringing back the Endeavour in India.
CKabir Mehrotra posts that Ford's manufacturing revival has reignited comeback speculation. There's still no confirmed domestic launch timeline, though.
MThe Endeavour was a real player there. Big, rugged, proper SUV. Then Ford left India and Toyota's Fortuner just took the entire premium SUV segment.
CAnd now Ford wants back in after burning the market. The question Kabir asks: would you choose the Endeavour over the Fortuner?
MI think the Fortuner has years of trust built up now. Service networks, resale value, the whole Toyota reliability halo. Ford would need a massive price or feature advantage.
CBut the Endeavour had a massive emotional following. Just because Ford left doesn't mean people forgot how much they liked it.
MEmotional following is not a sales channel. If Ford actually announces it, then we'll see. Until then, this is hope wearing a rumor.
COne more quick one. A woman on Bluesky named Aeryn posted: 'They thought Oppenheimer was a movie about a successful startup founder.'
MThat's too real. Some audience watched Nolan's film and came out thinking the Manhattan Project was just a longer, sadder IPO.
CTo be fair, Oppenheimer did run a huge program, hired the best minds, moved fast. The startup parallels are not zero.
MAnd then the product launch killed over two hundred thousand people. Maybe we keep startup language away from the atomic bomb.
CJust maybe.