📌It is absolutely insane that two old power-hungry, greedy, lawless men are in the process of killing countless hundreds and thousands of innocent human beings, and destabilizing a world they won't be living in a decade from now, and not EVERYBODY is speaking out loudly against this.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce an American national security policy professional and the current under secretary of defense for policy, Elbridge Colby (@ElbridgeColby). He’s best-known for fighting with cartoon dogs online and for halting military aid to Ukraine. 1/21

I recently discussed with buddies that I want to see companies sell quality flagship products by advertising features they Do NOT have. Buy our fridge Coolmax4000, it has no wifi or internet and no app. Buy our car, EVpro6 there is no online store in it... And so on.

Q1 status report on Tesla. European nations that report daily sales figures: Q1 to date down 35% from year ago and over 50% from 2 years ago.

BYD sales in Europe not just higher than Tesla, but over 2x higher. I am old enough to remember when Elon was asked about BYD as a competitor and he just laughed.

#RepLieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social @tedleo.bsky.social encouraging the press to investigate the #EpsteinFiles (to hopefully report on the) reports of #Trump raping and threatening to kill #CSA victims

You don't need to defund the police. You just need sane police. Finnish police is not _always perfect_ but they are pretty good, and well respected here. Moment of national pride for me.

Tesla 1st quarter looks like the worst in a few years. 😢😁 We are at 1/3 of Q1/2024 sales by the same date. Can't extrapolate too much but brings me pleasure.

Tesla robotaxi safety vs human drivers. “Only” 4X worse? That is assuming that safety drivers didn’t prevent a single crash. The real ratio (without human interference!) is probably much worse than that. #$TSLA #$TSLAQ

And also re-evaluate their lives.

Soon it will be: "SpaceX is building a Moon-themed diner in Wichita, Kansas, which is more profound than it seems."

Truly Soviet gulag shit. She was detained at a routine immigration meeting for ‘overstaying her visa’ and being in a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia. They shipped her to Texas. She’s barely fed. They claim she fell, hit her head, had a seizure. (The kind of thing gulag admins often claim.)

cybertruck in UK, tractor speed limits 😬

Ha this tweet applies more profoundly than I imagined. Maybe just neuter from position of power anyone who sent more than 2 emails to Jeffrey. World would be better off. bsky.app/profile/heik...

Another trillion dollar company...

Democratic party is filled with idiots. You can be "moderate" and call craziness what it's. It's not "non moderate" to take a strong stand when reality is freaking nuts. People EXPECT this from you! What is holding you back? So easy to become popular in this environment: Be LOUD, be firm, be human.

“Be careful what you wish for”: Philadelphia DA to ICE A group of local prosecutors from across the country are joining forces to push back against what they describe as dangerous federal immigration tactics under Trump. Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner is part of the group and joins The Weeknight.

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

a whole lotta crazy on the latest Tesla earnings call, as usual, but for my money this was the craziest moment: claiming the company would fund its massive CapEx spend by securitizing revenue from robotaxis, which aren't even material

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

General Tony Thomas is a retired general of United States Army and former commander of US Special Operations Command. He participated in numerous combat operations; Operation Urgent Fury 1983, Operation Just Cause 1989, Gulf War 1991, and since 2001 Iraq & Afghanistan. Replying to Stephen Miller:

Roblox #$RBLX has AI camera tool to check age. Purpose is to limit chatting to same age peers (to avoid adults from asking kids for nudes against rubux, the game currency etc.) Son just came home and said his buddies, 11, said that by sucking in cheeks and looking stern the AI passed them for 16. 1/

Garry Kasparov was right: "It ends with who has the guns when they won't listen to the judges" x.com/Kasparov63/s...

Yet again, the #$TSLA board created a perverse incentive for Musk. One of the operational milestones in the "trillion dollar" package is 1 million FSD subscriptions. So, naturally, Musk slashed the FSD price, then removed a basic safety feature to force more subscriptions. electrek.co/2026/01/23/t...

"That’s not the flex you think it is" Just because Tesla lets FSD operate in adverse conditions doesn't mean it should. (a small timeline cleanser with all the WW3 stuff going on)

I use dropbox for my small business cloud backups and versioning. With the way the world is going I want to minimize my US service costs. Any recommendations of European based cloud services? (this means also their data centers need to be in Europe) Looking into Cloudme, 🇸🇪

President Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, convicted of creating the largest online black market for illegal drugs He has granted clemency to Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, Baltimore drug kingpin Garnett Gilbert Smith and former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández:

Why would anyone in their righting fucking mind travel to the United States for the FIFA World Cup? 😳👇

In September 2023 I made a charity bet that Tesla would not deliver 3.5 million vehicles in 2025. Instead of a fictional new high of 3.5 million Tesla delivered 1.63 million - down from '25 and also' 24. Too bad I have no way of reaching out to the losing party.

We all have our own New Year's Resolutions. You do you, bae.

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Tesla's competition should take a note. Clearly having a human driver in your robotaxi is the superior solution.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

He's scared. Tesla sales are tanking, California is about to rule that "Full Self-Driving" is false advertising, Starship keeps blowing up, SpaceX loses too much money to IPO, and XAI is burning $10 billion/year for the 4th place chatbot. It's over, he knows it, and only corruption can save him.

I wouldn’t call it irony but noteworthy still

Just picked up 450 eggs. Would that make me ritch in the USA? How are egg prices there now?

A silly silly product. Electric bike that makes electricity. Cost $3800 euros. With pretty price electricity price of 0.15c(euro)/kWh it takes over 25,000 hours to save the electricity cost. At semi-leisurely 20kph we can assume that you can get 60W of electricity out so at that pace ~500k km.

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific hand movements the robot made on its way down electrek.co/2025/12/07/t... #ai #tech

Here is Ark prediction for Tesla from a few years back. In the real world Tesla sales track behind 2024 AND 2023 in China and Europe. This despite the L (long) variant in china and facelift Model Y release this year. These are the latest products and no new ones in foreseeable future.

Ark simulated that in 2025 Tesla would sell 9.3 million vehicles at 40% gross margins. The 2026 numbers look thrilling too! (x.com/funwithnumbe...)

How Tesla's Q1 2026 EPS estimates have evolved over the past 3 years.

NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.

If you haven't yet. Help whistleblower in the teeth of Elon and Tesla

PB 140kg for 2 reps. My highest weight for deadlift was 110kg until last spring. Did 130kgx3 a few weeks back. The odd thing is that in several years I have trained much more. I have only like 5-6 weight sessions since July. Plenty of indoor rowing though but even that largely at "zone 2".

Bloomberg… no words… 🇺🇸

It was the same University (Weber) that did this: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

Here we can see Elon, genius of our time, explain the battery technology going into 2020 Tesla Roadster so that it can both have 600 mile range AND 1.9 second 0-60mph time. Someone still think they had the vehicle somehow designed in 2017 when they revealed it and started taking payments...