Just your regular reminder that the “exam” he is referring to is not an IQ test, but rather a test designed to detect cognitive impairment. Passing it does not mean you are smart. Indeed, gloating about passing it demonstrates you are not.

Well, I am officially a former Tesla owner.

someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat

Apropos of nothing, I am starting to think the Democratic Party is a lost cause and we just need to start over.

Someone should copy Tesla’s software + ADAS playbook and sell it as a platform to legacy automakers. I don’t really know how this hasn’t happened yet.

The blue iPhone 17 Pro is growing on me. Coming from a Max it feels so… wieldy.

It’s really frustrating that Tesla’s driver assistance is so exceptional. I want to get away from the association with Musk, but it’s so hard to give up FSD even for an otherwise fantastic car. This is the Achilles’ heel keeping me from pulling the trigger on the Taycan.

This is insane. I had no idea this was even a thing!

Yesterday I learned that US lighthouses would get a delivery of a library box every few months so the lighthouse keeper would have something to do. Can you imagine how exciting the darn thing’s arrival would have been? doorcountypulse.com/culture-club....

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People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*. According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Bluesky has a lot of popular misinformation accounts, like this one who repeatedly spreads falsehoods about Waymo for some reason (sock puppet for a competitor?). Waymo does not do this. They respond appropriately to lawful warrants for video footage, but that’s it.

I popped onto this app again today and safe to say I regret it. This place has fostered an alarmingly unhealthy, toxic community.

The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry

I don’t yet know what I think we should do about this, but the data here seems important.

This is a good but depressing read. First, why did it take so long for this funding to be put to work? Second, why wasn’t this all front and center in the 2024 campaign? politi.co/3PnSOwJ

1,400 reposts and 3,800 likes on this quote of the most inflammatory paragraph from the Ars Technica article, which was an irresponsible reframing of an unproven claim bsky.app/profile/karl...

I can’t believe it took this long for someone to actually look into this. I was always skeptical of the Musk == Dittmann claims. Now it seems pretty clear that Dittmann is in fact a different person.

If this is accurate, it further reinforces my suspicion that he didn’t intend to detonate the bomb at that time, but instead set it off accidentally/prematurely. I do hope investigators are able to determine whether the Trump building was his real target. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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This is your regular reminder that EVs cannot randomly explode, and that EVs have a lower risk of fire than combustion engine vehicles. The CyberTruck that exploded outside a Trump hotel was full of explosives. abcnews.go.com/Politics/pol...

Maybe it’s time for NHTSA (or congress) to make Obstacle-Aware Acceleration and non-overrideable-for-pedestrians Automatic Emergency Braking required on new vehicles.

Happy New Year!

We call this kind of work “engineering”. This is like expressing concern that doctors spend most of their time on “tedious” work like learning patient histories, diagnosing symptoms, writing prescriptions, ordering lab work, and answering patient questions. It’s madness.

“For over a year, Democrats reminded people that Hunter Biden wasn’t running for President. So why is he getting away with crimes?” My submission to @nytpitchbot.bsky.social.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Software Architect: The cup is loosely coupled with its contents

In retrospect, counting presidentially disqualifying events in an 8-bit integer may have been a mistake.

No, Tesla, Subaru, and Ram don't have the worst drivers. Let's look at how this myth spread throughout social media and news outlets, and how we now know for sure that all the claims made by LendingTree are false (the answer is: they've admitted it).

Danger aside, it’s kind of annoying to set off loud fireworks in the middle of a dense neighborhood. It’s inexcusable to be doing it at 11:50PM.

Me on this app trying to re-find everyone I've ever known and loved

I’d regrunt him all day.

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With Twitter in disarray and Bsky not having an audio rooms thing yet, is this Clubhouse’s moment?

Very funny that Twitter refused to pay for its Google Cloud contract which lapsed yesterday but that’s only one of like four equally plausible theories for why Twitter is down

It’s almost like these people don’t act on any sort of consistent principles. Huh.

One of the first accounts I had to block on here started harassing me last night / this morning. Curious who invited this delightful personality here.

I find the note at the top of this page delightful.

Don’t be this person.

I’m considering a new alternative of “I’m doing the best I can and am delighted to reply to your email before the heat death of the universe”.

I posted this three times and each time somehow the word “prepending” became “pretending” *after* submitting. What’s going on here, @pfrazee.com?

Someone just said “sorry for the delayed response” when replying before 9AM to something sent last night, and I may never recover.

When I hear “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” now I think of the Ant Man: Quantumania trailer and how much better it was than the actual movie.

How many chairs has Zuckerberg thrown today?

For sale: My Quest Pro. (And everyone’s, I suspect)

FYI @pfrazee.com Today the Bsky app decided it really wants to be in the light theme. Not sure if it changed my setting from dark to “system” (is that new?), but apparently “system” doesn’t work on this build and just means light mode 🤷🏻‍♂️

I do hope Community Notes makes it to Bluesky some day. Starting to see cases where it would be helpful.

Twitter is starting to remind me of the Trump administration, where even unscrupulous people end up hitting a point where they just aren’t unscrupulous enough to stay (whether they leave or are ousted).

Is he saying we’ll never know which explains his actions?

So far the “Tesla Files” have lived up to their namesake. A nothingburger that some people will use to reinforce their existing misunderstandings.