Got the inside from someone recently fired from Meta and it gave me enormous hope: senior folks are all horse racing to use as much AI as possible, but have none of the knowledge required to verify outputs, so they’re making decisions based on the inevitable falsifications in the outputs.

Buttons and knobs and levers? For driving? Groundbreaking.

Men will literally destroy the design legacy of ~100 year old companies instead of going to therapy

I am in contact with a mechanic who is in contact with the mechanic who now services my old 600 SEL. He will let me know if it ever comes up for sale. This is not good.

It should probably loose because it lacks the sheer elegance of the W201/W124/R129 monoblade, and yet the W140 was all about being extra, so let's appreciate for a moment the extra extraness of the W140's wiper solution: monoblade mechanism plus a second wiper.

Just popped in to say my ideal two-car garage is a 600 SEL and a 928 S4. I will not be taking questions at this time.

"Personal trauma is not a community governing principle. "It does not give you the right to dictate what words millions of people use to describe themselves or who gets to belong to a movement you didn’t build alone. "Your pain is yours. The community is not." Preach.

The inspiration: (h/t to @regularcars.bsky.social for reifying this queer's ne plus ultra of cars) (also glad to confirm that I'm not the only queer W140 owner to have walked this earth)

I feel so seen.

Most people think Mercedes-Benz doesn’t do small cars. That’s not quite true. In 1981, they built one of the strangest city cars of its time…

Four photos, one long window in Paris . www.instagram.com/p/DWOqaDYDCT...

What's My ΔE? 0.540 ΔE₀₀ (CIEDE2000) Can you beat it? muldoon.design/playground/w... (I wonder how this level of sensitivity impacts one's ability to, say, read automotive surfaces and pick up imperfections in them...) cc @andypolaine.bsky.social

Porsche's problem isn't that it makes bad EVs. It doesn't (ish, notwithstanding the quiet clusterfuck that is the Taycan's battery and software issues). It's that their volume EV product is so anonymous, so insanely an anti-Porsche, that even a whole box of Cialis couldn't get me excited for it.

Slow grinding with the Dyson while I clean the flat. Welcome to Saturday, y'all.

As a very serious (former) product strategist, let me tell you that this is precisely the kind of accessible halo car that Porsche desperately needs

Has anyone checked on the Afeela?

This is going to end poorly for everyone except folk looking for arbitrage on stock pumps.

And definitely before you bought a very fast Lexus with a hybrid fig leaf over its 2GR-FSE.

Upscale Nurturers. Trendsetting Achievers. Active Explorers. Something tells me you don't ever really want to reveal your archetype names to the outside world.

Was feeling like shit this morning. Wanted some toast. Needed some milk. So drove Lola to the supermarket. And when I walked out, I damn almost near pinched myself. I get to drive this thing? I get to deeply and profoundly enjoy this little masterpiece of engineering? What a blessed fucking life

I was today years old when I learned that Liza did a collab with the Pet Shop Boys and I should probably hand in my license to be queer shouldn't I

Came up with a name for those Evoque-looking Jaecoos today, after struggling for a good nickname for a while. Strange Rover.

They too missed the chance to release it in the right date: Halloween

So in the same vein as Toyota Turd, we now have the Mercedes Vile. Excellent work, branding teams. Excellent work.

Loving how Volvo abandoned its core territory only to have *checks notes* a budget brand from Romania waltz in a totally own it.

Perfect album No skips 10/10 All killer no filler tidal.com/album/176547...

Removing Margot’s interior to chase a leak only to find corrosion is not how I intended to spend my Saturday. But you know what they say: if you remove the seat, you may as well remove everything!* *Nobody says this. Ever. Especially not on a humid-as-fuck Saturday.

If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots. But I'm just a person with priorities. Maybe the path to solving death really does go through AI girlfriends. I don't have an MBA.

Project managers: “I have added people to this project that is late, as recommended in Fred Brooks’ classic ‘adding people to a late project makes it later’”

Project managers: “I am following the waterfall software development model from Winston Royce’s 1970 paper ‘Do not follow a waterfall model for developing software’”

Spectacular thread. The maddening thing about this all is that Winston Royce wrote about this in 1970.

aka Mardi Gras weekend in Sydney.

Touching grass, or whatever.

Given *gestures broadly*, I’m starting to think that buying the worlds first performance-oriented hybrid was perhaps a delusion too far…

I've just been cheered up just by having a new episode of @lookingout.io podcast to listen to. Great to have you both back 😊 when I saw the Luce cockpit pics I thought it looked sterile and nerdy. Nothing sexy about it at all, which is what Ferrari should always be.

Yes, that’s right kids: theres a new episode of Looking Out - The Podcast! It’d have to be something pretty special to bring Joe and I out of semiretirement and the interior of the Ferrari Luce is nothing if not… um… special… Find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/5yZW...

Humans are spectacular at remembering disasters, passed down in every format from the written word to the oral tradition. We are (for obvious reasons) terrible at remembering the disasters that didn't happen... www.joanwestenberg.com/everything-...

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Update: Vicky now has two new Continental 245/45 18s. The tyre shop had fitted both new tyres to the right side of the car. They wanted to charge me a $40 rotation fee to fit them, as is proper, to a single axle. They moved the tyres. They did not get $40. ❌ Avalon Tyres in Mona Vale.

Popped two tyres on the GS. SMHWTF. Happy Friday, I guess?

Popped two tyres on the GS. SMHWTF. Happy Friday, I guess?

But... why? (Facebook algobricolage)

cc @tenders.bsky.social

You were wondering what a partially denuded 2GR-FSE looks like, weren't you?

So yeah, I'm back(ish?). In the interim: The GS has had a complete timing rebuild. The SL is in for a major service. The Up! has been sold. The 300 TE has been leaking in the summer storms. And last night, Chris asked me if I could sell the 500 and 300, would I could own a W140 again. Oh yes.

Gonna run a bit of an experiment for the new year. I'm heading off into the Tasmanian alps tomorrow and will be without cell service, and without BSky. Although I've not been posting a lot here, I have been reading *a lot*, and, frankly, it's not been great for me. So it's time for a change. 1/

rather glad to soon be hiking through the Tasmanian alps for 7 days with no cell reception tbqh

Once almost hit a tall, blond woman with my Volvo 262 C. I came around the corner — she was running across the road. I stopped to check she was ok. I approached and got a funny feeling inside. She was enigmatic. She dipped her sunnies, smiled, thanked me, walked on. It was Elle McPherson.

"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... it’s about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didn’t choose to fall with him,..."

Make a Bond movie casual: On Her Majesty’s Postal Service The Living Room Skylights You Only Live Once The Spy Who Ghosted Me My Backyard Is Not Enough From Russia Pie Another Day