Chae! 🇺🇦

Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it...

The most damning part: The car was programmed to send all the information to Tesla then delete the local copies. Which speaks to a clear conspiracy to hide the fact that "driver assistance" features contributed to an accident #teslatakedown electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

I’ve never heard of any of those people. Good thing they don’t lead my thoughts!

We’re not going to get out of this without becoming the new Founders. We shouldn’t want the return of “normal,” aka the status quo ante. Because, face it, the status quo ante, though not ad bad as things are now, was still awful, which is why we’re in this predicament. We must insist on BETTER.

Correct.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

How the Democratic Party sees the antipathy towards Trump AND itself and doesn't have a reckoning with how toxic its brand is is baffling.

As a county chair all I see is cannibalization by consulting groups and its clearly hamstringing the party.

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“Please prove that human brains don't work as a very sophisticated autocomplete.”

No, you need to prove that it does. But that takes actual work, not pullin out of your ass from “first principles” and superficial definitions of what biology is/does.

Techbros are the absolute dumbest “smart” guys.

😂

Alt text makes it even better!!!

This is so accurate!!!

(Also, thank you for the reminder that my life is better when I consume at least one episode of ITYSL a day.)

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

If they’d done the second part first, the first part wouldn’t be happening. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I can’t. I stopped my monthly contributions a few years ago when their commitment to truth and facts changed to a commitment to both-sidesing and giving credibility to authoritarian views.

If they demonstrably change back to actual journalism I will support them again but not a moment before.

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.

This is the way.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

First they came for the belly itchers…and I completely lost interest in baseball.

The reason you don't give ground on trans rights - beyond the simple morality of it being wrong to do so - is because you don't give ground on rights period, and if you're willing to let it slide for one marginalized group it means everyone else is just a matter of price

The point of these deals is to incrementally destroy these schools and to further their agenda of ethnic cleansing.

Friday night Indica is all in as well.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

If you think manipulating official statistics is a four-alarm fire, may I suggest you take a look at what’s happening with the 2030 census (and my book on how efforts to sabotage the 2020 census were largely stopped in their tracks).

The civil service can not recover from this without legal and criminal consequences for Trump, Musk and Republican members of Congress who let it happen.

A couple “good” election cycles won’t cut it.

WOW. Internal emails obtained by @haleaziz.bsky.social reveal how the State Department scrambled to figure out a PR strategy after they realized the implications of having gotten a triple murderer released from prison decades early.

He is current living free in the U.S. thanks to the Trump admin.

Also, thank you for a nice and well-thought out answer!

I will have to go look through more of the responses to Dunt’s thread. (I do think the actual article was less inflammatory than the way he introduced it.)

At some point, I do think that those who want to truly fix this problem may need to adapt how they present the issue—to both sides.

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Oh, yes I understand that this isn’t an attack on women.

Sorry, I’m not great a phrasing. I really am just curious, especially about the sadness part. But don’t worry about it. I definitely don’t want to argue.

Have a nice weekend.

No AP News alerts, no Union-Tribune alerts or articles, no emails from UC either. I work at a UC and I would not know that UCLA lost all grant funding last night if I wasn't on Bluesky or in union group chats.

Self-preserving silence and general complacency are becoming more common.

It does, thank you!

Do you mind if I ask another question? I was surprised when I read that sadness was your main reaction to the “reactors.” Could you explain that a little bit?