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Pension funds call to vote down Musk's $1T pay package, replace Tesla board A group representing several large pension funds sent a letter with concerns about Tesla's board, opposing its proposals.

After I wrote this, Tesla, which does not have a PR department and does not pay for advertising, retained a "stakeholder strategy firm" who emailed me to "set the record straight" and attack shareholders concerned about having their shares diluted for a bad CEO and captured board. Weird stuff.

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Tesla, a company that doesn't buy ads, is paying for ads to shill a $1T award for its bad CEO. Some ads attach his award to Tesla employees' ability to own a home, or host a quinceañera for their daughter. The last seems particularly exploitative, given Musk's constant white supremacist statements.

Contextualizing avian mortality: A preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity This article explores the threats that wind farms pose to birds and bats before briefly surveying the recent literature on avian mortality and summari…

@tobysaunders94.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix

Contextualizing avian mortality: A preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity This article explores the threats that wind farms pose to birds and bats before briefly surveying the recent literature on avian mortality and summari…

@tomhowarth.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix.

Amendment 14, section 3, the person in this picture cannot hold any office in the US

Since 1950s there has been one single 2-year period where republican Senators had more votes cast for them than Democratic ones. Since 1992 republicans have been on a losing streak for the presidency (incl 2024 where their candidate isn’t allowed to hold office). This isn’t future tense, it’s past

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83% Exhaust isn't the only impact of cars, they also emit tiny brake particles. Thru regen braking, EVs reduce that (but bikes are even better!)

Correction to this article. EVs do not produce more brake dust, because EVs barely use the brakes. I covered a study on this here electrek.co/2025/05/27/a...

Also, I notice that the link you used for support of that statement only mentions tires, not brakes. This is because there is no support for the assertion that EVs produce much brake dust.

Here's a modeling tool where you can plug in your own numbers www.eiturbanmobility.eu/knowledge-hu...

Also, I notice that the link you used for support of that statement only mentions tires, not brakes. This is because there is no support for the assertion that EVs produce much brake dust.

Here's a modeling tool where you can plug in your own numbers www.eiturbanmobility.eu/knowledge-hu...

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83% Exhaust isn't the only impact of cars, they also emit tiny brake particles. Thru regen braking, EVs reduce that (but bikes are even better!)

@hurwitz.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake is more dangerous than tire)

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83% Exhaust isn't the only impact of cars, they also emit tiny brake particles. Thru regen braking, EVs reduce that (but bikes are even better!)

@mrmattsimon.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake more dangerous than tire)

Canada may get cheap Chinese EVs because of cooking oil - here's why Canada's right-wing is demanding an end to tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs, and may get it. And it's all because of whats in your cooking oil.

I find this story developing north of the border fascinating, wherein right-wing Canadian provinces are begging for cheap Chinese EVs because of a dispute over... cooking oil.

Fun fact: Despite America being the reason for Int'l Labor Day (May1) existing, which commemorates the Haymarket Massacre where Chicago police shot on labor demonstrators, US Labor Day is in Sept because US is so scared of socialism that it invented a fake holiday on May1 instead ("Loyalty Day")

Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts? A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?

Some data here, by the way: ourworldindata.org/environmenta...

Dairy milk is worse in all ways than almond milk is, including water use, by a huge margin. Yet we hear so much more about almonds than dairy, for some oh so strange reason that couldn't possibly be related to the industry's size in CA.

Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts? A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?

@katieglass.bsky.social Hello! I see your article about veganism which notes uncritically the dairy-industry misinformation that almond milk is exceptionally bad for the environment

In fact, you should target dairy milk! It is worse in all ways, including water use, than almond milk is. Data here!

Regarding this, I see that you give a small amount of time to Ms. Glass' assertion that almond milk causes droughts. This is in fact not the case. The California dairy industry uses tremendously more water than almonds do - and blaming almonds is their propaganda to keep eyes off them.

Confirmation of what? Can't be confirmed unless nominated by a president, and a dude who loses the election by 3 million votes ain't president

I wonder when they're going to fill the 5 empty seats on the supreme court. We've had so many years of missed decisions

why are you calling this guy transportation secretary. he's a road rules contestant.

Rory Sutherland: "Nobody would buy a petrol car if EVS came first"

EPA opens public comments on plan to hike gas prices by 76c/gal, kill thousands The EPA rollback will cost $1 trillion total and kill thousands per year, but is being sought due to oil industry bribes. You can comment now.

Happy with the response to this article. Go leave a comment to the EPA if you think the plan to delete science in order to raise your fuel/health costs to pad oil industry profits is a bad one.

(also hilarious to see people say I'm wrong here - the 76c/gal number comes from *your* guy, republicans)

*launched by a white supremacist, that is. Musk is ~13% owner of Tesla, but the diner was his idea.

The Tesla Diner has been open for 12 days and it's going kinda rough so far Tesla opened its retro-futuristic “Tesla Diner” last Monday, July 21st. It’s a cool concept and the realization of a plan...

Some readers have taken issue with my characterization of ICE's "papers, please" actions in LA as "nazi-like." I mentioned them to explain why the Tesla Diner, owned by a white supremacist, might not be popular in the city where ICE's illegal actions are happening. What do you think, Bluesky?

Energy Dept's own numbers say today's rollback would raise fuel costs by 76c/gal EPA head Lee Zeldin said today's rollback will save you money, but even Trump's Energy Department knows that's a lie.

Chief Saboteur of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, just announced his intent to raise fuel prices by $.76/gal, to benefit the oil industry who gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to get him into his current position.

Article is from May. Just reminding everyone that we all knew how stupid these ideas were months ago, and yet, the stupid party still did stupid this week

Republicans won't defeat EVs - but in fighting them, may kill US auto industry The republican party is futilely fighting to defeat a superior technology. It won't work - but it will diminish the US globally.

republicans signed the death warrant for the US auto industry this week, with the passage of a bill that kills 2 million US EV jobs.

They won't kill EVs as a whole, which will continue to grow, but they will harm this country's manufacturing base, and benefit China.

electrek.co/2025/05/24/r...

Congress votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs The bill increases the deficit by $3.3T with giveaways to elites, and kills credits that led to millions of jobs and lower energy costs.

Republicans have voted to send 2 million US jobs to China, and to inflate your fuel, energy and healthcare costs.

electrek.co/2025/07/03/s...

Whoopsie! Uh oh! Oh my! Here's all the goofs and gaffes by Tesla Robotaxi so far Tesla's Robotaxi launched in Austin, TX this weekend. With most interactions being filmed or streamed, there's a library of errors already.

I'm not a self-driving luddite, I actually quite like autonomous vehicle tech. And there are positives to be taken from Tesla's launch.

But the growing library of errors in just a few days is troubling - especially with the cars operating in a regulatory vacuum.

It could be that they're using the door handle as an impromptu kill switch or something, but there's no way it's full operation.

YouTube video by Dave Lee I rode in Tesla's new Robotaxi - SHOCKING

They're not. You can see the monitor's hand is slack the entire time in this difficult parking situation youtu.be/FL-mDh73DAw?...

There's no need for chemtrail conspiracies here. We know Tesla has backup teleoperators, and we know their millions of cars can do a lot themselves. Just not everything

There's no secret button here - there's a "pull over" and "stop in lane" button on the main screen, which the safety monitor can press any time. They're probly just holding the door handle because they want something to do with their hands, and Teslas don't have a granny bar.