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Odd that a self-described libertarian is so eager to defend state violence. Almost like it's a fake ideology.

The West actively made itself irrelevant, with automakers, governments and media all pushing for the slowest transition possible. FT published a nonsense editorial by Jim Farley a couple weeks ago where he begged for less regulation bc the West is too far behind. Pathological idiocy and self-harm.

This is not AI art, it's a graphic we've used for many years since before Gen AI was ever a thing

EU bends to automakers' pleas to let them lose the EV race to China Europe again loosens EV targets after automaker lobbying, which will only result in further irrelevance in the face of foreign competition.

EU reducing its EV targets is a dumb idea, no matter how minor the change. Automakers are celebrating this and media is calling it a win for them, but it is in fact a loss: all it does is ensure China will be more dominant in the inevitable move towards electrification.

That's a prop 50 ad which means this would have been more than a month ago at least. Also a reasonable number of people inside in the first shot.

EV sales *still* have not fallen, cooled, slowed or slumped. Media is lying to you. After two years of headlines begging for failure, EV sales keep defying false media narratives that they are dropping, and continue to rise.

Listening in on a conference call and the *first* media question starts "With EV demand softening..." which is, of course, not true.

These are supposed to be the people informing you of things, and they can't bother to look up one number over the course of several years to find out theyre wrong.

EV sales *still* have not fallen, cooled, slowed or slumped. Media is lying to you. After two years of headlines begging for failure, EV sales keep defying false media narratives that they are dropping, and continue to rise.

I'm so tired of reading these false headlines for 2 years now. 2 new lies from Nikkei Asia this week (re: Toyota/Subaru pausing EV plans due to "slowing demand," when demand is in fact still rising) broke the camel's back, so I rewrote this article, once again, in the hope they'll all stop lying.

During the Tesla shareholder meeting, a questioner said all the people in the room are "Tesla soldiers... I mean Elon Musk soldiers," then asked about how it is to run Tesla as a public company. In response, Musk called shareholders "parasites." They cheered.

I don't think "no CEO on earth that would accept this package" is the ringing endorsement you think it is, Kimbal.

(yes, this is the actual screenshot quality from Tesla's SEC filing. No, I'm not going to twitter to take a better one)

More Trump auto job losses as GM blames 3,300 layoffs on regulatory changes GM is laying off a total of 3,300 workers at three separate manufacturing sites in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, and...

More American jobs killed and sent to China by republicans

Thanks! At first I had planned to discuss the exploitive and overwhelming marketing effort, for a company that claims not to advertise. But I just kept thinking of, and finding out, more and more ways the whole thing is ridiculous. It probably would have been better as several articles 😅

Elon says quiet part out loud: he needs $1 trillion so he can control a robot army Elon Musk, who has spent the last few years publicly advancing white supremacist ideas, just said he wants to control a robot army.

electrek.co/2025/10/22/e...

Now he's saying the quiet part out loud. "If I'm going to build this whole robot army, I want to be able to control it"

Elon Musk says Optimus will 'be an incredible surgeon' and 'imagine if everyone has access to an incredible surgeon'

Feel like having a nazi tell you that everyone will have a robot that can cut you open in their house isnt quite the utopia Elon thinks it is.

Notably, mass producing EVs didnt sound insane, robots that walk have been around for decades, and Tesla didn't build reusable rockets.

The way Tesla is marketing Elon Musk's $1 trillion stock award is straight up crazy Tesla is engaging in an all-out assault, exploiting employees and attacking shareholders to encourage retaining a bad CEO and giving him $1T.

The deeper you look into Musk's proposed $1 trillion stock award, the more ridiculous it gets

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.

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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.