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If you use Firefox, and weren't aware, there's now AI stuff baked in.

'Remove chatbot' gets rid of it, but no doubt it's lurking under the hood somewhere.

It's quite mad how the tech companies force this stuff on us when nobody has asked for it.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Even back then, the quickest way to get under Musk's skin was to imply he wasn't cool

#AccountabilityIsComing

This has been a consistent finding of studies going back pre-pandemic, IIRC. Ridehail slightly increased car ownership & VMT in metros. Same for the growth of delivery services by Uber et al.

As Glenn Mercer points, out deriving this from US gov stats isn't easy as Uber is ~noise (~1%) aggregate.

What would really unlock the Epstein scandal is finding out why Acosta cut that insane plea deal.

Epstein plead to soliciting a minor. Which is bad. But not nearly as bad as what he was doing. And so the world acted accordingly. Some times in ignorance, some times with greed and cynicism.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said

He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"

So what you're saying is that Starship development costs are somewhere in the range of US$27-45B?

I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human. 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

New @bryantws.bsky.social paper on the legalities of Tesla's "Full Self-Driving"

papers.ssrn.com/abstract=563...

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

I don't think he ever really tried. SpaceX openly bought SolarCity bonds back in the day.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

European company cars typically come with a fuel card, so people were actually incentivised not to charge.

Those were European studies where a large fraction of the PHEV customer base are companies seeking a tax benefit from buying the car but not installing any chargers because there's no tax incentive for that.

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

I do think it's important to remark that Waymo is settling a LOT of cases with NDAs, especially irt bikers. It has a lot of trouble with people on bikes.

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

In Europe, the relevant group is the ACEA. In North America, it's the AAI.

Hyundai haven't been as vocal, but their strategy is almost identical to Toyota's. Electrification targets focussing on hybrids with no specific BEV goals and ongoing FCEV development.

All of them. Whenever BEV mandates are up for debate, you'll find submissions from a local automotive industry lobby group with Hyundai as a signatory. Toyota usually gets the headlines but all manufacturers are lobbying against BEV mandates.

Toyota ProAce Verso. Not a lot of Toyota DNA in that vehicle, it's a Stellantis van with a Toyota badge.

Some of those are actually in production. Are you an American who thinks Toyota's only BEV is the bZ4X?

They do, actually. Hyundai is one of the companies lobbying against BEV mandates.

Toyota is apparently developing a BEV Previa for release in 2026. The US market won't get it but it's coming

I'll settle for not breaking Excel

Waymo have only superficially been the good actor in a rotten industry. The emphasis on blaming other drivers for their incidents has always demonstrated their shallow understanding of safety engineering.

The MBA course really needs to be updated to include a unit on how wrong and/or illegal McKinsey advice always turns out to be.

Same McKinsey that claim car companies are going to make BILLIONS from subscriptions and connected car features.

GM (amongst others) believed it so much they've stated, to shareholders, it'll be worth $25BN by 2030.

Unfortunately, they all forgot we own a device called a "phone".