there's a gang of criminals running rampant, and there's no sheriff in sight
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h agoThat's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.
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cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h agoI have never been so excited for a costume that will require so little effort
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 22h agosome personal news
profoundly embarrassed by my emotional reaction to a comic with a cover that includes the message "BRAND NEW FORMAT! SPECIAL PRICE!"
feels like I shouldn't even have to say this, but if someone says "holy shit, something I worked on may well be caught and killed by the oligarch it's critical of," responding with "that's cool, I'll just steal it" isn't exactly a statement of heartwarming solidarity
Let me just consult The Good Book...
studying bookstore event pages for hints on how to cultivate more "don't you dare even think of wasting my time, loser" energy
Scoop: Multiple Zoox test drivers in Atlanta -- as many as 40, though Zoox says fewer -- spent August reporting toxic gas exposure symptoms. OSHA opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate. Still unclear exactly what made them sick. More on @techcrunch.com ⤵️ techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/z...
Exclusive: Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report toxic gas exposure symptoms
The Amazon-owned company launched an investigation after a worker submitted an OSHA complaint.
techcrunch.com
What are they putting in the water at NHTSA? It's like they're suddenly waking up and remembering that they are, in fact, a regulatory agency!
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 20h agoAfter multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09...
that's crazy because another man named David Ellison wrote this just over a month ago.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h agoWelp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Guys I keep telling you all about The Plot to Enslave America and people treat it like its some conspiracy theory or something when it's all happening right out there in the open.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 22h ago🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
The worst people in the world are gonna control what movies get made 🥲
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
Semafor@semafor.com · 22h ago🟡 SCOOP: Paramount executives have discussed asking Elon Musk for an equity investment as it looks to firm up its financial picture to digest Warner Bros. Discovery. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
I hope you're sitting down, ma'am, because I have some shocking news about your royal family
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h agoThe British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position
"MUSK" and "You Can See Everything" are this fall's Barbenheimer
Excellent @himself.bsky.social post here, scratching at some of the overbearing tendencies — sometimes subtle and unintentional, sometimes open — in AI discourse www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
programmablemutter.com
I am so excited for this movie I almost can't breathe youtu.be/HvW_N5p1q44
You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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people have been dying in "driver assistance" systems that are designed more to look like they're self-driving than to actually assist the driver for a decade now, and the New York Times is ON IT www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/b...
As Computers Take the Driver’s Seat, Experts Worry About Safety
Self-driving systems are getting so good that drivers may overestimate the technology and not be prepared to respond when something goes wrong.
nytimes.com
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
it's so important to teach the next generation of leaders that introspection is fake and gay and invented by the libs to make great men feel sad
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2d agoa16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Calling an ADAS lane assist feature “autopilot” is a clear case of consumer fraud and I’d love to see Tesla prosecuted for it.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2d agoinvestigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes
tell me, what kind of pronouns should we use for Artificial/Superior Intelligence that Makes America Great Again?
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2d agoSuperintelligence != Super Intelligence
