Kevin Chau

It's time for an updated gear list for the @cybertruck. Will try an encompass everything this time. Many of these things are not vehicle specific and will work for Rivian folks too! Winter focus: "Not Chains": amzn.to/4b2lA1V (Autosocks in the correct size) Chains: shop.tesla.com/product/cybert… Shovel you can actually break ice with: amzn.to/498eIO5 Offroading: Tire deflators: amzn.to/3LBzMEw + amzn.to/3LBzMEw Multi tire inflator kit: amzn.to/49b3yrU Inflator adapter: amzn.to/48TKxvd Tire inflator: amzn.to/3NhPdCs Flat tire stuff: Sidewall patch kit: amzn.to/48QXq9i Plug kit: amzn.to/3MK3FmP Jack: harborfreight.com/3-ton-off-road… (and/or get a spare) Recovery gear: Recovery Boards amzn.to/44F72l8 or amzn.to/3LeeRaK Recovery board MOLLE mounts: amzn.to/44DomHa Soft shackles: amzn.to/498461v Shackle block: amzn.to/3YH7uvs (DO NOT use a tow ball) Tow strap: amzn.to/4qoZg76 Dynamic rope: amzn.to/4q1gdFa Tree saver: amzn.to/49rQ5Ny Comms: Rocky Talkies: 5W: amzn.to/3KXD9FX or 2W: amzn.to/49qwn4K Cleaning: Mud wash: amzn.to/3N2KEMl Did I miss anything? @ogre_codes @DaveMattson @ChadMoran @Clifford98506 @spyderms @affinity892 @kaosresolved @scottbuscemi @KarenWhitworth @DomDoesMedia Winch build list coming later.

@Tim_Walz GOOD

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

When can we do asset Roth conversions @RobinhoodApp @vladtenev ?

@BeatGreatFilter This is more for the CLI

@kchau They already have Claude Dispatch, I don't see how this is any better...

Claude just one-shotted OpenAI's OpenClaw acquisition

@BeatGreatFilter I think the grok model is good. But they need to unleash the thing. Opus 4.6 is quite good, sonnet sucks and haiku is the village idiot. Where their strength lies is in the tools encapsulating the models. desktop, Cowork, code, CLI.

@kchau Yeah it's going to be hard for anyone to catch up.

I don't know what xAI plans to do to compete with Claude Code, but the bar gets higher every day.

We need a new term like “sherlocked” for what Anthropic just did to OpenAI’s acquisition of OpenClaw.

If you are still running an OpenClaw bot and paying per token or using a shitty model, you're doing it wrong.

You know when you are utilizing Claude in a novel and high IQ way when it feels illegal.

Just remember. If you think you are utilizing AI to its potential, there is someone doing something crazier than you are.

@mattvanswol Dude I kept reading hoping the next thing would be lawyers involved. Clear case on suing the school.

🚨#BREAKING: A South Carolina mother just shared one of the most disturbing school gender transition stories I've read in a long time. Her 14-year-old son attended Beech Springs Middle School in Spartanburg SC. For OVER A YEAR, he was changing into girls' clothing at school, and changing back before his mom picked him up. It was apparently a daily operation, coordinating with another student to bring the clothes, multiple bathroom trips, and deliberate concealment from his parents every single day. Multiple staff members at school had to have seen this. You don't pull off daily clothing changes in a middle school without teachers noticing. But NOBODY called home to tell his parents. Nobody except one teacher. One teacher the previous year did her job, she noticed, she called the mom, and she followed South Carolina law H.4624, which explicitly requires school staff to notify parents when a student expresses gender identity confusion. That call is the only reason the family found out at all. They got their son into gender-related counseling over the summer of 2025. They were engaged, they were involved, they were actively trying to help their kid navigate something difficult. Then the school went silent again. The pattern continued into the next school year and nobody said a word. Fast forward to February 2026. The mom gets her son's hair cut. He cries in class. His teacher sits with him for 10 minutes while he tells her everything, that he wants long hair like a girl, that his parents won't affirm his gender identity, all of it. Again, South Carolina law H.4624 exists for exactly this moment. When a student expresses gender identity distress to a school employee, the law says the school SHALL notify the parents. But the teacher didn't call the mom. She called DSS. That same day, February 13, 2026, she filed a child protective services report against this family for "medical neglect..." Medical neglect because A) the boy allegedly coughed up blood and wasn't receiving care. B) Mental injury because the parents won't affirm a gender transition. And... I'm not even kidding C) making him do "manly chores." The mom asked her son what that meant. He said "cutting the grass." DSS showed up at their home on Valentine's Day weekend. Two days later, the family took their son and got a chest x-ray. His lungs were completely clear. He never coughed up blood. The allegation was fabricated. On February 19th, five days after the report was filed, DSS closed the case. Unfounded. No evidence of medical neglect. No evidence of mental injury. Nothing. So just to recap... A teacher had a 10-minute conversation with a 14-year-old, decided his parents' refusal to affirm a gender transition constituted child abuse, invented or wildly exaggerated a medical claim to make the report actionable, violated state law by never calling the parents, and weaponized DSS on a family over Valentine's Day weekend. And the school's response? The principal wrote back defending the teacher. Called the DSS report "appropriate based on medical neglect suspicion." The report that was closed completely unfounded in five days. The report based on a medical claim that was disproven with a chest x-ray. That report. Appropriate The principal also mentioned that staff had received "gender identity training" and that the school followed "applicable South Carolina statutes." But the H.4624 violation, the actual law that was actually broken, was never addressed. Not once. The superintendent promised a full investigation by a Chief Administrative Officer. Instead, the principal, the direct supervisor of the teacher in question, provided the only written response, and used it to defend her own employee. This school watched a student secretly change genders during the school day for over a year and chose not to tell his mother. That's not an accident. You don't miss daily clothing changes in a middle school. They saw it. They allowed it. They made a decision, collectively and repeatedly, that the parents didn't need to know. Then when that same family's values came up in a conversation, the response wasn't to pick up the phone and call mom like the law requires. The response was to report them for child abuse. The silence for a year and the DSS report aren't two separate events. They're the same event. They both reflect the same institutional decision: we know better than these parents, and we will act accordingly, whether that means hiding things from them or weaponizing the state against them. This family did everything right. They got their son counseling. They stayed engaged. They were present. They got a chest x-ray to disprove a fabricated allegation. DSS came into their home, looked at how they parent, and walked out five days later with literally nothing. But the school is STILL calling it appropriate. The mom has filed complaints with both the school and the South Carolina Department of Education. The school defended the teacher. The state has been silent for over a month. Her son is now homeschooled, by the way and she says he's thriving. The school literally weaponized the state against a family for cutting their son's hair. Let that sink in.

@PlugLyfOfficial @DavidMoss are you on all seasons or something?

@kchau @DavidMoss 26 Silverado EV Trail Boss Max Range. Max Range has the 205kWh battery. Extended Range is the 170kWh battery.

Do you think this will be the next EV to get canceled? Just spotted this Chevy Silverado EV backing up for a charge while I was leaving Kuttawa, KY on my way to Chattanooga Also Tesla did a great thing by opening up their supercharging network!

@PlugLyfOfficial @DavidMoss which version are you on? TIL they make <200kwh versions

@kchau @DavidMoss Overall I'm around 2.1 mi/kWh when driving (not towing), which is 476 Wh/mi. Still cheaper than a Prius to drive, uses less energy than a Prius, and not much worse efficiency than my Model Y that weighs half as much. 🤷‍♂️

@PlugLyfOfficial @DavidMoss best case scenario vs every scenario

@kchau @DavidMoss I can get almost 3 mi/kWh in town in my Silverado EV Trail Boss Max Range when it's nice and warm out. That's 333 Wh/mi for a 4 ton vehicle. Seems pretty efficient to me considering the lifetime efficiency in my '25 Model Y Performance is 332 Wh/mi and it weighs half as much!

This is probably one of the coolest FSD construction zone counters I’ve seen.

@ChadMoran Mazda had the best red until the latest Tesla red - now they are pretty much equal

@kchau Truly special. Gets my attention every time.

Two of the best reds in the car world right here. Bro might have a thing for red cars, idk

@scottbuscemi agree

@kchau Might not even be over the tow weight limit for the Y