Eric

Just as we've made the tax code virtually impossible to comply with unassisted so have lawyers made the legal landscape untenable without their "assistance". Bring it all back to something an average adult can navigate unassisted!

8 more working days and I’ll be a man of leisure. 😎

@IanRunkle How many time do we have to repeat it. Registration leads, inevitably, to confiscation.

They're not paying anyone. They're just collecting your data. The plan has always been to collect a list of who has these guns, and then say "Well, fuck you, we're not paying you, but now that we know you have it you have to give it up".

Sure the USB is in. I checked.

@teslascope @GravityAnalyti1 Whaam Baam has shown stories before, holding down the accelerator around a curve can disengage FSD and it's counted as a manual disengagement.

We review cases like this all the time, and our entire career is spent managing and studying data from these vehicles through our platform (when either consented by vehicle owners or in de-identified form). Multiple test drives have been taken within the past 24 hours at this location on both the latest and older FSD lane assist stacks (including older than the one installed in this incident). In both cases, the vehicle traveled at a slower speed (35-49mph) than in the incident (54-68mph at the 4-second prior mark). This implies that the driver was pressing down on the accelerator, forcing the vehicle to accelerate faster than it would normally. This action does not deactivate lane assist/FSD, but the system treats it as a manual override (as it is). Given the speed of travel, the turn ahead and posted speed signs (and that the vehicle was traveling at 3-4x the posted speed), this all supports the narrative that the driver was not paying attention to the road and was potentially driving recklessly. If the vehicle was operating normally and at its own suggested speed, it would have likely handled the corner turn with ease, as has been tested on the same vehicle, as well as other models. All speculative, all an opinion of course.

Looks to me like the driver realized the truck was going way to fast for the curve and tried to take control from the lane assist system but it was too late to avoid the accident. Four seconds before the crash the truck was traveling far too fast for that corner. This guy has 7 name changes as well.

@briandstone We just switched and it is cheaper, only 10k/year for 2 cars. The other company just jacked rates and it would have been $15k/year.

@CurlyRunnerEric Give Progressive a try since you live in FL. They had a major price reduction and their quotes have been insanely cheap.

Why in the world is Consumer Reports quoting these insane, unrealistic insurance rates for Teslas? I’ve never heard of anyone paying $400/mo to insure a Model 3.

@GunWashington When public officials sue a private citizen over speech concerning the official's official conduct, they waive immunity for claims arising from that same conduct. This would prevent the officials from exploiting the systematic asymmetry that prevented Afroman from counter suing.

One of the craziest cases ever.

@JessePeltan China needs independence from the oil supply chain and they are investing to get there.

If you’re not going to go to China, just open up Google Earth. China is building more solar and wind than the rest of the world *combined* and you can literally see it from space.

I want whatever the FOMC is smokin'

Wait. I've seen this one before.

@TechOperator If you got an em dash from me it was because the tone of my email needed some assistance to be professional.

As I exit the corporate world, I won’t miss the constant posturing and people trying to convince everyone else how intelligent they are. It’s been especially fun with AI and those not smart enough to remove the telltale “—“ from their AI generated responses. 🤣

@99_Colorado No way it was FSD

I just saw this on the Facebook, from Fox News. I have no idea if it’s true, I have no idea if it’s all over X, I just know that I saw it and the lady is saying FSD in her Cybertruck, rammed her into guard wall, and almost over it with her kid in the car. If she was on FSD, I’d be surprised, but things do happen so there is that.

@MattWalshBlog We would rather spend millions of dollars housings, feeding, and protecting her rights for the next 40 years rather than spending that money on people that didn't murder their husband in cold blood.

There is no good moral reason why she should not simply be taken outside the morning after her conviction and hanged. This woman has lost her right to exist.

@CyberMikeOG @FoxNews That could also be the issue, if she depressed the accelerator that can disengage FSD. Whaam baam had a case where they just presumed FSD would keep engaged when they mashed the pedal around a curve and went right into the corner of a building.

@FoxNews That don’t look like FSD to me. The safety mechanisms built into FSD don’t head into turns at that speed.

'TERRIFYING': Dashcam video shows the moment a Tesla Cybertruck, allegedly operating in self-driving mode, nearly sent a Houston mom and her infant off a bridge before violently crashing into an overpass barrier. The woman claims she suffered multiple injuries from the incident and is now suing the automaker for $1 million.

@alltheputs Even for cases where it may make sense people have to watch out for the cost bomb. Right now those tokens are heavily subsidized by everyone. When they finally hit the market at "full retail price" a lot of people will have sticker shock.

AI Looks Smart Until You Check the Scoreboard The authors set out to warn managers away from trusting GenAI for critical decisions, a reasonable and defensible goal. But the rhetorical strategy underneath that goal is to make the accuracy problem look like a fundamental cognitive flaw baked into how language models reason, rather than a calibration problem against a rigged test set. Framing it as an architecture defect is far more alarming, far more publishable, and far more useful for generating the kind of press-ready headline that gets a business school paper cited outside of academia. The trick is quiet and effective. They measure ChatGPT accuracy against hypotheses pulled from published journals, then act shocked when the model gets nulls wrong 83 percent of the time. What they skip mentioning prominently is that published journals suppress null results by design, so the null subset is a bizarre, unrepresentative survivor group. Testing a model trained on internet text against the rarest, weirdest nulls in academia, then calling the resulting gap a confirmation bias, is roughly as fair as timing Usain Bolt in flip flops and publishing that humans are slow. The consistency finding, which actually holds up, gets buried under the flashier accuracy narrative. The real story, that identical prompts produce different answers more than a quarter of the time, needed no ground truth labels, no publication bias, and no circular benchmarking to demonstrate. It stands on its own and is genuinely useful to practitioners. Instead, four researchers from four universities led with the weakest, most distorted number in their own dataset, because 16.4 percent sounds catastrophic and catastrophe moves copies of the Rutgers Business Review. Citations Cicek M, Ulu S, Uslay C, Karniouchina K. Unstable Intelligence: GenAI Struggles with Accuracy and Consistency. Rutgers Business Review. 2025;10(2):266-277. rbr.business.rutgers.edu/article/unstab…

@JessePeltan Can you believe we're just a few years short of 50 years since the Pino was officially recalled?

Ford Pinto on steroids.

@IanRunkle @defense_diaries Ooof... less than 3 hours.

@defense_diaries Oh, I am certain it landed with the jury. Specifically, it landed like a grenade in Kouri Richins' lap. It was a really stupid play, and it got them absolutely dunked on because they couldn't deliver on it. That cross should have been like two minutes.

Also, I feel like the PI from the Kouri Richins trial probably had a bucket list moment yesterday. He gets to walk in, be like "Yeah, I fucking dunked on the cops. I solved this shit." He then proceeds to commit a murder of his own (Nester) and walk out.

@TechOperator I've got a few more months before the golden handcuffs are gone.

Resignation letter written. Resolve firm. Tomorrow I act. No job is worth your health or family.

@TheICHpodcast At least he's admitting that it's little more than banal entertainment at this point. I ended up asking YT to stop recommending the videos since it was just a waste of time, nothing of value.

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