Bob Davies (N-Train)

@cybrtrkguy That car accelerated once you opened a gap for him to pull into. It was an impatient driver trying to force other drivers to react and you fell for it.

Curious your thoughts on this one. FSD did not react at all to vehicles squealing their tires and swerving out of the way. This is a pinch point in the highway where two lanes merge. I mashed the brakes to avoid being involved in the mess, which allowed another driver to use my spot to avoid a potential rear ending. I saw folks slamming the brakes far earlier than I pressed the brakes and waited for FSD to react. It did not.

@cb_doge It is a problem when films are made to a formula, because they loose their creativity.

David Rubin served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022. In 2020, under his leadership, the Academy launched the “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for Best Picture eligibility. These rules, still in effect, require films to meet at least 2 of 4 diversity criteria involving race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in on-screen roles, creative leadership, or crew. Rubin publicly backed the changes and helped appoint the task force co-led by producer DeVon Franklin. He shifted the Oscars from “best movie wins” to race/gender engineering. A film can now be ineligible for the top prize purely for failing demographic quotas, regardless of quality or audience impact. Instead of focusing purely on talent and storytelling, the Academy under Rubin institutionalized identity preferences. Oscars prestige and viewership have tanked. Many see it as performative politics over art. Classics with non-diverse casts would be disqualified. He helped install the DEI machinery that turned awards into checkboxes and accelerated Hollywood’s quality decline.

@colder_sarcasm Were they 'actors', paid to join reform just to make up the numbers. Having no loyalty to reform, they jump ship ASAP??????

Another 2 gone in Durham.

@JeebsTX I thought slavery had been abolished

Tech companies are really trying to sell us on the "Home Robot" era, but I am respectfully opting out. Call me paranoid, but paying top dollar for a 24/7 mobile surveillance unit to wander around my house feels way less like *The Jetsons* and a lot more like *The Hunger Games*. lol I’m all for pushing the limits of AI and automation, but I draw the line at a Capitol-style Peacekeeper watching my every move in my own living room. I am not volunteering as tribute just so a machine can fold my laundry. I'll sweep my own floors, thanks. lol Don't get me wrong: I am 100% pro-robot. Put them in factories, let them run warehouses, and automate business services all day long. Let the robots optimize the supply chain, but my home is off-limits. lol Your thoughts!

@BernieSanders Where is this money coming from, if he gets it. It is worth noting that Tesla is using automation without hand outs. At least I think so.

Jeff Bezos is seeking $100 billion to put robots into factories. Millions of manufacturing jobs — GONE. Driverless vehicle companies are expanding rapidly. Millions of transportation jobs — truckers, cab drivers, Uber drivers — GONE. We are not ready for what’s coming.

@RossKneeDeep I think that a female president was just too much for America. They may have given women the vote, but leading the country was too much. America is still 'male'.

When we look back on why Trump won this election, it won't be because he was a better choice. Kamala was more than qualified. She was one of the most qualified persons to run for office in a very long time. She offered Americans $25,000 towards their first home. She offered $50,000 to small businesses. She offered intelligence and critical thinking. Yet, Amerca decided to go with dimwitted criminal with 34 felony counts, a convicted sexual abuser, a fail businessman, accused of being a pedophile who tried to overthrow the government. As we look at the absolute chaos trump has caused in one year, the is was it worth it? Who's benefiting from Trump being the president? Why didn't Kamala win?

@TheDefiantGhost Are you sure it wasn't the film Black Widow. This was the back story which led to her entry into the Blacck Widow programme.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou dropped the scariest sleeper agent story you’ll ever hear. The Russians (and others) take kids basically from birth, rip them from their families, and raise them in fake American towns deep in Russia. American food, American TV, perfect American accent — the whole thing. Then they steal the identity of a dead American baby, get them a legit passport and Social Security number, and drop them into the U.S. They live normal lives for decades — travel agent, dad, neighbor, until one day they get “activated.”A coded radio message. Or a stranger whispering in their ear on the subway: “Report back… or I have to kill you.” One guy turned himself in to the FBI the second his daughter was born. He couldn’t do it anymore. This stuff is happening. How many “Americans” around you right now are actually waiting for that call?

@Jennnyyyyyy 9kg

What is the weight of Wolf? 🤔 Difficulty - Hardest 😉

@PabloReports Has any other president ever had their picture on passports

KAMLAGER DOVE on Trump putting his face on U.S. passports: "It makes me not want to have a passport because lord knows when I'm traveling I don't want to have to turn the page and everyone sees that orange turd on my passport."

@nicksortor Remember that he promised to release the Epstein files..............

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump CONFIRMS his administration will be declassifying and releasing UFO files IMMINENTLY "They said they saw things you wouldn't believe! And you're gonna be reading about it." "We're going to be releasing a lot of things from what we have, and I think some of it's going to be VERY interesting to people."

@EricLDaugh You are talking about the same person who wanted people to inject bleach to kill Covin. Probably because it says it kills 99% of all known germs on the label....

🚨 WOW! Joe Rogan reveals President Trump IMMEDIATELY offered him FDA approval for a psychedelic treatment in a text chain Because the data was SO CONVINCING and STUNNING "I wanna tell everybody how this happened. I send President Trump some information." "With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent him that information." "The text message came back, sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do it. It was literally that quick!" "For 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions. We're free of that now." "We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump!" — @joerogan

@RpsAgainstTrump You all have yourselves to blame. He won the election. It was the people who voted for him and for those who didn't vote. From an outsider view, it looks like he got in because it was too much to accept the possibility of a female president.

Trump: “A year ago, our country was an embarrassment. All over the world, they laughed at us. They don't laugh anymore”

@teslacarsonly Kit

Give this Tesla a name!

@EdKrassen It should have sent warning signs when the administration changed the Department of Defence to the Department of War. It shows intent.

Wow this is embarrassing! Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon speech and prayer session yesterday. The prayer was an adaptation of the monologue delivered by Samuel L. Jackson’s character. In the movie, the character falsely attributes it to Ezekiel 25:17 before a killing, saying: “The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”

@r0ck3t23 When I was programming on IBM AS400, I was virtually self taught . I ended up working alongside graduates and ran circles round most of them because I programmed for the real world and not to a theoretical best practice.

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the ones who never needed the assignment.

@Erdayastronaut In view of Artemis II, will they have working toilets with redundancy

Just so I don't miss anything in my deep dive on Starship HLS, let me know what questions you have BESIDES the dozen plus refilling tankers, height / tippiness of it, and using methalox as those topics are greatly covered.

@allenanalysis Maybe, no-one asked Israel. The US seems very good at negotiating terms for other countries without including them. Eg Ukraine.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Pakistan just said it directly. The ceasefire included Lebanon. Not implied. Not assumed. Not lost in translation. Included. Pakistan’s Prime Minister put it in the announcement. In writing. With U.S. involvement. And now Israel is bombing Beirut. And Vance calls it a “reasonable misunderstanding.” And Netanyahu says Lebanon was never part of the deal. Someone is lying.

@XFreeze The TV series, Persin of Interest, comes to mind. Two AIs battle things out with human agents

Elon Musk on why it's harder to control a super-intelligent AI when it achieves top intelligence: “We’re building hyper-intelligent AIs smarter than we can even comprehend” Why is controlling super-intelligent AI impossible? "It’s like raising a super-genius child that you know is going to be much smarter than you You can instill good values in how you raise that child: philanthropic values, good morals, honest, productive Controlling it at the end of the day, I don't think we'll be able to The best we can do is make sure it's raised well"

@spaceandtech_ Just reminded me of the robots in Terrahawks (Gerry Anderson) also the friendly robots ib The Black Hole (Disney)

Int-Ball is a free-flying camera robot aboard the ISS, developed by JAXA. It captures photos and videos of astronauts and sends them to mission control. It can be controlled from Earth or move on its own, helping astronauts focus on their work.

@NASAAdmin Are plans being made yo check the design of the toilet. If it did cost $30m as has been suggested, then you should be looking at warranty fixes at zero cost.

In the next 24 hours, the Artemis II crew will be on the far side of the Moon, farther into space than any humans in history. Even as they reach this historic milestone, we will continue learning a great deal about the Orion spacecraft, setting us up for Artemis III next year and America’s grand return to the lunar surface on Artemis IV in 2028.