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e.w. niedermeyer

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cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
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S&P500 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com
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  • S&P Dow Jones upheld all three entry rules: 12-month seasoning, four profitable GAAP quarters, and a 10% public float minimum.
  • SpaceX reported a $4.94 billion net loss in 2025, barring S&P 500 inclusion until at least mid-2027.
  • Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the three companies collectively miss roughly $27 billion in forced passive fund buying.
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nobody anywhere can have a stupid idea without Elon Musk needing to make a half-assed version of it www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...

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france really said ceci n'est pas un full self-driving www.reuters.com/business/fra...

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regular reminder to read @wired.com's incredible piece about the 2018 Uber AV crash that killed Elaine Herzberg www.wired.com/story/uber-s...

‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy wired.com
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  • An Uber self-driving Volvo killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe in March 2018, the world's first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car.
  • The car's system detected an object 5.6 seconds before impact and kept reclassifying it as vehicle, 'other,' and bicycle without alerting the operator.
  • Operator Rafaela Vasquez pleaded guilty to endangerment and received three years' supervised probation; prosecutors filed no criminal charges against Uber.
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SpaceX shareholders are already being diluted, as the company registers another $60 billion worth of equity to pay for its acquisition of the vibe coding startup Cursor www.wsj.com/business/spa...

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Tesla's "driver assistance system" no longer allows the driver to do things like set top speed. You just turn it on and let it make whatever deranged decisions it feels like making. Grok knows best. Turns out this isn't actually popular, even with hardcore fans. www.reddit.com…

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there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view

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we were promised flying cars, and we got pervert glasses and generative CSAM

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started scrolling instagram again after a long break, and one of my favorite phenomena is the "we're listening and learning and trying to do better about posting AI slop" posts

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