Zaxxon
@zaxxon.bsky.social
The guy, not the game. Well-meaning, but confused.
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Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots
Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots
So long!
buff.ly
It’s a sad day. I remember test-driving the S back in 2012. It was so clearly the future.
Invested later that year. Got a Leaf a few years after that. Then a 3 in 2018, an Z in 2019. Amazing cars. But Tesla has, IMO, lost the plot.
Autonomy is a goal worth pursuing, as is AI/robotics. But…
Invested later that year. Got a Leaf a few years after that. Then a 3 in 2018, an Z in 2019. Amazing cars. But Tesla has, IMO, lost the plot.
Autonomy is a goal worth pursuing, as is AI/robotics. But…
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I've known this was coming for years, but it's still gutting to see it. Of all the bullshit that's come from Trump and this regime, this is among the bullshittiest. Just devastatingly evil and corrupt.
By repealing the EPA regulation that underpins all US regulation of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is sacrificing our global climate so that fossil fuel companies can make even greater profits.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate
The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I've known this was coming for years, but it's still gutting to see it. Of all the bullshit that's come from Trump and this regime, this is among the bullshittiest. Just devastatingly evil and corrupt.
What with all the doom-and-gloom surrounding, well, most everything lately, I’m here to report that vibe-coding using Claude has been a genuinely enjoyable experience for this graybeard with a dormant-for-25-years comp sci degree.
Having a largely-competent pair programming partner really
Having a largely-competent pair programming partner really
February 13, 2026 at 6:27 AM
What with all the doom-and-gloom surrounding, well, most everything lately, I’m here to report that vibe-coding using Claude has been a genuinely enjoyable experience for this graybeard with a dormant-for-25-years comp sci degree.
Having a largely-competent pair programming partner really
Having a largely-competent pair programming partner really
When you put it that way…
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
What a moment.
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 AM
When you put it that way…
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Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish.
www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
Actually, lots of people understood Bad Bunny
43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish, even if there aren't any at the White House.
www.pbump.net
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish.
www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
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The ending to Bad Bunny's halftime show:
"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"
"Together, we are America"
"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"
"Together, we are America"
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
The ending to Bad Bunny's halftime show:
"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"
"Together, we are America"
"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"
"Together, we are America"
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Co-sign.
As a late-middle-aged suburban white guy I am probably not Bad Bunny’s target audience. Hadn’t heard him before. Liked it. Wasn’t, like, I’m going to stop listening to opera and Bon Jovi and the Cars and stuff and but I would definitely listen again, and I can’t see how anyone would DISLIKE it.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Co-sign.
Commercial hadn’t even ended and my 8th-grader was telling me how she didn’t think the ad conveyed the message they were shooting for…
The ring search party feature ain’t nothing but surveillance under the guise of being used for pets. it will be used for people
February 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Commercial hadn’t even ended and my 8th-grader was telling me how she didn’t think the ad conveyed the message they were shooting for…
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This is the message MAGA is protesting.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This is the message MAGA is protesting.
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
I mean, that’s not a side-effect: it’s *the point.*
The argument that people having rights makes law enforcement more difficult is not remotely convincing.
Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases:
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I mean, that’s not a side-effect: it’s *the point.*
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It's about hierarchy. "Beauty" is subjective, the idea of a black woman portraying the most beautiful woman in the world offends them because white people are supposed to be the most beautiful and it is therefore offensive, it's so straightforwardly racist bsky.app/profile/radl...
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
It's about hierarchy. "Beauty" is subjective, the idea of a black woman portraying the most beautiful woman in the world offends them because white people are supposed to be the most beautiful and it is therefore offensive, it's so straightforwardly racist bsky.app/profile/radl...
It’s a sad day. I remember test-driving the S back in 2012. It was so clearly the future.
Invested later that year. Got a Leaf a few years after that. Then a 3 in 2018, an Z in 2019. Amazing cars. But Tesla has, IMO, lost the plot.
Autonomy is a goal worth pursuing, as is AI/robotics. But…
Invested later that year. Got a Leaf a few years after that. Then a 3 in 2018, an Z in 2019. Amazing cars. But Tesla has, IMO, lost the plot.
Autonomy is a goal worth pursuing, as is AI/robotics. But…
Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots
Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots
So long!
buff.ly
January 29, 2026 at 4:29 AM
It’s a sad day. I remember test-driving the S back in 2012. It was so clearly the future.
Invested later that year. Got a Leaf a few years after that. Then a 3 in 2018, an Z in 2019. Amazing cars. But Tesla has, IMO, lost the plot.
Autonomy is a goal worth pursuing, as is AI/robotics. But…
Invested later that year. Got a Leaf a few years after that. Then a 3 in 2018, an Z in 2019. Amazing cars. But Tesla has, IMO, lost the plot.
Autonomy is a goal worth pursuing, as is AI/robotics. But…
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Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
January 28, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
@mmasnick.bsky.social:
“The thing that seems to have broken the MAGA brain is that even people who might have supported targeted enforcement of immigration law looked around at what was actually happening … and said “no.” Not because they’d been radicalized … because they have eyes and consciences.”
“The thing that seems to have broken the MAGA brain is that even people who might have supported targeted enforcement of immigration law looked around at what was actually happening … and said “no.” Not because they’d been radicalized … because they have eyes and consciences.”
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
@mmasnick.bsky.social:
“The thing that seems to have broken the MAGA brain is that even people who might have supported targeted enforcement of immigration law looked around at what was actually happening … and said “no.” Not because they’d been radicalized … because they have eyes and consciences.”
“The thing that seems to have broken the MAGA brain is that even people who might have supported targeted enforcement of immigration law looked around at what was actually happening … and said “no.” Not because they’d been radicalized … because they have eyes and consciences.”
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
How majestic must it feel to have a triple-digit follower count?
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 AM
How majestic must it feel to have a triple-digit follower count?
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.“
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.“
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I will give CBS this much: It takes some balls as a news organization in this era to call out the big problem as too much expertise.
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I will give CBS this much: It takes some balls as a news organization in this era to call out the big problem as too much expertise.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.
It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.
It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social generally speaking, is it a good idea to figure out your legal excuse for a completely unforced, premeditated homicide *after* said homicide?
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out:
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
@kenwhite.bsky.social generally speaking, is it a good idea to figure out your legal excuse for a completely unforced, premeditated homicide *after* said homicide?
Another good overview of why Kagi is worth a gander. Still a happily-paying customer here.
Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi
Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.
arstechnica.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Another good overview of why Kagi is worth a gander. Still a happily-paying customer here.
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oh
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
oh