So Tesla stopped paying for referrals that require selling a car, and started paying for the ones that move the number in Musk’s pay package. We think that tells you a lot about where the company’s priorities are right now. https://electrek.co/2026/10/30/tesla-referral-program-fsd-car-rewards-dropped/
The vision-only case always rested on a tidy idea: humans drive with two eyes, so cameras and enough AI should do the job. But humans crash in fog and glare too, and the promise was always to be far safer than humans, not just as good. https://electrek.co/2026/10/29/ex-tesla-autopilot-head-vision-only-weird-religious-stance/
The most important consequence of the agricultural revolution was not that farming became more efficient. It was that most people were liberated from the necessity of farming, allowing entirely new kinds of economic and cultural life to emerge. Likewise, the most important consequence of the AI revolution may not be that intelligence production becomes more…
Cal Newport does a good job of covering why Silicon Valley is broken…
Linking the MMR vaccine with autism and linking HRT with cancer. Because of those two things there has been a generation of women who have lived their lives in fear, doubt and physical/mental misery. Here’s the latest about the MMR vaccine https://www.psypost.org/study-of-2-5-million-children-finds-no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/
Simeon Brown is just the latest ghoul to try and drive our health system further into the ground so he and his mates can privatize it all. “On a day to day basis it looked like our son screaming and writhing in pain and us calling for our nurse and her wanting to come straight…
… these days:a) you get what you deserveb) you need your head read Musk weighed in on Trump’s comments on social media Saturday, writing: “Zelensky has gone too far.” https://newrepublic.com/post/216600/ukraine-loses-starlink-access-musk-zelenskiy-too-far This has way more to do with the fact that Musk’s twitter trumpet had a muffler jammed down the throat just as he was trying…
… and attack one another: “Yesterday’s OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us,” Ethereum researcher Justin Drake tweeted this week. “They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen.” https://futurism.com/future-society/crypto-gurus-concerned-ai-crack-wallets I’ll put aside the general wiffiness of OpenAI and…
I’m sorry but Meta has long passed the line of moral shithole. They make money from child abuse. The videos we identified aren’t the only AI-generated nightmares on Meta’s platforms. Last month, Wired reported that the company had allowed hundreds of advertisements that included overtly sexual material of real children. Add it all up, and…
Mr Doctorow nails it…
Billionaires A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that across the 11 states sampled, Amazon, the country’s largest company by revenue, has 12,346 workers on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and 11,338 relying on Medicaid. That was nearly triple the number of Amazon employees in need of federal assistance compared to 2020, when…
Anglo-futurism is only an aesthetic cover-up for a bleak amoral future.
It’s the FSD playbook again. Sell the promise of future income, collect the money up front, and let the buyer hold the bag when the economics don’t materialize. https://electrek.co/2026/09/07/tesla-cybercab-fleet-profitable-wouldnt-sell/
… stop writing fucking manifestos and work on creating magic. It’s like that drivel that Marc Andreessen sharts out. Just stop it guys… it just shows how fucking dumb you really are.
Why is it that Mike Skinner *still* looks like he’s f**king 16 years old??? That dude has a scary painting in his attic. Tonight the wind is following your commandIs it the Arabian aromas?Or maybe it’s the takeaway I adore that mans way with words.