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Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. I write a lot about Elon Musk. Read my latest work here: www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram… On Signal: davidingram.77

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from me: I tested the emergency phone number for companies developing AVs in Texas, and five of 17 didn't work.
NBC News article excerpt: Self-driving cars or trucks operating in Texas are supposed to have emergency phone numbers to call in case they go haywire. But in NBC News tests, some were unstaffed, disconnected or listed incorrectly.

Five of 17 companies that are working on self-driving cars or trucks in the state provided emergency numbers in their published “first responder interaction plans” that, when they were tested in late August, seemingly wouldn’t allow companies to immediately respond in emergencies.NBC News article excerpt: The five emergency lines failed in various ways. Two went to voicemail. A third rang without ever going to voicemail or anyone picking up. A fourth rang several times before a recorded message took over, saying: “I’m sorry, the person you are trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been set up yet. Please try your call again later. Goodbye.” And on the fifth, a recorded message said: “Your call cannot be completed as dialed.”
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 22h
Where is Trump's new America.gov getting its answers? Often it's from the government's well-established web portal, launched by Bill Clinton 26 years ago and maintained since by career federal workers. Credit where it's due.
excerpt from NBC News story: In responses to 34 queries about basic government-related questions, such as how to get a passport or how to get food assistance, 14 of them linked back to USA.gov.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would like to see all the best America.gov chats please
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horrific. The shooting victim was trans and had complained about anti-trans hate from within his own family.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazon is not the only retailer blocking the Muse AI app. In fact, some retailers who are supposed to be official "connectors" to Meta's Muse are hitting bot-detection tests. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... (Meta says it's a work in progress.)
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AI agents are fighting over your shopping cart: Meta’s Muse blocked by Amazon and Walmart
Meta named Walmart and other companies as Muse partners. In NBC News tests, some retailers blocked the AI product.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[Me, not using a certain app]: [The app in question, via email]: "David, your storage is running low again"
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This. AI companies' rhetoric on this is often completely unrealistic.
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The Vampire LesMak @lesleynope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The woman carrying the baby and food in the Giants game clip that went viral has written the full story of her marriage and what happened in the stands that night. If you’ve commented or shared any of the clips you also need to read and share her story themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026
“PUT THAT ICED COFFEE DOWN.”
Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, yelling about coffee
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
bloomers
NYT article excerpt: When I meet Mark Zuckerberg, currently one of the poster boys for evil tech billionaires, a man whose products are used by about 46 percent of all living people in the world and whose company has a market cap of more than a trillion dollars, he is wearing sky-blue, cable-knit shorts that look an awful lot like bloomers.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
“mark halperin” is also the most nightmarish thing you could text me
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is fun
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/09/2026
"No one on Bluesky thinks they’re interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...
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We Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All Along
Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“One day I had to pump gas”
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mark Zuckerberg is aware of the “pervert glasses” nickname
NBC story: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's aware some people are using the term "pervert glasses" to refer to his company's line of smart glasses and told NBC News chief tech analyst Joanna Stern that he plans a counteroffensive highlighting how Meta tries to deter secret recordings."I've seen the campaign," he said, referring to the nickname. "Companies like ours, we both need to substantively do the right things - which I think, in this case, we are - and we need to make sure that we're talking about it so that people know what we stand for."
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
heck of a job, Google
Google search results page. I searched for "maybe not today maybe not tomorrow" and the result was an AI overview saying that it came from an interview from some UFC fighter Google AI page. I asked it why it was citing some UFC guy instead of Casbalanca. It responded, "You are completely right..."
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't know what I expected but this is, in fact, a word-for-word quote
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welcome to the new normal of car culture. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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A Waymo Drove Into a Denver Farmers Market. Colorado Police Had No Mechanism to Ticket It.
Waymo drove into a Denver farmers market and Colorado police couldn't issue a ticket, exposing a gap in the state's AV enforcement laws.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
heck of a job, Google
Google search results page. I searched for "maybe not today maybe not tomorrow" and the result was an AI overview saying that it came from an interview from some UFC fighter Google AI page. I asked it why it was citing some UFC guy instead of Casbalanca. It responded, "You are completely right..."
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I say that distracted driving is de facto decriminalized in the US. bsky.app/profile/kenm...
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What might an AI doomsday look like? Experts have given it some thought www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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What might an AI doomsday look like? Experts have given it some thought
Researchers have worried about the increasing power of AI systems for years, but an explosion of interest has ignited old controversies about exactly how AI will cause chaos.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Serious props to the reporters on this story (they are not active on Bluesky so I'm not tagging them). We are all genuinely lucky that news illustrating what can go wrong when militaries rely on hallucination-prone LLMs got published before something worse happened.
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh no, are we going to have another cycle of takes about Bay Area cuddle parties?
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New from me
NBC News headline: Democratic group aims to recruit Al whistleblowers to run for officeNBC News article excerpt: A Democratic-aligned campaign organization,
314 Action Fund, said Wednesday it is starting a recruitment drive to persuade artificial intelligence researchers to run for political office in 2028, hoping to mobilize Al scientists, including those who have been quitting their jobs over safety concerns.
314 Action Fund President Josh Morrow said in an interview that it plans to target computer scientists, data scientists and other Al workers who could help pass meaningful regulations.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore says he was dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after Patriots owner Robert Kraft organized boycott www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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Macklemore says he was dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after Patriots owner Robert Kraft organized boycott
The rapper performed his song “Hind’s Hall” while opening for Sheeran at Metlife Stadium earlier this month, where he told the crowd, “Free Palestine.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"But despite the calls for action, it’s unlikely lawmakers will do anything before Election Day to address the dangers, even as experts say the technology’s capabilities are growing more powerful with each passing month." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Dire warnings about AI shock Congress, but action is unlikely before the election
Democrats and Republicans are proposing new regulations for artificial intelligence. But there’s no consensus, and the House has only one more workweek before Election Day.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Tesla Cybercab re-routes around railroad crossings, according to a Reddit user
Reddit post heading: “Took my first cyber cab rides” Reddit user explains why his Tesla cyber cab took so long: The 1hr 6 mins was a combination of 5 o clock traffic + reroute to avoid train track. We ended up not wanting any of that so we changed destination mid right to be dropped off in a reasonable 10 minutes to a different brewery.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The state of inflation expectations, Sept. 10, 2026: “All roads lead to the $20 Chicken McNugget” (Thank you random Redditor)
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
While Tesla promotes user generated videos showing drivers' over-reliance on FSD (Supervised) - a level 2 system - lawmakers want to know about driver monitoring systems and other systems to ensure drivers stay alert & safe. Great work by @davidingram.bsky.social - www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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House Democrat asks regulators to investigate Tesla over sleeping drivers
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., said an NBC News investigation last month about napping drivers raised concerns about the safeguards meant to ensure they are paying attention.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: House Democrat asks regulators to investigate Tesla over sleeping drivers www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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House Democrat asks regulators to investigate Tesla over sleeping drivers
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., said an NBC News investigation last month about napping drivers raised concerns about the safeguards meant to ensure they are paying attention.
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Lack of steering wheel “ Man idk
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tesla needs to hire this guy
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Tim Robinson: A Good Steering Wheel
ALT: Tim Robinson: A Good Steering Wheel
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Witty Librarian of City Of Heroes @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
even KITT has a steering wheel!!!
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Watching tech product launch videos, how many times have I heard the phrase, "This is the most advanced camera we’ve ever made"?
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
new from me
NBC News article excerpt: 

The fire department in Austin, Texas, said Tuesday that it has concerns that Tesla’s new Cybercab could block city streets because the unusual self-driving car doesn’t have a steering wheel or other traditional human controls that firefighters would use to move it in an emergency.

“The lack of driver controls, (no ‘pedals’ or steering wheel) can be problematic,” the department told NBC News in a statement, five days after Tesla began putting the vehicle into service for the first time as part of an autonomous taxi fleet in Austin.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In case you weren't reading news over the long weekend ...
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tesla has told first responders that they might need to “push” the new Cybercab out of the way in an emergency
Opening paragraph of an NBC News story: Tesla's new Cybercab may need a "push" from first responders if it stalls on the road because the vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals that would let an officer drive it out of the way, according to a safety plan filed with Texas officials.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The music is perfect
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fascinating paper that makes the case that part of the cost of living crisis has been caused by the surge in automobile ownership rates among formerly carless households, who used pandemic aid to buy cars so they could come to work amid the transit shutdowns -- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
the dashcam video is going to be off the hook.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have reached out to SEGA for comment about the White House using its brand and IP to promote ICE abuse of immigrants in its new video game arcade. I’ll report what I hear from SEGA. www.cartoonbrew.com/politics/whi...
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White House Launches Racist Deportation Video Games
The White House has launched five crudely made browser games, including two that use age-old racist imagery and language to promote its anti-immigration agenda.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tesla has told first responders that they might need to “push” the new Cybercab out of the way in an emergency
Opening paragraph of an NBC News story: Tesla's new Cybercab may need a "push" from first responders if it stalls on the road because the vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals that would let an officer drive it out of the way, according to a safety plan filed with Texas officials.
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Wiki Workers United @wikiworkersunited.org · 04/09/2026
WE DID IT ✊ WMF US workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now and with future organizing efforts across WMF's 🌍 workforce
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Controversial take: they’re all tweets. Even this one.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
wrinkled sausage
Headline from the NY Post: Burning Man has become a wrinkled sausage fest of aging millennial men, data shows
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW today: a Minnesota federal judge is leaving in place (for now) the state's new anti-nudification law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (order denying a request for a preliminary injunction by xAI)
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Order on Motion for TRO – #54 in X.AI LLC v. Ellison (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-03425) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER: xAI's motion for preliminary injunction (Doc. No. 11 ) is respectfully DENIED. [See order for further details.] (Written Opinion) Signed by Judge Donovan W. Frank on 9/4/...
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, this is unusual: Tesla is scheduled to have a Cybercab event right now in Austin, Texas, but they haven't provided any kind of livestream link and thousands of Tesla fans who aren't in Austin are feeling locked out.
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