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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wrote about a thing that happened over on a different app www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

NBC News headline: How a conspiracy theory about James Talarico raced through the right-wing internet

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bathroom selfie — good choice for a story about your death?

Screenshot of Google News search results about a guy killed by a tiger. All the stories are using a bathroom selfie to illustrate the story.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an interesting pairing of messenger and message, given the Republican Party's general hostility to plaintiffs' lawyers.

Headline from Fortune magazine: If AI is going to destroy humanity, Scott Bessent says hyperscalers, not government, must take the fall: ‘We cannot absolve you of responsibility’

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He's boosting false white genocide theories again

Screenshot from X. Musk replies "True" to post about alleged "genocide by substitution of Europeans" being "the greatest crime in the history of humanity"

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 08/09/2026

Really interested to see how this film lands

NBC article excerpt:

The logistics of the Telluride screening were highly unusual, with the festival keeping the title secret until the last possible moment, and requiring audience members to stow their phones in secure Yondr pouches to prevent their use during the screening and Q&A. As members of the press were filing into the theater, a representative for A24 handed them notebooks and pens.

Despite the secrecy, rumors of the project began to percolate at the festival over the weekend, and the line to see the film in the 650-seat Werner Herzog Theater started forming hours before showtime.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

But also it might shock you if you push it

NBC story excerpt: The plan warns that pushing a Cybercab when it is not in neutral or tow mode “can result in overheating the motor and potential risk of shock if electrical components are exposed.” It also warns that the car’s parking brake engages automatically if it is rolled faster than 5 mph or if its low-voltage battery runs down.

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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 · 03/09/2026

I guess he's not entirely focused on tomorrow's Cybercab announcement

Post from Elon Musk on X weighing in on the question, "Are Jews white?"

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh yeah, this is also affecting Uber

NBC News excerpt:

Some Uber drivers using Tesla vehicles have fallen asleep while working. Three times this year, Uber passengers have recorded their drivers appearing to slumber behind the wheel in Tesla cars, according to videos that the passengers shared on social media or with local news outlets. Following outreach from NBC News, Uber said it deactivated two of the drivers from its app and is still seeking information about the third.

“This is not the experience we want riders to have, and we take reports of unsafe driving seriously,” Uber said. “Drivers are expected to remain alert, engaged, and in control of the vehicle at all times.”

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Police say they have chased down sleeping Tesla drivers.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some Tesla drivers are becoming more brazen about napping behind the wheel

Excerpt from NBC News story: That hasn’t stopped some Tesla drivers, and the practice appears to be spreading. NBC News identified 43 videos that appear to show people asleep in the driver’s seat of a moving Tesla — 17 of them posted this year alone. Police issued citations or filed charges in 13 additional cases where no video surfaced, four of them this year.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW from me: I interviewed Tesla drivers who say they sometimes sleep intentionally behind the wheel.

Excerpt from NBC News:

Josh, a Tesla owner in Southern California, spends a lot of time on highways. His son is an avid athlete and needs to be taken to tournaments, sometimes 100 miles away. Lately, Josh has found a new way to pass the time on the road: napping.

“If I’m tired, I’ll sleep,” he said in an interview with NBC News.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I actually wrote about this a while back. He does this a lot! www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Excerpt from NBC News story:

Beyond politics, one of Musk’s frequent topics is himself. About 6% of his posts during the month referenced his own quotes, videos of interviews he has given or other bits of his life story and the mythology surrounding it. Sometimes he engages in conversation with accounts such as @ElonClipsX, @muskonomy or @muskosophy.

When the account @muskosophy posted a quote of his in September — “You don’t have a soul, you are a soul” — Musk responded, “Yes.”

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Does this count as talking to yourself?

A screenshot from X where Elon Musk is responding "Yes" to a post quoting him.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Notably — and I think @masnick.com will appreciate this — the ACLU of Minnesota has reversed its earlier support for this law.

“While we believe that creating the technology to alter or ‘nudify’ photos of identifiable people is protected by the First Amendment, we also recognize that the non-consensual creation and dissemination of such material can inflict damage on people appearing in those images,” the ACLU of Minnesota said in a statement Friday.

“In engaging with lawmakers on this issue, we hoped to strike an appropriate balance between First Amendment rights and the ability of people harmed to seek remedial measures, not unlike the remedies available to people harmed by defamation. The final version of the bill does not strike that balance,” the organization said.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The San Mateo project doesn’t seem so different from what San Francisco was building a century ago in neighborhoods like Nob Hill: small studios in 4-story buildings that take up the whole lot. Maybe not ideal for everyone but people seem to like living in these buildings? Curious what you think.

Map view of Nob Hill showing high lot coverage

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Update from Tesla on their humanoid robot project: It seems to be slow-going. Like, they're still doing "training data collection" -- which sounds a long way from commercialization? We'll see.