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Max Patten

@maxpatten.bsky.social
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Amateur triathlete, EV nerd, law student.

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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"The only way to spot a kid darting out from behind a truck, he said, is with cameras on every street watching for hazards, paired with warning systems for oncoming traffic." Hello Panopticon arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05...
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Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Austin Mini in downtown Boulder!
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Learning about Admin Law during Trump 2.0 has been … interesting arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
Trump FCC starts handing out exemptions to its ban on foreign-made routers.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Cost to human life from our President’s unpopularity supported war? Devastating and I hate it. Selfish smug desire for the American public to come to grips with oil dependence and look at EVs again? Off the charts. 📈
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Alex Pawlowski @apawlows.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Really enjoyed this quick pod with @gaytonausa.bsky.social + @maxpatten.bsky.social on Directly Current last night on my drive down to San Diego. Hits the quick points of what the current Canada moment could mean pca.st/episode/03b7...
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Pocket Casts
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Nice @nytimes.com 🇺🇸
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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 25/01/2026
Incredible headline.
Top of NYT homepage: “Man Killed by Federal Agents in Minnesota Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun”.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
You tell em, Liz. X is violating Apple and Google policies but exists still because Elon has no accountability. We’re all worse off for it. Fuck the creeps using Grok for demented things. www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
theverge.com
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
@hankgreen.bsky.social nailed it: a comprehensive future of EVs is inevitable but in America, with trucks, it will take longer and will probably require an intermediary eREV step. Dealers are not incentivized to sell BEVs. For small cars, SUVs, and anything passenger, EVs already win.
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The Bizarre Logic of the F-150 Lightning
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Mystery solved! youtu.be/LZnAQ-PWQdg?...
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Want To Know Why Coffee Makes You Poop?
YouTube video by James Hoffmann
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Meanwhile in the bad place
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My favorite AI fail yet: Gemini (whose thinking model I’ve generally found to be much nicer than ChatGPT) found a stock image of a diagram when I asked it to visually a very specific concept (Federal Rules of Evidence) Props for the effort 😂 (and attribution to Getty)
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Flatirons looking particularly stunning this morning #boulder #colderboulder
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“Use AI to brief cases and study” I’m glad I trusted my notes (and review of the opinion directly) over ChatGPT 5.1, which confidently told me the opposite holding of a case on appeal to that state’s Supreme Court. At least it fessed up when I called it out 🤪
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
What are they meant to do? Their ICE trucks are their profit center. Theres no pretending anymore and Farley is more honest than most—they are woefully behind on EV now and will happily oversee regulatory rollback while stomaching this kind of shitty rhetoric.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The web’s death will come with a thousand cuts www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New media is less disclosed and uptight about payola than before. I feel for folks trying to do it right. Worked for TFL for a hot minute when I first moved to Colorado, then Out of Spec, and can confirm that YouTube isn’t an easy business. www.theverge.com/transportati...
theverge.com
Car influencers love Chinese EVs — and China loves them back
What is DCar Studio, and why is it promoting Chinese EVs to US car reviewers?
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Lots of apologies in order. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
White House has apologised over Georgia raid, says Hyundai boss
The carmaker's CEO said the raid was "a bad surprise" but the firm will continue to invest in the US.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Oof www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“No amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story.” CEOs and the tech managerial class could take a lot from this humility. Culture is valuable! youtu.be/R0XmBKsRJF8?...
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Pixar's Early Days - A Never-Before-Seen Interview With Steve Jobs, 1996
YouTube video by Steve Jobs Archive
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Humans… in…. The… loop…. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/11...
arstechnica.com
Tesla safety driver falls asleep during passenger’s robotaxi ride
A Reddit user posted video of his safety driver sleeping at the wheel in San Fransisco.
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Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You know what I feel needs more love? Dr. Sleep (2019) Ewan McGregor is such a fun presence, and Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat has got to be a horror movie all time villain. #nowwatching #horrorsky
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hmm was “hybrids are best for the environment” argument bullshit after all? I get the need to pander but this is pretty brazen. Take a lesson from Tesla and maybe stay out of politics, Akio? headlight.news/2025/11/17/a...
headlight.news
Akio Toyoda Goes MAGA - Headlight.news
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda surprised those on hand at a NASCAR race in Japan by showing up in MAGA hat and T-short over the weekend.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Love this so much youtu.be/ahcvx1L1oBo
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Can We Fix This EV1? | 1997 GM EV1 Restoration
YouTube video by Electrek Garage
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The fact that the anti EV crowd ignores the issue of local emissions is batshit. Here in the front range of CO local air pollution is killing us. Also, remote coal plants (worst car emissions scenario) are still more efficient through EV motors than combustion engines.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I love Vince Gilligan shows but seriously concerned with how dehydrated characters get. 😣 girl drink water
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
How the hell is this not steering? They will do anything but clean competition.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New eerily accurate XKCD just dropped
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ad-tiers are a scourge on the Earth. Hope they stick to this. arstechnica.com/apple/2025/1...
arstechnica.com
Apple TV execs dismiss introducing an ad tier, buying Warner Bros.
Apple execs say Apple TV shows and movies are about “emotional” experiences.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The default will be even friendlier and more sycophantic? This will have only good outcomes, surely…
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The car brand is beloved, but the software story is incomplete. If the VW/Rivian joint venture works out I’m sure licensing out the tech will be highly lucrative. I’ve heard mixed things on the success of legacy OEM x Silicon Valley thinking…
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Oof. insideevs.com/news/778529/...
insideevs.com
The Tesla Cybertruck And Model Y Bosses Both Just Quit
Tesla has lost several top executives across divisions in recent months. They seem to be leaving on good terms, but the rate of executive turnover seems high.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
With respect to @gruber.foo I think @patrickgeorge.bsky.social is better informed here. GM’s success with Equinox (and Tesla/Rivian) are proof people don’t necessarily demand CarPlay. OEMs with control (and software skills) will win daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
daringfireball.net
Patrick George Thinks CarPlay’s Days Are Numbered; I Doubt It
Link to: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/apple-carplay-general-motors/684799/
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We have reached new depths of parody, except oh god it’s real www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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Car and Driver @caranddriver.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Christopher Borroni-Bird envisioned the skateboard chassis back at the turn of the millennium. Today he envisions a world where everybody has access to safe, affordable transportation.
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GM R&D Veteran's Book Calls for Affordable, Safe Cars for the World
Christopher Borroni-Bird envisioned the skateboard chassis back at the turn of the millennium. Today he envisions a world where everybody has access to safe, affordable transportation.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Directly Current episode out with @johnvoelcker.bsky.social on hybrids, cheap EVs, and the American Auto’s predicament. overcast.fm/+ABKo-TQG0A0
overcast.fm
30: John Voelcker on Hybrids, Cheap EVs, and Detroit’s Problems — Directly Current: The EV Politics Podcast
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Porsche Taycan has to be one of the most unfluential designs in the modern automotive world. You see its DNA everywhere, from Shanghai to Stuttgart
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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Lithium iron-phosphate battery tech was developed in the U.S. We then ignored it. "Now, U.S. manufacturers rely on foreign entities of concern, resulting in GOP backlash in Washington, DC, and have to play catch-up as affordable EVs become a key to unlocking greater #EV adoption." Read it + weep.
detroitnews.com
How a U.S. electric vehicle battery technology became Chinese
'The intellectual concept was done by the great people in the great country of the United States of America — not in China,' Texas professor says.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Orwellian shit from the party of “small government” www.axios.com/2025/04/23/a...
axios.com
What to know about RFK Jr.'s autism registry plan
Experts have called out Kennedy for describing autism as a "preventable disease."
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Instead of doing their job, we have watched the Trump CFPB fire its enforcement attorneys, shut down the agency, [and] take the name off the building. So of course, that’s a giant ‘open for business’ sign for every two-bit fraudster in America.” www.theverge.com/news/640674/...
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A shady, shuttered tech bootcamp may be sneaking back online
A judge said CFPB workers could finally get back to work on Friday.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The exposure table on the US new 25% car tariffs. Friends, allies, and neighbours top the list.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The bz4X is now technically competitive with my (model year 2021) Polestar 2. Way to go Toyota!
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025
@blogaap.bsky.social: "This is the crux of how renewable energy is viewed differently: in China, they see the revenue model and are therefore willing to invest. In the West, we see it purely as a cost." #alwaysbecharging www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thanks to @tommolog.bsky.social for joining me on Directly Current to lend his charging expertise! We discuss NEVI funds being frozen and much more overcast.fm/+ABKo-SmLQdw
overcast.fm
16: EV Charging’s Rapid Improvement with Tom Moloughney (State of Charge) — Directly Current: The EV Politics Podcast
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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Much supposition about a line item for "armored Teslas," but few facts. Now @mjgault.bsky.social breaks it down. The line item predates Trump taking office; the solicitation seems to have been installing vehicle armor onto State’s existing #Tesla fleet. The @gizmodo.com hed nails it rather nicely.
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The $400 Million Armored Tesla Story Is a Fake Scandal In a Sea of Real Graft and Horror
The State Department does a lot of business with a lot of different companies and has bought Tesla's before. But freaking out and editing a spreadsheet when it’s pointed out is weird.
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I love how Buick’s place in the culture is now 1) the last American brand that was relevant in China 2) muscle car setpiece for Kendrick Lamar album and halftime show
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Corey Cantor @coreybcantor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Folks, I'm curious what your car and EV ad experience is tonight. From what I've been reading car commercials on the whole will be limited to Stellantis. . I love Super Bowl car commercials -- especially some of the creative EV ones in recent years. www.adweek.com/brand-market...
adweek.com
Car Brands Have Been Pumping the Brakes on Super Bowl Ads
With less than two weeks until the Super Bowl, only Jeep and Ram have announced plans to run an ad in the Big Game.
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Matthew Metz @matthewmetz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Great conversation with @maxpatten.bsky.social on his Directly Current podcast about leveraging EV savings for building support for pro-EV policies.https://open.spotify.com/episode/7y3xL8tEoI5mxuWoMgEC9Y?si=rejmFJKwTGqf5O3HaYZkBg
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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Trump Saved TikTok youtube.com/shorts/7lFNO...
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Trump Saved TikTok
YouTube video by Brent Terhune
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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
LMAO. Rivian caused this by having efficient LED’s recessed in the vehicle. It has not been an issue on any other vehicle I’m aware of (besides maybe Cybertruck)
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