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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 · 22/04/2026

Meanwhile China has megawatt+ charging… Glad ChargePoint is finally competing with the big boi hardware players like Alpitronic.

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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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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

Yeah but it won’t come to the states 🥲

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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...

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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

I like the car but compared to what Zeeker is doing on the same platform in China it seems very behind on the tech

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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Yeah their reliability record hasn’t been great (mostly their gas trucks)

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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 · 19/12/2025

As a subscriber I would fully endorse “ruining Brendan Carr’s SEO” being added the Verge’s next year goals

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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

The real test will be with a new 2028 administration and the rollout of an affordable EV platform, will Ford have used this time wisely? Stellantis I have a lot less hope about.

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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 · 04/12/2025

PHEVs are nice in theory but many of them are deeply compromised and even the best ones have their own gremlins that EVs win have to think about. I think 95% of new car buyers are best served with either a full EV or a parallel hybrid

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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...

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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 · 26/11/2025

Combined with some of the most unforced marketing decisions ever (no hatchback for our market and the confusing 400/800V booster debacle for Supercharging)

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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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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...

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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

This after Hegseth reveals his mission names 🥲

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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 · 14/11/2025

However I do want to believe (as a small car lover) that there is an unmet market of people who want small, cheap transportation as average transaction prices on new vehicles crest $50k. It’s a market that’s been given up on not just in EVs but ICE too Stateside 🥲

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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Yes but we’re also coded in “big trucks are great” from unique geography, marketing, regulations that exempt larger vehicles from emissions standards, and their higher profitability for car makers (they cost almost the same to make but sell for much higher prices) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickup trucks took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.

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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

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 · 13/11/2025

Ford has been pretty public that F-150 Lightning for example was built as a stopgap. Their “ground up” platform promises lower assembly cost, streamlined design, the works. I think the reality is no one could compete with Tesla , then BYD, on cost for years and this is what we get.

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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The car makers have been agonizingly slow but the way they’ve been building them they can’t produce cheaper models. Regulatory creep and consumer expectations of bigger, more capable vehicles (and the much publicized range anxiety) haven’t helped.

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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Apple has told us like five times now Safari on iPadOS is a “desktop class browser” and it’s so not true 🥲

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Max Patten @maxpatten.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I have a hard time believing Apple Maps EV routing will work as well as the fairly mature and proven Google system for instance. Know several people with Fords who have tried it and found it lacking. I’m sure plenty of OEMs will find value in still offering CarPlay as option though

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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/...

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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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