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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼

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Generalist & navigator. Perl, Python, C/C++, XPath, Linux, etc. $TSLAQ Seeking to understand power disparity in all human relations. Against longtermism.

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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
#TSLAQ
cnbc.com
Tesla retreats from next-generation ‘gigacasting’ manufacturing process
Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of the car's underbody.
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Paul - Mr.Rogers was right: "look for the helpers" @paulmpax.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
@axios.com has an article now
axios.com
"Everyone is in complete shock": Tesla cuts Supercharger employees
CEO Elon Musk has long described the company's Superchargers — the world's largest EV charging network with more than 50,000 plugs — as a competitive advantage and key to EV sales growth.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/04/2024
Laying off the vehicle development and Supercharger teams is one thing, but if Elon is actually unfollowing his chief stock pump sergeants then something really big is going down.
Twitter screenshots of posts by the Big Tech Alert account, announcing that Elon Musk has unfollowed WholeMarsBlog and SawyerMerritt, his two lead stock pumper fanboy accounts
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/04/2024
Things are deeply weird in Teslaland right now, so while we wait to get some clarity might I gently recommend my book "Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors" as a guide to the deep roots of this weirdness? Available here, or anywhere good books are sold: benbellabooks.com/shop/ludicro...
benbellabooks.com
Ludicrous - BenBella Books
Ludicrous lays bare the disconnect between the popular perception of Tesla and the day-to-day realities of the company.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
Can someone tell me when Trump was funny? Is NYT talking about the jokes about disabled people or the jokes about women or are they just talking about Trump's dangerous targeting of people he hates? Is the schtick about siccing his mob on journalists funny? www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/a...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/04/2024
Building on what I was saying in this piece, Bloomberg reports: “One [Apple Store] employee says they haven’t seen one Vision Pro purchase in weeks and that the number of returns equaled the device’s sales in the first month that it was available.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
It's time once again to turn the world on to the incredible music of Helena Deland.
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Helena Deland
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
No organization that maintains private prisons and infiltrates spies into government agencies should be considered a religion.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
A double no-confidence vote! #TSLAQ #ElonQ
qz.com
A Tesla executive sold $181.5 million worth of stock shortly after quitting
Andrew Baglino sold 1.14 million of his shares in Elon Musk's EV maker
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/04/2024
don't look now, but I think the Facebook founder who compared Tesla to Enron might have triggered Elon a little
An Elon Musk tweet that is just a picture of a dog captioned "Elon Musk" putting its intact testicles on the face of another dog captioned "Dustin Moskovitz"
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
"What's also notable about TSLA stock is that there has been virtually zero insider buying of shares despite a more than 50% drop in the stock over the past two years." #TSLAQ #ElonQ
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
and also www.forexlive.com/news/a-tesla...
forexlive.com
A Tesla senior VPs that quit last week files to sell all $181 million of his TSLA stock | Forexlive
That's not exactly a vote of confidence
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/04/2024
"I just don’t know why you would want to serve as a cog in the machine of someone who is at war with you and doing everything he can to smear your profession and tarnish what you do."
mediaite.com
Life After X: Journos Who Ditched Elon Musk’s Twitter Speak Out
Mediaite spoke with four journalists about what caused them to limit their use of Twitter and what their social media use looks like now.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
youtube.com
Trump's BROKEN PROMISES Spotlighted in BRUTAL New Ad from Joe Biden | Tim's Take
Tim Miller reacts to a new ad by President Biden highlighted former president Donald Trump's false promises through a powerful endorsement!🔥 Get 30 days of ...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/04/2024
New blog post: Tangled In The Gordian Knot niedermeyer.io/2024/04/24/t...
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Tangled In The Gordian Knot
And Elon wept, for there were no more growths to hack.
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Fact check: True! $TSLAQ
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Dustin Moskowitz, founder of Asana and Facebook billionaire, says Tesla is Enron now. Suggests there will be multiple charges of fraud when the business collapses.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz likens Tesla to Enron. Silicon Valley's omerta around Tesla and Musk is cracking. #TSLAQ #ElonQ
A Threads post from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

It reposts a post from @james_ash_sf which says: "Their CFO and auditors need to go to jail for signing off on slides like this!"

The text in @moskov's Threads post reads:

I know I sound crazy to most people who don't follow $TSLA closely but at this point it really needs to be said. This is Enron now, folks.

It may keep going, but people are going to jail at the end. The data is presented in fraudulent ways, and it doesn't say what they claim it says even when they make it up.

Tesla has committed consumer fraud on a massive scale, from lying about FSD, ranges, and (recently, unconfirmed!) even inflating odometers.

Many times now, also securities fraud.
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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 25/04/2024
I hear that @moskov.goodventures.org thinks Tesla's FSD graph is the big securities fraud. lol Two links for you, Dustin: 1. www.plainsite.org/realitycheck... (big) 2. www.plainsite.org/realitycheck... (bigger)
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Via @axios Congratulations everyone school segregation is back to 1968 levels while everyone cosplayed concerned and capitulated to DEI bait availabletoall.org/wp-content/u...
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
👀 Wow.
vulture.com
The Man Who Gossiped Too Much
For years, John Nelson anonymously posted blind items skewering the Hollywood elite on the blog Crazy Days and Nights. Then his identity was revealed.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Musk still claiming Tesla isn't a car company! #TSLAQ #ElonQ
businessinsider.com
Elon Musk is throwing the distant dream of a 'sentient' Optimus robot at Tesla's shareholders
"As I've said before, I think Optimus will be more valuable than everything else combined," Musk told investors in an earnings call.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/04/2024
who could have possibly predicted this
theverge.com
Tesla’s in its flop era
The company has a rough year ahead.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Tesla's earnings call was really something. Hoping Common Sense Skeptic is working on a video about it.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
This is outstanding.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Officially in my “Blocking people who think IP theft and aiding racist stochastic terrorism is good work “ Era Your Black and Brown colleagues can’t even get jobs , you won’t even acknowledge the people you steal from But “the Republicans”
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Good progress being made to clear a temporary channel to reopen Baltimore harbor.
youtube.com
Baltimore To Reopen Limited Access Channel for Ships with Drafts Less Than 35 Feet on April 25
Baltimore to Reopen What's Going on With Shipping? April 23, 2024 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the US Coast Guard announcement by the Captain of the Port to reopen Baltimore using the Fort McHenry Limited Access Channel. #baltimore #baltimorebridge #dali Support What's Going on With Shipping via: Patreon: www.patreon.com/wgowshipping Twitter: @mercoglianos Facebook: @wgowshipping Email: mercoglianosal@gmail.com Marine Safety Information Bulletin 043-24 https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1782729827511931087 Key Bridge Response 2024 https://www.keybridgeresponse2024.com/ Marine Traffic www.marinetraffic.com
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, ‘he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes’, says former Tesla manager: #ElonQ $TSLAQ
electrek.co
Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager
Elon Musk was described as a “pigeon CEO”: “he comes, shits all over us, and goes”, said a former Tesla...
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Is Tesla inflating odometer to show more range, ding lessors with over miles and duck repairs under warranty? Tesla owners have a concern. Is con man Elon Musk gaming the Tesla odometer? #ElonQ $TSLAQ Ht @factschaser
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
I think this tweet will go down in history as the canonical example of the depths of insanity of the Musk cultists and the lengths to which they will go as bulls to prop up Tesla stock. #TSLAQ #ElonQ
Tweet from Akira 46.3% CAGR to Mars @seldon_raven on 10:08 AM · Apr 19, 2024 · 220.8K Views
The text reads:
Haha thanks! I'm 6 years all in.
Most importantly, I can stay homeless longer than the market can stay irrational.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2024
New blog post: No More Rebuys, Mr Musk
niedermeyer.io
No More Rebuys, Mr Musk
Even if you've always won, it's still gambling until you get up from the table.
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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 22/04/2024
The spam, it is from Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap9P...
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The Right-Wing Spam Machine: Monument & Cathedral Holdings Companies
Companies such as Event Horizon, LLC have been sending enormous amounts of spam to Americans in recent months with apocolyptic, pro-Russian messages. We dig ...
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Excellent in-depth video by shipping industry experts on the process of reopening Baltimore Harbor after the Key Bridge collapse. Also discusses the issue of widespread contamination of the bunker fuel used by ships which could have contributed to the disaster.
youtube.com
Baltimore Update w/William Doyle Dredging Contractors of America & Former Director Port of Baltimore
Baltimore Update | Next Steps in Salvage & Clearing | General Average & Limited Liability | Worldwide Fuel Contamination | Impact on Baltimore Economy What's...
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Tech fads have been a thing forever. The AI fad has swept in faster than anything I've ever seen while also being the least deserving of interest.
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artphobos @artphobos.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut (repost to add alt text)
Text: Artists Against Generative Al.

Posting this on behalf of a member who would like to remain anonymous:

I'm an art director and supervisor for a large studio. The studio heads had the bright idea before I started to hire prompters. Several bros were brought onto the film project. I absolutely hated myself for not quitting on the spot but stuck with it because it's mercenary out there. Have a family to feed etc. I decided to use this time wisely. Treat them as I would any artist I had hired. First round of pictures of a sweeping Ariel forest landscape comes through and it's not bad. They submit a ton of work and one or two of the 40 are ok. Nearly on brief. So first round feedback goes through and I tell them about the perspective mistakes, colour changes I want, layers that any matte painting would be split into. Within a day I get 5 variants. Not changes to the ones I wanted but variations. Again. Benefit of the doubt I give them another round ofText: the doubt I give them another round of feedback making it clear. Next day it's worse. I sit there and patiently paint over, even explaining the steps I would take as a painter. They don't do it, anomalies start appearing when I say I want to keep the exact image but with changes. They can't. They simply don't have the eye to see the basic mistakes so the Ai starts to over compensate. We get people starting to appear in the images. These are obviously holiday snaps.

"Remove the people"

"What would you like them changed to?" "... grass. I just don't want them there" They can't do it. The one that can actually use photoshop hasn't developed the eye to see his mistakes, ends up getting angry at me for not understanding he can't make specific changes. The girl whose background was a little photography has given me 40 progressively worse images with wilder mistakes every time. This is 4 days into the project.Text: I'm both pissed about the waste, but elated seeing ai fall at the first hurdle. It's not even that the images are unusable, the people making them have no eye for what's wrong, no thicker skin for constructive criticism and feedback, no basic artistic training in perspective and functionality in what they're making.

Yes the hype is going to pump more money into this. They won't go anywhere for a while. But this has been such a glowing perfect moment of watching the fundamental part fail in the face of the most simple tasks. All were fired and the company no longer accepts Ai prompters as applicants. Your training as an artist will always be the most important part of this process and it is invaluable. I hope this post gives you a boost in a dark time.

(A pic of text reads 'this machine kills Al' above an arrow pointing to a pencil)
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/04/2024
Pretty sure I died the moment I read the words "I can stay homeless longer than the market can stay irrational" I
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
theguardian.com
$18k in stolen antlers: poaching on the rise in Wyoming as collectors ‘cheat the system’
Gathering antlers has been a favorite pastime in the state, but the high dollars they fetch is now putting animals’ lives at risk
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
Russia is dropping gas canisters from drones. #Ukraine
kyivindependent.com
Reuters: Ukraine says Russia's use of illegal tear gas on battlefield is increasing
Ukrainian military officials have previously said that Russia is deploying chemical weapons on the battlefield in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The usage of riot control gas in war is also ba...
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
Finally, aid for Ukraine and Taiwan! Israel has misused our aid and should not have gotten more.
nbcnews.com
House passes critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan along with a TikTok ban
The bills amount to a $95 billion aid package in total.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
That's how I read it. Tesla's notice to NHTSA says "The recall population includes all Model Year (“MY”) 2024 Cybertruck vehicles manufactured from November 13, 2023, to April 4, 2024." They list that number as 3,878. static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19/04/2024
Post News, another potential Twitter replacement, bites the dust post.news/@/noam/2fJw4...
Post by Noam Bardin:

It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks.
We have done many great things together. We built a toxicity-free community, a platform where Publishers engage, and an app that validated many theories around Micropayments and consumers’ willingness to purchase individual articles. We even managed to cultivate a phenomenal tipping ecosystem for (screenshot ends here)
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/04/2024
The cover of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors (2019), with a speech bubble so it is saying the quoted skeet
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash
techcrunch.com
Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck | TechCrunch
It's technically the Cybertruck's second recall, but it is the most serious to date, and it caps a tumultuous week for Tesla.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
What a week for Tesla!
benzinga.com
Tesla Slashes Model S, X And Y Prices In US By $2,000 In Late-Friday Move As Volume Growth Turns Negative - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
Tesla's desperation in turning things around has forced it to take to a strategy that has so far misfired.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/04/2024
top news at this hour: life wasn't fair to an extremely wealthy right wing military contractor
ca.news.yahoo.com
A former Facebook exec said he regrets not defending ousted Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey from a 'witch hunt.' Drama ensued.
John Carmack said he regrets not coming to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's defense when he was fired from Facebook. Then, the discussion escalated.
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Tod Hagan 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @todhagan.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Pigeon CEO! 🦤 🤣 #ElonQ
An image of a tweet by Fred Lambert, Editor-in-Chief at Electrek, 6:06 PM · Apr 15, 2024 · 2.2M Views. The text reads:

A Tesla manager who was let go today described Elon Musk to me as a "pigeon CEO".

"He comes in, shit all over us, and goes."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/04/2024
here it is, your cybertruck moment of zen
Forum post entitled "What are teenagers problems with Cybertruck?"

The post reads: I don't know if others have similar experience, but as I drive around in CT, most reactions are good/fun, but I've had several teenagers flip me off, yell "I hate your truck," and just today a girl roll down her window and just yell "F*ck You".

Perhaps it's the storyline that they're dangerous? Or bad for the environment? Something on TikTok saying they're evil?
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