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Elon Musk has directly rejected a popular fan theory that Tesla is secretly further ahead on Optimus than it lets on, warning instead that production of its humanoid robot “will be extremely slow at first.”

The comment cuts against a bullish narrative that Tesla’s quiet stretch on Optimus is a strategic head-fake — and lines up with the company’s own repeatedly delayed timeline.

The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning. “The true Constitution is not a document. It’s more of a gut feeling. It is a shimmering legal gas that settles wherever conservatives need it most…”

An observation about Fable 5 in Claude Code. It's a much better writer than Opus 4.8. One of our next big things is writing docs, and all the info is in Claude. Opus was a disaster as a docs writer. This one looks like it'll be good. Whew.

“Sign in with Google” and “Continue with Apple” have carried federated login for more than a decade. They strip away

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Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America Now? “The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked.” But also: “It is the country that gave the world jazz…”

A woman belts out “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Minionese at the premier of “Minions & Monsters.” Freddie Mercury would have loved this, according to folks in the replies.

Edsel Ford, quoted in a 1922 issue of The New York Herald: Every man needs more than one day a week for rest and recreation. The Ford company always has sought to promote ideal home life for Its employees. We believe that in order to live properly every man should have more...

The news blog has been full of mobile app releases, but I’ve also been deploying little improvements to the server this week. Not much that has clear release notes. Just some things are faster, more efficient, less buggy.

Body shaming is wrong.

Markets are Money It doesn’t say that in The Gluetrain Manifesto, but the long-gone (but archived) parody of The Cluetrain Manifesto is still funny. Or was it? I didn’t hear that China was building robot armies before it was debunked. May the most talented robots still lose 404 Media: Tidal Says It Won’t Pay Royalties for […]

Toyota will at least partially compensate suppliers after the scrapped flagship Lexus EV caused an “unprecedented” impact.

Lucid is replacing almost its entire executive team under new CEO Silvio Napoli, bringing in a new CFO, CTO, and three other C-level leaders in a single announcement.

The overhaul lands just over a week after the struggling EV maker cut 18% of its workforce and pulled its 2026 production guidance.

Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators. “A woman sat a toddler down beside us, while another, larger toddler tugged at her capris. At this point, every child was starting to look like Wallace Shawn.”

NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ai-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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It's been a year since the Big Ugly Bill became law — and the receipts are in.

Higher costs for working families. More tax breaks for billionaires. And a whole bunch of lies.

Since Trump and Republicans want to treat American lives like a reality TV show... let's roll the tape.

For Mastodon servers that have configured a higher max post length than the default 500 characters, Micro.blog cross-posting will now try to send more of the text to those servers.

Yadea is best known for its electric scooters and motorcycles, which have helped cement the company as the world’s leading electric vehicle maker by production volume. But despite leading the world in EV manufacturering volume – or perhaps because of it – the company has also developed quite an interesting lineup of electric bicycles. On display at Eurobike 2026 was the company’s new full-suspension commuter e-bike, the Yadea Como.

"A little less than eighty miles from the Oregon coast and a little more than a thousand miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Jose was selling the feeling of being around something familiar."