Hmm.
> Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.
> The president has said America pays $200bn a year 'essentially in subsidy' to Canada and that if the country was the 51st state of the US 'I don’t mind doing it', in an interview broadcast before the Super Bowl in New Orleans
> In April 2023, Whitaker grounded SpaceX for months after Starship’s maiden launch and only allowed a second attempt after an extensive investigation lasting until September of that year yielded 63 corrective actions to be taken.
> “He needs to resign,” Musk wrote late last year, in response to one of his fans criticizing what he believed to be the FAA’s unwarranted meddling in the entrepreneur’s affairs.
> Active daily user numbers in Japan of Facebook-owner Meta's Threads have picked up from about 500,000 to 1.5 million, while for Bluesky it has gone from about 50,000 to about 500,000.
Thanks. I don't have a subscription. I was mostly venting about the first two paras that I can see and the many other articles using SimilarWeb data which don't include this info.
It's interesting that the numbers give do not show a 5x quintupling, but actually 10x growth
> Unfortunately, I no longer recommend Bitwarden for normal people because the built-in password manager in Firefox is too good.
I use both Bitwarden and Firefox and I would strongly encourage everyone to not use the password manager in Firefox. Do you know the tab sync across devices is broken in firefox? It was broken since Aug 24 and it is still not fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1913795 . If they can't sync tabs across devices, i wouldn't trust them to sync my passwords.
Interestingly, password syncing is one of the most reliable things I've seen Firefox doing during the last years. If you don't even have to think about it, that means it "just works"
> If anyone is going to make self driving work, the odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.
How disconnected from reality are you to make this statement? https://waymo.com/blog/2024/06/waymo-one-is-now-open-to-ever... Waymo self-driving has been open to general public since June 2024 and Telsa still doesn't have full self driving technology and yet here you are claiming odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.
> I feel similarly excited for Tesla when they demonstrate robots with incredible dexterity.
Did you never hear about Boston dynamics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk This is 3 years old video and Tesla's robots don't have as much dexterity as the robot from the video. And unlike Tesla's robot, Boston Dynamics robot is fully automated.
>> If anyone is going to make self driving work, the odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.
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> How disconnected from reality are you to make this statement?
I suppose we all live in our own bubbles. I've not been to SF in many years. I've never seen a Waymo on the street. However, I've sat in a Tesla myself and watched it navigate the roads in my hometown. As have many others across the US. And so I feel rather connected with reality in that small, tangible way.
I should have been more precise with my words. By 'make self-driving work', I meant deploy that technology cheaply and widely. But retroactively I understand my clarification appears like I'm moving the goal posts. I alluded to that though: 'They have more data and distribution than any of their competitors.'
>> I feel similarly excited for Tesla when they demonstrate robots with incredible dexterity.
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> Did you never hear about Boston dynamics?
I have, and I am also excited for them. I believe you missed my point about being happy for people trying to do difficult things.
Maybe. I guess another possibility is some people deliberately ignore evidence that doesn't fit their worldview for reasons that are yet unknown to me.
> However, I've sat in a Tesla myself and watched it navigate the roads in my hometown.
https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/autopilot
"Before using Autopilot, read your Owner's Manual for instructions and more safety information. While using Autopilot, it is your responsibility to stay alert, keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times and maintain control of your vehicle. "
This is not self driving.
> By 'make self-driving work', I meant deploy that technology cheaply and widely.
I see only one company deploying self-driving technology and that's not tesla.
I appreciate you sharing articles. Do you feel that we're trying to establish how well I see 'reality' or about Tesla's odds of deploying self-driving cheaply and widely. It feels like the former, but maybe I'm not being charitable enough in my reading of your posts.
Simply sharing the evidence that helped shape your own worldview does not necessarily invalidate mine. The first-hand evidence I shared supported my claim that Tesla has wide distribution, lots of data, and falls somewhere on the spectrum of self-driving (admittedly not fully autonomous).
The evidence you shared shows that Waymo has limited (but increasing) deployment, limited data (only the 3 metro areas), relatively little revenue, and—to its credit—fully autonomous driving capabilities under city-driving circumstances.
Waymo is taking a different development path and I'm rooting for them too.
But I'm still not convinced that the odds are in their favor. Can they build a relatively affordable car and especially their LIDAR system at scale? Will they be able to scale production before Tesla cracks the fully autonomous nut? I personally still think the odds are still in Tesla's favor. Note that I did not ever say: 'Tesla is the only one who can or will make self-driving work'.
> The actor made headlines earlier this year when she issued a public statement saying OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had contacted her in September 2023 to provide the voice for Sky, in an ode to her role in the Spike Jonze film Her, but she had declined for “personal reasons”. In May, as the company released Sky, Altman shared a tweet that simply read “her”.
This is not evidence, and it is still baseless. They literally hired a completely different voice actress. Nothing else needs to be said. What the fsck does it matter if it was "similar to" Scarlett Johannsen, even if it was (which it wasn't)? Should an actor be able to sue another actor who looks similar because of the work they got?
Hmm. > Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenlan...
> The president has said America pays $200bn a year 'essentially in subsidy' to Canada and that if the country was the 51st state of the US 'I don’t mind doing it', in an interview broadcast before the Super Bowl in New Orleans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/feb/10/trump-...