If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
Presumably, Tesla knows which cars cameras took which photos, so pairing them up with the car owner wouldn't seem hard. Unless, that is, the owner takes seriously Tesla's claim that the cameras are there "to assist driving" and are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”
Reuters's list of examples included a lot of faces. I don't suppose anyone at Tesla or elsewhere in Elmo's organization have access to facial recognition software. No?
Elmo is such a clown, he's a 17-year-old with a Ferrari he barely knows how to start.
Elmo can't help himself: he needs to act out to cool his demons and blame someone else for whatever goes wrong.
But he also knows he gets a flood of press when he does something stupid, and that he can undo it out of the limelight. In many places, too, firing and rehiring the same people allows him to legally cut their wages and benefits. It's a sham, like Elmo.
Poor Harvard PhD Peter Navarro, lifetime beneficiary of wingnut welfare, having to mix with the general prison population for a few months. The nerve of the court system to subject him to such ignominy. /s
He should feel honored to share an experience he was happy to subject so many others to.
Clinton "may still possess" classified information is not a valid argument. First, in using "still," it begs the question. It also assumes that, were he to retain information, it would be wrongful.
Second, anyone might possess something: I might possess the Holy Grail. The odds that I do, however, are lower than my winning the lottery. More is needed.
Third, it's irrelevant. On its face, stopping one of a dozen speeding cars is not discrimination.
Antifa is an idea, a position, not an organization. But Federal judge, Cormac Carney, seems as ignorant as the defendant. Granting a violent protester bail, the court slammed, "prosecutors...declaring that Robert Rundo’s “clear purpose” was to “battle Antifa and prevent Antifa from hurting people.”" Even if true, a big if, it doesn't excuse counter violence.
The court has prejudged the issue and should recuse. Good thing Carney plans to retire next month.
"Companies aim to release more treated oilfield wastewater into rivers and streams"
It's a crime that oil producers are allowed to pump "produced water" - contain unknown chemicals in unknown amounts - into the ground, where it contaminates aquifers.
It would be another crime to allow them to release "treated" oilfield water directly into surface waterways. How long will oil companies practice the immunity that Donald Trump claims belongs only to a president?
The logical conclusion to the Supreme Court's Catholic majority going out of its way to reinstate Idaho's anti-trans law is that it approves of the legislation - and the viewpoint - and chose to protect it. The law and normal appellate process? Meh.
That this law represents a trend in Republican-led states is a bonus.
Cars tend to get totaled in floods, mudslides, fire, earthquakes, etc. Repairing damage is tricky, because you have to know the car well enough to anticipate what might be wrong with it.
I might also be a game of one-upmanship that's often played with medical insurers. When insurance companies decide what your car needs, what they'll pay for it, and who they'll pay to work on it, vendors have to play games to get paid market rates.
Good indicator Trump knows his legal defenses in his civil and criminal trials are batshit and won't keep consequences from his door or his pocketbook.
Trump's ego would demand deference and no consequences before an election, based on his "I'm very special" claim. He will substitute other excuses after the election, regardless of whether he wins or loses. No sentient being should agree with him.
"Robert Jenrick calls for nationality data scheme to prevent UK ‘importing crime’
"Ex-immigration minister proposes bill amendment to collate visa and asylum status of people convicted in England and Wales"
Big data loves every govt program to collect data, regardless of whether it improves policing or ANY policy. It improves their algorithms, their govt contracts, and their revenue, which is about all that Jenrick's scheme will improve.
Poor conman and probably soon-to-be felon, Rudy Giuliani, now in bankruptcy court. He gets one homestead exemption from his creditors' claims. It's the state in which he officially resides, whose driver's license he carries, and where he votes. If that's NY and not FL, he's SOL. Sad.
The article suggests Giuliani may list his Manhattan condo for $5 million. He used to claim it was worth $6.5 million.
He wants to sell it so he can change his residence to FL. So, he's still a resident of NY. I don't think that would let him change which state's homestead exemption he can take advantage of. (FL's is much more generous; he should have moved there before filing.)
His lawyers laughably claim the defamation claim against him is unlikely to survive appeal. LOL.
🚨NEWS: The company that chartered the ship that destroyed the Key Bridge was just sanctioned by regulators for silencing whistleblowers raising safety concerns.
Companies silence whistleblowers. They demote them, give them poor job ratings or jobs that make them quit, and fire them for unrelated reasons. That works well in "right to work" states, which are really right to fire at will states.
Companies don't often get caught with evidence obvious enough to draw regulators attention. Getting fined for it is a big deal. It's also a red flag that cost cutting and other intentional conduct might have contributed to a predictable tragedy.
They didn't even bother to change the word "toot" on #TruthSocial in the Dutch language
Yes, he did not "build" TruthSocial but took #Mastodon source code and added anoher front end
The current source code is from 2022 meaning that they don't comply with the Mastodon licence OR they run a old version that has critical security flaws
Seems possible that using an outdated version of Mastodon, with obvious security flaws (eliminated in the current version) - apart from being a typical lazy and cheap Trumpian way to offer goods to sell - is a good way to increase lucrative data mining from an already shit site.
Will Trump supporters laugh it off with, in for a penny, in for a pound, when they start losing control of their digital lives and money?
I do object to a result no other non-billionaire angry whiner would have gotten, which further feeds Trump's narcissistic sense of entitlement. The bond was high because the damages award was high, because the length and breadth of Trump's fraud was high, and because over a hundred million of that was accrued interest.
And, yes, the appeals court should have offered a reason for lowering the bond amount to about a third of the $545 million he would otherwise have had to post.
Tech Bro billionaire, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of today's hot stock, Nvidia, thinks we need pain and suffering. Without it, "there's no resilience....without resilience, there's no greatness....character isn't formed out of smart people. It's formed out of people who suffered."
Huang seems to confuse the inevitable with the desirable. What's missing from his formulation are empathy and humility. They are not much in evidence in today's business schools or C-suites.
According to this "no losses" theory, nothing with FTX, Theranos, Bernie Madoff, or Enron was a crime or even a civil violation until the entire thing came crashing down. It's perfectly fine to lie about millions of dollars unless it goes bad, then it's retroactively illegal. 🙄
The ultra-libertarian, Penn and Chicago-trained financial expert Megan McArdle, who writes for the WaPo - LOL - needs to get out more, or actually read Judge Engoron's judgment against Trump.
It has SFA to do with self-righteousness, not even McArdle's. It has everything to do with Trump's long history of whimsically and wildly overstating the value of his assets, and the financial and economic benefits he wrongly received in exchange.
Not like truth matters with Trump, but this is simply untrue, as explained by the NY AG's brief. Losing defendants have filed even bigger appeal bonds over $1 billion. Trump has not done so because either (a) he doesn't want to or (b) he lacks sufficient collateral for the bonds.
The NYAG's brief says Trump has not provided details of which 30 bond issuers he approached - or what real estate he offered as collateral. (The good stuff or only the crap?)
Trump could also use his properties to borrow from banks or obtain letters of credit to secure the bonds he needs.
As the NYAG also says, and as is routine, Trump could ask several bond issuers to each pick up part of the total bond he needs. As usual with Trump, his lies are in the details.
Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for #Trump like this.
Eric Columbus:
Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the opposite of just talking about cars.
When Donald Trump uses Hitlerian language like "bloodbath," he's not talking about economic damage to an American industrial sector. That's a defensive PR ploy, to persuade supporters that Trump is not as nuts and violent as his words and manner indicate.
He is that nuts and even more violent. If he wins, he will exact retribution on everyone who's ever spurned him - and he has a long memory. If he loses, his need to inflict pain on others, to ease his own, will be even greater.
Having told his GOP competitors to avoid campaigning to end Social Security and Medicare, Trump is now campaigning on it.
Let me repeat. Trump would end Social Security and Medicare, sending a hundred million more Americans into poverty and early death.
Trump's supporters say the retirement age of 65 is too low. Not for anyone who's done manual labor or lived on a public employee's salary. It's too early only when compared to the average age of congresscritters.
