niedermeyer.online
this gentle soul, cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark, among other things
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oh my god, the paranoia about this specific scenario has been out of control... so far so good!
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funny you should ask Jerry, I actually went to buy a hex head for the screw gun and due to a communication error I came home without the right size and decided to punish myself by doing it all by hand instead... needless to say, this adds a fun self-loathing wrinkle to the philosophical ponderings
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questioning the nature of allen keys at the most fundamental levels
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that's me, I fucking hate it... these theorists are for impressing hotties, not usefully coming to terms with the quotidian mechanics of modern life
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people don't realize this because our "police" today have become something more like what preceded "police," except we still call them "police"
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Yes! "Bobbies" also derives from his first name, Robert.
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If you have liberal sympathies, it's important to recognize when key features of liberal society have simply ceased to exist. It's too easy for a lot of liberals to think of police in the Peelian sense, and simply never interact with them enough to know how far from that ideal we are.
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If you were to assess every US police force based on 200 year old Peelian principles, in terms of both its culture and its practices/outcomes, very few would get passing grades.
Neither supporters nor critics of American policing even reference these principles as a model for success anymore.
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It's a meme format based on a series of videos called Dracula Flow
knowyourmeme.com/memes/dracul...
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one of my personal faves from that thread, it just came to me out of nowhere
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Smoked too much of that algorithmic populist xenophobe chronic, now I got the kinds of problems Stalin used to solve with an ice pick. I'm in the Gulfstream snorting playa dust, asking Grok about extradition treaties. Shorty say she ride or die, but we both know she Mrs Stephen Miller for a reason.
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Tesla earns credits for every EV they sell, and they sell those credits to Stellantis (mostly) who buy them instead of selling EVs themselves. Tesla gets to look like a better business than they really are, and Stellantis gets to sell Rams and Hellcats instead of taking EVs seriously.
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would
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Just saw a brand new facelifted Model Y in a local parking lot with a bumper sticker that says "here for zero emissions, not Elon."
My dude, those zero emissions were offset by a Dodge Ram or Hellcat when Stellantis bought Tesla's ZEV credits. You're just funding fascism. Sorry!
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objective centrism dot jpg
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The answer is because you literally can't sell "utopia or bust" forever. Elon Musk is literally in the end game of that shit right now. Not competing with him was the right move. Utopia is for scammers and televangelists.
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you ever notice that nobody else is competing with Tesla on the utopian vision of "your $35k car will drive itself everywhere, and earn money when you're not using it?" You ever wonder why not? Clearly it's a popular vision of utopia, but Waymo is just like "what if taxis were driverless?" Why???
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lol utopianism has always been the arena of bad actors... "do as we say and heaven on earth will be yours" isn't the kind of thing good actors go in for
"let's work together to make things a little better" is good actor optimism
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maybe try reading the thread again?
it is literally about reclaiming techno-optimism (positive) from techno-utopianism (negative)
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The problem is precisely that people are being told to hope for utopia, and that it will simply be delivered to them by their benificient betters. That is the path to dystopia. To the extent any utopia is possible, it requires a lot of work, by everyone involved. Only fools and marks hope for utopia
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There's a critical divide between "new technology challenges us to find implementations that actually make things better" and "new technology is inherently good," and I think working that divide is a really important project for political ideology and rhetoric.
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I have come to hate the term "techno-optimism," because it has been used to brand extreme techno-utopianism, but it's too powerful a concept to cede to the bros. Technology has made life better across history, but it's done so largely due to the kind of thoughtful implementation they want eliminated
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I think the key to getting this shit in the ground and keeping it there is to peel off "techno-optimism," as a widely-held and basically moderate belief that technology can improve material conditions, from the extreme apocalyptic utopianism of the tech bros that gets smuggled in under its cover.
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steven spielberg adaptation of a michael crichton character ass mfer
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CPAC
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🎵 eating good in the neighborhood 🎵
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Keep them small! The bigger of these fell off. Also, work the meat with your hands lol
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I dunno man, you could have just not taken the creep's story about the watermarked CSAM at face value, instead of... all this
but you're the real journalist, so go off I guess
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Achilles, the prototypical warrior of the "Western" tradition, would never
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it wasn't the marketing slogan, but it wasn't a secret either!
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carry on sailor 🫡
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not-gayness is the major recurring theme across millennia, for sure
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what an interestingly worded skeet, I probably shouldn't parse the word choice here too closely... or should I???