BREAKING - A 92-page report by the California State Auditor has found that over $70 billion in taxpayer funds have been lost, including $2.5 billion in SNAP fraud, $24 billion on fighting homelessness, and $18 billion for a high-speed rail where not a single track has been laid.
I realize more and more that there is such a thing as dumb person in life.
“Turn off the lights and vision fails, LiDAR keeps working” may sound logical in theory, but the Waymo SF power outage really just disproved it.
During the recent San Francisco power outage, Waymo’s entire LiDAR-heavy robotaxi fleet went offline. Literally the entire fleet just stopped operating. Meanwhile, all Tesla Robotaxis kept running!
Tesla’s vision-based system is trained on billions of miles, neural nets, and, most importantly, doesn’t require a city to be perfectly powered to function. An alien UFO could land in the middle of nowhere with the entire city blacked out and it will still work.
Humans don’t drive with lasers.
We drive with our eyes, we process what we see with our brain, and then we react with our body.
Tesla does the same thing, except the brain is AI, trained on billions of real-world miles. Tesla’s Vision system learns the world as it is, adapts in real time, and improves continuously and is NOT dependent on special maps, perfect lighting, or city-by-city infrastructure like LiDAR.
That’s why it scales.
With a simple software update, Tesla’s Vision AI can operate anywhere instead of just where the environment was pre-approved or carefully controlled like LiDAR.
This is how generalized real-world autonomy gets solved. I believe this will be obvious in hindsight.
Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth (IL) forced to admit she has NOT seen the actual footage of the strikes she’s using to call Pete Hegseth a war criminal:
“I just want to make sure...you have seen the classified video..."
DUCKWORTH: "No...I have NOT seen the actual video."
Dems: "Requiring ID to vote is insane!!"
Countries that require an ID to vote:
UK
Italy
Chile
Spain
Malta
Brazil
Israel
Latvia
Russia
France
Mexico
Austria
Ireland
Poland
Greece
Croatia
Finland
Estonia
Belgium
Sweden
Bulgaria
Portugal
Hungary
Ecuador
Slovenia
Slovakia
Romania
Denmark
Germany
Lithuania
Argentina
Columbia
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Luxemburg
Netherlands
South Africa
Czech Republic
(Just to name a few)
SB 549 amends NIFTI-2 to enable cities/counties to allocate property taxes to infrastructure districts from Jan 2026, mandating 40% for affordable housing. It authorizes LA County to create a Resilient Rebuilding Authority for 2025 wildfire recovery, empowering it to acquire fire-destroyed lots cheaply, coordinate rebuilding, and develop low-income housing. Passed Senate May 29, 2025; pending in Assembly.
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya’s interview with Andrew Schulz just went viral.
He exposed the truth about Trump’s tariffs:
It's more than a trade war...he's completely redistributing American wealth.
Here are the untold secrets of the President's $750B gamble: 🧵
🚨BREAKING: FORD is now offering American customers employee pricing worth thousands of dollars
"FROM AMERICA, FOR AMERICA" deal.
"Ford, the most-American auto company, is gonna do right by them."
"We make the most cars here. We employ the most, we export the most. We here, at Ford, are in a good position to address customers' concern, and give them a great deal."
Just learned about how Chicago sold the rights to all of its parking meter revenue to the UAE for $1.1B in 2008. The city is currently collecting ~$150M/yr (and growing) in parking meter fees and then sends it straight to Dubai... Until 2083
What the fuck
Gas prices just hit 3-year lows, mortgage rates are falling, inflation’s cooling, and border crossings have basically stopped. These are all things that Democrats argued a president had no control over. Democrats were for @DOGE for decades, but now that @realDonaldTrump’s the one doing the DOGE’ing, they’re standing up for waste, fraud, and abuse. Now, Trump’s fighting the trade war that Democrats promised to fight for decades but never did. Democrats are crying foul, but the whole world treats America like a duty-free shop and the only strategy Democrats ever offered up is print and spend money until we go bankrupt.
Gavin Newsom March 2023: We are deploying 1200 tiny homes by Fall at a cost of 750 million taxpayer dollars.
Reality: Two years later neither the 1200 tiny homes or 750 million taxpayer dollars can be found