techy tuesdays

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Alex Karp on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani:

“Obviously someone who has no work experience ever, who has views that have never worked, should not be put in charge of the most important enterprise of its kind, maybe in the world.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Lemur’s version of yoga is called sunning.

During this behavior, which helps them warm up after a cold night, ring-tailed lemurs sit upright with their arms and legs outstretched and their bellies facing the sun to absorb its heat

[📹 dani.villar_]

[NicholasGibbs @NickGibbsIAG]

Holly Shit!

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The first Unsupervised @Tesla Model Y robotaxi rides in Miami have begun.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

A total of 375,000 new minivans were sold in the U.S. in 2025. Americans bought nearly 9 million SUVs. Minivans are no doubt the most practical family vehicle you can buy, but most people want SUVs.

A true full-size 3-row SUV makes more financial sense for Tesla to sell than a minivan.

[techy tuesdays @TechyTuesdays]

@thejefflutz @ZacksJerryRig @Tesla He’s like the guy trying to disprove the earth was round but instead debunked his own theory. He won’t understand until he rides in one. And he won’t ride in one because unicorns aren’t real. Waste of time responding to these guys. I just talk to people who don’t know better.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Will the A/C be set to 78° at Taylor Swift's wedding, @NYCMayor?

[Davide Scifo @strange_days_82]

“È tutta una bufala”: Lindzen & Happer smascherano l’allarmismo climatico

Prof. Richard Lindzen
Professore emerito di Meteorologia al MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) e precedentemente a Harvard. Uno dei più autorevoli climatologi al mondo, ha fatto parte dell’IPCC (il panel ONU sul clima) e per decenni ha studiato la fisica dell’atmosfera e le dinamiche del clima. Critico storico dell’allarmismo climatico.
Prof. William Happer
Professore emerito di Fisica alla Princeton University. Fisico di fama internazionale, è stato consulente scientifico di tre presidenti americani e uno dei massimi esperti mondiali di fisica delle radiazioni e spettroscopia atomica (proprio il campo che spiega l’effetto della CO₂ sull’atmosfera). Entrambi sono tra i pochi scienziati di altissimo livello che da anni sostengono, con dati alla mano, che l’allarmismo sul clima è fortemente esagerato e che un aumento di 1,5°C non rappresenta una catastrofe.
#cambiamentoclimatico #CambioClimático #caldo #clima #meteo #Lindzen #Happer #climatechange #heat

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Chinese makers have scaled to thousands of affordable humanoid units, but it's worth noting those are humanoid bodies.

Half-decent 5-finger hands with human-like DoF still run $25k to $50k each, and maintenance is quite high. A robot that ships with a well-integrated, reliable hands hasn't achieved scalability yet. Body and hand are out of sync on reliability and performance.

The real long-term challenge of humanoids as a product is still the hands. And rapidly iterating on the design while ramping up production is like building the plane while flying it.

Elon is being realistic here. The prototypes and products will keep evolving for the next few years. Just cranking out robot bodies won't deliver useful general-purpose robots. It'll take a lot more engineering iterations, in lockstep with rapidly evolving the production processes.

Yes, there's a middle ground of shipping robots with grippers instead of hands. But Tesla is apparently aiming for the ultimate prize: the most general-purpose form that we know works.

[Anth🇬🇧 @AnthNFS]

We must demand the immediate release of the bodycam footage from the recent unlawful arrest in Birmingham.

The handling of this incident is a blatant failure of duty, as the arresting officer targeted the white male as the aggressor despite the clear reality of the situation.

It is impossible that the officer did not see the two black males actively attacking him before charging in to make the arrest.

@BrumPolice are now requesting people stop sharing the footage.

The police have learned nothing from the death of Henry Nowak.

Video credit to @KnockoutAudit

Shame on you @BrumPolice you have failed your city.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

7,000 ICE detainers.
So New York just RELEASED them.

Criminal aliens accused of 29 murders, 2,500 assaults, 300 robberies, 200 burglaries, and hundreds of sexual assaults RELEASED instead of turned over to federal immigration authorities.

ENOUGH.

Crossing our border illegally is not a golden ticket.

It doesn’t give you the right to stay.
It doesn’t guarantee you citizenship.

And it sure as hell doesn’t give you the right to prey on the American people.

Government exists to protect its own citizens first.

Americans deserve leaders who enforce the law, NOT leftwing “leaders,” that release dangerous offenders back into our communities.

[techy tuesdays @TechyTuesdays]

I’m waiting for them!

[Drive Tesla 🇨🇦 @DriveTeslaca]

The Model Y L Launch Series is US$61,990, which is roughly C$88,000. Add in the U.S. tariffs, and it would easily be over C$100K if Canada was still being supplied by the U.S.

Canada missing out may not be a bad thing. When it does arrive here, it will likely be after the end of the Launch Series, and come from either China or Germany.

Given how Tesla has been able to price the Model 3 and Model Y from those markets, the price could be considerably lower.

[Franman @Whiskey_Foxhole]

No shit. Monetization has ruined X. Grifters posting recycled garbage and propaganda over and over turns For You feeds into shit and for each one you mute/block, 5 more show up on refresh.

Just look how many times Mila Joy the Spambot has posted this fake story about her neighbor comforting her husband "yesterday" for the past 2 years.

Kill monetization!

[Mahkus @mahkus]

As a Cybertruck owner with Powerwalls, we still don't have Powershare after almost 2 years of waiting.

I'm sure it will be released eventually, but Tesla continues to advertise features their vehicles don't currently support.

Maybe the YL is why it's taken so long?

[techy tuesdays @TechyTuesdays]

@wholemars Auto theft. Children trying to start the car.

[Jeff Lutz 🔋 @thejefflutz]

We won’t see the media challenge him on this. He knows he can take his 5-10 interviews / day on friendly networks and just keep bashing away… limousine lib

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

I thought the ASPCA ran most animal shelters.

I was wrong.

They collect more than $300 million (Those sad commercials with dogs in cages are a gold mine) in donations, but spend only 2% of that on shelters.

Where does the money go?:

[techy tuesdays @TechyTuesdays]

@TeslaBest But she got paid well!

[BestInTESLA @TeslaBest]

While GM and Mary Barra have repeatedly positioned themselves as the leaders in the EV race, the numbers tell a different story.

GM once projected it would sell 1 million EVs in the U.S. in 2025 and surpass Tesla by a wide margin. Instead, in Q2 2026, GM sold just 27,395 EVs in the U.S. — a steep 41% decline year-over-year.

Yet we're told Tesla is the one with the "demand problem" and that nobody wants Teslas anymore. Apparently only Elon’s predictions are unreliable.

What makes GM’s results even weaker is that these 27,395 units are spread across 10 different models. That’s a self-inflicted complexity nightmare, struggling to sell just a few thousand units per model.

Remember, GM originally promised 20 EV models by 2023. That didn’t happen.
So they moved the goalposts again, promising 30 EV models by 2025 along with that 1 million unit target.
That didn’t happen either.

Fast forward to 2026: GM’s entire lineup of 10 models combined is selling less than Tesla’s Model Y alone, or even the Model 3, in the U.S. market.

The timeline of bold declarations makes it clearer:
2023 was supposed to be GM’s "Breakout Year" for EVs. It wasn’t.
2024 was the "Year of Execution." It wasn’t.
2025 - the year they were going to overtake Tesla, ended with GM taking roughly $8 billion in writedowns on its EV business.

And now in 2026, the results continue to underwhelm.
Leadership matters, Mary. You led — and the results speak for themselves.

[techy tuesdays @TechyTuesdays]

@RandyWKirk1 They said sell off triggered by the Tesla semi crash