David Ivins

2024 Model Y Tesla Owner, work in IT, Philadelphia Sports Fan

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

@DrJoelGator @stkirsch I’ve been getting welts after getting bit. I don’t remember getting welts in years.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

No steering wheel. No pedals. No Driver.

Just tap Start Ride.

This is a full Tesla Cybercab drive in Austin — Tesla’s purpose-built two-seater robotaxi with no manual controls. No walkaround.
Just the ride.

Once both people are in, the butterfly doors close, you hit Start Ride on the 21-inch screen, and the car takes over.

Early rides keep landing on the same thing: quiet, soft, and almost boring.

It pulls away smoothly, handles speed bumps without drama, and mostly disappears into the background. Which is exactly what you want from a driverless taxi. The cabin feels more like a lounge than a car.

The bench slides and reclines, the legroom is bigger than the body looks, and the whole trip runs off that center screen plus climate and seat controls.

Starlink is built in for video, games, and entertainment while the car handles the road.

Cybercab is Tesla’s first vehicle designed only for unsupervised autonomy.

Model Y robotaxis already carried paying riders. This is the car built around that software. @elonmusk @tesla @robotaxi @Tesla_AI @EricETesla @aelluswamy

Video shot on  @insta360  Luna Ultra https://t.co/rXIHjFBNuU

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

We’ve reached the part of Freddy’s journey when a private jet operator, two $5B+ airlines and the Governor of Utah are sliding into his DMs so he can make it to Canada to watch the German World Cup team play. Incredible.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is all so insane. We found this when we got back to our room. And then someone even sent cupcakes to our room. I genuinely don’t understand how it got to this point. We’re just normal World Cup tourists.😭😭

[Andrew Wilkow @WilkowMajority]

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[Dalton Brewer @daltonbrewer]

Most people don’t realize that there is a product on the market where you can buy a robot and never have to drive a day again in your life

That product ladies and gentlemen is called a Tesla

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

If you are looking for new music to listen to go check out @blancobuffalo #thewhitebuffalo his music is amazing and I’ve seen him live twice which was great too

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

@DigitalDaisyX I’m installing it now too!

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

@SDembraski Still waiting on 14.3.2 here

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

@DigitalDaisyX Same here, 2024 model y long range stuck on 2026.2.9.10 and FSD 14.3.2

[Lior @liorsela]

Tesla is literally a trap ⚡️🚗

Once you drive a Tesla, there’s no going back. After owning one for just a few months, getting behind the wheel of any other car feels like a painful downgrade.

The instant torque hits the moment you touch the accelerator. Zero hesitation, just pure, effortless thrust.

Then there’s one-pedal driving, which quickly becomes addictive. Lift off the “gas” pedal and the car smoothly decelerates using regenerative braking, feeding energy back into the battery and adding range to every trip. No more constant brake tapping. It feels futuristic and efficient at the same time.

Even the little things spoil you. You never have to start or turn off the car. Walk away and it powers down automatically. Approach it and it wakes up, climate control already running. You can even precondition the cabin from your phone while you’re still inside.

And then there’s Summon 🤯

Watching your car quietly drive itself to you in a parking lot never gets old.

And I didn’t even mention FSD, but once you experience this level of refinement, convenience and performance, conventional cars feel outdated.

The “Tesla effect” is real. it quietly raises the bar so high that everything else disappoints.

You’ve been warned.

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

@teslascope @Tesla Been stuck on 2026.2.9.1 for awhile now. Would I get this before the Spring Update?

[The Architect. @TheMarcitect]

It's starting to become pretty clear that a shadowy group of people have hidden highly advanced technology from humanity for a very long time and are trying to keep it under wraps amidst the ongoing disclosure movement. It's not about hiding aliens it's about hiding technology.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

George Brett last at bat in the big leagues.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Tomorrow, Charlie Kirk will be laid to rest.

Let people grieve and give them the space.

[💋Elissa4Real💋 @EL4USA]

I completely agree 🙏

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

🚨BREAKING — The New York Yankees hold a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk tonight.

[David Ivins @theDaveIvins]

Much respect for this

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Before tonight's game we held a moment of silence in memoriam of Charlie Kirk.

Kirk founded the youth activist group “Turning Point USA” and had become a fixture on college campuses. Charlie Kirk, a husband and father of two children, was 31 years old.