When I was in college I never qualified for one DEI program. I am Asian.
My friend did. Because of her race. She failed a beginner programming course and still got a high paying internship. Just like that.
I did not. Same company didn’t interview me.
Asians don’t qualify for DEI programs.
@TeslaBoomerMama@Kalshi It's the only one I can find.
What happened most likely is that since the market volume is relatively low and one big bet in that bucket spiked it up briefly, enough to trigger their automated X post but not enough to register on the price history line.
Dave: “Hello, caller, you are on the air.”
Caller: “I don’t think billionaires create value.”
Dave: “Okay. What do you mean by that?”
Caller: “Nobody can earn a billion dollars ethically.”
Dave: “Alright. What do you do for a living?”
Caller: “Well, before this, I was a bartender.”
Dave: “Nothing wrong with bartending. Honest work.”
Caller: “Right.”
Dave: “And now?”
Caller: “I work in government.”
Dave: “Okay. So let me get this straight. You're saying Elon Musk, who helped build PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink, has made innovations like online payments, electric cars, rockets, and satellite internet possible, didn't earn his way to being a billionaire?"
Caller: “None of that justifies being a billionaire.”
Dave: “Well, sure sounds like value got created somewhere along the line.”
Caller: “I disagree.”
Dave: “What exactly did you build?”
Caller: “I advocate for economic justice.”
Dave: “No ma’am, I mean actual products.”
Caller: “…”
Dave: “You’re telling me the guy catching rockets mid-air created less value than a person who used to serve mojitos and now votes on spending his tax dollars?”
Caller: “That’s unfair.”
Dave: “What’s unfair is pretending markets are imaginary while cashing a government paycheck funded by the businesses you claim don’t create value.”
Caller: “I’m actually a congresswoman.”
Dave: “Oh Lord. Of course!"
Welcome to the world Cybercab!
The first vehicle designed for mass production without a human driver.
Today marks SOP (start of production).
That alone is a milestone. For over a decade, multiple companies have pursued the same goal: a purpose-built, fully autonomous vehicle— either for a robotaxi network or private ownership. The vision has been consistent: no steering wheel, no pedals, no expectation of human intervention.
In 2014, Apple launched “Project Titan,” an effort that, at various points, explored exactly this concept. Reports described a fully autonomous vehicle with a cabin more akin to a lounge (seating oriented inward, no traditional controls), with a design sensibility influenced by Jony Ive.
But the core challenge was never the vehicle— it was autonomy. Despite years of iteration, strategic resets, and an estimated $10 billion in spending, Apple ultimately canceled the program in February 2024, unable to bring a viable self-driving system to production.
That context matters.
Because building a car without a steering wheel is a design decision. Making it drive itself— reliably, at scale, in the real world— is the hard problem.
Tesla is now attempting to cross that boundary.
If Cybercab reaches meaningful production and operates as intended, it won’t just be another vehicle launch— it will mark the first time a fully autonomous system is deployed at scale.
Elon Musk said today that vehicles like Cybercab are designed to become Tesla’s highest-volume products over time, as the company shifts toward a fully autonomous fleet model— vehicles operating continuously in a network, rather than sitting idle as privately owned assets.
That distinction matters. The scale comes from utilization, not just units.
That’s the achievement being pursued.
And that’s why today matters.
@sillydarket OpenClaw `memory_get` only reads `https://t.co/CfOSs7yxIs` + `memory/**/*.md` (it rejects other paths), so a vault at `workspace/vault/` would not be recallable via `memory_search` → `memory_get`.
How would you get this to work? Symlinks?
@kepano Okay that makes sense
I asked my openclaw bot if he thought it would be useful to use Obsidian to be ground truth for visible system flows and it recommended instead to keep using text files but built a dashboard for me to visualize. This seems to be working well for now
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.