e.w. niedermeyer

niedermeyer.online

31 Oktober 2026 05:39

What Musk is actually scared of: -DOGE hearings -Starlink hearings -NHTSA implementing a 2016 guidance that deems "foreseeable misuse" of driver assistance systems a defect -DOJ fraud charges over "Full Self-Driving" -EPA crackdown on systematically out-of-compliance facilities at Musk-run firms

David Roberts

volts.wtf

31 Oktober 2026 05:35

US political media is brute-forcing this utterly silly & pointless story to the front of the line, so that everyone has to have a take, has to talk about it. Just one more example of how media can put a thumb on the scales, all while maintaining the faux "objective" tone.

profsjw.bsky.social

31 Oktober 2026 05:33

That the NYT pushed this story so hard so close to the election seems seriously problematic to me. Like that huge picture of Clinton above the fold shortly before the presidential election in 2016, this is the NYT putting its finger on the scale & betraying its journalistic bon fides.

Micro-bleh-stics Spookmelier

eephus.biz

31 Oktober 2026 02:32

since the nytimes has decided that the main issue rn is perfectly legal vote-splitting hijinks (rather than, say, one party's financial ties to a south african mass murderer), someone should let them know that a governor candidate here is blasting out ads designed to "confuse" the electorate

Janette Moser

mjmoser.bsky.social

30 Oktober 2026 23:56

So Obama got tired of the ratfucking and put belt to ass or...? He's my guess anyways. Maybe someone else but I'm not sure who else would have that kind of influence.