Soooooo my @Tesla @cybertruck crashed into a curb and then a light post on v13.2.4. Thank you @Tesla for engineering the best passive safety in the world. I walked away without a scratch. It failed to merge out of a lane that was ending (there was no one on my left) and made no attempt to slow down or turn until it had already hit the curb. Big fail on my part, obviously. Don't make the same mistake I did. Pay attention. It can happen. I follow Tesla and FSD pretty closely and haven't heard of any accident on V13 at all before this happened. It is easy to get complacent now - don't. @Tesla_AI how do I make sure you have the data you need from this incident? Service center etc has been less than responsive on this. I do have the dashcam footage. I want to get it out there as a PSA that it can happen, even on v13, but I'm hesitant because I don't want the attention and I don't want to give the bears/haters any material. Spread my message and help save others from the same fate or far worse.
Musk paid what $22 billion for Twitter? He bought the United States government for $250 million. Heckuva deal.
President Musk announced plans to eliminate entire departments. The ones regulating his businesses and investigating his legal violations.
Nick Kristoff describes effect of freezing AID. Children starving because food in warehouse can't be released. Hospital closing with patients taken away on donkey carts. Women dying in childbirth. Ebola epidemic. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/usaid-foreign-aid.html But Musk got a $400 million contract and a transgender congresswoman is being kept out of women's restroom.
As Musk goes blithely about gutting the agencies that regulate his business ventures, I for one am very appreciative of his "volunteering" efforts.
Russia asks Elon Musk to hand over names of dissidents MPs in Moscow want a list of Russians funded by USAid, the American aid scheme shut down by Donald Trump, to be given to the security services Moscow has appealed to the US to identify exiled Russian opposition figures who received funding from America’s international aid agency, which Elon Musk described as a “criminal organisation”. President Trump’s move to freeze international assistance for 90 days and suspend the work of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) has devastated funding for Russian opposition media and human rights groups. Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the Duma, Russia’s parliament, said on Tuesday: “If they recognised the [USAid] organisation as an enemy, let them give us the lists. Congress will send us the lists — we will give them to the FSB [Russian security service].” Musk, who has been tasked by Trump with slashing billions from public spending, has alleged that USAid was illegally funnelling money to far-left organisations. He did not provide evidence. Trump said USAid was “run by radical lunatics”. Volodin said that exiled Russian opposition figures would be left “hungry and cold” after US funding was cut off. “Those who received money from abroad, now let them publicly confess and repent on Red Square,” he told MPs. Up to 90 opposition-linked organisations have already lost their funding, according to The Moscow Times, an independent website that has been banned in Russia. Created by John F Kennedy during the Cold War, USAid was seen for decades as a vital element of American soft power. It has distributed billions of dollars in aid to some of the world’s most impoverished countries. https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/russia-elon-musk-list-names-dissidents-usaid-s798gktd7
