Art of the deal

This is way better than Robo Taxi convoys of 2 chase cars following one driverless vehicle. A fraction of the footprint and manpower cost of Musk’s venture.

Pena uses his social networks to echo the stories of migrants as well as voices critical of Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and those supportive of its recently jailed former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who is an ally of Trump.

The US’s estimated 2 million-strong Brazilian community has been badly affected by Trump’s anti-migrant offensive, with the number of deported Brazilians hitting a record high of 2,785 last year, compared with 1,640 in 2024.

Well, it is the story of migrants.

In a previous video, Pena reportedly urged Brazilians to stay calm and not “despair” after reports that ICE agents were rounding up migrants, including Brazilians. “But they’re all crooks. The lot of them,” he falsely claimed of the migrants being seized.

On Saturday, Pena was himself reportedly detained and sent to the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. One friend told the local newspaper the Brazilian Times that Pena had been taken into custody after missing a court hearing.

True journalism is not reporting the pulse but the movement of the heart. He’s so close to the source because he’s the problem.

No matter how despicable each person turns out to be, remember that all of them are less weird than Elon Musk in the eyes of other pedos.

I’ve heard this story from Wisconsin before. Let’s see if this feels familiar: a community leader makes unilateral choices about how the community resources are spent. Contracts signed in secret make it all binding. “It’s about progress/prosperity/the future of this community” speech by the leader who is being assaulted by the community for not including them in this decision.

The community now has to live with the burden placed on them by others. The big corporation eventually backs out and the community is destroyed, left to rebuild with only the resources available to maintain so slowly the community withers and dies.

Never change Wisconsin.

Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.

They wanted a jump start on living under an authoritarian regime

You’re the one who wants him to die. He wants to live and show how cool free climbing is.

“Can’t compete with the global super rich? Lower your standards and be happy!”

Just when you would think America is as backward as anyone can get, some brilliant bogan takes the spotlight.

Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington might team up with Central California and fuck it all up.

“Trains keep crashing, my family wants to not use trains” seems like a common sense approach when the rail network in one region is having some very serious issues. Stay with trains outside of Spain but don’t let train brain cross you in Spain.

Let’s make this AI boom a thud!

Save money and skip AI

Yeah, conservatives don’t think of the future except through the lens of the present. They can’t imagine a world with EVs and batteries because they have oil brains. They are looking for solutions to problems with an oil first mindset. Sunk cost is everything.

Oxfam putting numbers to what we all know. At least someone is keeping track.

Timing. Saying common sense stuff before others gives you an edge and being the first to say it with any eloquence, in a way people want to listen and are accepting of what’s being said. A lot of what Cory Doctorow says can be hard to hear or hard to deliver without sounding condescending like NDT. His talent is in the delivery.

Trump would be shocked to learn that Cuba has a president. And it isn’t him.

Such a lazy answer to the problems of the day. Banning is dumb. Teach how to spot misinformation, enforce empathy, and fucking get rid of the class system to remove interpersonal inequality. But no, England doesn’t do what it’s supposed to; only what it can to get by for now.

Judging from the anger over ICE and anti-american administration if Trump tries to stop the election there will be riots and strikes.