Tales From The Future

Today's Cartoon- You voted for this

Either incredibly lucky/prescient or very smelly/corrupt. I suspect the latter.

David Pogue reveals why Tim Cook wouldn't be interviewed for his book As part of promoting his new book, "Apple: The First 50 Years," author David Pogue spoke to the AppleInsider Podcast about writing it and just what Apple itself would and would not do to help.

Apple at 50. Fascinating book project:

“So Samsung started out as a dried fish company, Nokia began as a paper mill. You know, Apple started out simplifying complex technology in order to sell it to the masses. And that is exactly what they still do.”

$AAPL

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Shamelessly stolen from the hellsite called X nowadays… #magamorons.

🚨 BREAKING: Tesla's "Unsupervised Robotaxis" (no safety drivers) were cut from 8 to 4.

Only 1 is in service while the others aren't operating.

"Supervised Robotaxis", with safety drivers had 14 crashes & are 4x less safe than humans.

Why launch the Cybercab if FSD isn't working properly?

$TSLA

Reminder… #timestamp

Trump clearly lives in a different reality.

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The sarcastic timeline jokes write themselves. #magamorons

This is far from over:

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Nero fiddles while Rome burns….

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To the "I didn't vote for this" folks. You voted for a convicted felon. A twice-impeached president. A man found liable for sexual abuse, who tried to overthrow an election. And now gas prices are surging, we're at war, and soldiers are coming home in coffins. This is what you voted for. All of it.

The sane people of the US have been saying the same thing since 2017.

😕🇺🇸

Aging like sour milk…

“Explosions have been reported on two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf off Iraq, killing at least one person, according to authorities…”

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The fragile insecure flower is crying again.

Musk confirms xAI-Tesla joint 'Digital Optimus' project — after saying Tesla didn't need xAI Elon Musk announced Digital Optimus, a joint xAI-Tesla AI project, contradicting his 2024 claim that Tesla had 'no need' for xAI — amid an ongoing breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit.

Liar, liar… On brand: for Tesla:

“The announcement directly contradicts Musk’s own September 2024 statement that Tesla had “NO NEED to license anything from xAI”, and it lands while Tesla shareholders are actively suing him for breach of fiduciary duty..”

$TSLA $TSLAQ

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The rate of senior executives leaving (where Tesla is bragging about changing the World and what not…) is alarming.

These aren’t normal turnover rates.

$TSLA $TSLAQ

Gigafactory Mexico (and all other vaporware GFs planned internationally) have been shelved indefinitely.

PS: I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla shrinks the existing GF in Germany, since Tesla’s EV sales in Europe have been so poor since Q12025. Lots of overcapacity in Berlin.

$TSLA $TSLAQ #timestamp

Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' drives through railroad crossing barriers in viral video A viral video shows a Tesla Model 3 on 'Full Self-Driving' driving straight through railroad crossing barriers in LA — as NHTSA's data deadline hits today.

Exhibit 1. After Tesla tried this FOR A DECADE with improved cameras and FSD HW boards. Still not working as advertised…

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Exclusive: China's Hesai to halve lidar prices next year, sees wide adoption in electric cars China's Hesai Group , the world's largest maker of lidar sensors for autonomous driving, said it plans to slash the price of its key product by half next year which should lead to far wider adoption o...

PS: Chinese suppliers like Hesai still keep driving LIDAR prices down:

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“Hesai's next-generation lidar product ATX for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will be sold next year for under $200, half the price of the current AT128 model.”

$200 only!

Exclusive: China's Hesai to halve lidar prices next year, sees wide adoption in electric cars China's Hesai Group , the world's largest maker of lidar sensors for autonomous driving, said it plans to slash the price of its key product by half next year which should lead to far wider adoption o...

PS: Chinese suppliers like Hesai still keep driving LIDAR prices down:

www.reuters.com/technology/c...

And Tesla (or Elon Musk) probably didn’t anticipate LIDAR HW costs to fall so rapidly over the past decade.

He anticipated getting FSD done “soon” back in 2016 already (when LIDAR HW costs were admittedly high.)

Musk sets impossible criteria - cameras can't do it all.

Director gets canned for failing to deliver the impossible.

Tesla's other problem is they are now a legacy manufacturer with a tail of outdated cars that they can't afford to update. No longer the disruptor.

True.

Tesla loses software director who built its OTA and Robotaxi infrastructure Thomas Dmytryk, the Tesla director who built the automaker's OTA update system and Robotaxi ride-hailing infrastructure, has left after 11 years amid a growing executive exodus.

Sums it up:

“The timing here is difficult to ignore. Tesla is in the middle of trying to prove that its Robotaxi business is real and scalable, not just a stock price narrative…”. $TSLA $TSLAQ

Some things are deeply rotten at Tesla. Too many senior departures lately...
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Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ drives through railroad crossing barriers in viral video A viral video shows a Tesla Model 3 on “Full Self-Driving” driving straight through railroad crossing barriers in the Los Angeles area, failing to detect the crossing gate entirely. The incident comes on the same day as NHTSA’s deadline for Tesla to turn over critical data from its investigation into FSD traffic violations — an investigation that specifically includes railroad crossing failures. more…

Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ drives through railroad crossing barriers in viral video

Johannes M. Koenraadt: I just learned that Iran is an extremely mountainous country. If anyone in Tel Aviv or Washington thinks they can beat Iran, they are mentally unwell.

Geopolitical commentator and author of “Revival of the West” just learned Iran has mountains everywhere and is ready to lecture US leadership on the war lmao

PPS: Iran seems to have a plan this time (at least a better one than in 2025):

“The Gulf is more effectively integrated into key global supply chains than Israel. If the Gulf goes off line, the world economy will feel it..”

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