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49 minutes ago, Deej said:

Is that an officially licensed Cyber Truck cover? 

Yes. It's made out of Cambodian dick skin and it cost $75,000. They aren't selling well and everyone in that project sector will not only be fired, but also humiliated. 

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11 minutes ago, Chooky said:

Yes. It's made out of Cambodian dick skin and it cost $75,000. They aren't selling well but everyone in that project sector never disagrees with "management" and has therefor been promoted. 

They are expanding research and social media marketing efforts.

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4 hours ago, Chooky said:

Him and Nick Fuentes can do a roommate sitcom in it. Alex Jones can be the cranky, suspicious landlord.

Come and knock on my door

They're gonna need a gay female to round out the Three's Company trifecta and I've got the perfect cast member:

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6 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

The test is not complete without the most important appendage being subjected to the "cut off test".

Inb4 some chud sticks his dick in the cybertruck and gets cyber circumcised 

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2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Is there an epidemic of people leaving fingers and toes in closing doors and trunks, automated or otherwise?

Probably not, it's just that every other car built in the last decade with automatic doors has had sensors and panel edges that wouldn't allow it. 

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We have something to thank Elmo for?

https://gizmodo.com/robot-legit-elon-musk-fake-optimus-tesla-demo-astribot-1851455513

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Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla’s robot demo wasn’t all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company’s much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it’s interesting to see robot manufacturers now include assurances in their videos that they’re not doing the same deceptive magic trick as Musk.

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Musk often posts videos of Optimus, but they’ve been underwhelming, to say the least. Finally, when Musk posted a video back in January of Optimus folding a shirt, eagle-eyed viewers noticed a hand that kept slipping into frame, clearly showing someone was actually operating the robot.

The technique here is called “teleoperation,” and has been used in robotics since the 1940s. Essentially someone moves their own hand and the robot mimics the movement. It’s cool for mid-20th-century tech, but it’s not the kind of autonomous robot movements that people here in the 21st century expect for cutting-edge and futuristic products.

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And all of that brings us to an interesting phenomenon we’re starting to see in the wake of Musk getting embarrassed by his robot fakery. Robot companies are now including notices when they post new demo videos that make it clear the machine is operating autonomously.

 

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1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

That Megatron video is hilarious. Decepticon salesman. 

Ftfy

Among the other misleading aspects of that video was the name of the robot. I've adjusted appropriately.

It also had 2 voice responses:

"You are being deceived" and "Peace through tyranny", which, if my not mistaken, are Tesla's corporate mottos.

 

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On 5/4/2024 at 5:40 PM, Sawbonz said:

Is there an epidemic of people leaving fingers and toes in closing doors and trunks, automated or otherwise?

I figured you’d be elated at these developments

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also, as of last night - per blind - there are more TSLA layoffs. how are these people so bad at batching them? 3 rounds in like 4 weeks?

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Tesla-employees-in-Austin-got-impacted-few-minutes-back-please-do-check-your-emails-or-your-access-sorry-to-hear-guys-tjgJAZxC

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Tesla employees in Austin got impacted few minutes back, please do check your emails or your access, sorry to hear guys.

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linkedin is saying lots of process engineer type folks, firing service center employees (yeah, that will solve your issue when you have a huge backlog on a vehicle that can basically only be worked on at one place!)

a clear lack of direction - they made huge cuts to the people who design the new cars, the people who build the batteries who run the cars (entire cathode dept), the people who run the system that charges the batteries when you aren't at home (charging dept) and now the people who fix the car when it isn't working (service dept)

totally normal things.

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Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos

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Firstly, Tesla states that it is “attempting” to connect with suppliers and that it may have sent multiple emails to some of them. This suggests that Tesla doesn’t have an established method of contact for all of its suppliers – either it doesn’t have a master contact list, or its previous method including points of contact within Tesla is not usable because, well, those points of contact would have been fired.

Second, it says that the “adjustment” (an odd word for firing an entire department) has led to a process of establishing new leadership roles. This is typically something that a company would consider before changing leaders, and ensure that there are current employees with experience who are ready to step up to take the position of a retiring leader, perhaps with a period of mentorship prior to the outgoing leader’s retirement.

Even in a situation where a firing is sudden, it’s typically reasonable to elevate a previous second-in-command to fill the void. This is why it’s beneficial to have a deep bench – something which Tesla has touted before.

Third, Tesla goes on to mention that these suppliers are “expecting to be paid,” which suggests that Tesla is likely to welch on its payment obligations, at least in the short term. We have seen Musk refuse to pay bills before, so mention of skipping out on payment must raise alarm bells for suppliers who have been working in good faith with Tesla.

Finally, Tesla asks for suppliers to continue construction on active projects, but to hold on breaking ground or doing pre-construction site walks. This could be considered unclear, as there are many parallel steps to approval, permitting and construction of sites, so it’s hard to set a single line that is easily communicated about which sites should continue and which sites shouldn’t. Presumably, site contacts within Tesla would be able to reach out to individual sites and tell them whether to continue construction or not – if they were still working there, which it seems they are not.

 

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After firing its entire Supercharger team, Tesla has sent out an email to suppliers which shows just how chaotic the decisionmaking leading up to the firings must have been.

Earlier this week, Tesla abruptly fired its entire Supercharging team, leading to an immediate pullback in Supercharger installation plans. Now we’ve seen the email that Tesla has sent to suppliers, and it’s not pretty.

When the firings were announced Monday night, there was little information about how they would affect Tesla’s plans.

On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that “Tesla still plans to grow the Supercharger network, just at a slower pace for new locations and more focus on 100% uptime and expansion of existing locations.” According to Tesla’s website, Superchargers currently have 99.95% uptime.

But in the interim, we’ve already heard about Supercharger projects being cancelled, including halting rollout in the entire country of Australia, including sites that had already been subject to long-term leases and given the go-ahead for construction which will now be abandoned.

And Tesla has also sent out an email to all of its suppliers, which leaked to the internet. Here it is in full, but with contact information redacted:

To all concerned:

You may be aware that there has been a recent adjustment with the Supercharger organization which is presently undergoing a sudden and thorough restructuring. If you have already received this email, please disregard it as we are attempting to connect with our suppliers and contractors. As part of this process, we are in the midst of establishing new leadership roles, prioritizing projects, and streamlining our payment procedures. Due to the transitional nature of this phase, we are asking for your patience with our response time.

I understand that this period of change may be challenging and that patience is not easy when expecting to be paid, however, I want to express my sincere appreciation for your understanding and support as we navigate through this transition. At this time, please hold on breaking ground on any newly awarded construction projects and planned pre-construction walks. If currently working on an active Supercharging construction site, please continue. Contact for further questions, comments, and concerns. Additionally, hold on working on any new material orders. Contact for further questions, comments, and concerns. If waiting on delayed payment, please contact for a status update. Thank you for your cooperation and patience.

The email is remarkable for several reasons, largely because it shows a lack of structure and consideration to the decision to fire the entire team.

Firstly, Tesla states that it is “attempting” to connect with suppliers and that it may have sent multiple emails to some of them. This suggests that Tesla doesn’t have an established method of contact for all of its suppliers – either it doesn’t have a master contact list, or its previous method including points of contact within Tesla is not usable because, well, those points of contact would have been fired.

Second, it says that the “adjustment” (an odd word for firing an entire department) has led to a process of establishing new leadership roles. This is typically something that a company would consider before changing leaders, and ensure that there are current employees with experience who are ready to step up to take the position of a retiring leader, perhaps with a period of mentorship prior to the outgoing leader’s retirement.

Even in a situation where a firing is sudden, it’s typically reasonable to elevate a previous second-in-command to fill the void. This is why it’s beneficial to have a deep bench – something which Tesla has touted before.

Third, Tesla goes on to mention that these suppliers are “expecting to be paid,” which suggests that Tesla is likely to welch on its payment obligations, at least in the short term. We have seen Musk refuse to pay bills before, so mention of skipping out on payment must raise alarm bells for suppliers who have been working in good faith with Tesla.

Finally, Tesla asks for suppliers to continue construction on active projects, but to hold on breaking ground or doing pre-construction site walks. This could be considered unclear, as there are many parallel steps to approval, permitting and construction of sites, so it’s hard to set a single line that is easily communicated about which sites should continue and which sites shouldn’t. Presumably, site contacts within Tesla would be able to reach out to individual sites and tell them whether to continue construction or not – if they were still working there, which it seems they are not.

Other charging providers have reacted to Tesla’s disruption of its own Supercharger plans, with at least one company, Revel, suggesting that it’s ready to swoop in on “really good sites” that Tesla left on the table, particularly in Revel’s home in New York City.

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To ask for patience is reasonable when an unforeseen circumstance hits a company, but this is not an unforeseen circumstance – it is entirely self-inflicted by Musk’s seemingly haphazard decision to fire… everyone.

We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla’s EV Charging division, resisted Musk’s demand to fire large portions of her team.

While this is hearsay, it’s plausible considering the language in Musk’s letter announcing the firings – which claimed that some executives are not taking headcount reduction seriously, and made a point to say that executives who retain the wrong employees may see themselves and their whole teams cut. It isn’t a stretch to think that Musk included those demands since they were related to his firing of Tinucci and her team.

The Supercharging team was one of the more successful and crucial teams within Tesla, and many observers consider the Supercharger network to be Tesla’s primary “moat” that makes it better than the competition. Tinucci was also responsible for negotiating NACS agreements across the industry, leading to a huge win when Tesla’s plug became the de facto standard after basically every automaker adopted it over the course of the last year.

Superchargers are also incredibly important, especially in North America. In Europe there are more successful non-Tesla charge providers, but in NA, Tesla is the big dog. And if infrastructure is important, then Tesla pulling back is bad not just for Tesla but for EVs as a whole.

It seems abundantly clear that, whatever explanation we accept, the firing of the Supercharger team was not well-considered (and our readers seem to agree). Even if headcount reduction is necessary, the whole team shouldn’t be laid off. Even if it was necessary as a retaliatory measure – which would not be a good rationale – it still would be wiser to retain some part of it so as to avoid the chaos evident in the email above.

Whatever mechanism led to the firing, it does fit into a pattern of increasingly erratic behavior that Musk has been showing lately.

 

 

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31 minutes ago, NoName said:

the bottom tweet this is in reply to has a nice cut from a guys CT door, so spoilering it but the top one is funny

 

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This has happened to me before. I parked my son's Tundra on an incline and the bottom edge of the door hit me right below the knee. It was like getting hit with a dull machete.

I did blame the truck and yelled "fucking shitty Toyota!" as blood ran down my leg.

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On 5/4/2024 at 12:51 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

I bet Elon is eager to snap up this bargain!

IF it's so expensive to maintain why don't they just raze the fucking thing? Sell just the land or turn it into a park or memorial. 

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Cincinnati, one of the 4.5 high net worth insurance carriers currently writing business in Texas, has decided the Cybertruck is ineligible for auto coverage with them due to the cost to replace even on smaller collisions. Essentially, it has decided that the way the shell is designed you need to replace everything so even minor accidents are very costly.

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7 hours ago, NoName said:

also, as of last night - per blind - there are more TSLA layoffs. how are these people so bad at batching them? 3 rounds in like 4 weeks?

Can confirm. Client said the 10% number reported to the press was wrong, and it was more like 20% per last week. 

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Cincinnati, one of the 4.5 high net worth insurance carriers currently writing business in Texas, has decided the Cybertruck is ineligible for auto coverage with them due to the cost to replace even on smaller collisions. Essentially, it has decided that the way the shell is designed you need to replace everything so even minor accidents are very costly.

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The Wall Street Journal podcast The Future of Everything recently sat down with Dr. Benjamin Rapoport, a neurosurgeon who co-founded Neuralink with Musk and a team of scientists back in 2016. Rapoport left Neuralink to start his own company called Precision Neuroscience and one specific part of the interview really stood out to us. Specifically, the part where Rapoport seemed to suggest he left over safety concerns.

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“You co-founded Neuralink alongside Elon Musk, and you ended up leaving to start Precision. Why did you decide to leave and start a new company?” the Wall Street Journal’s Danny Lewis asked in the May 3 episode.

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“I’ve pretty much devoted my entire professional life to bringing neural interfaces from the world of science to the world of medicine. But I felt that in order to move to the world of medicine and technology, safety is paramount,” Dr. Rapaport said. 

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“For a medical device, safety often implies minimal invasiveness,” Rapaport continued. “And in the early days of brain-computer interfaces, there was this notion that in order to extract information-rich data from the brain, one needed to penetrate the brain with tiny little needle-like electrodes”

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Dr. Rapaport continued to explain on the podcast that this method has one big drawback. It causes “some amount of brain damage when they’re inserted to the brain.” That, of course, is less than ideal. And Rapaport says he believed it was possible, “to extract information-rich data from the brain without damaging the brain.”

Dr. Rapaport goes on to say he formed Precision Neuroscience with that philosophy in mind. It was crucial to focus on “minimal invasiveness, scalability, and safety” when producing neural interfaces. And he believes that’s what sets his company apart from Neuralink.

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“The Neuralink system is based on penetrating microelectrodes. The Precision system is based on surface microelectrodes, which are tiny little electrodes that coat the surface of the brain without penetrating it,” Rapaport explained. 

 

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