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Brian Dear
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Author, THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon, 2017) - 32 years in the making: http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6

In Santa Fe NM
Writing
Music Project: https://confusionboats.bandcamp.com
Fmr. tech startup founder/CEO
Film fanatic: https://letterboxd.com/brianstorms_
soooooo good
December 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There ought to be a “No AI” emoji. I’d use that everywhere.
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You have chosen . . . wisely.
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
You don't. You manipulate the stock price while relying on a class of gullible, short-attention-span, amnesiac, true-believer QElon investors addicted to hopiates.
December 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Oh my kingdom for—just ONCE, even—Musk being held accountable for his handwaving babble about how everyone's going to want to buy multiple Tesla cars to start their own personal fleets of robotaxis, and they'll be RICH, bla bla bla. He always quiets down about it, then pulls an "ooh! squirrel!"....
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Wait, you're an editor at WIRED? Why make a stink about this?

Who cares if they're not the same exact photo. Same time/place is the point.

The deception argument stands. This image is deceptive. It's not an "Epstein" picture, and has no business being in the DOJ's so-called "Epstein library."
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Oh me neither. The FSD thing was absurd from the get-go. I remember thinking in 2016 that there is no way the chips will be fast & cheap enough to do FSD in-car for years to come, despite Musk’s lies (er, promises, 😉).

(Even if FSD worked right now, I hate it and would never use it)
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In the US, "heritage" is always code for ignorant bigotry.
December 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Especially considering he utterly betrayed shareholders and customers by abandoning the EV business as the company's focus, deludedly pivoting to AI/robotics crap, which will in the end ruin Tesla.

The only "abundance" at Tesla? Stupidity.
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Over 100 Democrats said yes to a Venezuela war?
Let me guess: all captured by oil/gas lobby?
December 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
More commercials?
December 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Adam, face it: they *want* billions to die. They figure it'll mostly be undesirables, which will boost their superior race. Meanwhile, they sit back, continue to hold onto their capture of nations, and rack in trillions in profits from continued production, sales, and combustion of fossil fuels.
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
January 6 coup continues.

It’s all the same thing.
December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Every time I see the tuxedo I think of They Live
December 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don’t get the point of fake-redacting Trump photos, other than sparing the public of having to look at the ugly face of the lavvy-heided, orange-makeup shitgibbon numpty fraud, which, hmm, is quite nice.

Hmm. This should be the norm. News media: always black out Trump’s face in news article pics.
December 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sad there isn’t a Snowden 2.0 within DOJ.
December 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Did it work? For how long? Citing “LLM” as the sole tech triggering disqualification seems hugely short-sighted, like a movie award in 1980s banning all motion pictures made on videotape, when the digital freight train is coming ‘round the bend.

LLM tech is not forever. Something will replace it.
December 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM