Another day, another messy thoughtless political flareup by Elon Musk. The man obviously can’t stop erratically shooting messengers in his clumsy attempts to protect and promote hate speech. The tactic he uses often mirrors well-known Nazi propaganda, where anyone reporting harms is blamed for those harms. Like if someone said systemic racism in America has … Continue reading Elon Musk Blames Racism on Victims of Racism
First, the Nazis in AfD love saying they are definitely not the thing that they are. There is a long list of cases with a neo-Nazi connections in the AfD – and it runs right up to the national executive committee. AfD literally oppose law and order — want to undermine the Constitution — so … Continue reading If AfD are Nazis, and Elon Musk Campaigns for AfD, What Does That Make Him?
An impressively astute book review has been published on Defector. He welcomes the return of a space race, not between rival superpowers, but between capitalists indulging in healthy competition “like that of the railway barons a century earlier.” This is fatuous in a familiar way, but also wrong: The American railway boom was 150 years … Continue reading Fatuous Howler: Elon Musk Biography by Isaacson “misleading and even flat wrong”
From the outset, it was evident to anyone with basic knowledge of urban dynamics that Uber would have negative effects on cities. It’s not a matter of complex calculations; it’s a fundamental principle of urban transportation. Increasing the number of cars on the road leads to more problems. The same common sense reasoning suggests that … Continue reading MIT Study: RoboTaxis Ruin Cities