A missing person story is being reported as a doctor fell through ice on his pond and days later was found by police.
I couldn’t help notice an important buried lede, which makes it more into a story about personal data systems and emergency doors.
Payan was last scene exiting his home Thursday afternoon, via password-protected security cameras that detectives were able to eventually gain access to on Monday, authorities said.
You might wonder if faster cracking of the system would have helped. The police made a point of saying no, based on timing of their authorization (missing person report).
“Detectives believe Dr. Payan would have been deceased, prior to when he was reported missing, due to the weather conditions on the day that he left his residence and the fact that he was in the water,” they added.
Ok, but you have to admit “eventually gain access” is intentionally pretty vague.
First they killed his friend. Then they killed him.
According to Indian media reports, Antov died after he fell from a third-floor window at his hotel on Sunday.
His death comes just days after another Russian he was traveling with was also found dead. His travel companion, Vladimir Budanov, reportedly died at the same hotel on Friday.
Police Superintendent Vivekanand Sharma said that Budanov suffered a stroke and that Antov “was depressed after [his friend’s] death” and died by suicide.
If you didn’t know Indian police were easily corrupted by Russian bribes, now you do.
The BBC reported that Antov had criticized the Russian missile strikes in Ukraine last June on WhatsApp, saying that “it’s extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror.”
He later said the message was a result of a “technical error.”
Antov, who was featured on Forbes’s list of the richest Russian lawmakers in 2019, is the latest in a slew of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s critics to die under mysterious circumstances.
“We can almost certainly rule out the official explanation of the deaths as suicides or poor health,” University of South Carolina international business professor Stanislav Markus recently told Vox of the deaths…
Dmitry Zelenov fell down a flight of stairs
Viktor Cherkesov fell into severe illness
Alexander Buzakov died from “no causes”
Ravil Maganov fell from a sixth-floor hospital window
Anatoly Gerashchenko fell “from a great height” at the Moscow Aviation Institute
Leonid Shulman fell from despair
Alexander Tyulakov died from no causes
CNN counted at least twelve recent assassinations, hinting that Putin treats criticism of the Ukraine war as a simple litmus to murder powerful/wealthy independent thinkers.
This comes after three separate healthcare workers in 2020 who criticized how COVID-19 was managed… suddenly fell out of windows.
And that was after a 2018 journalist investigating mercenaries in Syria fell out of his window.
2009: Russian journalist falls to death after revealing forged signatures
In related news, the newly appointed head of security at Twitter (whose resume magically added copious past risk management experience after taking the new job) abruptly lost her voice December 20th.
Her silence allegedly is because the Twitter CEO started targeting her with censorship tactics, after physically threatening her predecessor.
Update December 29:
The deaths of two Russian leaders in charge of producing weapons are being treated as related.
Alexander Buzakov, former general, suddenly passed away on December 24. Alexei Maslov, former Russian army commander and tank chief, suddenly passed away the next day (shortly after Putin cancelled a meeting with him).
The Tesla CEO spoke at the Code Conference on Wednesday night and predicted that we’re closer to self-driving cars than anybody thinks. “I think we are less than two years away from complete autonomy, safer than humans, but regulations should take at least another year,” Musk said.
Full self-driving announced in 2015 to be available by 2018?
Lies.
By the way, “regulations should take at least another year” means what? It’s an anti-government jab based on nothing. A subtle reminder that Elon Musk’s statements are fluffy nonsense meant to confuse and excite listeners.
Even worse, of course, is that when 2019 rolled around Elon Musk didn’t get charged with committing fraud and Tesla products were not shut down.
He instead was emboldened, taking a “catch me if you can” tactic and expanding the lies as if nobody would stop him if he added more outlandish claims.
Deadline long gone, missed entirely, he says this on stage in 2019:
We expect to be feature complete in self driving this year, and we expect to be confident enough from our standpoint to say that we think people do not need to touch the wheel and can look out the window sometime probably around the second quarter of next year.
Feature complete yet it won’t have necessary features. Nonsense.
Here is how journalists reacted to his presentation in 2019:
Musk estimated that by the middle of 2020, Tesla’s autonomous system will have improved to the point where drivers will not have to pay attention to the road. […] “A year from now, we’ll have over a million cars with full self-driving, software… everything.” These cars will be Level 5 autonomy with no geofence, which is a fancy way of saying they will be capable of driving themselves anywhere on the planet, under all possible conditions, with no limitations.
“Full self-driving…everything”.
That egregious lie about delivery is not even the worst of it. Here’s more from 2019.
“My guess as to when we would think it is safe for somebody to essentially fall asleep and wake up at their destination? Probably towards the end of next year,” he said. “I think we will be feature complete, full self-driving, this year — meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, and take you all the way to your destination without an intervention — this year. “I would say I am of certain of that. That is not a question mark.”
Elon Musk was encouraging people in the very near future to fall asleep at the wheel.
I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year. There are no fundamental challenges remaining.
Basic functionality and level five autonomy completion are inherently contradictory phrases.
It’s like Elon Musk telling journalists that he expects to have basic functionality for brain surgery complete this year because he can handle a turkey carving for Thanksgiving.
And he callously boasted about all fundamental challenges to road safety being gone already in 2020.
That seems like an especially dangerous statement that would confuse buyers; directly result in death from use of his defective products.
Source: tesladeaths.com
Tesla “driverless” still in 2022 is repeatedly failing the most basic tests like staying in the road and driving the correct speed (lane assist + cruise control).
Tesla “Autopilot” crashed and burned trying to turn left on highway 405 when it curved right. Source: Business Insider, December 2022
Other car brands with superior sales numbers have zero crashes at all to report, while Tesla’s “driverless” software crashes so often it has been implicated in over 50 deaths.
Lies and lies and more lies…
Fast forward (as it’s so rediculous we even have to talk about such lies repeating year after year) and Tesla’s self-driving right now is a literal disaster with tragic investigations into hundreds of crashes.
The investigations come despite excessive censorship by Elon Musk, including attempts by Tesla to demand anyone using FSD be prevented from talking about their experiences.
Tesla employee John Bernal (YouTube: @AIAddict1) was fired in February 2022, for example, after he publicly shared a video of FSD crashing into a safety pylon.
Tesla announced on November 24 it expanded its version 10 “beta” (10.69.3.1) self-driving software release to everyone in North America. Hours later a major crash of eight cars in SF was the headline news, not to mention a crash and explosion in LA.
Version 10 still gets called a “beta” to avoid accountability, announced to everyone as a production milestone to gin up credit, right before being implicated in major crashes on public roads.
And also don’t forget the CEO told Wall Street in January 2022 that a version 11 “beta” was just weeks away from release, and then just said the same thing in December 2022 as if nobody sees the fraud.
Source: Twitter
This prediction for a December release also came after he chided people that he thought v11 already had been released the 11th day of the 11th month at 11:11 Pacific time.
No other car company so flagrantly flails at truth like this, yet you can be sure all of them are watching and wondering how much longer Musk’s crimes will pay.
Thus, as everyone surely knows, Tesla since 2016 has repeatedly falsely marketed itself delivering self-driving in the coming year or two, sadistically increasing pain with zero connection to reality of their promises.
Reality has been a rise in death caused by Elon Musk peddling unsafe design flaws for profit.
Tesla autonomous technology 2.0 was worse than 1.0… everyone with integrity ran from the corruption.
Mobileye, world leader in autonomous driving, was blunt in 2016 about willful negligence.
Mobileye reveals it split from Tesla over Autopilot safety concerns.
NVidia was unfortunately far more diplomatic in 2018 when they called out Tesla management as liars and thieves.
Musk said Tesla’s [copy of NVidia] was 10 times faster than Nvidia’s at the same cost. Nvidia, though, has announced its own next-gen chip for autonomous driving called Pegasus, also with 10 times better performance.
Soon after that, NVidia published a study that ranked Tesla’s cheap knock-off engineering culture as least capable of all car companies.
Indeed, the Tesla CEO falsely claimed in his trash-talking split with NVidia that he was developing a vehicle computer that would never crash. The results are in and even brand new Tesla owners are terrified:
…if you are driving, and the computer crashes, which it has done many times, you are left with a blank screen – and no way of knowing what your car is doing.
Under a permanent improvisation culture of an unaccountable chief executive, Tesla safety quality declined with each year such that late releases of FSD software has been documented as more dangerous than ever.
Baseless future-leaning statements served both to artificially inflate stock value as if self-driving basically was delivered; yet also Tesla self-contradicted promises of near-term delivery by calling them longer term aspirations (to avoid blame for failing to deliver what they promised to wall street, while killing so many people).
Fraud.
It’s a simple tactic of criminals, known often as advanced free fraud (AFF), where victims are lured into paying into promises about fantasy returns that never can be realized.
Instead of the typical AFF scam email from an “African prince”, the South African CEO of Tesla promised people enrichment from giving him their money. Then they saw their car depreciate faster than the market average, if the car didn’t burn itself up or worse, and none of his promises came true.
California has just laid down a regulation ten years overdue.
Tesla undeniably made roads far less safe by negligently selling full of shit driving (FSD) software and falsely calling it self-driving.
There is no evidence Tesla has any clue what to do next, which is sadly consistent with their cars lacking real innovation since they first licensed and then stole a 2003 EV design.
