Jim Farley doesn't understand what is actually happening. The majors are all in denial. (Rory Sutherland on selling an electric car: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OTOKws45kCo )

I just drove from Pittsburgh to Louisianna to Florida to Pittsburgh without touching the steering wheel. The car planned the route, planned the charging stops, and backed into the charging spaces.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -- Arthur C. Clarke (I had a career in vision, AI, and robots yet it still feels like magic)

The price of electricity to "fill up" was about 1/4 the price of gas for equivalent miles. "Fill up" times at chargers averaged about 10 minutes.

I have had my car for 15 months. I rotated the tires and added wiper fluid. "Lower total cost of ownership always wins" is basic economics.

And now Grok listens to my trip stops and updates navigation. Talk to Grok, touch "start full self driving" and relax.

"The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed," -- William Gibson

Tablet that reads text-to-voice using local AI. Download a .txt book or a PDF and it reads it to you.

I bought FSD on Sept 19th, 2025. I have not driven my Tesla on a public road since then. It is all done by FSD. I just completed a trip from Pittsburgh to Louisianna to Florida and back to Pittsburgh without touching the wheel. Perhaps the author ought to try it.

Ecology is a dirty word to many people.

They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

They retreat into death games and other violence, "hiding their awareness from the terrifying necessities of this moment.

If any human sees a clear choice between life and death, then chooses death, we call that insane. Why do we accept it when it happens on a world scale?

We must shake the sleepers—gently and persistently, saying: "Time to get up."

— FRANK HERBERT

I spent my 53 years in robotics and AI. I started at Unimation doing robot research, joined IBM doing robot research, worked at CMU doing robot research. I worked at IBM doing AI research (using neural nets from PDP Rumelhart), did graduate work in machine vision, etc.

It turns out that it was all a waste of time (but great fun).

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680530/parallel-distributed-...

Simple. If Democrats take the House then they will impeach Trump. Therefore Republicans need to falsify the premise. Texas hopes to add 5 Republican seats which will swing House to a safe majority. They tried a special session to vote on changing voting maps. Democrats left the state so there could be no quorum and thus no vote. Special session ends so the Democrats have returned to the state. Another special session will be called. There needs to be a guarantee that Democrats have to show up to vote. Each Democrat had to agree to be paired with police escort 24/7. One Democrat said she wouldn't agree to that so she can't leave the building. A modern-day Rosa Parks moment.

It won't matter. Might makes right.