Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

“The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren't just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car's range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they'd have to request a callback, which could take several days.”

@pluralistic : Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/

I just deleted my Instagram account. It wasn’t political, or in protest, or anything like that, although it probably should have been. I deleted it because they found a new way to firehose me with hot diarrhea (Suggested For You!) and I just can’t take it anymore. As far as social media go, I’m down to this and texting, basically.

I am very sorry to inform y’all, but I win this. Pictured below is Eugenia stigmatosa, colloquially known as guarimi. It is a slow growing shrubby tree from the coastal rainforest of Brazil whose fruits are notable for tasting like bacon.

I am literally growing bacon on a tree. BACON. ON. A. TREE.

#MicDrop

#addbacontomakeitbetter #gardening #jardin #fruit #GrowYourOwn #plantas #plants @plants

https://www.colecionandofrutas.com.br/eugeniastigmatosa.htm

This is Mastodon and this is why it rocks!

Ahem…

This.

Happy Sunday 🖖

Elon Musk’s Twitter bans ad showing Republican interrupting couple in bedroom

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-ohio-bedroom-ad-twitter-b2382525.html

#ElonMusk #TwitterBan #RepublicanInterruption #OhioBedroomAd #USPolitics #FreedomOfSpeech #Politics #News

Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.

Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.

Everyone: Okay.

Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.

"We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective" Kurt Vonnegut

A Marquette Poll 50% OF Republican don't believe Trump had Classified Documents and that shit-hole called Mar-A-Lago This is insane, And if anybody still pretending that the GOP is still a party is fucking blind.

It’s good when a plan mostly comes together. Ridge beam in place. Rather proud that I got it up there all on my own. #Nunavut #Arctic #CabinLife

"Moonves added, 'The money’s rolling in and this is fun. … (T)his is going to be a very good year for us,' concluding, 'Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going.'"

#Biden #Trump #MediaFail #economics #Bidenomics
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Do you think there just might be a problem with an #economic system where #elon #musk becomes the richest person in the world?
Who has more #wealth than some countries? Who can single handly, on a whim, change how society functions for millions, destroy livelihoods?
Just maybe the way #government (s) manage the #economy should change?

White House condemns Fox News over dangerous & extreme Holocaust comments
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/white-house-condemns-fox-news-over-dangerous-and-extreme-holocaust-comments-from-top-host-1.6494581

* Greg Gutfeld on Florida’s new Black history standards that requires instruction on “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”

* co-host Jessica Tarlov expressed disapproval of those standards, questioned whether arguments to defend them would be made re: The Holocaust
...

#TheHolocaust #FoxNews #antiSemitism #HistoricalRevisionism

Me: I went to the pet store to buy a frog but they tried to sell me a lizard instead.

The Supreme Court: Was the lizard gay?

Me: I have no idea, it was literally a reptile.

The Supreme Court: Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will now make it illegal for gay people to vote.

Anne Frank’s Father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis. He was the only surviving family member (1960)

The #photographer Arnold Newman recalled taking of this photo: “The mood was depressing, and I immediately began photographing him. After a few moments, the Westertoren bells next door began to ring, and Frank turned to me and said: ‘Those were the bells that Anne wrote about.’ He suddenly broke down completely, weeping uncontrollably, and then so did I.

#history #photo

WAS solar astrophotographer Franco Fellah shared two amazing new views of the same active region on the #sun #AR13379. The blue in Calcium H, the other H Alpha from #WestportCT on July 23rd. The calcium was imaged with a 150mm APO refractor and the Ha with a 203mm HT scope.