cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/froghttps://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.onlinehttps://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mttx5ujevc2qyeah I'm staying in a place with a view24 Aug 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttx5ujevc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mttvj3bnos27maybe it's just the jetlag talking but I think I might be in love with the Pont Alexandre III24 Aug 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttvj3bnos27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mttu6vbblc27there will be a full investigation when my sleep/wine levels are more appropriately balanced, but I stg I saw two different instances of tweets, with the poster's handle, painted on the street in Paris within like six hours of being here24 Aug 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttu6vbblc27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtrmchr25227"Accordingly, as is usual in such cases, not knowing the facts, each man conjectured what was most pleasing to himself" ~Arrian "The Anabasis of Alexander," Second Century CE23 Aug 2026 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrmchr25227https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtrcsx2x7k27I don't think anyone in Portland realizes that GM has a massive self-driving development program in town. Everyone notices the Waymos, but my n=1 sampling suggests the GM effort is an order of magnitude bigger. I see their development vehicles all over town, on every kind of road, almost every trip.23 Aug 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrcsx2x7k27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtrbwgzho227•Replace Molsens with Budweiser •Using the term "eh" punishable by hard labor •STOP BEING SO NICE •Replace Tim Hortons with Dunkin •Burn the strategic maple syrup reserve •WHAT DID WE SAY ABOUT BEING NICE, DON'T MAKE US BRING IT UP AGAIN [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrbwgzho227https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtrbc5dnas27is there a more fitting symbol of America's lack of fitness as a global hegemon than IndyCar?23 Aug 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrbc5dnas27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtr7y73z4227how odd that our gilded age would also see a dramatic rise in racism and eugenics, what a strange coincidence23 Aug 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtr7y73z4227https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtp2y6bs3s27I swear, if the old grey lady confess herself perplexed by the enigma of right wing politics like sixteen or seventeen more times I night start to worry about her [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtp2y6bs3s27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtojduqwuk27This was probably one of the earlier tells that Elon was down the right-wing rabbit hole: he liked to praise and emulate Crazy Henry (despite the total lack of relevance of Fordism to modern automaking) and claimed the Ford Foundation funded criticism of him/Tesla. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtojduqwuk27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtoeuaztdk27Dan Neil bought into the Tesla mythos a long time ago, and can't let it go. The entire review is a master class in forced praise. As for FSD, it is definitely good enough to get users to trust it... but not good enough to actually rely on. That Neil doesn't get this proves he's in the tank. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoeuaztdk27https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtmwpyehy22bNuke Wall Street [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmwpyehy22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtmbp6w4pc2xa modest proposal: let's stop with all this "giga" bullshit and just go back to calling them "factories" [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmbp6w4pc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtm5vbn3mk26sickos: yes... ha ha... YES!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm5vbn3mk26https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtm53w6jwk26another day, more total vindication for the long-time Tesla haters https://www.theverge.com/tech/983167/tesla-solar-roof-tiles-discontinued21 Aug 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm53w6jwk26https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtm4ctuwbc26hootin', hollerin', etcetera [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm4ctuwbc26https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtlz4664wk26there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view21 Aug 2026 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlz4664wk26https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtlyni2y3226it must be nice to have real auto safety regulators [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlyni2y3226https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3mtlvhs2awk2xhuh, I thought we were "getting back to basketball" [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlvhs2awk2x