Ridiculous DOGE Policies Threaten An End To US Research Efforts In Antarctica

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:06:42 +0000

By now, most people have seen the video of a drug crazed serial philanderer carpetbagger from South Africa wielding a giant chainsaw at a recent CPAC conference, an obvious reference to what he and his stooges at DOGE plan to do to the federal government, having been given carte blanche … [continued]

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No Duty To Protect Us, But They Show Up For The Oligarchy

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:36:34 +0000

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (a prudent course of action in the US these days, especially for the unarmed), Elon Musk has been leading an effort to make the government more “efficient.” But, definitions of that word may vary. In Elon’s wake, there’s a lot of chaos and … [continued]

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Apple Legend Woz Torches Tesla UI

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 04:57:26 +0000

I just wrote yesterday about Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak’s presentation at a big tech conference in Barcelona, Spain. He criticized Big Tech taking over our lives too much and tech billionaires becoming too directly political. On the sidelines of the conference, CNBC interviewed Wozniak (Woz) and got more comments from … [continued]

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Who Pays For The Environmental Damage When A Starship Falls In My Backyard?

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:09:59 +0000

Hubby and I were sitting at our dining room table, eating our dinner and watching the sun dip over the Intracoastal Waterway. Then a ball appeared in the sky, heading west to east — a swirling mass of vapors with what looked like a nebula around it. Gold sparks were … [continued]

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Musk Mayhem Continues: Tesla Employee Fired For Freedom Of Speech Error

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:55:44 +0000

What happens if you work for Tesla and you voice your concerns about the CEO’s social media post that jokes about Nazism? You’re told to clean out your cubicle and never again let your shadow cross the gilded Tesla corporate threshold. It’s another example of Musk mayhem at work. Bantering … [continued]

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US Cultural Revolution: Bonfire of NASA, NOAA, EPA, CDC, & USDA Climate Programs

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:52:20 +0000

China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) was a decade-long political campaign led by Mao Zedong to reinforce communist ideology by purging capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. One of its most devastating aspects was its assault on science and academia. Universities were shut down, intellectuals were persecuted, and scientific research was … [continued]

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Tesla Board: “Elon Musk, what did you do last week? Provide 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week within 5 days.”

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:53:35 +0000

As you have probably seen, Elon Musk, in his dubious, potentially illegal, and not even official role as the head of a fake new government agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has put out an ultimatum to federal workers across the US to respond on email with 5 things … [continued]

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Are Waymo’s Accomplishments & Methods Being Overlooked?

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:46:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Michael Barnard published a great article on Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, what he thought about it a decade ago, what’s happened since then, and whether Tesla can ever achieve robotaxi-level self-driving. There were a lot of great comments under the article. A few articles … [continued]

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Science Purge Is Part of United States’ Echoing Of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:32:57 +0000

As Mark Twain is reported to have said, history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Trump 2.0’s actions are very much rhyming, albeit discordantly, and with a dismal period from the past of the United States’ proclaimed great enemy, China. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, launched in 1966 and lasting until 1976, … [continued]

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