Johnny Dangerously

I didn’t see this coming so soon…. Someone is getting a haircut… @MKBHD

This didn’t age well by the Tesla hating @ElectrekCo and @FredLambert “Waymo, with lidar and radar on every car, never closes. How many more one-hour updates before @Tesla admits there’s a sensor for that?” Since Tesla is now operating autonomously 24/7 I guess using HEADLIGHTS like humans do works…. Waiting for an admission Fred was wrong again.

Last night I summoned both our Model Y and Cybertruck after dinner, since my wife and I both drove separately. I was shocked how well it worked. 😳 I guess we’ll be summoning often now since Winter is Coming. 👍

This is a lesson for the Democrats as the 3 core reasons are Democrat policies, but the Democrats are moving full speed ahead. The immediate fight is with IG Metall over the 35-hour week—Mercedes wants 38–40 hours at the same pay to cut hourly costs, but the deeper problem is structural: Tesla is expanding in Germany and not part of the IG Metall union. Here are the core reasons Mercedes is in trouble. 1 - German’s Union friendly manufacturing labor ~€50/hr vs ~€16 in Hungary and far less in China and the US. 2 - Industrial power roughly 2x the US due to heavy environmental restrictions/focus. 3 - Heavy government regulation and slow permitting. If IG Metall won’t give in… more plants will shift or close.

Trump calling Tim Cook the natural successor to Jensen Huang at Nvidia is a category error. Cook scaled Apple’s existing machine into a services giant. He did not invent the next product category. He killed the car project, left Siri a punchline for years, and shipped iPhones that were mostly iterative. Huang bet the company on AI compute and won. Those are not the same job. foxbusiness.com/markets/trum…

This is the future of #Cybercabs and other Tesla autonomous vehicles. Imagine connecting the entire USA with hubs… 👍 Here’s my idea for connecting Texas cities with Cybercabs: link the city service areas with narrow highway corridors and place switching hubs along the longer routes. You’d book one trip from your starting point to your final destination. If a car change were needed, the system would arrange for a fully charged Cybercab to meet you at a hub. You and your bags move into the next car, while the arriving car stays behind to recharge. Think of changing planes, but with your next ride parked nearby—no terminals, security lines, or long walks between gates. Proposed hubs at Waco, Centerville, and Columbus would split many trips into legs of roughly 75–125 miles. Dallas to Houston, for example, would be about 122 miles to Centerville, then 117 miles to Houston. You could choose the stop that suits you: • Quick switch: aim for about 3–5 minutes with the next car ready. • Bathroom break: take 5–10 minutes and continue in a charged car. • Food stop: grab coffee, pick up a preordered meal, or sit down to eat. The system schedules your next car around your break. Those times are design targets. Making this work would require enough charged cars, reliable coordination, easy luggage transfers, and assistance for passengers who need it. Short trips—or longer trips with enough remaining range—would continue without a swap. The idea is simple: let the cars recharge while passengers keep moving, and combine necessary stops with the breaks people already want to take. @tesla @elonmusk @herbertong @CernBasher @thejefflutz @pbeisel

I read this book a few years ago. Grok’s take is dead on. My take is that Manji’s core diagnosis is largely correct on the observable problems, even if some of her framing and proposed solutions are thinner than the scale of the issues. The empirical record in large parts of the Muslim world is hard to ignore. Surveys (Pew, Arab Barometer, World Values Survey) consistently show majorities in many Muslim-majority countries supporting sharia as official law, death for apostasy or blasphemy in significant percentages, and restrictive views on women and homosexuality. Honor-based violence, forced marriage, and the secondary status of women are not fringe phenomena; they are measurable and widespread. Anti-Jewish attitudes in the Middle East and North Africa are among the highest measured anywhere. These are not inventions of Western critics; they show up in data produced by independent pollsters and in the lived experience of reformers, ex-Muslims, and minorities. Manji was willing to name those patterns in 2003–2004 when many Western observers still preferred soft multiculturalism or “root causes” explanations that located the problem almost entirely outside the tradition itself. Her emphasis on the collapse of ijtihad is also historically grounded. Classical Islamic civilization did allow a range of interpretive schools and independent reasoning. The later shift toward taqlid (imitation of earlier authorities) and the modern rise of literalist and political Islam narrowed that space dramatically. Pointing out that many contemporary Muslims treat the Quran as a closed, final manifesto rather than a text open to reasoned engagement is a fair description of dominant practice in large parts of the ummah. Where the book is weaker is in the depth of its constructive path. Calling for a revival of independent reasoning is necessary but not sufficient. Reform has been attempted before (late-19th/early-20th-century modernists, various liberal Muslim intellectuals since). It keeps running into the same structural obstacles: the doctrine of the Quran’s inimitability and finality, the elevated status of the hadith corpus for many believers, apostasy and blasphemy norms that punish dissent, and the political power of conservative religious establishments backed by states or transnational funding. Manji’s personal story and moral urgency are compelling, but she underweights how hard it is to generate a self-sustaining liberalizing current when the incentive structure (social, legal, and sometimes violent) still rewards orthodoxy. Western liberal assumptions about the easy compatibility of personal autonomy with traditional religious authority also sit lightly on the text; many orthodox Muslims experience those assumptions as an external imposition rather than an internal recovery. The reaction to the book itself illustrates the point. Praise from some Western liberals and a minority of Muslim reformers, bans and denunciations from more traditional quarters, and relatively little large-scale institutional change two decades later. That pattern is common for internal critics. So: the diagnosis of closed thinking, unequal treatment of women, and conspiracy-minded externalization of blame is strong and still relevant. The prescription of open questioning and ijtihad is directionally right but runs into deeper theological and sociological constraints than the book fully engages. The conversation she helped start remains useful precisely because those constraints are real.

You can’t make this up. The voters in Washington overwhelmingly voted to stop men and boys from competing in women’s sports. Democracy in action. 👍 Now the Seattle city council, who claim the Republicans are a threat to democracy are trying to over turn democracy. 👎

Women’s rights should not be given up, so men can pretend to be women. Not sure how you can defend women giving up their rights to men…

We need to bring back Civics classes in our schools…

Would you take a Cybercab for this trip from your front door to your hotel instead of a flight?

Waymo gets so many free passes from the media…. You won’t see this anywhere, but on X.

Tesla FSD supervised safety numbers are getting impossible to ignore…. Why Europe won’t approve is frustrating… We’re now up to about 1.7 million Tesla FSD drivers using FSD for about 5,000 miles each in 2026 and yet even with the media searching high and low for Tesla fender benders and praying for Tesla FSD fatal accidents… they don’t exist. The best they can do is dig up something from a few years ago or a fender bender…

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. - Hellen Keller

I give politicians in both parties a 5% approval rating. 😡

Tesla submitting its Cybercab paperwork to the NHTSA and has time to have discussions… I believe they announced the Cybertruck cancellation to build more Cybercabs, because they believe from their discussions with the NHTSA that the Cybercab will be approved. This is a bummer for my favorite vehicle ever, but big news for Cybercab. @cybertruck #cybercab

Voters judge the winning party on what it actually delivers, not the promises that got it elected. Results usually fall short, so preference shifts against the party in power. Approval ratings for Congress usually hovers between 15-20%. This disdain for politicians amplifies the backlash, and the cycle repeats at the next midterm. I guess we have a new team on the clock. Good luck. I’m on team America, so I hope this is good for Americans.

Republicans will likely lose about 25 house seats. The average is about 27. The president’s party almost always loses House seats in midterms because voters act as a thermostat and balancer. When one party controls the White House, public preference shifts against further moves in that direction. Some voters deliberately support the opposition to pull policy back toward the center. That counter-movement is triggered by winning itself, not mainly by the president’s personal popularity. It shows up under both parties and across different economic conditions.

I fact checked this twice. The numbers are stunning. Why…? In many Muslim countries religious study comes first and science and open inquiry are treated with suspicion, research suffers. Some historians trace that partly to clerics gaining influence over education after the 1100s.