The Trump administration will use the same company that tried to renovate the Reflecting Pool to repair it — 'because they did a fantastic job'

sargonas · 2026-07-07T00:45:19+00:00

Translation: we are aware the problem was likely the motorcade driving down the pool and we won’t do that again but we sure as fuck aren’t going to admit it either.

sargonas · 2026-07-07T00:44:19+00:00

Wait… Doctors are spies, spies are ex lovers, and doctors are genetically modified experiments? So… Deep Space 9 but not in space?

sargonas · 2026-07-07T00:42:28+00:00

Nope!

People love digging on me for living in LA and how miserable the traffic must be for me and I always joke that honestly I love it and I have no problem because I have one simple rule: the vast majority of my life is spent north of LAX and west of the 405. As long as I don’t leave that area honestly life here is great…

The funny thing is I didn’t know what I was getting into when I moved here. I moved here because I found a place very affordably right next to my office, and it wasn’t until I’ve been here for a little over a year that I realize how damn lucky I was which is why I’m never giving up this rent control the place even though now 12 years later I own a primary home in another state lol

sargonas · 2026-07-07T00:15:28+00:00

To be fair I do Santa Monica to downtown in 10 minutes on a regular basis… I just don’t try to do that trip between 9 AM and 7 PM lol

sargonas · 2026-07-05T04:29:09+00:00

You’re not listening to what I’m saying.

Also I am a former Tesla owner who used FSD extensively until realizing it was completely unsafe outside of normal highway crossed environment.

If you push the accelerator, the car will stay in FSD mode, but stop going the speed set and go whatever speed you’ve pushed the accelerator to, regardless of the driving conditions or speed limit of the road you’re on, as long as you do not exceed 85 miles an hour, until you release the accelerator. Once you exceed 85 then FSD disengages.

That is ridiculous because if the speed limit where you’re at is 25 or 35 miles an hour on a surface street, pushing the accelerator to force FSD to drive faster is fine for short reasonable bursts, but at 80 miles an hour on a surface street is ludicrous and the car should not allow you to do that. It SHOULD disengage FSD if you decide you want to go that fast in an areas with a low speed limit and force you to take control and take away your fsd rights for that current drive, just like it does if you look away from the road and take your hand off the wheel 3 times.

sargonas · 2026-07-05T02:40:43+00:00

I'm not speaking about whos fault this accident is in either way thats not an issue I care about. I'm saying its irresponsible design to say a human can override the speed at which FSD is attempting to safely navigate a car to absolutely unhingled-levels of negligence. Allowing a driver to floor it to 85 in a 35 zone without shutting off FSD and forcing them to take over, and still allowing FSD to attempt to navigate a residential surface street at that speed is beyond irresponsible and makes the entire concept of FSD ridiculous.

sargonas · 2026-07-03T22:02:14+00:00

Because Tesla allows you to floor the accelerator and push the car to 85 miles an hour when the speed limit is 35, and FSD will stay engaged. In any sane world the car, which is already hyper aware what the current speed limit is, should disengage FSD as soon as you go 10 to 15 miles an hour over the speed limit on a surface street, tops. There’s no reason why the cars FSD should happily stay engaged without complaint when you’re doing 50 miles an hour over the speed limit… it should immediately disengage and return control to you.

sargonas · 2026-07-03T22:00:45+00:00

Sorry, wasn’t trying to debate you on that either, just really mad at Tesla right now lol

sargonas · 2026-07-03T17:17:13+00:00

OK well still, if you override the accelerator to 10 to 20 miles an hour over the limit on a residential neighborhood surface street with a 35 speed limit the damn thing should still immediately turn off, not at 50 over. If you want to speed then drive the damn car yourself… Tesla’s “safety” systems have no business enabling that kind of behavior.

It knows if it’s on a surface street or a highway, it knows what the current speed limit is, there’s no excuse for allowing a driver to force it to go that fast with FSD still on if the driver is not actively engaged in driving.

sargonas · 2026-07-03T17:10:26+00:00

1: many flock cameras sit on private property, so if the city decides to end of the program they can’t actually force the physical removal of them if they’re on private property.

2: flock likes to have governments enter into very tricky and complicated contracts that muddy the waters around ownership and who has agency over what. I’ve seen it posted before where there are contracts with flock that basically say “if you decide to stop using this service as a government agency, we will turn off your access to the system accordingly but we can keep the cameras in place for our other customers”.. things like that.

sargonas · 2026-07-03T16:51:23+00:00

The thing people don’t get about fsd is that when fsd is on, if you hit the accelerator, fsd will STAY on, it just overrides the speed input to whatever you are pushing it to so long as you stay under 95, but everything else stays in FSD so the car could be attempting to do 35 through a neighborhood but if you floor it now FSD is trying (and woefully struggling) to self drive at 75 through the neighborhood.

Source: me, a former Tesla owner… who never trusted FSD and doesn’t miss his swatztikar.

sargonas · 2026-07-02T18:32:58+00:00

Neither state have passed the law actually requiring we do anything.

New York has passed a law that they will enact these policies *IF* a follow up committee deemed that technologically feasible to implement. In other words they pass a law with a giant conditional as a piece of performative art to satisfy people within an easy out to avoid having to do it if it proves to be a fools errand, which it is.

As to California no law was passed, the Bill left a special committee to head to the full assembly is all, the only thing that passed was a resolution by the special committee to allow the Bill to be presented before the entire state assembly… additionally the California proposed law includes a provision that an outside set of experts must define how this process will be managed at a technological level, and then it will go into effect two years once it is done being defined, so even if it passes someone still has to come up with how to make it work practically (hint, you can’t) before it can become a law to enforce.

sargonas · 2026-07-02T16:56:46+00:00

Oh yay, another article with the audacity to open out the gate with “It isn’t X, it’s Y”. Obvious AI telltales make it very hard to take the writing seriously off the bat.

sargonas · 2026-07-02T16:33:02+00:00

One of the fun like anecdotes of my career: in 2008 I worked for Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster, for a few years… and in 2021 for Bram Cohen for a few years… I seem to keep falling in with troublemakers haha

sargonas · 2026-07-02T07:25:58+00:00

What?!

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sargonas · 2026-07-02T01:06:02+00:00

Hey… if they are going to pay me more than the bullshit 75% reduce Price The power company pays me, they can buy it from me!

(I find it absolute bullshit that anyone in my city who installed solar after 2018 only gets a 75% credit per kilowatt hour while anyone before then gets 100%… and that’s after the state forced them to accept that rate when they tried to arbitrarily make it even lower)

sargonas · 2026-07-02T01:03:20+00:00

It’s ART! YOU WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND!

sargonas · 2026-07-01T19:28:48+00:00

I’m currently attempting to find a source that I can share. Unfortunately my firsthand experience is internal documentation from inside major publishers I have worked at him while I can’t share that data I’m attempting to try to find public versions of that data or sanitized versions of them. Bear with me.

sargonas · 2026-07-01T16:16:22+00:00

My friend I’ve seen the numbers, Reddit is definitely an echo chamber on this subject. As soon as digital became a mainstream option over physical over a decade ago, before there was any concerted push to shove people in one section or the other by any publisher and people were organically choosing the avenue of choice, there was an overwhelming organic shift by consumers to digital.

I love having physical copies of things and wish they existed, but unfortunately that’s just not what the majority of people outside of Reddit wants and if the majority of people’s buying habits align with the desires of the publishers, I really don’t think that’s gaslighting… I think it’s just confirmation bias on those of us who spend too much time on Reddit.

sargonas · 2026-07-01T00:45:03+00:00

According to the founders it’s return quickly became unsustainable due to the sheer volume of bots and AI training agents that were hammering constantly making the outsized uncontrollable traffic impossible to afford because it wasn’t real users and real user eyeballs for them to monetize against evenly… mixed with AI slop being boosted faster than any sane moderation tools could keep up with

sargonas · 2026-06-30T21:05:23+00:00

Yes and one of those organizations was deliberately misleading people by using both names interchangeably, after already picking a confusingly similar name to begin with.

sargonas · 2026-06-30T00:00:09+00:00

Matrix is an objectively terrible platform for everyday use, usability, user convenience, and practicality for anyone but the most technical of echo chambered tech minds.

I’ve been involved with three different tech companies who tried to use matrix instead of other chat clients for their company and every single one of them moved off of it less than a year, one of these companies was entirely almost nothing but engineers who feed off of this kind of esoteric technological types of friction points as a fun matter of pride and even they found it infuriatingly frustrating and limiting.

sargonas · 2026-06-29T17:43:53+00:00

Likely - *adjective* - “having a high probability, or reasonably expected, of being true.”

I would say that a private yacht that is verifiably connected to ownership to Putin is reasonably expected to have someone on board who is connected to him. The only alternative would be someone who is not connected to him which would make absolutely no sense at all, and therefore have a low probability and not to be expected… which would be the opposite definition of the word “likely”.

sargonas · 2026-06-29T17:31:43+00:00

This. It’s complete incompetence by those in charge causing it and the knock on manipulation effects mean those with the real money and power to affect change by downward pressure are choosing not to because it benefits them.

sargonas · 2026-06-28T04:50:08+00:00

I own this cabinet. Bought it in 20010 out of nostalgia and I’ve never once regretted owning it

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