Dana Hull
@danahull.bsky.social
Book hoarder. Oakland dweller. Transit user. Senior Reporter at Bloomberg covering Tesla and Elon Musk. Listen to our ELON INC podcast! Reach me on Signal 510-449-6359 or dhull12@bloomberg.net. Link to my work: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASGzcek
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The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors
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We made an 18 minute video about Tesla and the doors, featuring a lot of footage that I obtained via public records. Now on YouTube: youtu.be/2lFzqBt3z0w
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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Heading to Minneapolis tomorrow morning with @grantirving.bsky.social. Will be there through the weekend Looking to talk to/meet up with anyone on the ground. My DMs are open.
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Heading to Minneapolis tomorrow morning with @grantirving.bsky.social. Will be there through the weekend Looking to talk to/meet up with anyone on the ground. My DMs are open.
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LLMs are not sentient, are not human. Grok cannot “apologize” or explain how or why any of this is happening. But of course major outlets such as Bari Weiss’s CBS News wrote that Grok “acknowledged ‘lapses in safeguards'." @jasonkoebler.bsky.social with more:
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
January 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
LLMs are not sentient, are not human. Grok cannot “apologize” or explain how or why any of this is happening. But of course major outlets such as Bari Weiss’s CBS News wrote that Grok “acknowledged ‘lapses in safeguards'." @jasonkoebler.bsky.social with more:
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
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the weirdest part is the extremely loud insistence that grok, etc are bringing alien super intelligence or whatever when they're actually doing basically lowest common denominator content farming www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X
Elon Musk’s X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, with thousands of instances each hour over a day earlier ...
www.bloomberg.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
the weirdest part is the extremely loud insistence that grok, etc are bringing alien super intelligence or whatever when they're actually doing basically lowest common denominator content farming www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The plan to turn Greenland into a network state is backed by Thiel, Sam Altman, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, all of whom are friends with Trump's ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery 🙃 techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i...
'I went to Greenland to try to buy it': Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth | TechCrunch
Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like.
techcrunch.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The plan to turn Greenland into a network state is backed by Thiel, Sam Altman, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, all of whom are friends with Trump's ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery 🙃 techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i...
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~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
NEW: “Elon Musk and his Tesla designs are not safe, nor efficient, and it has cost people their lives,” said Rep. Kelly. “When crashes or power loss leave drivers and passengers trapped inside their own cars, that is not innovation—it’s a safety failure."
robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Kelly introduces bill addressing Tesla, electric vehicle door releases
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) introduced a bill addressing safety concerns with electric vehicle doors, including Tesla’s doors that have trapped people in their own cars.
robinkelly.house.gov
January 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
NEW: “Elon Musk and his Tesla designs are not safe, nor efficient, and it has cost people their lives,” said Rep. Kelly. “When crashes or power loss leave drivers and passengers trapped inside their own cars, that is not innovation—it’s a safety failure."
robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
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In the week Grok produces images of child sexual abuse, its creator, xAI, has just announced it has closed a $20 billion funding round.
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
In the week Grok produces images of child sexual abuse, its creator, xAI, has just announced it has closed a $20 billion funding round.
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@freedom.press and @404media.co got access to the data-sharing agreement giving ICE access to Medicaid patients’ data through a FOIA lawsuit.
Today, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.
Read the agreement here:
Today, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.
Read the agreement here:
Here’s the document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
FPF and 404 Media won access to it in our joint FOIA lawsuit
freedom.press
January 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
@freedom.press and @404media.co got access to the data-sharing agreement giving ICE access to Medicaid patients’ data through a FOIA lawsuit.
Today, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.
Read the agreement here:
Today, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.
Read the agreement here:
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I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 vice presidential candidate, says he will not run for a third term as Minnesota governor.
January 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM
ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 vice presidential candidate, says he will not run for a third term as Minnesota governor.
Always read M. Gessen:
"A similar message has no doubt been received in Beijing: If Trump can take Venezuela and Putin can take Ukraine, surely President Xi Jinping of China can take Taiwan."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
"A similar message has no doubt been received in Beijing: If Trump can take Venezuela and Putin can take Ukraine, surely President Xi Jinping of China can take Taiwan."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
Opinion | Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Always read M. Gessen:
"A similar message has no doubt been received in Beijing: If Trump can take Venezuela and Putin can take Ukraine, surely President Xi Jinping of China can take Taiwan."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
"A similar message has no doubt been received in Beijing: If Trump can take Venezuela and Putin can take Ukraine, surely President Xi Jinping of China can take Taiwan."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
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Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.
I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.
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NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.
theintercept.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
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I think I’m going with the @nytimes.com on this one, thanks.
January 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I think I’m going with the @nytimes.com on this one, thanks.
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A US indictment doesn’t give you the right to invade another country, seize its leader, or decide who governs next. Criminal charges and non-recognition don’t erase head-of-state immunity, this is regime change dressed up as law enforcement.
Read the unsealed indictment against Maduro: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
January 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
A US indictment doesn’t give you the right to invade another country, seize its leader, or decide who governs next. Criminal charges and non-recognition don’t erase head-of-state immunity, this is regime change dressed up as law enforcement.
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Over the holidays, every single national wildlife refuge, plus some fish hatcheries and marine monuments were directed to conduct a system-wide review. Outrageous deadline of Jan 5 functionally eliminates public input & tribal consultation.
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Interior to Spend Holidays Studying Refuges for Possible Closure
Congress will have to approve any Interior Department plans to abolish national wildlife refuges as staff members spend the next few weeks completing a review the US Fish and Wildlife Service has orde...
news.bloomberglaw.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Over the holidays, every single national wildlife refuge, plus some fish hatcheries and marine monuments were directed to conduct a system-wide review. Outrageous deadline of Jan 5 functionally eliminates public input & tribal consultation.
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
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Trump pardoned the last Latin American president indicted and convicted of narco trafficking in the SDNY just over a month ago
apnews.com/article/hond...
apnews.com/article/hond...
Trump's pardon promise offers yet another life to Honduras' imprisoned ex-president
Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, once a U.S. ally in the war on drugs, is on the verge of being pardoned by President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Trump pardoned the last Latin American president indicted and convicted of narco trafficking in the SDNY just over a month ago
apnews.com/article/hond...
apnews.com/article/hond...
@wyden.senate.gov you up? Has Senate intel been briefed on this?
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
@wyden.senate.gov you up? Has Senate intel been briefed on this?
. @vanhollen.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social what is going on in Venezuela?
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 AM
. @vanhollen.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social what is going on in Venezuela?
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Neither grok nor x apologized in any official statement. The screenshotted “apology from grok” was created by a user who prompted it to issue an apology for creating a specific CSAM image of girls who were 12-14 years old (by grok’s estimation). He prompted grok multiple times to get this “apology.”
LLMs are 100% - yes, 100% - the results of their programmer's intentions.
Yes, there are some unexpected outputs. But if you'd chatbot creates sexual images of young children, either the programmers don't care or THEY EXPLICITLY WANTED IT TO DO THAT.
Yes, there are some unexpected outputs. But if you'd chatbot creates sexual images of young children, either the programmers don't care or THEY EXPLICITLY WANTED IT TO DO THAT.
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Neither grok nor x apologized in any official statement. The screenshotted “apology from grok” was created by a user who prompted it to issue an apology for creating a specific CSAM image of girls who were 12-14 years old (by grok’s estimation). He prompted grok multiple times to get this “apology.”
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We made an 18 minute video about Tesla and the doors, featuring a lot of footage that I obtained via public records. Now on YouTube: youtu.be/2lFzqBt3z0w
The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
We made an 18 minute video about Tesla and the doors, featuring a lot of footage that I obtained via public records. Now on YouTube: youtu.be/2lFzqBt3z0w