Scott FitzGerald
@fitzstartz.bsky.social
Just a Canadian paying attention. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
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Last January, one plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport.
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
www.propublica.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Last January, one plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport.
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Unclear the U.S. pie will shrink significantly in 2026. I'd certainly take about equal, but too many dumb, context-free headlines have led too many people to think the #EV sales trend is ever-downwards. I don't believe it is. Here's why.
(Magazine title was "The Great EV Reset" not what you see)
(Magazine title was "The Great EV Reset" not what you see)
As Automakers Pull Back on EVs, What Can We Expect Next?
This past year was the great EV retrenchment, but don't believe the grim prognosis—electric vehicles are here to stay.
www.caranddriver.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Unclear the U.S. pie will shrink significantly in 2026. I'd certainly take about equal, but too many dumb, context-free headlines have led too many people to think the #EV sales trend is ever-downwards. I don't believe it is. Here's why.
(Magazine title was "The Great EV Reset" not what you see)
(Magazine title was "The Great EV Reset" not what you see)
Tesla sales falling while still managing to inherit a larger share of a shrinking US EV pie is certainly conceivable.
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Tesla sales falling while still managing to inherit a larger share of a shrinking US EV pie is certainly conceivable.
Just to be clear: you've got Tesla taking ~2/3's of the US EV market for 2026?
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Just to be clear: you've got Tesla taking ~2/3's of the US EV market for 2026?
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Wait for the slo-mo. Insane. Amazing
"If that's not a highlight reel goal I don't know what is"
Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score
Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Wait for the slo-mo. Insane. Amazing
"If that's not a highlight reel goal I don't know what is"
Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score
Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score
January 12, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Wait for the slo-mo. Insane. Amazing
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The Telegraph: British officials have met with counterparts from countries including Germany and France to begin preparations for a military deployment to protect Greenland. The European Union is also drawing up plans for sanctions on U.S. companies, should the need arise.
January 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The Telegraph: British officials have met with counterparts from countries including Germany and France to begin preparations for a military deployment to protect Greenland. The European Union is also drawing up plans for sanctions on U.S. companies, should the need arise.
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I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
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this is absolutely a violent political threat, but also, I hope people remember/pay attention to the normalization of this kind of talk--allowing it to slide unremarked leads to dangerous places in the US, India, etc.
Even if the complaints about Bryan Passiflume go nowhere, they are worth making.
Even if the complaints about Bryan Passiflume go nowhere, they are worth making.
January 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
this is absolutely a violent political threat, but also, I hope people remember/pay attention to the normalization of this kind of talk--allowing it to slide unremarked leads to dangerous places in the US, India, etc.
Even if the complaints about Bryan Passiflume go nowhere, they are worth making.
Even if the complaints about Bryan Passiflume go nowhere, they are worth making.
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11/ We analyzed months of flight tracking data to determine just how many planes flew in or near areas at risk after each of SpaceX’s launch failures.
This is what we found:
This is what we found:
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
www.propublica.org
January 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
11/ We analyzed months of flight tracking data to determine just how many planes flew in or near areas at risk after each of SpaceX’s launch failures.
This is what we found:
This is what we found:
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4/ An air traffic controller warned the pilot that if he did so, it would be “at your own risk.”
January 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
4/ An air traffic controller warned the pilot that if he did so, it would be “at your own risk.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
Just utterly incomprehensible to me how Dems so reliably fail to MEET THE F'ING MOMENT.
Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.
Alexander Van Hook is confirmed 53-40 to be a District Judge of Western Louisiana. According to @senatepress.bsky.social, the Dems yeas are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Peter Welch (VT). Angus King (I-ME) was also a yea.
January 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Just utterly incomprehensible to me how Dems so reliably fail to MEET THE F'ING MOMENT.
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So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
Tyrannosaurus Drip-inspired vibes from Poilievre - "Up with war!"
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/tyrann...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/tyrann...
January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Tyrannosaurus Drip-inspired vibes from Poilievre - "Up with war!"
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/tyrann...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/tyrann...
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the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 AM
the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Actions have consequences.
January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Actions have consequences.
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Congratulations to the investors enabling this. bsky.app/profile/josh...
Probably not. bsky.app/profile/josh...
xAI raised $20 billion Series E funding round. Investors include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX and Baron Capital Group, as well as NVDIA and Cisco.
Investing in something as dangerous as Grok...
x.ai/news/series-e
Investing in something as dangerous as Grok...
x.ai/news/series-e
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Congratulations to the investors enabling this. bsky.app/profile/josh...
Well played, right to the end.
There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Well played, right to the end.
I think it's time to transition from narrowly pinning everything on "Trump". He does not conduct himself in isolation; he is enabled. The world needs to see this chaos as something that is not resolved merely by removing Trump.
This is a (ridiculous) map of where "America" could strike next.
This is a (ridiculous) map of where "America" could strike next.
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
I think it's time to transition from narrowly pinning everything on "Trump". He does not conduct himself in isolation; he is enabled. The world needs to see this chaos as something that is not resolved merely by removing Trump.
This is a (ridiculous) map of where "America" could strike next.
This is a (ridiculous) map of where "America" could strike next.
Warms your heart.
Germans know a Nazi when they see one.
Germans know a Nazi when they see one.
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Warms your heart.
Germans know a Nazi when they see one.
Germans know a Nazi when they see one.
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$TSLA implodes in an explosive German BEV market.
2025 German new passenger vehicle registrations up 1.4%. BEV registrations up 43.2% (!!!) for a 19.1% share. Plug-in hybrids up 62.3% for a 10.9% share.
Tesla down 48.4% (!!!) in 2025, down 48% in December. Official KBA data.
2025 German new passenger vehicle registrations up 1.4%. BEV registrations up 43.2% (!!!) for a 19.1% share. Plug-in hybrids up 62.3% for a 10.9% share.
Tesla down 48.4% (!!!) in 2025, down 48% in December. Official KBA data.
January 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
$TSLA implodes in an explosive German BEV market.
2025 German new passenger vehicle registrations up 1.4%. BEV registrations up 43.2% (!!!) for a 19.1% share. Plug-in hybrids up 62.3% for a 10.9% share.
Tesla down 48.4% (!!!) in 2025, down 48% in December. Official KBA data.
2025 German new passenger vehicle registrations up 1.4%. BEV registrations up 43.2% (!!!) for a 19.1% share. Plug-in hybrids up 62.3% for a 10.9% share.
Tesla down 48.4% (!!!) in 2025, down 48% in December. Official KBA data.
<chef kiss>
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
<chef kiss>
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.