Matthew Klippenstein (he/him)
@klippenstein.bsky.social
Canadian engineer; early Tesla fan turned early Tesla critic. Peripatetic: H2, FC, wind, EVs & infra; eNGO to corporate, R&D to manufacturing, cost-down to collective action; plus comics and a stage play. Opinions own.
Blog: https://eclectic-lip.ghost.io
Blog: https://eclectic-lip.ghost.io
Pinned
~The Tesla Fan's Lament~
“First he claimed to be a founder,
And I did not care – because I liked EVs.
Then he defrauded California,
And I did not care – because I liked EVs.
Then he sabotaged high speed rail, sold cars knowing their batteries’ design flaw could cause fires, gamed range ... /1
“First he claimed to be a founder,
And I did not care – because I liked EVs.
Then he defrauded California,
And I did not care – because I liked EVs.
Then he sabotaged high speed rail, sold cars knowing their batteries’ design flaw could cause fires, gamed range ... /1
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Person reports FSD tried to murder her. Elon dickriding incel moderator locks comments until she sends him video directly. She does. Now he locks comments until Tesla support “offers feedback” like they’re going to give that to him lol. @realdanodowd.bsky.social @bradmunchen.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Person reports FSD tried to murder her. Elon dickriding incel moderator locks comments until she sends him video directly. She does. Now he locks comments until Tesla support “offers feedback” like they’re going to give that to him lol. @realdanodowd.bsky.social @bradmunchen.bsky.social
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Flew to Portland.
“I’d like an EV”
‘Which one?’
“Anything but a Tesla”
‘We get that all the time’
Lists off a half dozen better choices.
Happily visit Portland in a much better EV :).
All that’s left for the NazEV is a rapidly diminish cohort of rubes.
“I’d like an EV”
‘Which one?’
“Anything but a Tesla”
‘We get that all the time’
Lists off a half dozen better choices.
Happily visit Portland in a much better EV :).
All that’s left for the NazEV is a rapidly diminish cohort of rubes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
Big thank-you to Keri Adams, Jumy Ogunsola and the @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social team for inviting to me talk about the speedbump in Canada's EV sales yesterday. 🙏
ZEVs went from roughly 1/7 new car sales in 2024 to 1/11 this year. /1 #canpoli #ev
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
ZEVs went from roughly 1/7 new car sales in 2024 to 1/11 this year. /1 #canpoli #ev
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
EV sales slowing down
On CTV Your Morning Vancouver, clean energy expert Matthew Klippenstein addresses the latest decline in EV sales.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Big thank-you to Keri Adams, Jumy Ogunsola and the @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social team for inviting to me talk about the speedbump in Canada's EV sales yesterday. 🙏
ZEVs went from roughly 1/7 new car sales in 2024 to 1/11 this year. /1 #canpoli #ev
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
ZEVs went from roughly 1/7 new car sales in 2024 to 1/11 this year. /1 #canpoli #ev
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
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Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
World’s richest man posting cope.
@niedermeyer.online $TSLAQ
@niedermeyer.online $TSLAQ
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
World’s richest man posting cope.
@niedermeyer.online $TSLAQ
@niedermeyer.online $TSLAQ
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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“A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... (this is just appalling.)
She says Tesla’s chatbot asked her 12-year-old for nudes
A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, ...
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... (this is just appalling.)
Congratulations for the NYT story @aarongreenspan.com (and the mention @lorak.bsky.social).
The mills of justice have ground slowly indeed… 😞
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
The mills of justice have ground slowly indeed… 😞
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
What If You Spent Every Waking Moment Taking On Elon Musk?
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Congratulations for the NYT story @aarongreenspan.com (and the mention @lorak.bsky.social).
The mills of justice have ground slowly indeed… 😞
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
The mills of justice have ground slowly indeed… 😞
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
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my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look upon my works. i perform a variety of tasks including natural language processing, question answering (voice and text), info retrieval, creative writing, image generation, editing and understanding. on occasion, i may provide inappropriate information.
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look upon my works. prices and participation may vary, for a limited time only. children under 13 need a parent or guardian's signature to participate.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, which were processed in a facility that also processes peanuts.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look upon my works. i perform a variety of tasks including natural language processing, question answering (voice and text), info retrieval, creative writing, image generation, editing and understanding. on occasion, i may provide inappropriate information.
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Five adults died in a fatal Tesla crash in Wisconsin. A caller to 911 said she could here people screaming. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Sued Over Claim Faulty Doors Led to Deaths in Fiery Crash
Tesla Inc. was sued over a crash in Wisconsin last November that killed all five occupants of a Model S who allegedly became trapped in a fast-moving inferno when the doors wouldn’t open, adding to sc...
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Five adults died in a fatal Tesla crash in Wisconsin. A caller to 911 said she could here people screaming. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
TIL/confirmed that Elon Musk's Grok AI anime girl is very clearly based on Misa Amane from the 2003-2006 Japanese manga series, "Death Note". $TSLAQ
(h/t @davidgerard.co.uk who thinks Death Note informed/inspired the idea of Roko's Basilisk, but I haven't finished reading it yet.)
(h/t @davidgerard.co.uk who thinks Death Note informed/inspired the idea of Roko's Basilisk, but I haven't finished reading it yet.)
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
TIL/confirmed that Elon Musk's Grok AI anime girl is very clearly based on Misa Amane from the 2003-2006 Japanese manga series, "Death Note". $TSLAQ
(h/t @davidgerard.co.uk who thinks Death Note informed/inspired the idea of Roko's Basilisk, but I haven't finished reading it yet.)
(h/t @davidgerard.co.uk who thinks Death Note informed/inspired the idea of Roko's Basilisk, but I haven't finished reading it yet.)
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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Buttigieg sounds like he is courting Musk… finance.yahoo.com/news/pete-bu...
Pete Buttigieg Admits Biden Administration Should've Done More To Grow Autonomous Vehicles — Says DOGE-Like Department 'Makes Tons Of Sense'
Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says that the Biden administration could've done more to drive growth in the adoption of autonomous vehicles in the U.S. Autonomous Driving Tech Is Sa...
finance.yahoo.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Buttigieg sounds like he is courting Musk… finance.yahoo.com/news/pete-bu...
Racist dog whistling began soon after civil society decided the n- word was unacceptable… 😡
November 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Racist dog whistling began soon after civil society decided the n- word was unacceptable… 😡
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Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
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might as well just rename it the Saddam Hussein bathroom, since Trump decided to completely bite my man's style
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
might as well just rename it the Saddam Hussein bathroom, since Trump decided to completely bite my man's style
@keubiko.bsky.social BYD is super vertically integrated, but reportedly pays suppliers after 270 days. (Longer payment cycles are apparently the norm there.) This suggests they fund growth with working capital, right?
And if revenue stalls too long, things get dicey right?
And if revenue stalls too long, things get dicey right?
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@keubiko.bsky.social BYD is super vertically integrated, but reportedly pays suppliers after 270 days. (Longer payment cycles are apparently the norm there.) This suggests they fund growth with working capital, right?
And if revenue stalls too long, things get dicey right?
And if revenue stalls too long, things get dicey right?
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Today, the Heritage Foundation announced it's comfortable with Holocaust denial.
That is not hyperbole.
The same group behind “Project Esther” is refusing to distance itself from Jew hater and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson (who hosted said Jew hater on his show this week).
That is not hyperbole.
The same group behind “Project Esther” is refusing to distance itself from Jew hater and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson (who hosted said Jew hater on his show this week).
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today, the Heritage Foundation announced it's comfortable with Holocaust denial.
That is not hyperbole.
The same group behind “Project Esther” is refusing to distance itself from Jew hater and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson (who hosted said Jew hater on his show this week).
That is not hyperbole.
The same group behind “Project Esther” is refusing to distance itself from Jew hater and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson (who hosted said Jew hater on his show this week).
Bill Gates:
The Michael Jordan of software monopolists 🎩
And the Michael Jordan-of-baseball of climate commentary 🧢 ⚾️
The Michael Jordan of software monopolists 🎩
And the Michael Jordan-of-baseball of climate commentary 🧢 ⚾️
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Bill Gates:
The Michael Jordan of software monopolists 🎩
And the Michael Jordan-of-baseball of climate commentary 🧢 ⚾️
The Michael Jordan of software monopolists 🎩
And the Michael Jordan-of-baseball of climate commentary 🧢 ⚾️
Trey Yesavage 2025 = Ken Dryden 1971
- promising university student brought up late-season
- does well
- becomes a starter
- opponents flummoxed *and there's no scouting report on him because he's so new* 😂
- I don't want to jinx the last parallel
@maxfawcett.bsky.social @brucearthur.bsky.social
- promising university student brought up late-season
- does well
- becomes a starter
- opponents flummoxed *and there's no scouting report on him because he's so new* 😂
- I don't want to jinx the last parallel
@maxfawcett.bsky.social @brucearthur.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trey Yesavage 2025 = Ken Dryden 1971
- promising university student brought up late-season
- does well
- becomes a starter
- opponents flummoxed *and there's no scouting report on him because he's so new* 😂
- I don't want to jinx the last parallel
@maxfawcett.bsky.social @brucearthur.bsky.social
- promising university student brought up late-season
- does well
- becomes a starter
- opponents flummoxed *and there's no scouting report on him because he's so new* 😂
- I don't want to jinx the last parallel
@maxfawcett.bsky.social @brucearthur.bsky.social
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
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Nah, send him packing. Tell Trump Canadians aren't here to be lectured to, and that if they want to send us an Ambassador, it should be someone capable of diplomacy.
Our Hoekstra Response Should be a Lesson in Diplomacy, Fen Hampson writes www.policymagazine.ca/our-hoekstra...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nah, send him packing. Tell Trump Canadians aren't here to be lectured to, and that if they want to send us an Ambassador, it should be someone capable of diplomacy.
Inception — but instead of realizing you’re in a dream because details are a little “off”, it’s because the AI video isn’t quite right.
I don’t know why I can’t stop watching this. It’s awful and somebody being impressed by it and believing it will supplant sitcoms is extremely dumb, but it’s also transfixing with just *how* wrong it is.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Inception — but instead of realizing you’re in a dream because details are a little “off”, it’s because the AI video isn’t quite right.