e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.online
this gentle soul, cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.online
· Oct 3
fuck everything, we're doing tragedy and farce at the same time
today's dystopian scifi prompt is: silent epidemic of unlicensed, out-of-scope, probabilistic mental health care
one of the major uses of LLMs is as an unlicensed, cheap therapist. the people who sell them largely don't think about this fact at all.
Roon's trolley problem
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
today's dystopian scifi prompt is: silent epidemic of unlicensed, out-of-scope, probabilistic mental health care
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so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
micromobility is one of the most potentially transformative and exciting sectors in mobility tech, but it also faces some of the toughest paths to economic viability
NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
micromobility is one of the most potentially transformative and exciting sectors in mobility tech, but it also faces some of the toughest paths to economic viability
imagine the anxiety of going into a job interview knowing that your most recent work experience was program manager for the fucking Cybertruck
Tesla Cybertruck executive doesn't like the vehicle abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Tesla Cybertruck executive leaving the Musk-led automaker
The executive leading Tesla’s Cybertruck business is leaving the Elon Musk-led automaker after eight years
abcnews.go.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
imagine the anxiety of going into a job interview knowing that your most recent work experience was program manager for the fucking Cybertruck
one of those classic elon moments that is all-too easy to forget
one time I pointed out that elon musk followed no women on twitter and he immediately followed caity weaver
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
one of those classic elon moments that is all-too easy to forget
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It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
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Reposted by e.w. niedermeyer
I smoked for almost 20 years, but I didn't know what addiction was until I traded the Camel Lights for a Juul.
Don't mess with nicotine vapes unless you want to watch yourself turn into Gollum.
Don't mess with nicotine vapes unless you want to watch yourself turn into Gollum.
humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I smoked for almost 20 years, but I didn't know what addiction was until I traded the Camel Lights for a Juul.
Don't mess with nicotine vapes unless you want to watch yourself turn into Gollum.
Don't mess with nicotine vapes unless you want to watch yourself turn into Gollum.
Elon Musk Takes On His Most Epic Challenge To Date
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Elon Musk Takes On His Most Epic Challenge To Date
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
literally every failing automaker tries this, and it never works
Tesla's latest gambit: become a rental car company. As cars pile up in showrooms and storage lots, Elon is trying to rent his way out of a crisis. Good luck, bud. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/11/10/t...
Tesla can’t sell its cars anymore so it is renting them now
Tesla is launching a new car rental program out of its stores in the US, as sales are crashing due...
electrek.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
literally every failing automaker tries this, and it never works
HELLO OLD FRIEND
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
HELLO OLD FRIEND
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
no kings includes the king tide, which only went and ate the entire beach
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
no kings includes the king tide, which only went and ate the entire beach
since we're still early in the workshopping process, I would like to sumbit "The Wokessaince" for your consideration
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
since we're still early in the workshopping process, I would like to sumbit "The Wokessaince" for your consideration
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.
THAT'S RIGHT
A federal judge Friday issued a permanent injunction barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, finding the president exceeded his authority.
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
THAT'S RIGHT
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This is true (and the WSJ breakdown is great) but I can’t stress enough how low a bar some of the milestones are compared to what Musk touted over the years.
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
![graphic: Tesla proposed a $1 trillion pay package with 12 tranches [now passed by shareholders] and for Musk to get the first tranche, Tesla must achieve:
* $2 trillion in market capitalization PLUS any one of
* $50 billion Ebitda (a measure of earnings)
* 20 million cars delivered
* 1 million robots sold
* 1 million robotaxis in operation
* 10 million Full Self Driving subscriptions](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwks525g7gw5wc7ul2wg4wj5/bafkreie4ria67kwkysdoelkwmh2ol4kphfem6umc4oakwtfhvt25jxskcm@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is true (and the WSJ breakdown is great) but I can’t stress enough how low a bar some of the milestones are compared to what Musk touted over the years.
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!
The time to divest from Tesla, for both investment and moral reasons, is now!
Tell #CalSTRS to sell its $2B in #Tesla stock! Next CalSTRS board meeting is Wed., Nov. 12. Public comments in person or by phone or email: actionnetwork.org/events/calst...
CalSTRS pension board meeting - Divest from Tesla!
California's public employee pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, reported substantially more than $2 billion in holdings of Tesla stock combined as of their most recent reports. Tesla’s financial ins...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The time to divest from Tesla, for both investment and moral reasons, is now!
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Getting a billion dollars sounds really hard until you find out that all you have to do is impress a bunch of Tesla shareholders
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Getting a billion dollars sounds really hard until you find out that all you have to do is impress a bunch of Tesla shareholders
PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 15 #TESLATAKEDOWN DAY OF ACTION
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK, WE'VE BEEN OUT HERE
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK, WE'VE BEEN OUT HERE
The very first #TeslaTakedown weekend of action was nearly nine months ago, on Feb. 15. Now we're calling for a mass mobilization on Nov. 15 to stand up to extreme greed and say #NoTrillionaires! Host an event in your community! 👇🧵 #teslatakedown
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
#TeslaTakedown NO TRILLIONAIRES Day of Action
A TRILLION DOLLARS? Elon Musk and his stooges think they can gobble up the entire world while the rest of us starve. Join us for the NO TRILLIONAIRES Day of Action Nov. 15, 2025!
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 15 #TESLATAKEDOWN DAY OF ACTION
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK, WE'VE BEEN OUT HERE
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK, WE'VE BEEN OUT HERE
It's important to note that the main goal of increasing Tesla's market capitalization is one that Musk is already fundamentally incentivized to achieve, given that he's the largest shareholder.
Some of these operational goals are going to be almost impossible to hit, but others much less so.
Some of these operational goals are going to be almost impossible to hit, but others much less so.
easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's important to note that the main goal of increasing Tesla's market capitalization is one that Musk is already fundamentally incentivized to achieve, given that he's the largest shareholder.
Some of these operational goals are going to be almost impossible to hit, but others much less so.
Some of these operational goals are going to be almost impossible to hit, but others much less so.
real sign of the times that an oil fund has to suspend its ethics rules to hold tech company stocks
Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund's ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes
Finance minister Jens Stoltenberg says #NBIM move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel:
Finance minister Jens Stoltenberg says #NBIM move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel:
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
real sign of the times that an oil fund has to suspend its ethics rules to hold tech company stocks
Apparently one of Mark Zuckerberg's daughters is named Maxima, so that's multiple acts of naming your kid after a Nissan in the wild
sorry for the twitter screenshots but I just learned that Bethany Mandel has a child named Altima and I needed to share this knowledge with everyone
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Apparently one of Mark Zuckerberg's daughters is named Maxima, so that's multiple acts of naming your kid after a Nissan in the wild