Zac Estrada

I'll have more on the Slate Truck EV today but here are the basics: $25,000 to start, 205 miles of range, everything you need, nothing you don't (sorry, Nissan). Lots of hand-raisers for it but the question on a lot of minds, mine included, is who it's for in the long run gizmodo.com/slate-auto-w...

Americans with the means to retire have lost the art of retirement

"None of this was enough to outpace Tesla's spending on artificial intelligence projects and its Optimus robot, which took a big bite out of profits." "The company reported $787 million in net income, a 43% drop from the same period in 2025" techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/t...

This news redirects the groaning from the Glee reboot. A little. deadline.com/2026/10/coac...

Wild: Netflix has better anti-password sharing measures than Flock, despite its data tracking where we all go. Told of our findings, Flock said it would make security changes, cracking down on shared log-ins and forcing cops to log back in every 12 hours @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com

Tesla Diner is showing Jumanji right now if anyone was at all curious (I wasn’t but I was stuck at a light)

Pilot surpassed my already lofty expectations, so

Metro ridership is growing! Weekday boardings were over 1 million in September, for the first time in the ICE terror era. D Line ridership nearly doubled from Sept 2025 to Sept 2026. la.streetsblog.org/2026/10/20/m...

A really moving recounting of a really terrible moment in history -- www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/h...

This is effectively the beginning of the end of the best public media production culture in the world. Brexit destroyed the entire country.

When you’re cribbing Sorkin from more than 25 years ago, you know the writers have reached the bottom of the barrel.

Normally this would be a sign of a potentially disastrous midterms but in this administration it's also just another Tuesday

Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

Breaking news: @theautopian.bsky.social lets Saab Guy write Saab Story www.theautopian.com/how-the-saab...

the Titanic: famously a story about the importance of avoiding obvious disaster that results from hubris and error, rather than a story about how things have to get worse before they get better

Knew it wouldn't be gone for good and it wasn't the first French dip sandwich according to my beliefs, but glad it's coming back and way sooner than I thought it would

NEW: Trump often claims that Democrats cheat by letting noncitizens vote. But the poster child of Monday’s voter fraud raid — who prosecutors accuse of illegally voting in L.A. — is a registered Republican Scoop from @tomokichien.bsky.social lamaterial.com/p/voter-frau...

I think about it all the time but, ugh, am I going to have to rewatch it??

"As frustration mounted with Becerra's stance, Villaraigosa had his own idea: He'd withdraw from the mayor's race if Becerra would agree to vacate his House seat, letting Villaraigosa run for it." "Becerra shot this down, too." lamaterial.com/p/the-race-x...

One of these sentences is not like the others that came before it or after because the California Post thinks its contextual background (isn't that how the song goes?)

Me coming home from kindergarten

Don't see how making these accusations about what he believes is a huge group of Mercedes-Benz buyers (whatever that actually means these days) will help the GOP in Minnesota. Or Alabama, for that matter

PAXTON: hey we're catching a lot of shit for holding our final rally at the alamo, the site of an infamous Texas doomed last stand TRUMP:

Four paragraphs is a lot to share from one story but it hardly scratches the surface of the tragedy of the LAX people mover. It won't matter who the mayor is next year with this level of finger pointing between the city, airport authority and the contractor www.latimes.com/california/s...

Pretty much what I thought/said and what everyone's thinking/saying

Just realized my Slack avatar is a picture of my taken almost 17 years ago and maybe I should change it or maybe I shouldn't

Saw two girls dressed in their school uniforms leaving the RV the family lives in down the street from me. LA is one of the wealthiest cities in the country, and yet….

The Skydance news divisions' talent hemorrhage continues and she will be a huge loss to CNN and the news industry altogether www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/m...

Doesn't really seem like an incentive/reminder/plea to get people to regularly plug in a PHEVs. For example, I know at least two people who love their last-gen Q5 PHEVs with a 14- gallon fuel tank and range in the high teens which means being on the hybrid system A LOT insideevs.com/news/812076/...

Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with WSJ when she was ousted. She was telling The Journal about her plans for the role. Then Jason Miller knocked on her door. 'JD wanted to chat with us real quick.' Zacharia never returned — to the interview, or the job.

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

I mean, sure, if you don't like other services (police, fire, etc) Something else that got way more "column inches" than it deserved www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Very long story short is that we as a state and country are not in 2026 where we thought we'd be on EV adoption in 2009 (hardly new realization). On any level. We're not even where we thought we'd be in 1999 and it's sad that we ended up really needing it to work now www.latimes.com/environment/...

"...this week's announcement shows some still continue to parrot his hype in hopes of capitalizing on dwindling Google and social media traffic, even when they almost certainly know better" www.status.news/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk has hosted SNL and appeared on Rick and Morty more frequently that he has testified to Congress (zero fucking times). Fix that.

"It comes as her four-day tenure..." What an almost-week www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

THREAD - Transportation experts are raising concerns that Sean Duffy's Department of Transportation is ignoring decades of science-based evidence about road safety to put a car-obsessed Maga ideology in the driver’s seat. My latest reporting for The Guardian:

The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."

"And it's not like there's actually much of a market for very expensive, very fast EVs: hypercar buyers want noise and an emotional connection, and they dont get that from an EV." "Meanwhile, Tesla's core business remains in trouble." arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10...

Great news: That record you thought was nice enough but kinda forgettable 10 years ago has a deluxe anniversary edition!

A fairly conservative friend of mine and I were talking about one policy we would pass to improve the lives of men. Hands down, banning sports betting. Surprised leftists and religious conservatives don't unite on this one.

Well I guess there won't be Dodgers fans jumping on some Metro Line 2 buses this year. Well never say never

Nice lede

Comcast NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News, gave Trump $7.5 million for his ballroom project. Amazon, whose founder Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post, donated $5 million. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

There's a lot of conversation to be had in who the Roadster and the Mission S are for. Pretty clear that one is designed to separate car enthusiasts from their money and one is designed to separate YouTubers from their insurance policy.