This article is a reminder that Tesla is no closer than any other company to automated driving (and indeed they might be farther behind), they're just far more aggressive in their marketing and deployment of unreliable beta tech.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/tesla-autopilot-crash-analysis/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001&utm_source=reddit.com 

 Karikó, a biochemist, was denied tenure over this work, and struggled for years to find any funding. Weissman, an immunologist, believed in her and kept her work on life support. Together they figured out how to stop the inflammatory response to in vitro mRNA.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/ 

 It's a testament to the dysfunction of American capitalism that the bankers who threw away $13B on bro vibes have kept their jobs. The deal was awful on paper—debt-to-EBITDA of ≈15x, way above most leveraged buyouts—and Musk's presence and lack of vision made it even worse. 

https://www.ft.com/content/474b30e9-a726-4571-8475-9adabbbc8169 

 One cool thing about the world's-most-expensive American healthcare system is how even "nonprofits" can be incredibly lucrative for some people.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/chop-nonprofit-ceo-pay-madeline-bell-steve-klasko-20230913.html 

 I've long argued DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel should be limited to narrow interagency issues, and its opinions outside that given no weight. It's always going to take the President's side, much like how it has opined that the President is immune from any sort of criminal investigation.

But I'm an outlier here, and both parties have long agreed that what DOJ's OLC says is law.

Accordingly, my view on this is "LOL. LMAO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/trump-doj-assist-biden-impeachment-probe-00115393 

 Pairing together Walter Isaacson's and Ronan Farrow's reporting suggests that, from at least September 2022 to June 2023, Elon Musk was manipulating Starlink coverage to restrain Ukraine's operations, to get a better contract with the Pentagon, or both.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule 

 Article via @58fbd252 and it should be a banal point, but... you don't have to be a spy to be a foreign asset. A person can be a foreign asset just by being easily manipulated, such as how Elon Musk was easily manipulated to personally interfere with Ukraine's military operations.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

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