{"id":4240,"date":"2023-07-28T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-teslas-dieselgate-28-july-2023"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:16:50","slug":"pluralistic-teslas-dieselgate-28-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-teslas-dieselgate-28-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Tesla's Dieselgate (28 July 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Tesla’s Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018,\u00a02022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Tesla’s Dieselgate (permalink) Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded: https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies: https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum: https:\/\/www.eff.org\/wp\/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible – as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”: https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/annals-of-technology\/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies: https:\/\/elonmusk.today\/ But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better…Pluralistic: Tesla's Dieselgate (28 July 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Tesla’s Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018,\u00a02022 Colophon:… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[822,739,300,3773,3222,811,555,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}