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“ #Tesla Sales Are Slumping, Even in the Most E.V.-Friendly Place

#Musk ’s involvement in right-wing politics contributed to fewer deliveries in Norway the first quarter, though other factors also played a role” 1/…

🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/tesla-sales-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k4.IgPy.hPFRFU39E7C2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Elon Musk Backlash Turns Into Global Sales Slump for Tesla

Mr. Musk’s involvement in right-wing politics contributed to a 13% drop in deliveries in the first quarter, including steep declines in E.V.-friendly places like Norway.

The New York Times

Denis Gilbert Apr 1

NOAA operations are slowed by mandate for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to approve ALL contracts/contract extensions above $100,000. This nearly led to a significant deterioration of National Weather Service operations last night.

This is NOT efficiency.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/noaa-commerce-department-contracts-weather-climate

#NOAA #NWS #Wx #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Project2025 #Weather

Scoop: NOAA operations impaired by Commerce chief's approval mandate

A review requirement is creating difficulties at the top weather and climate agency, sources said.

Axios

Denis Gilbert Apr 1

Rasta Apr 1

Happy #AprilFools day to all who celebrate

Denis Gilbert Mar 31

Anne Applebaum Mar 31

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

Orbán’s Hungary Could Be America’s Future

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

The Atlantic

Denis Gilbert Mar 31

nixCraft 🐧Mar 31

Today is #WorldBackupDay. Don’t forget to make a backup and verify your backups too. I use the rsnapshot on my FreeBSD machine https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-rsnapshot-filesystem-snapshot-backup-utility-in-freebsd/ but can be installed on Linux too https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-cetos-linux-remote-backup-snapshot-server/ What do you use to make backups?

Denis Gilbert Mar 31

William Pietri Mar 30

In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

Denis Gilbert Mar 27

Dave Mason Mar 27

Interesting Repository: Non-AI Licenses

Description: This repository contains templates for software and digital work licenses that restrict software and other work from being used in AI training datasets or AI technologies.

https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

#AI
#LLM
#Software

GitHub - non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses: This repository contains software licenses that restrict software from being used in AI training datasets or AI technologies.

This repository contains software licenses that restrict software from being used in AI training datasets or AI technologies. - non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

GitHub

Denis Gilbert Mar 25

The all-out war on science being waged by the Trump-Musk administration is hard to understand.

In early 2016, before #Trump won his first Republican presidential nomination, a prescient book by Shawn Otto described the three main components of this war on #science.

1) Industrial
2) Religious/Ideological
3) Identity Politics

Here's my review of Otto's seminal and still timely work:

https://denisgilbert.com/blog/f/war-on-science-book-review

The war on science - book review

Before Donald Trump won the 2016 Republican Party's presidential primaries, Shawn Otto authored a prescient book about the three-pronged war that is waged against science by industry, religion, and identity politics.

Denis Gilbert Scientifik

Denis Gilbert Mar 14

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

This is for Americans who don’t agree with how Trump is threatening Canada.

Thank you.

Any ire that you see me (or, I believe, any Canadian) post here is not directed at you. I know there are millions of you. I know you are trying. I know some of you feel hopeless and maybe even despondent, but know this.

Canada loves YOU. We always will.

Yes we are very angry at your leader and the people around him, and even at your country, because the President, is the Country, in a sense, but we know there are good Americans who never wanted any of this.

We know you will stand up for us. And if you need us, we will stand with you too. Because that’s what friends do.

❤️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❤️

Denis Gilbert Mar 12

David Ho Mar 12

Sure, eggs are expensive but Trump has made stocks affordable for everyone.

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