Host of Directly Current podcast. Law student. Amateur triathlete. Full time EV nerd.

Joined January 2018
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Actually pretty cool offering, didn’t think I’d be complementing a major telco on something but this makes so much sense for iPad cellular users who aren’t on cell daily. I have a $20/mo 5 gig T Mobile data plan I’ll probably cancel in favor of this. 9to5mac.com/2026/06/10/att-l…
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Kennedy called for us to go to the Moon. Reagan said we had a rendezvous with destiny to stand up to authoritarianism. Rubio celebrates UFC as our national calling. How have we fallen this far?
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Rubio: President Kennedy announced that we were going to put a man on the moon. We did it. We are a nation founded on doing what no one else dared to do. And at some level, that's what this whole company, what UFC has been
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Not sure if what I want is an iPad Pro running a real boi OS or a MacBook with cellular, FaceID, and a proper OLED screen.
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SF mornings 🤯
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I don’t know if “competes with Model Y” or “is as nice as R1” is the ultimate benchmark for R2 (tho it does that very well). But for impact, let’s be real, most new customers are first time EV owners. This will mog anything combustion/hybrid in its class. youtu.be/S6ZNZR6u80A?is=tinH…
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Just imagining someone coming out of a Subaru crossover or even an older premium German car into this. Their mind is going to be blown.
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It’s also silly for EV Enthusiasts to be so zero-sum. Whether you like Tesla or not, R2 is good news. It expands the pie of the EV market. Most of its sales will not be conquests from Tesla or any EV brand. They will be something new entirely for BEVs.
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Again I’m the camp of not hating new EV designs. For me it’s this > Luce > AMG GT
Is this our first peek at the electric BMW M3? Meet the BMW M Concept Neue Klasse. 

• Four electric motors
• 100-kWh high-performance battery
• Front bumper inspired by racing boats

What do you think of BMW’s performance EV concept? motor1.com/news/798518/bmw-e…
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Had to install Acrobat for a PDF file that wouldn’t open in macOS Preview. Reminded me why I stopped subscribing to anything Adobe. It’s gotten so much worse. Full of bloat and upsells. No thank you!
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I could feel my M4 Pro MacBook feeling like a windows vista machine with 1 GB RAM just opening it up. What the F
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I’ve never cancelled a trial and uninstalled a program from the Applications folder so quickly.
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So much confusion in the tech world is caused by Google being horrendously bad at naming things. I still don't know how to explain to people my car runs Android Automotive OS, not Android Auto 🤪
A lot of people think Siri AI is just a Gemini wrapper. Here’s what Greg “Joz” Joswiak had to say about it:
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Lots of fragile fanboys upset Rivian is marketing R2 to people switching from Tesla. Get over it. Plenty of people like Tesla, plenty of other folks have a nice alternative now. There’s more to life than FSD (supervised) 😜
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For the Bay, today is unusually hot. The humidity does make it worse than 90 in CO.
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Mountain View gravel last evening
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Ok macOS Tahoe was bad but now we’re getting some fixes and meanwhile Windows is still on this shit
> Be me > Wonder why my new Logitech bluetooth mouse keeps disconnecting from its bluetooth connection > Use keyboard to go into Settings, turn BT off and then back on and it starts working again > Think it's something blocking the signal, but it's not > This happens every five fucking minutes now > Check battery. Battery is brand new. Replace it anyway > Every five minutes it dies, I have to go into settings, etc etc > Finally have enough, look into buying new mouse > Before purchasing, decide to look up any issues with this BT mouse > Ask Grok, something that AI is actually very, VERY good for. Turns out Microsoft is entirely to blame > The fix: you have to go into your Device Manager > Device Manager is in your Control Panel > Your Control Panel is a legacy windows interface that Microsoft is desperately trying their best to make you stop using for some fucking reason, they want you to use Settings instead > But you can't apply this fix without opening your Device Manager > Go into your Device Manager, open the Bluetooth pulldown, select Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R) and don't get ANY ideas about infringing on Intel's wireless bluetooth trademarks and copyrights because why the fuck else would they inform you of this in the fucking Device Manager > Right-click, Properties. Select the Power Management tab > Unclick "Allow this computer to turn off device to save power" > MS apparently made it so that it turns the device all the way off, they set it to "ON", and they made that the default setting WITHOUT TELLING FUCKING ANYONE > Begin to understand why everyone fucking hates Windows 11
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This is one of the things I hate most about modern luxury car interiors. Putting several separate display modules behind one giant black glass panel and pretending it is one seamless screen is not modern. It is the opposite. It is a workaround dressed up as innovation. Audi calls this kind of setup a panoramic display, but visually it still reads like multiple smaller screens packaged together. In a car priced like a flagship luxury SUV, that is not good enough. The digital interface should look expensive, integrated, and intentional. This looks like a cost-saving solution hidden under glossy black trim. Compare that with Cadillac’s newer interiors — the Vistiq and Escalade IQ — or Lucid Gravity. You can argue about the brands, but the screen architecture looks far more convincing: wide, clean, integrated, and actually designed as a central part of the cabin. That is what a modern luxury interior is supposed to feel like. German luxury brands need to stop assuming that old prestige will carry them forever. For decades, their interiors were the benchmark because the materials, ergonomics, engineering, and restraint all worked together. But the industry has moved into a digital era, and in that world, screens, software, UI, and visual integration matter as much as leather stitching and soft-touch plastics. Right now, some of these German interiors look caught between two worlds: too screen-heavy to feel classic, but not integrated enough to feel truly futuristic. And I am not even getting into the exterior design. The new Q7’s front end has the same nervous energy we are seeing across a lot of legacy brands: split headlights, overworked surfaces, and styling tricks that look less like confidence and more like panic. Some Japanese brands are conservative on purpose. They use older, proven technology because reliability is the selling point. You can criticize that, but at least it is a coherent strategy. What is harder to defend is charging luxury money while giving buyers digital design that already looks behind American, Korean, and Chinese competitors.
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Seeing all the R2 content today is great, so happy to hear it has not only delivered on being a cheaper R1 but in many ways being a better product than their first halo product. Reminds me a looot of Model 3 innovating so much. So excited for what’s next! youtu.be/govCcVs9wCU

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Thank you Polestar for not putting plastic inserts in your 21” wheel design 😍
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Exciting day with R2 launch but don't forget to listen to the newest @EVPoliticsUSA pod where we talk about the unfair EV tax being proposed in Congress and the great progress being made in freight with Tesla Semi and more!
The EC's Ben Prochazka appeared on the Directly Current podcast with @MaxPatten to discuss why the proposed federal EV tax is punitive, how to accelerate freight electrification, and the EC's new Electrification Roadmap Series. Check it out! audioboom.com/posts/8914338-…
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